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——– Mensaje reenviado ——– Asunto: 2nd International School on Informatics and Dynamics in Complex Networks Fecha: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:00:46 +0000 De: Michele Malgeri <michele.malgeri@unict.it>
This is the call for the Second edition of the school on the complex networks that my team contributes to organize. The school will be held in Catania next February and it is especially aimed at young researchers and PhD students. I ask you the courtesy to spread the call to all those who may be interested.
isidcn.dieei.unict.it
2nd International School on Informatics and Dynamics in Complex Networks University of Catania, Catania, Italy 10 -14 February 2020 Application Deadline: december 10th 2019
The school is organized at the University of Catania, Italy, by the Department of Electrical Electronics and Computer Science and the Cometa Consortium. It consists of a series of lectures given by leading scientists in the field, aiming at providing a comprehensive treatment from background material to advanced results. The school is specially directed to PhD students and young researchers interested to the diverse aspects of the theory and applications of complex networks in science and engineering. The school aims at encouraging cross-disciplinary discussions between participants and speakers and start new joint researches.
SPEAKERS: Stefano Boccaletti — ICS – CNR Manlio De Domenico — FBK Trento Jesus Gomez-Gardenes — University of Zaragoza Vito Latora — University of Catania Tiago de Paula Peixoto — Central European Univ. Andrea Tagarelli — University of Calabria SCIENTIFIC BOARD Paolo Arena — University of Catania Vito Latora — University of Catania Yamir Moreno — BIFI Univ. of Zaragoza Alessandro Vespignani – Northeastern Univ. Boston ORGANIZERS Vincenza Carchiolo — University of Catania Mattia Frasca — University of Catania Giuseppe Mangioni — University of Catania APPLICATIONS Prospective participants have to send their application via E_mail at cometa.segreteria@consorzio-cometa.it including their name, affiliation, current position and short CV. Participants will be selected based on their CV.
Contact vincenza.carchiolo@unict.it giuseppe.mangioni@dieei.unict.it mattia.frasca@unict.it cometa.segreteria@consorzio-cometa.it
—- Associate Professor in Computer Engineering Dip. Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica Informatica Università di Catania – Italy Viale Andrea Doria, 6 – 95127 Catania +39 095 738 2360

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=====================CALL FOR PAPERS=============================
IEEE PICom 2020 The 18th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom 2020)
cyber-science.org/2020/picom/ June 22-26, 2020, Calgary, Canada Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society Supported by IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC), IEEE SMC TC on CyberMatics and IEEE CIS Smart World TC
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IMPORTANT DATES ===============
Workshop/SS Proposal Due: Nov. 25, 2019 Regular Paper Submission Due: Feb. 15, 2020 Wksp/SS/Poster Paper Due: March 10, 2020 Authors Notification: April 1, 2020 Camera-ready Submission: May 10, 2020

INTRODUCTION =============
Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from logic-based artificial intelligence, nature-inspired soft computing, and social-oriented agent technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing domains. PICom-2019 is the conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, previously held as PCC (Las Vegas, USA, 2003 and 2004), PSC (Las Vegas, USA, 2005), PCAC (Vienna, Austria, 2006, and Niagara Falls, Canada, 2007), IPC-2007 (Jeju, Korea, December 2007), IPC-2008 (Sydney, Australia, December 2008), and since 2009 as the name PICom. IEEE PICom 2020 will be held on 22-26 June 2020 in Calgary, Canada, co-located with IEEE DASC 2020 CBDCom 2020 and IEEE CyberSciTech 2020. It aims to bring together computer scientists and engineers, to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, work-in-progress, novel designs, and test-environments or test-beds in the important areas of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing.
TRACKS AND TOPICS ================
Track 1: Computational Intelligence and Cognitive Computing Track 2: Intelligent Networks, Middleware and Applications Track 3: Pervasive Computing, Sensing and Services Track 4: Smart Object, Environment, System and City
Topics of interests include, but are not restricted to:
* Deep Learning and Deep Computation * Brain-/Nature-inspired Computing * Machine Learning and Big/Smart Data * Agent-based Computing and DAI * Crowdsourcing and Cognitive Computing * Ubiquitous Data Mining and Fusion * Intelligent Privacy, Security and Trust * Context Modeling and Recognition * Intelligent Networking/SDN Technology * Pervasive/Ubiquitous Intelligence * Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems * Edge and Fog Computing * Cloud of Things and Cloud of Sensors * Middleware for Pervasive Computing * Autonomous System Management * Device/Thing Abstraction & Virtualization * Crowdsourcing and Social Computing * Pervasive Devices and RFIDs * Embedded Hardware, Software & System * Sensors and Sensor Networks * Pervasive Service & Ubiquitous Intelligence * HCI for Pervasive Computing * Mobile/Wearable Computing * Behavior Data Sensing and Cleansing * Activity/Affect Detection and Recognition * AI@Edge/@Fog/@Cloud/@Blockchain * Smart Homes, Grids, Systems and Cities * Smart Manufacturing (Industry 4.0) * Smart Medicine and Healthcare * Intelligent/Smart IoT * Smart Agriculture and Aquaculture * Smart/Intelligent Transportation * Smart Learning and Education * Smart Sensing, System and Service
IEEE PICOM 2020 CALLS FOR ==========================
* Regular conference paper: 6 – 8 pages, submitted to one of five tracks * WiP/workshop/special session paper: 4-6 pages, and poster paper: 2-4 pages * Late breaking innovation paper: We seek the latest research and development work. The submission can be of any type, and will be allocated by the Program Chair to a suitable Regular, Work-in-Progress, or Poster tracks * All submissions in the IEEE CS proceedings format

PROCEEDINGS ==========================
* All accepted papers will be published by IEEE (IEEE-DL and EI indexed) in Conference Proceedings. * Best Paper Awards will be granted to high quality papers. * Selected papers will be recommended to prestigious journal special issues.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE ==========================
– Honorary Chairs Lisa Carter, Athabasca University, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Sumi Helal, Lancaster University, UK

– General Chairs Prof. Flavia C. Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Prof. Liang Chen, University of Northern British Columbia
– General Executive Chairs Henry Leung, The University of Calgary, Canada
– Program Chairs Paulo Pires, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Juan Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain
– Track Chairs Esteban Clua, UFF, Brazil Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Claudio Miceli, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Roberto Morabito, Ericsson Research, Jorvas, Finland Ali Dewan, Athabasca University, Canada
– Workshop and Special Session Chairs Peng Li, The University of Aizu, Japan Antonio Guerrieri, ICAR-CNR, Italy
-Special Issue Chair Atiqur R. Ahad, U. Dhaka, Bangladesh / Osaka U, Japan Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada
– International Liaison and Publicity Chairs Wu-Yuin Hwang, National Central University, Taiwan Zixia Liu, University of Central Florida, USA Paulo Novais, Minho University, Portugal Bruno Costa, IFRJ, Brazil Edgar Ramos, Ericsson Research, Finland
– Advisory Committee Zhikui Chen, Dalian University of Technology, China Liqiang Wang, University of Central Florida, USA OK Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Qiang Yang, Zhejiang University, China – Aceitou Lidia Fuentes, Malaga University, Spain Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
– Steering Committee Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland U Tech., New Zealand Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Flávia C. Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
– Local Organizing Committee Oscar Lin (chair), Athabasca University, Canada Ali Dewan, Athabasca University, Canada Hongxin Yan, Athabasca University, Canada Joelle Jackson, Athabasca University, Canada Jillian Calliou, Athabasca University, Canada Kevin Cole, Athabasca University, Canada
THREE CO-LOCATED CONFERENCES ==========================
* The 5th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2020) * The 18th IEEE Conf. on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Comp (DASC 2020) * The 6th IEEE Int’l Conf. on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2020)
Hosted by Athabasca University, Canada

Caros colegas Associados@APPIA:
A APPIA tem, entre os seus objectivos estatutariamente estabelecidos, o estímulo à investigação e aplicação prática da Inteligência Artificial (IA), promovido através da realização de conferências, colóquios e mesas redondas.
À Direcção da APPIA compete, em particular, para o cumprimento dos objectivos gerais estabelecidos, organizar anualmente um encontro na área científica da IA.
Deste modo, a Direcção da APPIA vem convidar os seus associados a candidatar-se à organização dos seguintes eventos:
– EAIA 2020 – 12ª Escola Avançada de Inteligência Artificial; – EPIA 2020 – 20ª Conferência EPIA em Inteligência Artificial.
A direção da APPIA decidiu-se alterar a periodicidade do EPIA, tornando o evento numa conferência anual.
As candidaturas à organização de Eventos APPIA deverão ser preparadas de acordo com o descrito no documento “Procedimentos de Candidatura à Organização de Eventos APPIA” (em anexo e disponível em www.appia.pt).
As condições particulares para a organização da EAIA 2020 e EPIA 2020 estabelecem-se nos respetivos documentos “Chamada à Organização do EAIA 2020” e “Chamada à Organização do EPIA 2020” (também em anexo e disponível em www.appia.pt).
A Direcção da APPIA
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Associação Portuguesa Para a Inteligência Artificial Universidade do Minho Departamento de Informática Campus de Gualtar 4710-057 Braga PORTUGAL
Tel: +351 604 470 Fax: +351 604 471 e-mail: infos \at appia.pt

Caros colegas@APPIA:
A APPIA vem por este meio felicitar o Luís Moniz Pereira, Professor Catedrático (emeritus) da FCT NOVA, investigador do NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics e fundador da Associação Portuguesa para a Inteligência Artificial que irá receber a Medalha de Mérito da Ciência, no Encontro Nacional com a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Ciência 2019.
www.appia.pt/2019/07/05/luis-moniz-pereira-distinguido-com-a-medalha-de-merito-da-ciencia-2019/
Parabéns.
Com os meus melhores cumprimentos, Pela APPIA Paulo Novais

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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

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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.