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[rede.APPIA] 3rd Workshop on Women in Web Data Science (WinDS) co-located with The Web Conference 2019

2019-01-152019-01-17 Célia Gonçalves

Dear colleagues

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Third Women in Web Data Science (WinDS) Workshop

https://sites.google.com/view/winds2019/

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Important Dates

Submission date: January 22, 2019

Notification date: February 21, 2019

Camera Ready: March 3, 2019

The Third Women in Web Data Science (WinDS) workshop is a half-day event that will be held on May 13-14, 2019 in San Francisco, US in conjunction with The Web Conference (WWW 2019).

This workshop aims to bring together female faculty, graduate students, research scientists and industry researchers for an opportunity to connect, exchange ideas and learn from each other in the field of Data Science. Underrepresented minorities, graduates, and undergraduates interested in pursuing data science, machine learning, and related research are encouraged to participate. While most presenters should be women, everybody is invited to attend.

We strongly encourage female participants — students, post-docs, early-career, and senior researchers — in all areas of data mining, machine learning, and applications of data science related to health, finance, natural resources, and so on to participate.

Data science is an interdisciplinary field about processes and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data in various forms, either structured or unstructured, which is a continuation of some of the data analysis fields such as statistics, machine learning, data mining, and predictive analytics. Data science encompasses several areas such as data analytics, machine learning, statistics, optimization, and big data management.

WinDS will bring together women researchers and practitioners in the field to bring emphasis and discuss the emerging challenges in data science and advanced analytics, including both theoretical and practical perspectives.

General areas of interest to WinDS include but are not limited to:

* KDD foundations

* Big data analytics

* Machine learning and knowledge discovery

* Big data processing, storage, retrieval, and search

* Privacy and security

* Applications, practices, tools, and evaluation

This year we have three different tracks:

· Traditional Academic submission: authors can submit original work, unpublished ideas in the form of completed work or work-in-progress papers of at least 4 pages and up to 8 pages in length (including references).

· Problems in the Data Science field that women face in their daily job: Work in progress on approaches in data science that analyze and tackle bias and increase data diversity or industry project/cases led by women. For this, authors can submit a two pages in length paper presenting the case and how it was solved to help other women.

· Lighting Talk: women that are presenting at the main conference and would like to participate in the workshop by presenting their work can submit a one page abstract. We also accept abstracts of papers presented at other venues.

Papers must be submitted in PDF according to the new ACM format published in ACM guidelines (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template), selecting the generic “sigconf” sample. The PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. Submissions must be self-contained and in English. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines, or do not view or print properly, may be rejected without review.

Microsoft Word users should convert their document to the PDF format for submission.

All submissions should clearly present the author information including the names of the authors, affiliations and the emails. The main author should be a woman.

The proceedings of the workshops will be published jointly with the conference proceedings.

Please use the following Easychair link for submission:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=winds2019

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Workshop Chairs:

Ana Paula Appel

IBM Research – apappel@br.ibm.com

Marisa Affonso Vasconcelos

IBM Research – marisaav@br.ibm.com

Francesca Spezzano

Boise State University – francescaspezzano@boisestate.edu

Célia Talma Gonçalves

CEOS.PP – ISCAP – Polytechnic Institute of Porto /LIACC – celia@iscap.ipp.pt

[rede.APPIA] [CFP]EPIA_2019_Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems

2019-01-122019-01-14 Tiago Pinto

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the Thematic Track on Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems of EPIA 2019, to be held in Vila Real, Portugal between 3^rd and 6^th September 2019 (https://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/83-thematic-tracks/100-aipes).

Thematic Track Organizers:

Zita Vale – Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal)

Pedro Faria- Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal)

Juan M. Corchado – University of Salamanca (Spain)

Tiago Pinto – University of Salamanca (Spain)

Important Deadlines:

Deadline for full paper submission: 15^th April, 2017

Notification of acceptance: 31^st May, 2017

Camera-Ready papers: 15^th June, 2017

Conference: 3^rd and 6^th September 2017

AIPES welcomes full length papers (of up to 12 pages, according to EPIA guidelines) and also short papers (up to 6 pages), demonstrating practical applications.

Accepted papers will be included in EPIA 2019 proceedings, published by Springer. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issues published in international journals.

Scope:

The Thematic Track on Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems aims at providing an advanced discussion forum on recent and innovative work on the application of artificial intelligence approaches in the field of power and energy systems, including agent-based systems, data-mining, machine learning methodologies, forecasting and optimization. A description of the special session can be found at:

https://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/83-thematic-tracks/100-aipes

Submission Topics include:

· Agent-based Smart Grid Simulation

· Big Data Applications for Energy Systems

· Coalitions and Aggregations of Smart Grid and Market Players

· Consumer Profiling

· Context Aware Systems

· Data-Mining Approaches in Smart Grids

· Decision Support Approaches for Smart Grids

· Demand Response Aggregation

· Demand Response Integration in the Market

· Demand Response Remuneration Methods

· Electric vehicles

· Electricity Market Modelling and Simulation

· Electricity Market Negotiation Strategies

· Energy Resource Management in Buildings

· Information technology applications

· Innovative Demand Response Models and Programs

· Innovative Energy Tariffs

· Integration of Electric Vehicles in the Power System

· Intelligent Approaches for Microgrid Management

· Intelligent Home Management Systems

· Intelligent methods for Demand Management

· Intelligent Resources Scheduling

· Intelligent Supervisory Control Systems

· Knowledge-based approaches for Power and Energy Systems

· Load Forecast

· Market Models for Variable Renewable Energy

· Multi-Agent Applications for Smart Grids

· Multi-Agent Systems in Power and Energy Systems

· Other Artificial Intelligence-based Methods for Power and Energy Systems

· Phasor Measurement Units Applications

· Real-time simulation

· Reliability, Protection and Network Security Methods

· Renewable Energy Forecast using Computational Intelligence

· Semantic communication and data

· Smart Sensors and Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Best regards

AIPES organizers

[rede.APPIA] Computational Creativity (ICCC) papers due Feb 18, 2019

2019-01-072019-01-09 Fernando Amílcar Bandeira Cardoso

International Conference on Computational Creativity 2019

17-21 June 2019 – Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

We’d like to invite you to submit your papers/workshops/demo proposals for the International Conference on Computational Creativity 2019 to be held 17-21 June 2019 in Charlotte, NC

Computational creativity is the art, science, philosophy and engineering of computational systems which, by taking on particular responsibilities, exhibit behaviours that unbiased observers would deem to be creative. As a field of research, this area is thriving, with progress in formalising what it means for software to be creative, along with many exciting and valuable applications of creative software in the sciences, design, the arts, literature, gaming and elsewhere. The ICCC conference series organized by the Association for Computational Creativity since 2010 is the only scientific conference that focuses on computational creativity alone and also covers all aspects of it.

The conference programme will include paper presentations, workshops, poster sessions, doctoral consortium and an art/demo exhibition, along with prominent keynote speakers. All submitted papers will be reviewed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality and clarity.

Important Dates:
Paper and Workshop proposal Submissions Due: 18 February 2019

Doctoral Consortium Submissions Due: 18 March 2019

Art/Demo Submissions Due: 17 May 2019
Acceptance Notification : 29 April 2019
Camera Ready Submission : 17 May 2019
Conference Dates : 17-21 June 2019

Complete details are available on the conference website http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2019/

Please share this information. We are looking forward to your contributions.

Mary Lou Maher

Chair, ICCC 2019

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Professor Mary Lou Maher
Chair, Software and Information Systems
Director, Center for Education Innovation
Woodward 310A, UNC Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223
Phone: 704-687-1940| Fax: 704-687-6065
http://sis.uncc.edu/maher-marylou

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[rede.APPIA] Winter School on AI for Games – Student Session

2018-12-252019-01-02 Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões

      3rd Winter School on Artificial Intelligence for Games
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http://ai4g.ipca.pt/                      14/15 February, 2019
                   S T U D E N T S   S E S S I O N
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   Next 14th and 15th February, 2019, the Third Winter School on
   Artificial Intelligence for Games will be held in Instituto 
   Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, in Barcelos, Portugal.
   The two days will include talks on different topics, and
   will have as invited lecturers Éric Jacopin, Marco Scirea,
   Rui Prada, Gustavo Reis, Luís Teófilo and Samuel Mascarenhas.
   At the end of the second day, a Students Session will take
   place. This session will be an open session to students doing
   their Master or Doctoral degrees on Artificial Intelligence 
   applied to Games to present their ongoing work.
   This is an extremely interesting opportunity to see your ideas
   discussed by some well known researchers on the area.
   If you are willing to participate, drop us an e-mail with your
   name, supervisor, institution, a tentative title for your work
   and a small summary of your work — asimoes@ipca.pt
  
  

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Alberto Simões

Direção de Curso da Licenciatura em Engenharia de Sistemas Informáticos
Escola Superior de Tecnologia – Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave

[rede.APPIA] Prémio Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2017-2018: Deadline 17 de maio de 2019

2018-12-182018-12-19 Goreti Marreiros

Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2017-2018

Prémio da Associação Portuguesa para a Inteligência Artificial

A APPIA institui o Prémio para a Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2017-2018, com a finalidade de distinguir trabalhos doutoramento de elevado mérito na área da Inteligência Artificial e que tenham sido obtidos numa instituição de ensino superior portuguesa durante o ano de 2017 ou 2018.

Em anexo segue o regulamento do prémio, sendo que as candidaturas devem ser efectuadas via preenchimento deste formulário até à data limite: 17 de Maio de 2019.

O prémio tem um valor simbólico de 1000 euros, sendo que o candidato (ou seu representante) receberá o certificado do Prémio de Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2017-2018 em Setembro de 2019, no Porto, durante a realização da 19th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2019, http://epia2019.utad.pt)

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ISEP/IPP – Engineering Institute – Polytechnic of Porto
Director of GECAD – Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development

Vice-president of APPIA the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence
Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431; 4200-072 Porto – Portugal
Email: mgt@isep.ipp.pt ; gormarreiros@gmail.com
Web: www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt
Phone: +351-22-8340511
Fax: +351-22-8321159

Goreti Marreiros

Professor Adjunto
Departamento de Engenharia Informática

ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431
4249-015 Porto – PORTUGAL
tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159
mail@isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

PremioTeseAPPIA-2017-2018.pdf

[rede.APPIA] CFP: 6th Computational Creativity Symposium at AISB 2019 (deadline: January 18th 2019)

2018-12-122018-12-19 Fernando Amílcar Bandeira Cardoso

6^th Computational Creativity Symposium at AISB 2019

Convention organised by The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation for Behaviour

Falmouth University, United Kingdom, April 16-18th 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS

Please check the symposium website for updates: https://sites.google.com/site/aisb2019cc/home

More details about AISB can be found at the convention website:

http://aisb2019.falmouthgamesacademy.com/

Computational Creativity

Over the last few decades, computational creativity has attracted an increasing number of researchers from both arts and science backgrounds. Philosophers, cognitive psychologists, computer scientists and artists have all contributed to and enriched the literature.

Many argue a machine is creative if it simulates or replicates human creativity (e.g. evaluation of AI systems via a Turing-style test), while others have conceived of computational creativity as an inherently different discipline, where computer generated (art)work should not be judged on the same terms, i.e. as being necessarily producible by a human artist, or having similar attributes, etc.

This symposium aims at bringing together researchers to discuss recent technical and philosophical developments in the field, and the impact of this research on the future of our relationship with computers and the way we perceive them: at the individual level where we interact with the machines, the social level where we interact with each other via computers, or even with machines interacting with each other.

This is a one-day workshop which will be held at AISB 2019, at Falmouth University, United Kingdom.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Novel systems and theories in computational creativity, in any domain, e.g. drawing and painting, music, story telling, poetry, games
The evaluation of computational creative systems, processes and artifacts
Theory of computational aesthetics
Representational issues in creativity, including visual and perceptual representations
Social aspects of computational creativity, and intellectual property issues
Creative autonomy and constraint
Computational appreciation of artifacts, including human artwork

Authors of accepted papers (up to 8-pages) will be expected to give 30 minute presentations, including 5 to 10 minutes for questions, on the day of the symposium.

Keynote Speaker: Jeremy Gow

See our website for details.

Submission Dates

Dates are provisional, please check our website for the most up-to-date information.

· Papers January 18^th 2019 (Fri)

· Notification March 11^th 2019 (Mon)

· Camera Ready Submission March 25^th 2019 (Mon)

· Convention April 16-18^th 2019 (Tue-Thur)

Organizing Committee

· Maximilian Droog-Hayes

· Juan Manuel Alvarado López

Programme Committee (confirmed so far)

· Tarek Besold

· Amilcar Cardoso

· Simon Colton

· Mike Cook

· Joe Corneli

· Anna Jordanous

· Rafael Perez y Perez

· Tony Veale

· Geraint Wiggins

[rede.APPIA] Universidade do Minho concedeu o título de Emérito ao Professor José Maia Neves

2018-12-042018-12-05 Paulo Jorge Novais

É com grande prazer que a APPIA informa que a Universidade do Minho concedeu o título de Emérito ao Professor José Carlos Ferreira Maia Neves.
José Maia Neves é um dos fundadores da nossa Associação, Professor Catedrático Jubilado da Universidade do Minho no Departamento de Informática da Escola de Engenharia, Investigador no Centro ALGORITMI e membro fundador do grupo de Inteligência Artificial da referida universidade.