Year: 2024

EPIA 2025

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Conferência EPIA 2025 na Universidade do Algarve em Faro

É com grande prazer que anunciamos a realização da Conferência EPIA 2025, na Universidade do Algarve, na pitoresca cidade de Faro de 1 a 3 de outubro de 2025.

Marquem nas vossas agendas e preparem-se para uma semana repleta de insights valiosos e oportunidades de networking em um dos mais belos destinos de Portugal. Mais detalhes sobre inscrições, submissões de trabalhos e programação serão disponibilizados em breve.

Contamos com a sua presença para fazer da EPIA 2025 um sucesso memorável!

Honoured by EPIA 2024

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Honoured by APPIA on EPIA 2024

It is a great honor to gather here to recognize the professors and researchers who have had a significant impact on both APPIA and the development of artificial intelligence in Portugal.

In the past, we have had the opportunity to honor other founders and pioneers of AI in Portugal, such as Professor Eugénio, who is here with us today, as well as Professor Helder Coelho, professor Moniz Pereira, Professor Pavel, professor Maia Neves between others.

Throughout the years, these professors and the ones we are honoring today, have not only advanced knowledge in our field but also helped train new generations of researchers and professionals. Their dedication and leadership have left a lasting legacy.

However, their contributions are far from over. As they move into this new phase, their expertise and insights remain critical to our community. We still need their guidance and support as we face new challenges in AI, and their continued involvement will be key to our progress.

So, we not only celebrate their past achievements but also acknowledge the important role they still play. Now, I invite my colleagues from the APPIA board to join me in presenting the awards to these distinguished professors. This gesture reflects our deep appreciation and serve as a reminder of the deep respect and admiration we hold for each of you, and of how much your continued presence means to us.

the honoured are:

Amilcar cardoso
António Porto
Bernardete Ribeiro
Ernesto costa
João Gama
João pavão martins
Pedro Barahona
Gabriel Pereira Lopes

Thank you.

Amilcar Cardoso

António Porto

Bernadete Ribeiro

Ernesto Costa

João Gama

João Pavão Martins

Pedro Barahona

Gabriel Pereira Lopes

Parabéns mais uma vez!

[rede.APPIA] DaSSWeb – Data Science and Statistics Webinar – 5 November – Peter Flach – Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Explained

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DaSSWeb – Data Science and Statistics Webinar

 

Tuesday, 5 November, 14:30 (GMT)

 

Speaker

Peter Flach

School of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK


Title

Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Explained

 

Zoom link

Abstract

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI for short) aims at giving insight in the behaviour of AI models in general
and machine learning models in particular. In this talk I will give an overview of this growing field,
using some recent results from my group as examples. These include explainability for time series (LIMEsegment);
actionable counterfactuals (FACE); explainability fact sheets; as well as the fat-forensics.org toolkit for evaluating
Fairness, Accountability and Transparency of AI systems. Finally, I will discuss the importance of properly
treating probabilities in feature attribution methods such as LIME and SHAP through log-linear models,
and extensions to multi-class settings.

 

More information at

https://dassweb.fep.up.pt/

pdf icon DaSSWeb-Peter-Flach-5Nov2024.pdf

[rede.APPIA] FEUP | Permanent Position – Assistant Researcher | NLP and Language Models

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A permanent research position for FEUP / LIACC is open in the domain of intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, computational learning and natural language processing, with an emphasis on the field of large language models.
Applications are open until 20 Nov 2024.
More information:

[rede.APPIA] The Last CfP Evostar 2025 – The Leading European Event on Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence 25 April 2025

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Dear Colleague(s),

Below you will find the Last call for papers for EvoStar 2025.
Deadline: November 1, 2024

Feel free to distribute and thank you for your time. Apologies for the cross-posting.

Best regards,
João Correia
EvoStar Publicity Chair

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Call for papers for the EvoStar 2025 conference

http://www.evostar.org/2025/

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024
Conference: 23 to 25 April 2025.
Venue: Trieste, Italy

News:

** EvoAPPs Special Sessions
.30 years of Particle Swarm Optimization
.Analysis of Evolutionary Computation Methods: Theory, Empirics, and Real-World Applications
.Applications of Bioinspired Techniques on Social Networks
.Bioinspired Algorithms for Green Computing and Sustainable Complex Systems
.Computational Intelligence for Sustainability
.EvoLLMs: Integrating Evolutionary Computing with Large Language Models (LLMs)
.Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning in Humanitarian Logistics and Disaster Forecasting
.Evolutionary Computation in Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing
.Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition
.Machine Learning and AI in Digital Healthcare and Personalized Medicine
.Resilient Bio-Inspired Algorithms
.Soft Computing Applied to Games

More information at:
https://www.evostar.org/2025/evoapps/

** 4th special joint track on Evolutionary Machine Learning
This joint track, evoapps + eurogp, on Evolutionary Machine Learning (EML) will provide a specialised forum for discussion and exchange of information for researchers interested in exploring approaches that combine nature and nurture with the long-term goal of evolving Artificial Intelligence (AI)
https://www.evostar.org/2025/eml/

Please distribute
(Apologies for cross-posting)
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EvoStar comprises four co-located conferences run each spring at different locations throughout Europe. These events arose out of workshops originally developed by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, established by the Information Societies Technology Programme of the European Commission, and they represent a continuity of research collaboration stretching back over 20 years.

EvoStar is organised by SPECIES, the Society for the Promotion of Evolutionary Computation in Europe and its Surroundings. This non-profit academic society is committed to promoting evolutionary algorithmic thinking, with the inspiration of parallel algorithms derived from natural processes. It provides a forum for information and exchange.

The four conferences include:

– EuroGP 28th European Conference on Genetic Programming
http://www.evostar.org/2025/eurogp/

– EvoApplications 28th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary and bio-inspired Computation
http://www.evostar.org/2025/evoapps/

– EvoCOP 25th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation
http://www.evostar.org/2025/evocop/

– EvoMUSART 14th International Conference (and 18th European event) on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design.
http://www.evostar.org/2025/evomusart/

*** Important Dates, Venue and Publication ***

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024
Conference: 23 to 25 April 2025.
Venue: Trieste, Italy
All accepted papers will be printed in the proceedings published by Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Please check the website for more information:
http://www.evostar.org/2025/

And follow us at:
X – https://x.com/EvostarConf
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/evostarconference/

Follow SPECIES at:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/species-society/

[rede.APPIA] Thematic Issue on Urban Computing and Mobility Pattern Analysis – Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments [JAISE

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Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting a contribution to this thematic issue or share it with your contacts who might be interested:
Submission before November 1, 2024

Urbanization has modernized life, but it has also caused problems such as traffic congestion, energy consumption, and pollution. Urban computing aims to solve these problems using data generated by the city or opportunistic data obtained through crowdsourcing (e.g., traffic flow, human mobility, geospatial data). It integrates urban sensing, data management, analysis and service provision to continuously improve urban life, urban operations and the environment. Urban computing is interdisciplinary, merging computer science with fields such as civil engineering (e.g., transportation engineering), and sociology.

Smart environments are expanding from artefacts to smart cities, encompassing various urban activities. To understand and optimize urban mobility and human behaviour, machine learning models have been proposed. Smart mobility, or smart transport, is a vital component of smart cities, which use information and communications technologies (ICT) to reduce road accidents, energy consumption, CO2 emissions, noise and congestion. It represents a revolution in intelligent transport systems (ITS), intending to reduce traffic-related greenhouse gas emissions and economic losses due to congestion. Urban Computing covers a wide range of topics, including smart city applications, urban sensing, and spatial analytics. This thematic issue invites contributions focused on innovative methodologies for analyzing and predicting mobility patterns using diverse data sources like GPS traces, mobile phone data, transit logs, and social media feeds.

Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Urban Computing
Mobility Pattern Analysis
Intelligent Transport Systems
Ubiquitous Transport Technologies and Ambient Intelligence
Volunteered Geographic Information
Behaviour Modelling
Smart Mobility in Smart Cities
Machine Learning in Mobility
Opportunistic Data Crowdsourcing
Emerging Mobility Services
On-Demand Shared Mobility Services
Emerging Mobility Technologies

Guest Editors
Ana Alves
Filipe Rodrigues
Merkebe Getachew Demissie

Ana Alves

PhD in Computer Science
CISUC -Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra
ana@dei.uc.pt
http://eden.dei.uc.pt/~ana