Barcelos, Portugal, July 13-14, 2020
  http://slate-conf.org
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We often use languages. Earlier, to communicate between ourselves. Later,
to communicate with computers. And more recently, with the advent of
networks, we found a way to make computers communicate between themselves.
All these different forms of communication use languages, different
languages, but that still share many similarities. In SLATE, we are
interested in discussing these languages, organized in three main tracks:

  * HHL Track:
    Processing Human-Human Languages, dedicated to the presentation and
    discussion of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools and applications.
   
  * HCL Track:
    Processing Human-Computer Languages, where researchers, developers,
    and educators exchange ideas and information on the latest academic
    or industrial work on the design, processing, assessment, and
    applications of programming languages.

  * CCL Track:
    Processing Computer-Computer Languages, broad space for discussing
    (mark-up) languages for communication between computers, including
    those used for visualization and presentation of information to the
    end-user.

  Important dates

    Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2020
    Paper Authors’ Notification: May 22, 2020
    Final Paper Submission: June 12, 2020

  List of Topics

    Human-Human Languages (HHL) track
        Computational approaches to Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics;
        Machine translation and tools for Computer Assisted Translation;
        Computational terminology and lexicography;
        Information Retrieval and Automatic Question Answering;
        Information Extraction;
        Natural Language Understanding;
        Corpus Linguistics;
        Statistical Methods for NLP;
        Tools and resources for NLP;
        Natural Language Generation;
        Speech Recognition and Synthesis;
        NLP system and resource evaluation;
        Language teaching support tools.
 
    Human-Computer Languages (HCL) track
        Programming language concepts, methodologies, and tools;
        Language and Grammars, design, formal specification, and quality;
        Design of novel language constructs and their implementation;
        Domain-Specific Languages design and implementation;
        Programming, refactoring and debugging environments;
        Dynamic and static analysis;
        Program Slicing;
        Program Comprehension;
        Compilation and interpretation techniques;
        Code generation and optimization;
        Program visualization and animation;
        Programming languages teaching methods;
        Languages for modeling;
        Dynamic languages;
        Program profiling;
        Cross-fertilization of different technological spaces
        (modelware, grammarware, ontologies, etc).
 
    Computer-Computer Languages (CCL) track
        Semantic data description frameworks;
        Semantic Web languages;
        Ontology engineering;
        IoT data protocols;
        XML Databases and Big Data;
        Publishing and document storage formats;
        HTML5 and web formatting;
        Industry-specific XML based standards;
        Web APIs and service marketplaces;
        Service-Oriented Architectures;
        E-learning systems, standards, and interoperability;
        Data and graph visualization languages.

Committees

SLATE 2020 Chairs

    Alberto Simões (2Ai-School of Technology, IPCA, Barcelos, Portugal)
    Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal)
    Ricardo Queirós (ESMAD/P.PORTO & uniMAD & CRACS/INESC TEC)

Program Committee

    The full program committee for each Track can be found on the
    conference homepage.

Organizing committee

    Alberto Simões (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal)
    Ricardo Queirós (Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, PP, Portugal)
    Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
    Maria João Varanda Pereira (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal)
    Goreti Pereira (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)

Publication

  SLATE’2020 proceedings will be published in the conference proceedings,
  on digital support, by the OASIcs series
  http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/oasics/
  in open access mode, under an ISBN reference and a DOI, and will thus
  be indexed by services such as Scopus and DBLP.

All questions about submissions should be emailed to
slate2020 (at) easychair.org

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CALL FOR TUTORIALS

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EASSS 2020

22nd European Agent Systems Summer School

http://www.fe.up.pt/easss2020

July 20-24, 2020

Porto — Portugal

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A tutorial proposal should take the form of a 2-page PDF document (see details below).

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Important dates

Tutorial proposal deadline: February 1, 2020

Notification of tutorial acceptance: March 1, 2020

Early application deadline (for participants): May 15, 2020

Teaching materials available for the organization: July 1, 2020

Late application deadline (for participants): July 1, 2020

EASSS 2020: July 20-24, 2020

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About EASSS 2020

The 22nd European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2020) will be organized by the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Lab of the University of Porto (LIACC), and held at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, on July 20-24, 2020. EASSS 2020 is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Multi-Agent Systems (EURAMAS) and the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), as an Advanced School on Artificial Intelligence.

The main goal of EASSS is to provide an exchange of knowledge among individuals and groups interested in various aspects of autonomous, agent-based and multi-agent systems research and practice. This dissemination is provided by formal state-of-the-art courses conducted by leading experts in the field and by informal meetings during the event. The school attracts both beginner and experienced researchers, encouraging cooperation between representatives of many branches of the Multi-Agent Systems research community.

The topics tackled within the field are becoming increasingly important due to the ubiquity of autonomous and distributed systems, such as the Internet of Things, intelligent buildings and smart cities, autonomous robots, agent-driven financial markets, etc. These kinds of applications demand innovative approaches in a number of research fields, including multi-agent systems engineering, coordination and cooperation, human-agent interaction, reasoning and planning, machine learning, game theory, modeling and simulation, and robotics. EASSS 2020 will be a privileged forum to learn the current trends in most of these fields, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The courses will be taught by leading researchers in the field, and are aimed at Ph.D. students, advanced M.Sc. students, and other young researchers.

Since the initial edition of 1999 (Utrecht, Netherlands) the school has been held annually in different European locations. The previous edition took place in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The school usually attracts circa 50 students every year. A typical course is 4 hours long and provides a general introduction to the selected topic followed by an in-depth exposition of recent and relevant contributions.

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School format

EASSS will be composed of tutorial sessions, aiming at including both lectures and practical labs. We expect that at least some of the tutorials will be run as parallel sessions. In addition, EASSS will promote informal networking periods, where tutors and attendees (mostly early-stage researchers on agents and multi-agent systems) can exchange ideas. A social event will take place in the city of Porto.

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Call-for-Tutorials

We invite proposals from members of the research community who are willing to offer tutorials at EASSS 2020. We are interested in tutorial proposals in all areas of current research in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. As a very rough guideline, any topic that might be covered at the AAMAS conference or in the JAAMAS journal would be suitable for EASSS.

We aim for a mix of tutorials on fundamental and well-established topics, as well as overviews of new and emerging areas of research. Tutorials should cover an appropriate selection of approaches and not mainly focus on the tutors’ own contributions. Besides providing a coherent overview of a specific research topic, we specifically encourage tutorial proposals to articulate a clear link to applications and pragmatic consideration of the fundamental topics presented. Tutorials that cover, in whole or in part, specific technological tools in the form of a hands-on session (e.g. for development of multi-agent systems, simulation of agent-based systems, or reinforcement learning), are also very welcome.

We encourage both well-established senior researchers and younger colleagues to submit proposals. Each tutorial is usually given by one or two people. Exceptions are of course possible; for proposals by more than two tutors, please justify this choice in the proposal and explain how you intend to ensure the coherence of the tutorial.

To support the tutors, we can commit to the provision of up to €500 per tutorial, to cover the tutorial team travel and accommodation costs.

Submission guidelines

A tutorial proposal should take the form of a 2-page PDF document covering the following points (preferably in this order):

1. Title of the proposed tutorial.

2. Tutor(s): name, affiliation, contact details (email), and a link to the personal homepage of each tutor.

3. Abstract: a short paragraph describing the tutorial (100-300 words), suitable for publication at the EASSS 2020 website.

4. Short biographical sketch for each tutor (around 100 words per tutor), suitable for publication at the EASSS 2020 website.

5. Experience of the tutor(s): any details on the relevant teaching experience of the tutor(s).

6. Syllabus: a detailed list of topics covered in the tutorial, preferably in the order in which the tutorial will cover them.

7. Type: a clear indication of whether the tutorial takes a theoretical or applications-oriented perspective on the topics covered. We encourage tutorial proposals that balance the two perspectives.

8. Prerequisites: the target audience or prior knowledge the attendants are assumed to have.

9. Teaching materials: the kind of teaching materials you intend to provide. These will be needed by the organization on the date stated below.

10. Duration: typically around 3,5h (half-day). Please explain if you need more time (e.g. for having a hands-on practical session).

11. Equipment: any special equipment (beyond a beamer and a whiteboard) that you might need.

The proposals should be submitted to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=easss2020

Any inquiries should be sent to easss2020@fe.up.pt

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EASSS 2020 Committees

Scientific Committee

Ana Paiva, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Ann Nowé, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Carles Sierra, IIIA, Spain

Mario Paolucci, ISTC-CNR, Italy

Organizing Committee

Henrique Lopes Cardoso, LIACC / Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Luís Paulo Reis, LIACC / Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Thiago Reis, LIACC / Universidade do Porto, Portugal

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Workshop on Non-intrusive acquisition and fusion of context information in Ambient Intelligence (Ni-AFCiA)
Part of the 11th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAMI) L'Aquila (Italy)  17-19 June, 2020 https://www.isami-conference.net/workshops/ni-afcia
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 ********* SCOPE *********
Research on Ambient Intelligence (AmI) has been growing steadily in the last years, a proof of its interest, applicability and potential. While this growth moves the field forward, it also opens new grounds and possibilities for research. Ambient Intelligence can be briefly described as the application of techniques of Artificial Intelligence (AI) towards the support of human users at several levels and in many different contexts such as the workplace, leisure environments or at home.  This support should be proactive, sensitive to the user’s context and state, and based on a natural interaction between the computer and the user. To this end, the collection of context information is of utmost importance, allowing to properly describe, among others, the users, their activities and their surroundings. Particularly interesting in this scope is the non-intrusive acquisition and fusion of all this important information, i.e., methods for obtaining this information that do not require the user to perform explicit, conscious or specific actions. This workshop will create a multi-disciplinary discussion forum that will bring together researchers from the different fields addressed to discuss new methods for non-intrusive acquisition and fusion of context information, new potential sources of information a, new supporting technologies and architectures and new potential applications.
********* TOPICS *********
In order to pursue the objective of this workshop, we are inviting researchers to contribute with original and previously unpublished work related to non-intrusive acquisition and fusion of context information in Ambient Intelligence, namely from fields such as but not limited to: •	 Activity Detection and Recognition. •	 Context-aware Computing. •	 Cognitive Assistance. •	 Distributed Computing. •	 Human-computer Interaction. •	 Intelligent Interfaces. •	 Internet of Things. •	 Indoor Positioning. •	 m-Health. •	 Sensor Fusion. •	 Soft Sensors. •	 Wearable computing. •	 Non-intrusive sensing. •	 Emotion detection. •	 Affective computing.
 ********* IMPORTANT DATES *********
•	Submission of full papers	31 January, 2020 •	Notification of acceptance	9 March, 2020 •	Camera-Ready papers		30 March, 2020 •	Conference Celebration	17-19 June, 2020
 ********* SUBMITTING PAPERS *********
Papers must be formatted according to the Springer AISC Template, with a maximum length of 8 pages, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the ISAmI conference management system. The word and latex templates are available at: ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/word/splnproc1703.zip (MSWord) ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/svproc/templates/ProcSci_TeX.zip (LaTeX)
 ********* PUBLICATION ********* Accepted papers will be included in ISAmI 2020 Proceedings, published by Springer. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the workshop to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by AISC Springer Verlag.
 ********* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********* •	 Davide Carneiro, Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Portugal) •	 Ângelo Costa, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) •	 José Carlos Castillo, University Carlos III (Spain)