Intelligent Systems

RoboCup International Symposium 2010, Mexico City, Mexico

2012-01-26T16:57:00.001-08:00

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Call for Papers
RoboCup International Symposium 2012
Mexico City, Mexico
June 24, 2012
http://www.robocup2012.org/
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OVERVIEW

The 16th annual RoboCup International Symposium will be held in
conjunction with RoboCup 2012 (June 18-24). The Symposium represents the
core meeting for presentation and discussion of scientific contributions
to a variety of research areas related to all RoboCup divisions
(RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCup@Home, and RoboCupJunior). Its
scope encompasses, but is not restricted to, research and educational
activities within the fields of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the symposium offers a unique venue
for exploring various and intimate connections of theory and practice
across a wide spectrum of research fields. The experimental,
interactive, and benchmark character of the RoboCup initiative presents
the opportunity to disseminate novel ideas and promising technologies,
which are rapidly adopted and field-tested by a large (and still
growing) community.

SUBMISSION

We solicit submissions of papers reporting on high-quality, original
research with relevance to the areas mentioned below. All researchers
working in these areas, even if not actively participating in RoboCup
teams, are urged to submit their work. Both papers describing real-world
research and papers reporting theoretical results, as well as
combinations thereof, are welcome. We also encourage the submission of
high-quality overview articles for any field related to the general
scope of RoboCup.

The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium are published and
archived within the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI) series. Submitted papers are limited to 12 pages
formatted according to the LNAI requirements (http://www.springer.com/series/1244)
and must be electronically submitted through the symposium web site:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2012

All contributions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers using a
blind (but not double blind) review process.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission of full papers: March 2, 2012
* Notification to authors: April 15, 2012
* Submission of camera-ready copies: April 30, 2012
* RoboCup 2012 Symposium: June 24, 2012

SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS

* Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China
* Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin
* Luis Enrique Sucar, Nat. Inst. for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics
* Tijn Van der Zant, University of Groningen

AREAS OF INTEREST

* Robot Hardware and Software
- mobile and humanoid robots
- sensors and actuators
- embedded and mobile devices
- robot construction and new materials
- robotic system integration
- robot software architectures
- robot programming environments and languages
- real-time and concurrent programming
- robot simulators

* Perception and Action
- distributed sensor integration
- sensor noise filtering
- real-time image processing and pattern recognition
- motion and sensor models
- sensory-motor control
- robot kinematics and dynamics
- high-dimensional motion control

* Robotic Cognition and Learning
- world modeling
- localization, navigation, and mapping
- planning and reasoning
- decision making under uncertainty
- reinforcement learning
- complex motor skill acquisition
- motion and sensor model learning

* Multi-Robot Systems
- team coordination methods
- communication protocols
- learning and adaptive systems
- teamwork and heterogeneous agents
- dynamic resource allocation
- adjustable autonomy

* Human-Robot Interaction
- human-robot interfaces
- speech synthesis and natural language generation
- visualization

* Education and Edutainment
- Robotics and Artificial Intelligence education
- educational robotics
- robot kits and programming tools
- robotic entertainment

* Applications
- disaster rescue information systems
- search and rescue robots
- robotic surveillance
- service and social robots
- robots at home

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2012 World Intelligence Congress (WIC 2012)

2012-01-25T15:33:00.000-08:00

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The 2012 World Intelligence Congress (WIC 2012)
December 4-7, 2012, Macau, China

CALL FOR PAPERS
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Homepage: http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012

A Special Event of the Alan Turing Year (Centenary of Alan Turing's birth).
The congress includes five intelligent informatics related conferences:

- IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2012 (WI'12)
- IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2012 (IAT'12)
- Active Media Technology 2012 (AMT'12)
- Brain Informatics 2012 (BI'12)
- Methodologies for Intelligent Systems 2012 (ISMIS'12)

co-located with the aim to facilitate interactions and idea exchange among
researchers working on a variety of focused themes under a holistic vision
for computing and intelligence in the post WWW era and to promote and
expedite new innovations for areas under intelligent informatics.

Important Dates:
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# Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2012
# Electronic submission of full papers: June 1, 2012
# Tutorial proposal submission: July 10, 2012
# Workshop paper submission: July 25, 2012
# Notification of paper acceptance: August 1, 2012
# Camera-ready of accepted papers: August 31, 2012
# Workshops: December 4, 2012
# Conference: December 5-7, 2012
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WIC 2012 is being organized/sponsored by:
- Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
- IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII)
- IEEE-CIS Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)
- ACM SIGART
- University of Macau
- Hong Kong Baptist University

*** Contact Information ***
Ryan Leang Hou U, University of Macau

MACHINE LEARNING SUMMER SCHOOL, LA PALMA, SPAIN, APRIL 11-20, 2012

2012-01-20T15:42:00.001-08:00

MACHINE LEARNING SUMMER SCHOOL, LA PALMA, SPAIN, APRIL
11-20, 2012
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The 19th Machine Learning Summer School will be held in La Palma,
Canary Islands, Spain, from April 11 till April 20 2012 and will be
collocated with AISTATS 2012.

The school will provide tutorials and lectures on basic and advanced
core topics of machine learning by leading researchers in the field.
The summer school is intended for students, researchers and industry
practitioners with an interest in machine learning.

The school will address the following topics: Learning Theory, Kernel
Methods, Bayesian Machine Learning, Monte Carlo Methods, Bayesian
Nonparametrics, Optimization, Graphical Models, Information theory and
Dimensionality Reduction.

Key Information
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URL: http://mlss2012.tsc.uc3m.es
Dates: Wednesday 11 April to Friday 20 April, 2012
Application deadline: 31 January 2012
Location: La Palma, Spain
Email contact: mlss2012[at]tsc.uc3m.es

Confirmed Speakers
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- Zoubin Ghahramani (University of Cambridge)
- Mark Girolami (University College London)
- Neil Lawrence (University of Sheffield)
- Gabor Lugosi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge)
- Fernando Perez-Cruz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
- Bernhard Schoelkopf (Max Plank Institute T¸bingen)
- Robert Vanderbei (Princeton University)

Organizers
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Fernando Perez-Cruz, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Neil Lawrence and Emilio
Parrado-Hernandez

MLSS La Palma is co-organized by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,
University of Sheffield, Max Plank Institute Tuebingen and PASCAL2.

See http://mlss2012.tsc.uc3m.es for details.

21st Machine Learning Summer School - Kyoto, Japan

2012-01-20T15:40:00.000-08:00

21st Machine Learning Summer School - Kyoto, Japan
August 27th (Mon) to September 7th (Fri) 2012
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The 21st MLSS will take place in the central campus of
Kyoto University, in downtown Kyoto, Japan.

You are cordially invited to attend the MLSS for 10 days of
intensive lectures, short talks, poster presentations and social
events in the cultural center of Japan.

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-- Website: www.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/mlss12/
-- Application website opens on January 16th (Mon).
-- Deadline for application: April 20th (Fri), 23:59 (PST).
-- Final notification: early May.
-- Dates: August 27th (Mon) to September 7th (Fri)
-- About the MLSS series: www.mlss.cc
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The application website will open on January 16th (Mon), with
a deadline set on April 20th (Fri) at 23:59 (Pacific Standard Time).

Students with limited financial means and/or traveling from
locations far away from Japan are encouraged to apply
for financial support.

The school will provide tutorials on basic and advanced topics
of machine learning by leading researchers in the field.
This school is suitable for all levels and backgrounds, both
for people without previous knowledge in Machine Learning,
and those wishing to broaden their expertise in this area.

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Confirmed Long Lectures:
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* Francis BACH - Ecole Normale Superieure/ENS
* David BLEI - Princeton University
* Pedro DOMINGOS - University of Washington
* Arnaud DOUCET - University of Oxford
* Kenji FUKUMIZU - Institute of Statistical Mathematics
* Klaus-Robert MUELLER - Technische Universität Berlin
* Sasha RAKHLIN - University of Pennsylvania/Wharton
* Robert SHAPIRE - Princeton University
* Koji TSUDA - AIST Computational Biology Research Center
* Lieven VANDENBERGHE - University of California, LA
* Santosh VEMPALA - Georgia Tech
* Martin WAINWRIGHT - University of California, Berkeley

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Confirmed Short Lectures and Talks:
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* Shun-Ichi AMARI - RIKEN Brain Science Institute
* Kenji DOYA - Okinawa Institute of Technology
* Hang LI - Microsoft Research Asia
* Satoru IWATA - Kyoto University
* Masashi SUGIYAMA - Tokyo Institute of Technology
* Akimichi TAKEMURA - University of Tokyo

Please refer to www.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/mlss12/ for updated information.

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Organizers: Marco CUTURI, Akihiro YAMAMOTO,
Masashi SUGIYAMA
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International Workshop on Collaboration and e-Learning (Ce-Learning 2012)

2012-01-18T06:10:00.001-08:00

International Workshop on Collaboration and e-Learning
(Ce-Learning 2012)

Call for Papers

As part of
The 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012)
http://cts2012.cisedu.info

May 21-25, 2012

The Westin Westminster Hotel
Denver, Colorado, USA

In Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP

Submission Deadline: January 25, 2012

Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters

PURPOSE AND DESCRIPTION
Shifting to knowledge based society, high level educational environments are required with which it is possible to continue to learn for anybody, anytime, and anywhere. The area of e-Learning realizes such kind of educational environments because distributed learners can learn collaboratively with multimedia contents anytime and anywhere by employing collaborative e-Learning technologies.

Collaborative e-learning technologies include a variety of approaches that involve joint intellectual effort by learners and instructors. In such learning contexts, collaborative learning happens when groups of learning seekers work together to search for understanding or meaning or build a new competency, and/or learning providers and pedagogues deliver joint solutions to create a learning product.

This workshop solicits researches for systems and concepts which offer high quality education with thinking of learners' convenience, such as collaborative learning systems, sharing and exchanging systems, monitoring/mentoring systems, learning design and pedagogy in technology-enhanced learning. E-Learning outcomes have been judged to be equivalent or superior to face-to-face instructions at many institutions and it has the same educational effect on learners in instructors' impressions. Hence, this is a promising field with a lot of potentials.

We invite original contributions from researchers and practitioners in academia, government and industry, in order to go forward toward new collaborative information technology systems for e-Learning.

Topics of Interest include (but not limited to):

Learning Theories and Approaches for e-Learning
e-Learning Pedagogical Strategies and Models
Pedagogy in Technology-enhanced Learning
Collaborative Learning Systems
Monitoring/Mentoring Systems
Designing e-Learning Settings and Tasks
Knowledge Management/Sharing
Learning Design Technology
Organizational Collaboration
Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) Tools
Social Support Software for e-Learning
e-Moderating, e-Tutoring, e-Facilitating
Online Assessment and Impact Studies
Ethical Issues in e-learning
Virtual Classrooms
Smart Collaborative Learning Environments
Media for Group Works
Network Learning Games
Learning Web Services
Best Practices to Promote Cooperative Learning

PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to e-Learning and collaboration systems. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages will be charged at additional fee. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and poster (please refer to http://cts2012.cisedu.info/home/posters for the submission details) will also be accepted. In case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence must be indicated. Please include page numbers on all submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.

Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript via the Workshop submission Web page at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=celearning2012.

Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the Workshop link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, contributions, technical clarity and presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop.

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the CTS 2012 web site later. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed accordingly.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submissions: ---------------------------------------------- January 25, 2012
Acceptance Notification: --------------------------------------- February 11, 2012
Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: -------------- March 01, 2012
Conference Dates: ------------------------------------------------ May 21 - 25, 2012

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Phone:
Email: TBA

Technical Program Committee (Proposed)
All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the Workshop Technical Program Committee members following similar criteria used in CTS 2012.

Lorraine Cleeton, Walden University, MN, USA
Leonardo Garrido, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Yasmin Kafai, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Veronika Makarova, University Of Saskatchewan, Canada
Antonio Navarro, Universidad Complutense De Madrid, Spain
Andreas Papasalouros, University of the Aegean, Greece
Francesca Pozzi, Instituto Tecnologie Didattiche – CNR, Italy
Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA
Chiara Rossitto, Stockholm University, Sweden
Pavel Rusakov, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Demetrios Sampson, University of Pireaus, Greece
Amali Weerasinghe, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Chengjiu Yin, Kyushu University, Japan
Larisa Zaiceva, Riga Technical University, Latvia

(*Partial TPC. This committee will be completed shortly.)

For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://cts2012.cisedu.info/ or contact one of the Conference's organizers or Co-Chairs: Geoffrey C. Fox at gcf@indiana.edu and Waleed W. Smari at Smari@arys.org.

13th edition of the Ibero‐American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IBERAMIA 2012.

2012-01-17T13:32:00.000-08:00

IBERAMIA 2012 - Call for papers

IBERAMIA 2012 is the 13th edition of the Ibero‐American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, a leading symposium where the Ibero‐American AI community comes together to share research results and experiences with researchers in Artificial Intelligence from all over the world. IBERAMIA 2012 will be held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 13‐16 November 2012, organized by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

The conference is sponsored by the main Ibero‐American Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science societies.

Web site: http://iberamia.dsic.upv.es/iberamia2012/

IBERAMIA 2012 welcomes submissions on mainstream AI topics, as well as novel cross cutting work in related areas.
Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

• AI in Education
• Applications of AI
• Ambient intelligence
• Bio‐inspired computing
• Computational creativity
• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
• Constraint satisfaction
• Data Mining
• Emotional computing
• Evolutionary computing
• Game playing and interactive entertainment
• Human‐Computer Interaction
• Information extraction and integration
• Knowledge acquisition and ontologies
• Knowledge Engineering and Applications
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
• Machine Learning
• Modelling and Simulation
• Multi‐Agent Systems
• Natural Language Processing
• Neural networks
• Planning and Scheduling
• Probabilistic Reasoning
• Robotics
• Swarm intelligence
• Uncertainty and Fuzzy Systems

Paper submission details

Papers must be written in English, and will be reviewed on the basis of their relevance, significance of the contribution, originality, technical soundness, quality and clarity. As in previous years, accepted papers will be published in the series “Advances in Artificial Intelligence” of Springer‐Verlag LNAI.

Submitted papers must not exceed 10 pages, including all tables, figures, and references and are required to be formatted in the Springer LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Submissions over ten pages will be rejected without review. Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair Conference System at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iberamia2012. The conference is organized in several areas, so the authors should choose to submit the paper to the most appropriate area for their work.

All submissions will go through a peer review process, with three independent PC members reviewing each submission. Reviewing will be blind, so author names and affiliations must be omitted from the submission, using instead the unique tracking number assigned by the conference system at the time of submission. In addition, self‐references in the text, like “in [Garcia 2004], we prove that” should be avoided, using instead references such as “in [Garcia 2004] has been proved that”.
Important dates

Paper submission deadline : May 20th, 2012
Notification : July 2nd, 2012
Camera ready papers: July 9th, 2012

Smart Applications for Smart Cities: New Approaches to Innovation

2012-01-16T16:02:00.001-08:00

Smart Applications for Smart Cities: New Approaches to
Innovation

Special issue of the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce
Research

Guest Editors: Hans Schaffers, Carlo Ratti and Nicos Komninos

The Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research is planning
a special issue on Smart Applications for Smart Cities: New Approaches to
Innovation.

Cities are complex, networked and continuously changing social ecosystems,
shaped and transformed through the interaction of different interests and
ambitions. Ensuring employment, sustainable development, inclusion and quality
of life are important concerns. Infrastructures of cities, addressing these
concerns, comprise a diversity of services such as healthcare, energy,
education, environmental management, transportation and mobility, public safety.
Increasingly these services are enabled by broadband infrastructures, wireless
sensor networks, Internet-based networked applications, open data and open
platforms. The concept of “smart cities” has emerged during the last few years
to describe how investments in human and social capital and modern ICT
infrastructure and e-services fuel sustainable growth and quality of life,
enabled by a wise management of natural resources and through participative
government (Caragliu, Del Bo, Nijkamp).

However truly smart - and real - cities are driven bottom up by citizens and
organizations as innovators rather than by top down visions and plans that
ignore the innovative potential of grassroots efforts, while governments should
play the role of mediator bringing companies, research organizations and
creative people to work in concert (Ratti, Townsend). The connection between
smart environments and bottom-up innovation practices in the framework of cities
and urban agglomerations is the main focus of the Special Issue. In particular
we explore how collaboration platforms, embedded systems, open data, and
semantic web technologies sustain a new round of innovation driven by the
creativity of the population and the collective intelligence of collaboration.

The concept of Living Labs takes its point of departure in the consideration of
people as innovators, and envisions environments of open and user driven
innovation. As infrastructures and social networks become more advanced and
widespread, the role of the Internet as an enabler of city services has become
more important for urban development. Cities are increasingly assuming a
critical role as drivers of innovation in areas such as health, inclusion,
environment and business, a trend that will surely continue as more people and
devices will become part of the Future Internet even than are connected today.
Cities are increasingly becoming a living lab itself, a playground of innovation
and transformation.

In this landscape, different traditionally separated streams of scientific
research are coming together. New research challenges emerge in and across areas
such as urban development and spatial planning, network infrastructure,
technology platforms, services and applications, user behaviour, service
engineering, innovation theory and urban economics. Also new methodological
approaches to research and innovation emerge, such as design science, action
research, living labs methodologies, testbed methods and tools, which need a
more solid and empirically based foundation in theory as well as in practice.
This special issue aims to advance our understanding of the emerging or already
more mature research challenges at the cross point of the different areas
mentioned. Such understanding will help academics and practitioners to explore
new directions and generate knowledge and solutions towards smarter cities.

Subject Coverage
We specifically encourage papers related to user centered approaches for
innovation focusing on smart applications, aiming for a transformation towards
smarter cities. Papers may cover smart applications for smart cities, addressing
the participative design, implementation and validation aspects. We also solicit
methodologically oriented papers on new, non-traditional approaches to
citizen-centric innovation for smart cities. Particular topics to be addressed
might include, but are not limited to the following :
• User driven innovation facilitating participative urban development
• Innovation Labs facilitating urban planning, development and transformation
• Citizen participation in urban and regional planning and decision-making and governance
• Internet-enabled infrastructures, services and networked applications for smart cities
• Smart applications for innovation based on Internet of Things and Internet of Services paradigms
• Wireless sensor networks and smart sensor-based networked applications in urban areas
• Cloud computing, service models and smart city solutions enabling innovation
• Standardisation and open interfaces of smart city systems, platforms and applications
• Smart applications based on Semantic Web, Linked Data, Ontologies
• Infrastructures and applications for new public urban services such as water, energy, healthcare, environmental monitoring, traffic management, intelligent transportation, e-government
• Smart grids for utility infrastructures and services in urban areas
• E-work and e-business applications
• Design, implementation and evaluation of smart applications
• Case studies of user driven innovation for smart(er) cities.

Notes for Intending Authors

We are seeking original manuscripts on conceptual and methodological issues
related to qualitative research on e-marketing and online consumer behaviour, as
well as papers which report on the results of qualitative empirical research in
the field.

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently
under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Author guidelines can be found at http://www.jtaer.com/author_guidelines.doc.
All submissions will be refereed by at least three reviewers. Submissions should
be directed by email to hans.schaffers@aalto.fi with copy to ratti@mit.edu and
komninos@urenio.org.

For more information, please visit the following web site: http://www.jtaer.com.

Important dates

Full paper submission: 1 May 2012
Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2012
Revised submission: 1 August 2012
Final acceptance notification: 15 August 2012
Camera ready version of paper: 15 September 2012
Publication: December 2012

Guest Editors

Prof. Hans Schaffers
Aalto University School of Economics
Centre of Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR)
http://ckir.aalto.fi
E-mail: hans.schaffers@aalto.fi

Prof. Carlo Ratti
MIT
Senseable City Laboratory
http://senseable.mit.edu
E-mail: ratti@mit.edu

Prof. Nicos Komninos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Urban and Regional Research Unit (URENIO)
http://www.urenio.org
E-mail: komninos@urenio.org

4th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition

2012-01-12T14:50:00.001-08:00

MCPR 2012
4th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition
June 27-30, 2012, Huatulco, Mexico
URL: http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~mcpr2012/

NEWS

The submission page is open
Springer Verlag has accepted to publish the MCPR2012 proceedings in the LNCS series.
MCPR2012 is an IAPR Endorsed event.
Paper Submission Deadline: January 30, 2012

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we have the pleasure to invite
you to submit your contributions to the 4th Mexican Conference on
Pattern Recognition (MCPR2012). The conference will be held in Huatulco,
Mexico at the Las Brisas hotel from June 27 to June 30, 2012,
under direction of the Computer Science Department of the National
Institute for Astrophysics Optics and Electronics (INAOE), with the
consent of the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neurocomputing
and Robotics (MACVNR), which is affiliated to the IAPR.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Paper Submission Deadline: January 30, 2012
Notification of acceptance: March 19, 2012
Camera-ready: April 2, 2012

Very well renowned Professors have been invited to give keynote addresses.

Professor Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Director of Research, Institute of
Cybernetics "E.Caianiello", CNR, Italy.

Professor Sven Dickinson, Department of Computer Science, University of
Toronto, Canada.

Professor Humberto Sossa, Center for Computing Research, National
Polytechnic Institute, Mexico.

You can find more information in the MCPR2012 webpage at:

http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~mcpr2012/

We would like to meet you in Huatulco!

Sincerely yours,

Kim Boyer (Honorary Chair)
Jose Francisco Martinez-Trinidad
Jesus Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa
Jose Arturo Olvera Lopez
Organizing Committee of the MCPR2012

International Journal of Robotics Research

2011-12-31T09:20:00.001-08:00

Table of Contents — December 2011, 30 (14)

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

2011-12-31T09:20:00.000-08:00

IEEE Xplore - Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Call for Participation: RoboCup 2012 RoboCup@Home League

2011-12-31T08:56:00.001-08:00

Call for Participation

RoboCup 2012 RoboCup@Home League

http://www.robocupathome.org/

June 18 - 24, 2012 (Mexico City, MEXICO)

www.robocup2012.org

RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions (RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue and RoboCup Junior).

The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots' abilities and performance in a realistic non-standardized home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviors, Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration.

This message describes preregistration and qualification procedure for RoboCup@Home League 2012.

Important dates:
Jan. 15, 2012 | Pre-registration
Feb. 28, 2012 | Deadline for qualification material (Team Description Paper, Team Video,
Team Website, Information in @Home Wiki).
Mar. 15, 2012 | Notification of Qualification

Jun. 18-24, 2012 | RoboCup@Home competition

v Team setup: 18-19 Jun 2012

v Competitions: 20-22 Jun 2012

v Finals: 23 Jun 2012

v Symposium: 24 Jun 2012

Every team intending to participate has to run through the following two steps:

Step 1) Pre-registration
The team must send an email to the OC members in the below mentioned format to indicate the intention to participate in RoboCup@Home 2012 event.

Please fill in the following basic information:

· Team Name:

· Country:

· Affiliation:

· Team Leader Name:

· E-mail:

· Web site:

The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2012-Preregistration] (YourTeamName)

**** Deadline: Thursday, 15 Jan. 2012 23:59 GMT *****

Step 2) Qualification Material Submission

· Team Name:

· Country:

· Affiliation:

· Team Leader Name:

· Contact information (E-mail):

* Team Description Paper (TDP)
* A link to a team video,
* A team web site devoted to their efforts.

Please note that:

· All teams that want to participate ***MUST*** add their info in the @Home Wiki

· All the publications that they want to be evaluated for qualification ***MUST*** be in the @Home Wiki

· The video should contain at least one complete test of the rulebook 2011 (mandatory for old teams, strongly recommended for new teams).

The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2012-Qualification] (YourTeamName)

**** Deadline: Friday, Feb. 28, 2012 23:59 GMT *****

Instructions for the TDP
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The TDP contains the following information:

Ø Description of the hardware and software including a list of integrated externally available components (including commercial products, freeware, Open Source, etc.)

Ø Innovative technology and scientific contribution

Ø Photo(s) of the robot

Ø Focus of research/research interests

Ø Re-usability of the system for other research groups

Ø Applicability of the robot in the real world

The TDP goes into detail about the technical and scientific approach, but the website should be designed for a broader audience.

The length of the TDP is limited to 8 pages. Please use the same Springer LNAI format used in the RoboCup Symposium submissions.

[Link: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0]

Instructions for the Web site
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The contents of the web site should be as follows:

Ø Photos of the robot(s)

Ø Videos of the robot(s)

Ø Description of the approaches and information on scientific achievements

Ø Relevant publications

Ø Team members

Ø Previous participation in RoboCup

Submission Instructions
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The items above must be submitted by e-mail to all OC members:

Mohan Rajesh Elara (Singapore), Email: rajeshelara@sutd.edu.sg
Enrique Sucar (Mexico), Email: esucar@inaoep.mx
Susanne Thierfelder (Germany), Email: susanne.thierfelder@uni-koblenz.de
James Xie (China), Email: devilxjk@mail.ustc.edu.cn
Mauricio Matamoros (Mexico), Email: mdk_bzk@hotmail.com

Evaluation criteria:
================

Qualification materials will be judged by the following criteria:

Ø Performance in previous competitions

Ø Team description paper

Ø Video

Ø Website

Ø Relevant Scientific contribution/publications

Ø Novelty of approach

Ø Amendments made to the @Home Wiki

Ø Contribution to RoboCup@Home League (e.g Proposal of tests, organization of events, exchange of results inside the league)

Expecting to see your teams at RoboCup@Home 2012, Mexico.....

Best Regards,
The 2012 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees

International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction (ADMI-12)

2011-12-28T16:25:00.001-08:00

The Eighth International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction (ADMI-12)

Valencia, Spain, June 4-8, 2012

http://admi12.agentmining.org/

Held in conjunction with

Eleventh International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2012)

http://aamas2012.webs.upv.es/

Important dates:

- Electronic submission of full papers: February 15, 2012

- Notification of paper acceptance: April. 15, 2012

- Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: April 21, 2012

- AAMAS-2012 workshop: June 4-5, 2012

Scope:

The ADMI workshop provides a premier forum for sharing research and engineering results, as well as potential challenges and prospects encountered in the respective communities and the coupling between agents and data mining. The workshop welcomes theoretical work and applied dissemination aiming to: (1) exploit agent-enriched data mining and demonstrate how intelligent agent technology can contribute to critical data mining problems in theory and practice; (2) improve data mining-driven agents and show how data mining can strengthen agent intelligence in research and practical applications; (3) explore the integration of agents and data mining towards a super-intelligent system; (4) discuss existing results, new problems, challenges and impact of integration of agent and data mining technologies as applied to highly distributed heterogeneous, including mobile, systems operating in ubiquitous and P2P environments; and (5) identify challenges and directions for future research and development on the synergy between agents and data mining.

The workshop encourages submissions on, but not limited to:

1. Principles and foundations for agent mining

Theoretical foundations for interaction between agents and data mining
Formal frameworks and infrastructure
Interaction design for agent mining
Challenges and prospects

2. Performance evaluation and validation for agent mining

Evaluation methodologies and strategies
Evaluation metric, benchmarks and testbeds
Toolbox development

3. Agent driven and enhanced data mining technologies

Adaptive mining techniques in general data mining concepts including clustering, classification, ect.
Active learning for intelligent data analysis
Agent based web mining, text mining and information retrieval
Agent or actor oriented analysis in social networks
Agent-mediated parallel/distributed data mining
Mining multiagent data/behavior

4. Data mining driven and enhanced agent technologies

Behavior mining for agent decision making, reasoning, learning and planning
Social computing for agent interactions
Opponent learning and mining in agent interactions
Data intensive mechanism design and optimization including auction, negotiation, etc.
Experience/data based agent trust/reputation analysis
Strategy design in computer games

5. Agent and data mining mutual enhancement systems/development

Ubiquitous intelligence, ambient intelligence and smart space
Recommender systems and user modeling
Computer game intelligence
Intelligent cognitive systems and preference learning
Cloud, grid, and peer-to-peer computing
Web intelligence and web wisdom
Domain knowledge mining and intelligence
Human-computer interaction intelligence

6. Emergent agent and data mining applications

E-market and e-commence
E-health and tele-health
Smart grid and homeland security
E-education and intelligent tutor systems
Mobile computing and mobile business services
Video games, computer games, and online games
Web and online services

7. Applications, success stories, case studies and lessons learned

Advanced engineering and industrial applications
Swarm-based self-organizing agent systems in multi-modal logistics
Emerging agent mining applications and lessons learned
Challenges and prospects in agent mining

Invited speakers:

- Victor Lessor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

- Wolfgang Ketter, RSM Erasmus University

Submission Instructions:

Please follow the AAMAS 2012 paper formats.

Papers are to be submitted through the EasyChair Conference System website

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=admi2012

Post-workshop publication:

- The ADMI-12 Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of LNCS/LNAI series.

- A Special Issue on Agent Mining with IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part B.

Workshop Program Co-Chairs:

- Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

- Yifeng Zeng, Aalborg University, Denmark

- Andreas L. Symeonidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

- Vladimir Gorodetsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Workshop General Co-Chairs:

- Philip S Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

- Munindar P Singh, North Carolina State University, USA

Supported by:

Agent-Mining Interaction and Integration

Special Interest Group (AMII-SIG)

http://www.agentmining.org

Contact:

Longbing Cao, Yifeng Zeng, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Vladimir Gorodetsky

Email: admi12@agentmining.org

4th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition

2011-12-22T19:43:00.001-08:00

MCPR 2012
4th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition
June 27-30, 2012, Huatulco, Mexico
URL: http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~mcpr2012/

NEWS

Springer Verlag has accepted to publish the MCPR2012 proceedings in the LNCS series.
MCPR2012 is an IAPR Endorsed event.
Paper Submission Deadline: January 30, 2012

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we have the pleasure to invite
you to submit your contributions to the 4th Mexican Conference on
Pattern Recognition (MCPR2012). The conference will be held in Huatulco,
Mexico at the Las Brisas hotel from June 27 to June 30, 2012,
under direction of the Computer Science Department of the National
Institute for Astrophysics Optics and Electronics (INAOE), with the
consent of the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neurocomputing
and Robotics (MACVNR), which is affiliated to the IAPR.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Paper Submission Deadline: January 30, 2012
Notification of acceptance: March 19, 2012
Camera-ready: April 2, 2012

Very well renowned Professors have been invited to give keynote addresses.

Professor Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Director of Research, Institute of
Cybernetics "E.Caianiello", CNR, Italy.

Professor Sven Dickinson, Department of Computer Science, University of
Toronto, Canada.

You can find more information in the MCPR2012 webpage at:

http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~mcpr2012/

We would like to meet you in Huatulco!

Sincerely yours,

Kim Boyer (Honorary Chair)
Jose Francisco Martinez-Trinidad
Jesus Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa
Jose Arturo Olvera Lopez
Organizing Committee of the MCPR2012

AMBIENT 2012, The Second International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies

2011-12-22T15:50:00.001-08:00

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

AMBIENT 2012, The Second International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies

September 23 - 28, 2012 - Barcelona, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/AMBIENT12.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPAMBIENT12.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitAMBIENT12.html

Submission deadline: May 7, 2012

ISBN: 978-1-61208-235-6

Archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library - http://www.thinkmind.org

All publications will be submitted for indexing with:

- ISI Thompson Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI)

- Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EIs Engineering Information Index

- DBLP, IET INSPEC, and other relevant specialized indexes.

- Other indexes are being considered

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

AMBIENT 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Track 1: Ambient computing environments, sensors and hardware

Fundamental for ambient computing and mechanisms; Environmental sensing and computing; Distributed ambient and artificial intelligence; Autonomic ambient networks and communications; Smart environments and applications; Ubiquitous and mobile computing

Track 2: Ambient computing and modeling

Sentient Computing; Tracking and sensing networks; Location-based computing; Ambient context modeling and reasoning; Context-aware computing; Local and global sensing; Multi-sensory and multi-modal fusion

Track 3: Ambient devices, applications and systems

Ambient media and devices; Ambient content and methods for adding intelligence to media objects; Sentient offices; Smart phones; Glasses and filters for ambient game and movie; Social networks and social computing; Semantic-location; Body sensors; Wearable devices; Smart sensors

Track 4: Ambient services, technology and platforms

Personalized services; Ambient assisted living (AAL) ; Social games; Domotics (Home Automation) ; Domestic robotics; Intelligent homes; Tele-care and Telemedicine; Mobile media; Mobile learning; Emergency services; Ambient-oriented technologies (wireless, social networks); Universal access; Ambient platforms; Ambient and mobile social networks

Track 5: User Friendly Interfaces

Haptic interfaces; Smart user interfaces; Ambient interfaces (touch, gesture, haptics, biometrics) ; Multimodal interfaces and interaction

Track 6: Ambient Business Models, Privacy and Trust

Business model and business cases, security, privacy and trust, Real-life implementations

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Thanks for contributing!

Maarten, Petre

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AMBIENT General Chair

Maarten Weyn, Artesis University College of Antwerp, Belgium

IARIA Committees Chair

Petre Dini, Concordia University - Montreal, Canada | China Space Agency Center - Beijing, China

Symposium on Robotics and Mobile Machines

2011-12-18T20:14:00.001-08:00

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IEEE/ASME MESA 2012 Robotics and Mobile Machines Call for Papers
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Symposium on Robotics and Mobile Machines
as part of the 8th IEEE/ASME International Conference on
Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications

Co-sponsored by IEEE ITSS, IEEE CSS, ASME DED,
Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society
July 8-10, 2012 Suzhou, China

Website: http://www.asmemesa.org/
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Objectives:
Robotics is readily becoming ubiquitous with exponential growth and a
myriad of applications. This symposium provides a platform for presenting
the latest developments in the design, control and applications of
robotics and mobile machines. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

* Novel robot designs, controls and applications
* Humanoid and multi-legged robots
* Cellular and modular reconfigurable, and metamorphic robots
* Field-based robots (marine, underwater, space, aerial, climbing)
* Cloud robotics and robot software architectures
* Rehabilitation and biomedical robotics
* Personal and service robots
* Robust and adaptive control of robotic systems
* Collaborative and cooperative Multi-Robot Systems
* Novel robotic sensor and actuator designs
* Micro and nano robots
* Anthropomorphic, bioinspired and biomimetic robotic systems
* Kinematics and Dynamics of Serial and Parallel Robots
* Industrial and Automation Robots
* Navigation, path planning and localization
* Soft, chemical and mobile robots and applications
* Co-Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction
* Telerobotics

Important Dates:
* Submission of Full-Length Paper 30-01-2012
* Author Notification of Acceptance 09-04-2012
* Submission of Copyright Form 21-05-2012
* Submission of Final Paper 21-05-2012

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Paper Submission:
Manuscripts should be at most six (6) pages in IEEE two-column format
and must be submitted in PDF format via the conference web-site. Please
use the LaTeX style file or Microsoft Word template to prepare your
manuscript. Accepted, peer-reviewed papers will be published in the
conference proceedings, EI indexed, and submitted to IEEE Xplore.
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Contact Information:
Stephen S. Nestinger, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Robotics Engineering Program
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
P: +1 (508) 831-6445
E: ssnestinger@wpi.edu
I: http://ram.wpi.edu/people/ssnestinger

12th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions

2011-12-18T20:11:00.000-08:00

Robotica 2012: 12th International Conference on

Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions

April 11, 2012, Guimarães, Portugal

The 12th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (www.Robotica2012.org/EC ) is an international scientific meeting in the field of autonomous robotics, and related areas, which will take place in conjunction with the 12th Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup Local Event.

As in previous years, we expect the conference to get the Technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

The conference will be held in the beautiful city of Guimarães, Portugal, on April 11, 2012. Guimarães is the cradle of Portugal, is classified by UNESCO as Worldwide Heritage, and is the European Capital of Culture 2012 (http://www.guimaraes2012.pt/index.php?lang=2 ).

Topics:

* Artificial Intelligence

* Architectures for Mobile Robots

* Sensors and Sensor Integration

* Motion and Actuation Systems

* Multi-Robot Systems

* Human-Robot Interaction

* Simulation and Visualization

* Robotic Competitions

* Planning, Reasoning and Modeling

* Cooperative Navigation and Control

* Cooperative Perception

* Computer Vision and Image-Processing

* Navigation and Control of Mobile Robots

* Recognition, Localization, Tracking, SLAM

· Robot Learning

* Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots

* Computer and Robotic Entertainments

Important Dates:

All dead-lines are 23:59 GMT

· 23rd January, 2012 Submission of full-length papers

· 20th February, 2012 Notification of acceptance

· 5th March, 2012 Camera Ready Papers

· 12th March, 2012 Early Registration Deadline

· 11th April, 2012 Conference takes place

Submission guidelines:

Authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format via easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robotica2012 ). Six pages in the standard IEEE format are allowed for each paper, including figures. Papers must be written in English following the standard IEEE guidelines (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html)

Conference Fee:

· 100 Euros if payment before 12th March 2012

· 150 Euros after

Email Contacts:

robotica2012@easychair.org or ecrobotica2012@dei.uminho.pt

International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2012)

2011-12-18T19:51:00.001-08:00

International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2012)

Call For Papers - 1st Call
29-30 October 2012
Chengdu, China
Official Web Page: www.icsoro.org
Enquiries: icsr.conference@gmail.com

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IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES
Invited Session Proposal Submission: 1 April 2012
Regular/Invited Paper Submission: 15 May 2012
Demonstration Proposal Submission: 6 June 2012
Notification of Paper Acceptance: 15 July 2012
Final Manuscript Submission: 15 August 2012
Registration, Social Tour and Reception Party: 28 October 2012
Conference: 29-30 October 2012
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ICSR2012 Theme: Wellness

The International Conference on Social Robotics brings researchers and
practitioners together to report and discuss the latest progress in the
field of social robotics. The ICSR conferences focus on the interaction
between humans and robots and the integration of robots into our society.

The theme of the 2012 conference is "Wellness." This theme gives focus on
the potential and capabilities of social robots to assist humans achieve
better physical, mental and emotional health and wellness. The conference
aims to foster discussion on the development of computational models,
robotic embodiments, and behavior that enable social robots to have an
impact on the human partner's health and well-being.

The conference welcomes original, peer reviewed papers and contributions
describing technically rigorous scientific and philosophical advances in
social robots, and their interactions and communications with humans,
especially innovative ideas and concepts, new discoveries and improvements,
as well as novel applications on the latest fundamental advances in the core
technologies that form the backbone of social robotics, distinguished
developmental projects, as well as seminal works in aesthetic design, ethics
and philosophy, studies on social impact and influence pertaining to social
robotics, and its interaction and communication with human being and its
social impact on our society.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

- Exoskeletons in human-robot interactions
- Robots to assist persons with disabilities
- Socially assistive robotics
- Applications in health care and aged care
- Rehabilitation robotics
- Biomechatronics, neuro-robotics, and biomedical robotics
- Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots
- Personal robots for the home
- Human-robot interaction and robot-robot interaction
- Social acceptance and impact in the society
- Robot ethics in human society
- Context awareness, expectation and intention understanding
- Design philosophies and socially appealing design methodologies
- Human factors and ergonomics in human-robot interactions
- Intelligent control and artificial intelligence for social robotics
- Information acquisition and decision making
- Interaction and collaboration between robots, humans and environments
- Multimodal sensor fusion and communication
- Compliance, safety and compatibility in the design of social robots
"living" with humans
- Software architecture and development tools
- Models of human and animal social behavior as applied to robots
- Applications in education, entertainment and gaming

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
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Submissions must be made in the PDF format and follow the Springer LNCS/LNAI
style for the layout. LNCS style templates are available on the Springer
LNCS website (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Manuscripts are limited to ten (10) A4 size papers. Detailed instructions
for paper submission are available at www.icsoro.org. All papers will be
refereed by the program committee.

Conference proceedings will be published by Springer. Selected papers will
be invited for publication as a Special Issue in the International Journal
of Social Robotics.

SPECIAL SESSIONS
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Participants can submit proposals for invited sessions that consist of a
collection of invited papers with a common theme. Proposals for invited
sessions consist of (1) a proposed title for the session; (2) a brief 2-3
paragraph summary for the session explaining the goal of the session and the
overarching themes of the invited papers; and (3) a list of papers with
contributing authors and tentative abstracts for the papers.

EXHIBITIONS
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Participants who would like to exhibit their interactive demonstrations at
the conference site please prepare 1 page summary about the demonstration
and email icsr.conference@gmail.com. Exhibition booth will be allocated to
demonstrations approved by the ICSR2012 organizing committee.

ROBOT DESIGN COMPETITION
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There will be a competition to draw creative ideas on industrial designs in
social or service robotics. Prizes will be awarded to the shortlisted
designs.

Information about the submission of proposals, templates and arrangement
information are available at the conference's website www.icsoro.org.

We look forward to meeting you at ICSR 2012 in Chengdu.

Sincerely,

Shuzhi Sam Ge and Oussama Khatib, General Chairs

John-John Cabibihan, Reid Simmons and Mary-Anne Williams, Program Chairs

Intelligent and Autonomous Robotics for Services to Humans

2011-12-09T13:54:00.001-08:00

IAS-12
- Intelligent and Autonomous Robotics for Services to Humans -
The 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems
June 26-29, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea
www.ias-12.org

The 12th IAS will be held on Jeju Island, Korea, on June 26 - 29, 2012, with the theme of ?Intelligelligent and Autonomous Robotics for Services to Humans.? The International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous System (IAS), founded in 1985, has been dedicated to the theme of intelligence and autonomy. IAS-12 will offer you much excitement with state-of-the-art technical sessions and friendly social programs.

Call for Special Tracks
We would invite "Area Leaders" to organize a track program relating to the conference topics. The track program consists of two or three special sessions, which include at least five papers on the area in each session. The track organizer invites professionals in the field or region, to solicit papers and organize the track program. Invited papers will be reviewed in the same way as regular papers. Track proposal is due until December 31, 2011. For your detailed information, please visit the website, http://www.ias-12.org/sub/program_01.asp.

Call for Papers
We are also inviting you to submit high quality papers for peer reviews. Papers of original contributions to all areas of intelligent autonomous systems are solicited for submission. Especially, IAS-12 is to extend its scope to cover those many applications of intelligent autonomous systems that have emerged as significant, with special sessions and tracks. Please visit the website,http://www.ias-12.org/sub/submission_01.asp.

Important Dates
? Submission of Track Proposals: December 31, 2011
? Submission of Full Papers: January 31, 2012
? Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2012
? Final Manuscript Submission: April 30, 2012

Conference Scope
? Autonomous Aerial/Underwater Vehicles
? Decision-Support Systems
? Biomimetic Systems
? Space Robotics
? Intelligent Transportation Systems
? Humanoids
? Networked Robotics
? Cognitive Systems
? Mobiligence
? Security/Surveillance Systems
? Rescue/Military Robots
? Multi-Agent Systems
? IAS for Healthcare
? Intelligent Vehicles
? SWARM Intelligence
? IAS for Manufacturing
? Personal/Domestic Service Robots
? Professional Service Robots
? Machine Vision Systems
? Smart Home/Building
? Sensor Integrated Systems
? Haptics/Teleoperation
? Medical/Rehabilitation Robotics
? Robotic mechanism and design
? Human-Robot Interaction
? Agriculture/Construction Robots
? Micro/Nano Robotics
? SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping)

For more inquiry, contact the IAS-12 Secretariat
C-Agency Co. Meeting Management
Seoul 121-040, KOREA
Phone: +82 2 717 3280
Email: info@ias-12.org
Website: www.ias-12.org

Artificial Life, Robotics, Evolvable Hardware (ALIFE TRACK) 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012)

2011-12-01T18:02:00.001-08:00

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ALIFE Track - GECCO 2012 - CALL FOR PAPER

Artificial Life, Robotics, Evolvable Hardware (ALIFE TRACK)
2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012)
July 7-11, Philadelphia, USA
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012/

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ALIFE track promotes evolutionary computation and bio-inspired
heuristics as instruments able to face engineering problems and
scientific questions in different areas that include (but are not
limited to): artificial life, robotics, and evolvable hardware.

Artificial life studies artificial systems (software, hardware, or
chemical) with properties similar to those of living systems. There
are two main complementary goals: to better understand living systems
and to use this understanding to build artificial systems with
properties of living systems, such as adaptability, evolvability,
active perception, communication, organization.

Evolutionary computation techniques can be particularly useful for a
large branch of robotics. The evolution of controllers, morphologies,
sensors, and communication protocols is being used to build systems to
provide robust, adaptive and scalable solutions to different problems
in robotics. This track welcomes contributions addressing problems
from control to morphology, from single robot to swarm of robotic
units. Contributions are expected to deal explicitly with
Evolutionary Computation, with experiments either in simulation or
with real robots.

The term evolvable hardware denotes both the design of electronic
devices able to evolve themselves, and the exploitation of
evolutionary techniques for creating hardware. While the first task is
quite ambitious, the second is routinely applied by
industries. Contributions in this area are expected to show either
real and potential applications.

IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline: January 13th, 2012
* Notification of paper acceptance: Mid-March, 2012
* Camera-ready submission: April 9th, 2011
* GECCO-2012 Conference: July 7-11, 2012

For more information, including submission guidelines,
please see the GECCO homepage at

Best regards,
Nicolas Bredeche
Giovanni Squillero

ps.
Follow us on Twitter: @GECCO2012

RoboCup 2012 Standard Platform League

2011-12-01T15:40:00.001-08:00

Call for Applications for Participation

RoboCup 2012 Standard Platform League

www.tzi.de/spl

June 18 - 24, 2012 (Mexico City, MEXICO)

www.robocup2012.org

RoboCup is an international initiative that fosters research and education in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence through a variety of competitions (RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCup@Home, RoboCupJunior) involving mostly multi-robot systems.

RoboCup currently includes a number of different robot soccer leagues that focus on different research challenges. The Standard Platform League (SPL) is characterized by the use of an identical robot platform by all the teams. Participating researchers focus on algorithmic development for fully autonomous robots, i.e., robots that operate with no external control. The SPL at RoboCup 2012 will use the humanoid robot NAO manufactured by Aldebaran Robotics, which is being used in the SPL since 2008. The SPL robot soccer games at RoboCup 2012 will be played between teams of four robots on a 4m x 6m field. The RoboCup 2012 SPL will be able to host up to 28 teams, which will be selected from the interested parties responding to this call.

Qualification

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All interested teams need to submit an up-to five pages qualification document that includes:

1. a statement of commitment to participate in the RoboCup 2012 SPL

2. the leader(s), the constitution, and the affiliation(s) of the team

3. a statement of the team's research interests and planned activities

4. a summary of past relevant work and scientific publications

The written material must be complemented by a video (maximum 5 min long) that demonstrates the current status of the robotics research of the team. Videos of simulation contributions will also be accepted, only in case real robots are unavailable. If the candidates already have NAOs, the video should show the current state of their robot soccer performance.

The qualification materials must be submitted by January 11, 2012, by email to rc-spl-tc@lists.robocup.org. Qualification decisions will be announced by January 25, 2012.

Teams are encouraged to consider joint participation. Joint proposals will be judged on combined merit.

Pre-Qualification

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Teams that reached the quarter-finals at RoboCup 2011 will be pre-qualified for RoboCup 2012, if they submit the following material:

1. a statement of commitment to participate in the RoboCup 2012 SPL

2. the leader(s) and the constitution of the team

3. a team research report describing their work for RoboCup 2011

The qualification materials must be submitted by January 11, 2012, by email to rc-spl-tc@lists.robocup.org. Qualification decisions will be announced by January 25, 2012.

If a joint 2011 team splits, only one team can be pre-qualified for 2012 (please, indicate which one).

RoboCup 2012 Standard Platform League Technical and Organizing Committees

IJCNN 2012 special session on Real World Applications of Reinforcement Learning

2011-11-30T14:09:00.000-08:00

Dear colleagues,

we would like to invite you to submit a paper to the IJCNN 2012
special session on Real World Applications of Reinforcement Learning

http://como.vub.ac.be/rwarl2012

AIM AND SCOPE

Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms have long left the tiny grid
worlds of
the early years. From robot control to autonomous navigation, research
labs
have been applying RL to address increasingly difficult problems,
showing that
this paradigm is ready for the real world. In recent years, a number
of papers
have shown successful practical applications, in fields as diverse as
production control, finance, scheduling, communications, autonomous
vehicle
control. While such examples are relevant, they do not abound, and RL
is still
far from being routinely applied as more mature supervised machine
learning
techniques are. Moreover, conferences and journals tend to dismiss
"mere
application" papers which do not carry relevant contributions at the
theoretical level.

With this special session, we intend to gather recent examples of the
application of RL to real-world problems, focusing in particular on
the practical difficulties of applying existing RL algorithms, rather
than on theoretical innovations. The aim is to give an updated
picture
of the state of the art of real world applications of RL.

We solicit original submissions describing applications of all flavors
of
reinforcement learning and approximate dynamic programming in a
real-world scenario.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the application
of:

* Approximate dynamic programming
* Reinforcement learning
* Batch RL
* Policy gradients
* Options learning
* Hierarchical RL
* Multi-objective RL
* Multi-agent RL
* Bandit problem solvers
* Markov Decision Processes

in fields such as

* Industrial control
* Production control
* Automotive control
* Autonomous vehicles control
* Logistics
* Telecommunication networks
* Sensor networks
* Ambient intelligence
* Robotics
* Finance

In preparing your submission, please motivate the use of RL; point
out
the difficulties encountered in your implementation; discuss
potential
bottlenecks and limitations of your approach; and, if possible,
compare
its performance with that of a more traditional method.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: Dec 19, 2011
Acceptance notification: Feb 20, 2012
Final version submission: April 2, 2012
Early registration: April 2, 2012
Conference: June 10-15, 2012

Please check the main WCCI site for updates:
http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/ieee-wcci2012/

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Papers should not exceed 8 pages in the IEEE double column format,
US Letter paper size. Please prepare your submission according to
the common instructions for WCCI conferences, available here:
http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/ieee-
wcci2012/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=67

Upload your paper via the IJCNN 2012 submission page:
http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/ijcnn2012/upload.php
*selecting the special session as main research topic*:
S35. Real World Applications of Reinforcement Learning

Accepted papers will be published in the WCCI 2012 proceedings.

ORGANIZERS

Matteo Gagliolo and Ann Nowé
AI Lab, Computational Modeling group (CoMo)
Department of Informatics
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Brussels, Belgium

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Matteo Gagliolo
COMO - Computational Modeling Lab
Office 10 G 711
VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Phone +32 2 629 3711, Fax +32 2 629 3708
http://como.vub.ac.be/~mgagliol/

Sample Return Robot Challenge

2011-11-30T14:06:00.001-08:00

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Sample Return Robot Challenge
June 15-18, 2012
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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http://challenge.wpi.edu
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CALL FOR ROBOTS!
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NASA and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
in Worcester, MA, are seeking teams to compete
in a robot technology demonstration competition
with a potential $1.5 million prize.

During the Sample Return Robot Challenge, teams
will compete to demonstrate a robot that can locate
and retrieve geologic samples from a wide and
varied terrain without human control. The objective
of the competition is to encourage innovations in
autonomous navigation and robotic manipulator
technologies. Innovations stemming from this
challenge may improve NASA's capability to explore
a variety of destinations in space, as well as
enhance the nation's robotic technology for use
in industries and applications on Earth.

For more information about the Sample Return
Robot Challenge and a complete set of challenge
rules, visit: http://challenge.wpi.edu

The Centennial Challenges program is part of NASA's
Office of the Chief Technologist. For more information
about NASA's Centennial Challenges and the Office
of the Chief Technologist,
visit: http://www.nasa.gov/oct
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CRITICAL DATES
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Jan 2, 2012: Early registration deadline
May 15, 2012: Late registration deadline
June 15-18, 2012: SRR Challenge
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To subscribe to our mailing list, please email
sample-return-challenge-request@wpi.edu
with "Subscribe" in the body of the email.
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Taskin Padir, PhD
Assistant Professor
Robotics Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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E-mail: tpadir@wpi.edu,
Office: Atwater Kent Labs 229,
RIVeR Lab: Atwater Kent Labs 123,
Office Phone: + (508) 831-6427,
Fax: + (508) 831-5491,
Mailing Address: 100 Institute Rd., Worcester, MA 01609

8th AIAI 2012 (Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations) conference

2011-11-30T14:03:00.001-08:00

8th AIAI 2012 (Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations) conference supported by the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Technical Committee 12

Date: 27-30 of September 2012

VENUE: Athina Pallas Village 5 star (4 seasons) Hotel and Conference Center, Neos Marmaras, Chalkidiki, GREECE http://www.athena-pallas.gr/

Special Hotel prices for the AIAI 2012:

Price per person in double room with Full board: € 49.00
Price per double room for one person with Full board € 73.00
Price per person in superior room with Full board: € 52.00
Price per superior room for one person with Full board € 81.00

Conference web site: http://delab.csd.auth.gr/aiai2012/

Special Issues

Special Issue with selected papers from the 8th AIAI will be published in high quality scientific Journals.

Selected papers from the conference will pass through a peer review process for potential publication in the "Artificial Intelligence Review Journal". http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10462
SPRINGER 2010 Impact Factor 0.429
Selected papers from the conference will pass through a peer review process for potential publication in the "Engineering Intelligent Systems" Journal CRL UK

Proceedings

Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Danil Prokhorov, Toyota Research Institute NA, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Vice President for Conferences of the INNS (International Neural Network Society)
Associate Editor of Neural Networks, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and IEEE Trans. on Autonomous Mental Development
Senior Member of both IEEE and INNS
Reviewer of grants proposals for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
Extended Experience in the Scientific Research Laboratory of Ford Motor Co. (Metropolitan Detroit area)
Professor David Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK
Head of School of Informatics
Leader, Software Systems and Processes research group

Important Dates

Tutorial and workshops proposals: February 15, 2012
Notification of tutorial and workshops proposals: February 22, 2012
Paper Submission: April 22, 2012
Notification of paper acceptance: May 26, 2012
Final paper Submission: June 4, 2012
Early registration: June 04, 2012
Conference Dates: September 27-30, 2012

Tutorials:

Dr Tatiana Tambouratzis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Industrial Management & Technology University of Piraeus, Greece
Subject: "Identification of Key Music Symbols for Optical Music Recognition and On-Screen Presentation"
Dr Costin Badica, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Software Engineering, University of Craiova, Romania

Organization

General chair
Professor Tharam Dillon, Curtin University Australia

Organizing chairs
Professor Yannis Manolopoulos, Head of Computer Science Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dr Elias Pimenidis, Senior Lecturer, University of East London

Program chairs
Associate Professor Lazaros Iliadis Democritus University of Thrace
Assistant Professor Ilias Magklogiannis, University of Central Greece
Assistant Professor Harris Papadopoulos, Frederick University of Cyprus

Topics: See in the web site: http://delab.csd.auth.gr/aiai2012/

Workshops: Several workshops will be organized during the event. All workshop papers will be published in the Springer Proceedings

Intelligent and Autonomous Robotics for Services to Humans

2011-11-28T16:35:00.001-08:00

IAS-12
- Intelligent and Autonomous Robotics for Services to Humans -
The 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems
June 26-29, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea
www.ias-12.org

The 12th IAS will be held on Jeju Island, Korea, on June 26 - 29, 2012, with the theme of “Intelligelligent and Autonomous Robotics for Services to Humans.” The International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous System (IAS), founded in 1985, has been dedicated to the theme of intelligence and autonomy. IAS-12 will offer you much excitement with state-of-the-art technical sessions and friendly social programs.

Call for Area Leader
We would invite "Area Leaders" to organize a track program relating to the conference topics. The track program consists of two or three special sessions, which include at least five papers on the area in each session. The track organizer invites professionals in the field or region, to solicit papers and organize the track program. Invited papers will be reviewed in the same way as regular papers. Track proposal is due until December 31, 2011. For your detailed information, please visit the website, http://www.ias-12.org/sub/program_01.asp.

Call for Papers
We are also inviting you to submit high quality papers for peer reviews. Papers of original contributions to all areas of intelligent autonomous systems are solicited for submission. Especially, IAS-12 is to extend its scope to cover those many applications of intelligent autonomous systems that have emerged as significant, with special sessions and tracks. Please visit the website,http://www.ias-12.org/sub/submission_01.asp.

Important Dates
– Submission of Track Proposals: December 31, 2011
– Submission of Full Papers: January 31, 2012
– Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2012
– Final Manuscript Submission: April 30, 2012

Conference Scope
– Autonomous Aerial/Underwater Vehicles
– Decision-Support Systems
– Biomimetic Systems
– Space Robotics
– Intelligent Transportation Systems
– Humanoids
– Networked Robotics
– Cognitive Systems
– Mobiligence
– Security/Surveillance Systems
– Rescue/Military Robots
– Multi-Agent Systems
– IAS for Healthcare
– Intelligent Vehicles
– SWARM Intelligence
– IAS for Manufacturing
– Personal/Domestic Service Robots
– Professional Service Robots
– Machine Vision Systems
– Smart Home/Building
– Sensor Integrated Systems
– Haptics/Teleoperation
– Medical/Rehabilitation Robotics
– Robotic mechanism and design
– Human-Robot Interaction
– Agriculture/Construction Robots
– Micro/Nano Robotics
– SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping)

For more inquiry, contact the IAS-12 Secretariat
C-Agency Co. Meeting Management
Seoul 121-040, KOREA
Phone: +82 2 717 3280
Email: info@ias-12.org
Website: www.ias-12.org

Sixth "Starting Artificial Intelligence Research" Symposium

2011-11-21T16:02:00.001-08:00

The Sixth "Starting Artificial Intelligence Research" Symposium

August, 27-28, 2012
Montpellier, France
http://www.lirmm.fr/ecai2012

We invite students and young post-doctoral AI fellows to submit their
work to the Sixth European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS).
STAIRS is an international meeting intended to support AI researchers,
from all countries, at the beginning of their career: PhD students or
people holding a PhD for less than one year. STAIRS 2012 will be
co-located with ECAI 2012, the European Conference on AI, in
Montpellier, France, August 27-31, 2012.

STAIRS offers doctoral students and young post-doctoral AI researchers:

* a first experience on submitting and presenting a paper in an
international forum with a broad scope and a peer review process

* an opportunity to discuss and explore their research interests and
European career objectives and opportunities.

Co-located with both ECAI and PAIS, the symposium provides a unique and
valuable opportunity for young researchers to gain experience at
presenting their work in a supportive scientific environment, and obtain
constructive feedback on the technical content of the work as well as
how to present the work and other related topics. Specifically,

the objectives are: (1) to provide a setting for mutual feedback on
participants' current research; (2) to provide guidance on future
research directions; (3) to develop a supportive community of scholars
and a spirit of collaborative research; (4) to support a new generation
of researchers with information and advice on academic, research,
industrial, and non-traditional career paths; and (5) to contribute to
the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and
participation in ECAI/PAIS/STAIRS conference events.

(+) Topics on Interest

Papers are welcome on all aspects of contemporary AI, including, but not
restricted to:

* Agent-based& Multiagent Systems
* Case-Based Reasoning
* Cognitive Modeling& Interaction
* Constraints, Satisfiability, and Search
* Information Retrieval& Natural Language Processing
* Knowledge Representation, Reasoning,& Logic
* Machine Learning& Data Mining
* Model-Based Reasoning
* Multidisciplinary Topics& Applications of AI
* Planning, Scheduling,& Auctions
* Robotics, Perception& Sensing
* Statistical Relational AI& Uncertainty in AI
* Web and Knowledge-based Information Systems

(+) Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:
Friday, May 25, 2012

Notification of acceptance/rejection:
Monday, June, 23 2012

Camera-Ready Copy Due:
Sunday, June 30, 2012

Conference:
August 27-28, 2012

(+) Submission

Both long (12-page) and short (6-page) papers in camery-ready format
can be submitted. Over-length submissions will be rejected without
review. Papers submitted to STAIRS should conform to presentational
style and format of IOS Press' "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and
Applications" (FAIA) series. Details are available on the web site

http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/

Each accepted long paper will be allocated TWELVE (12) pages, each short
paper SIX (6) pages in the proceedings. From the accepted long papers,
both oral and poster presentations will be selected. Accepted short
papers will be poster presentations. Authors of ECAI submission may
also indicate whether they want a submitted ECAI paper to be
considered as well as a submitted STAIRS paper in case of
non-acceptance of the ECAI paper. This, however, will require to change
the format for the camera-ready copy. In contrast to ECAI, STAIRS is
using IOS Press' FAIA series format as explained above!

So, multiple submissions with ECAI and PAIS are allowed if this is
clearly indicated on a front page preceding the paper itself. In
borderline cases single submissions will be preferred over multiple
submissions. In case of multiple acceptances the author(s) are strictly
required to withdraw their paper from all but one of the events.

The proceedings of STAIRS will be published and distributed by

IOS Press' "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications"

(FAIA) series. The authors will be responsible for producing
camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the STAIRS 2012 formatting
guidelines for inclusion in the proceedings (see above). At least one
student author of each accepted paper or poster is required to attend
the conference to present the contribution.

All submissions will be subject to LIGHT TOUCH review, with the goal of
providing constructive feedback to authors.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The first author must be a PhD student or a person
holding a PhD for less than one year. Papers not satisfying this
criterion will be rejected.

STAIRS Co-Chairs:

Kristian Kersting, kristian.kersting@iais.fraunhofer.de
(University of Bonn, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany)

Marc Toussaint, marc.toussaint@fu-berlin.de
(Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)

ANTS 2012 Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence

2011-11-21T16:01:00.001-08:00

ANTS 2012
Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence

September 12-14, 2012. Brussels, Belgium

Call for papers prepared on November 17, 2011
More details and up-to-date information at
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012

Scope of the Conference
=======================

Swarm intelligence is a relatively new discipline that deals with the
study of self-organizing processes both in nature and in artificial
systems. Researchers in ethology and animal behavior have proposed
many models to explain interesting aspects of social insect behavior
such as self-organization and shape-formation. Recently, algorithms
and methods inspired by these models have been proposed to solve
difficult problems in many domains.

An example of a particularly successful research direction in swarm
intelligence is ant colony optimization, the main focus of which is on
discrete optimization problems. Ant colony optimization has been
applied successfully to a large number of difficult discrete
optimization problems including the traveling salesman problem, the
quadratic assignment problem, scheduling, vehicle routing, etc., as
well as to routing in telecommunication networks. Another interesting
approach is that of particle swarm optimization, that focuses on
continuous optimization problems. Here too, a number of successful
applications can be found in the recent literature. Swarm robotics is
another relevant field. Here, the focus is on applying swarm
intelligence techniques to the control of large groups of cooperating
autonomous robots.

ANTS 2012 will give researchers in swarm intelligence the opportunity
to meet, to present their latest research, and to discuss current
developments and applications.

The three-day conference will be held in Brussels, Belgium, on
September 12-14, 2012.

Relevant Research Areas
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ANTS 2012 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of swarm
intelligence. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are:

Behavioral models of social insects or other animal societies that
can stimulate new algorithmic approaches.

Empirical and theoretical research in swarm intelligence.

Application of swarm intelligence methods, such as ant colony
optimization or particle swarm optimization, to real-world problems.

Theoretical and experimental research in swarm robotics systems.

Publication Details
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Conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS.
series.

The journal Swarm Intelligence will publish a special issue dedicated
to ANTS 2012 that will contain extended versions of the best research
works presented at the conference. Further details will soon be
published on the web site.

Best Paper Award
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A best paper award will be presented at the conference.

Invited talks
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Prof. Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) and Prof. Nigel R. Franks
(University of Bristol, UK) have accepted to give a plenary invited talk.

Further Information
===================

Up-to-date information will be published on the web site
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012/. For information about local
arrangements, registration forms, etc., please refer to the
above-mentioned web site or contact the local organizers at the
address below.

Conference Address
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ANTS 2012
IRIDIA CP 194/6 Tel +32-2-6502729
Université Libre de Bruxelles Fax +32-2-6502715
Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50 http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012
1050 Bruxelles, Belgium email: ants@iridia.ulb.ac.be

Important Dates
===============

Submission deadline March 2, 2012
Notification of acceptance May 3, 2012
Camera ready copy May 17, 2012
Conference September 12-14, 2012

ANTS 2012 Organizing Committee
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General Chair:
Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Technical Program Chairs:
Christian Blum, ALBCOM, LSI, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Andries Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Roderich Groß, Sheffield University, UK

Publication Chair:
Anders Lyhne Christensen, Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, Portugal

Organization Chairs:
Mauro Birattari, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Thomas Stützle, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Local Arrangements:
Andreagiovanni Reina, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Arne Brutschy, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

THE TWELFTH SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING

2011-11-15T17:24:00.001-08:00

SDM'12: THE TWELFTH SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING
Anaheim, California, USA
Apr 26 - 28, 2012
URL: http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm12/

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS

Following is the list of exciting full-day and half-day workshops collocated with SDM 2012 conference. Visit the webpages for each workshop for more details on scope, submission, and deadlines.

FULL DAY:
Broadening Participation in Data Mining
http://www.dataminingshop.com/

HALF DAY:
Workshop on Dynamic Network Analysis
https://sites.google.com/site/dnasdm/

Trends in Matrix Computations for Data Mining
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/mcdm2012

Text Mining
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/events/tmw12/

Datamining for Healthcare Management
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~desikan/sdm2012/dmhm.html

MultiClust Workshop: Discovering, Summarizing and Using Multiple Clusterings
http://www.dbs.ifi.lmu.de/research/MultiClust2012/

Data Mining in Official Statistics
https://www.stat.washington.edu/people/klimova/indexW.html

Workshop on Analytics for Cyber-Physical Systems
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/knowledgediscovery/asc-2012/

ECAI 2012 -- Call For Papers

2011-11-15T17:22:00.001-08:00

ECAI 2012 -- Call For Papers
www2.lirmm.fr/ecai2012

ECAI is the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI); it is the premier forum for presenting Artificial Intelligence results in Europe. The twentieth conference in this series, ECAI 2012, will take place in Montpellier (France), August 27-31.

ECAI 2012 will gather researchers and practitioners of Artificial Intelligence from all over the world; they will present the latest results and identify new trends and challenges in all subfields of Artificial Intelligence as well as demonstrate innovative applications and uses of advanced Artificial Intelligence technology. In addition to the main technical track, the ECAI 2012 program will feature keynote and invited talks, invited tutorials, an elaborate workshop program, a system-demonstration track and a Turing centenary celebration, in which we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing and his influence on Artificial Intelligence. ECAI 2012 will also feature the 6th STAIRS (STarting AI Researcher Symposium) and the 6th PAIS (Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems) as sub-conferences.

ECAI 2012 welcomes submissions of technical papers to the main track. Submitted papers should present original, high-quality and previously unpublished results on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence. ECAI 2012 especially encourages submissions that cross discipline boundaries within Artificial Intelligence, and between Artificial Intelligence and other disciplines. Both long (6-page) and short (2-page) papers can be submitted. Whereas long papers should report on substantial research results, short papers are intended for highly promising but possibly more preliminary work. Short papers will be presented in poster form. Rejected long papers will not be considered for the short paper track.

ECAI 2012 also welcomes submission of proposals for workshops, descriptions of system-demo’s, papers on prestigious applications of AI for PAIS, and contributions of starting researchers in AI for STAIRS; cf. the separate calls for these tracks.

Key Dates Technical Program Track :
March 6: Electronic Papers due
May 21: Notification of acceptance or rejection
June 3: Camera-ready copy due

Conference Chair: Didier Dubois
ECAI Program Chair: Luc De Raedt
Organizing Committee Chair: Christian Bessiere
ECCAI Chair : Gerhard Brewka
Workshop Chairs: Jérôme Lang and Michčle Sebag
System-Demonstration Chairs: Patrick Doherty and Fredrik Heintz
STAIRS Program Chair: Kristian Kersting
PAIS Program Chairs: Paolo Frasconi and Peter Lucas
Turing Centenary Celebration Chair: Michael Wooldridge

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ECAI 2012
http://www2.lirmm.fr/ecai2012/

29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2012)

2011-11-15T17:20:00.001-08:00

The 29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2012)
June 26-July 1, 2012, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Call for Papers
http://icml.cc/2012/

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ICML 2012 invites the submission of engaging papers on substantial,
original, and previously unpublished research in all aspects of
machine
learning. We welcome submissions of innovative work on systems
that are self adaptive, systems that improve their own performance, or
systems that apply logical, statistical, probabilistic or other
formalisms to the analysis of data, to the learning of predictive
models,
to cognition, or to interaction with the environment. We welcome
innovative applications, theoretical contributions, carefully
evaluated
empirical studies, and we particularly welcome work that combines all
of these elements. We also encourage submissions that bridge the
gap between machine learning and other fields of research.

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Workshop and tutorial proposals due February 10, 2012
Paper submissions due February 24,
2012

Tutorials June
26, 2012
Main conference June 27-29,
2012
Workshops June 30-
July 1, 2012

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Conference Format

The conference will include three days of technical presentations, one
day of tutorials, and two days of workshops. In addition, this year
the
conference will co-located with the 25th Annual Conference on
Learning Theory (COLT 2012).

Accepted papers will each have an oral presentation as well as a
poster in an evening poster session. Awards will be given for papers
of
outstanding quality. There will also be talks by several invited
speakers,
and a banquet.

Paper Submission

The submission of papers and the management of the paper reviewing
process for the main conference will be entirely electronic.
Submissions will be accepted until Monday February 24, 23:59
University Time (4:59pm Pacific Daylight Time). Detailed formatting
and submission instructions for authors are available on the
conference web site (http://icml.cc/2012/).

ICML 2012 will not accept any paper that is substantially similar to
another paper that is currently under review or has already been
accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Please
clearly indicate in the submission which contributions are novel and
which are previous work, either by the authors or others. If a paper
submitted to ICML 2012 and another already published or already
submitted paper contain substantial overlap in content and this
overlap
is not clearly indicated (anonymously) as being previous work, then
the ICML submission may be rejected on the grounds of being a dual
submission. Similarly, authors must withdraw their papers if they
submit an overlapping paper elsewhere during the ICML review period.
For papers published in substantially disjoint communities
(application
conferences, for example), the amount of novel content a paper needs
to contain may be less, as long as the submitted papers are
themselves clearly targeted to a machine-learning audience.

Reviewing Process

The review process this year incorporates several improvements.
Authors, reviewers, and area chairs indicate subject areas. With the
help of these subject areas, area chairs and reviewers bid for papers.
A
first reviewer for each paper will be selected from those bids. New
this
year, two area chairs will also be assigned to oversee reviewing of
each
paper. Each area chair will manually appoint an additional reviewer
for
each paper using input from the bids. Authors will have the
opportunity
to see and respond to the reviews (and optionally revise their paper)
before a final decision is made. Final decisions will be made using
the
input from all reviewers, the author feedback, the area chairs, and
the
program chairs. Reviewing for ICML 2012 is double blind between
authors and reviewers.

-The ICML 2012 Organizational Team

General Chair:
Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Program Chairs:
John Langford (Yahoo! Research)
Joelle Pineau (McGill University)
Local Chair:
Charles Sutton (University of Edinburgh)

GECCO 2012: Call for Papers on GENETICS-BASED MACHINE LEARNING (GBML)

2011-11-12T07:26:00.001-08:00

GECCO 2012: Call for Papers on GENETICS-BASED MACHINE LEARNING (GBML)

2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012)
July 7-11, Philadelphia, USA
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012/

Submission deadline: January 13, 2012

Co-located with the International Workshop on Learning Classifier
Systems (IWLCS)
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The Genetics-Based Machine Learning (GBML) track at GECCO covers all
advances in theory and application of evolutionary computation methods
to Machine Learning (ML) problems.

ML presents an array of paradigms -- unsupervised, semi-supervised,
supervised, and reinforcement learning -- which frame a wide range of
clustering, classification, regression, prediction and control tasks.

Evolutionary methods have a range of uses in ML:
- addressing subproblems of ML e.g.
- feature selection and construction
- optimising parameters of other ML methods
- as learning methods e.g.
- generating classification hypotheses with Genetic Programming
- learning control systems or cognitive modelling with Learning
Classifier Systems
- as meta-learners which adapt base learners e.g.
- evolving the structure and weights of neural networks
- evolving the data base and rule base in genetic fuzzy systems
- evolving ensembles of base learners
- evolving representations, update rules or algorithms for base
learners

The global search performed by evolutionary methods can complement the
local search of non-evolutionary methods and combinations of the two
are particularly welcome.

Free tutorials include:
- Learning Classifier Systems
- Large Scale Data Mining using Genetics-Based Machine Learning

Track Chairs

Dr. Will Browne, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ (will.browne -
at- ecs -dot- vuw -dot- ac -dot- nz)

Dr. Tim Kovacs, University of Bristol, U.K. (kovacs -at- cs -dot- bris
-dot- ac -dot- uk)

4th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition

2011-11-10T17:19:00.001-08:00

MCPR 20124th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition June 27-30, 2012, Huatulco, Mexico URL: http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~mcpr2012/NEWSPaper Submission Deadline January 30, 2012MCPR2012 is an IAPR Endorsed event.Dear colleagues, On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we have the pleasure to invite you to submit your contributions to the 4th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition (MCPR2012). The conference will be held in Huatulco, Mexico at the Las Brisas hotel from June 27 to June 30, 2012, under direction of the Computer Science Department of the National Institute for Astrophysics Optics and Electronics (INAOE), with the consent of the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neurocomputing and Robotics (MACVNR), which is affiliated to the IAPR.IMPORTANT INFORMATION Paper Submission Deadline: January 30, 2012Notification of acceptance: March 19, 2012Camera-ready: April 2, 2012Very well renowned Professors have been invited to give keynote addresses.Professor Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Director of Research, Institute of Cybernetics "E.Caianiello", CNR, Italy.Professor Sven Dickinson, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada.You can find more information in the MCPR2012 webpage at:http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~mcpr2012/Kim Boyer (Honorary Chair)Jose Francisco Martinez-TrinidadJesus Ariel Carrasco-OchoaJose Arturo Olvera LopezOrganizing Committee of the MCPR2012

IEEE Humanoids 2011 Workshop: Dynamic Modeling and Optimal Control of Humanoid Robots

2011-10-05T08:15:00.000-07:00

Call for contributions and participation: ** IEEE Humanoids 2011 Workshop **Dynamic Modeling and Optimal Control of Humanoid Robots Oct. 26, 2011 in Bled, Slovenia**********************************************************************Organizers: Katja Mombaur, University of Heidelberg, GermanyWael Suleiman, University of Sherbrooke, CanadaThe goal of this workshop is to gather specialists of dynamic modeling and optimal control problems and efficient feedback control for humanoid robots.Humanoid robots are highly complex dynamical systems which are subject to many constraints determined by their geometries, their actuators, their control systems - in particular their stability control - as well as their environment. Controlling humanoid robots is a particularly challenging task. The goal in humanoid robotics today is often not only to determine a feasible motion for a given robot, but to find the best possible motion in the given situation. The optimization criterion depends on the circumstances -- e.g. the fastest, highest, most efficient, smoothest or most natural motion (i.e. resembling the human role model) will be desired. When performed already during the design process, also design variables can be chosen in an optimal manner. On the other hand, such optimization processes do not only appear off-line -- i.e. in the planning process of a motion -- but also online, asking for an optimal reaction of the robot to a perturbation.Topics of this workshop include but are not limited to: * Modeling dynamic motions of humanoid robots * Optimal control techniques and available tools for off-line optimization of humanoid robot motions * Efficient stability control of humanoid robots * Real-time optimization and model predictive control * Hierarchical problem formulation for optimization problems in humanoid robots * Optimization of walking motions for different objective functions * Optimization of reaching motions * Optimization of interaction between humanoid robots and between humans and humanoids * Optimization of dynamic object manipulation * Biologically inspired optimization criteria for humanoid robots * Imitation of human motions on humanoidsList of confirmed speakers : * Chris Atkeson, CMU, USA * Karim Bouyarmane, CNRS-AIST, JRL, Tsukuba, Japan * Olivier Bruneau, LISV-UVSQ, Paris, France * Thomas Buschmann, TU München, Germany, * James Kuffner, CMU, USA * Katja Mombaur, University of Heidelberg, Germany * Thomas Moulard, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France * Christian Ott, DLR, Munich, Germany * Katayon Radkhah, Darmstadt University of Technology, GermanyIf you wish to give a presentation at this workshop, please submit a talk title and an abstract of 20 lines tokatja.mombaur@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de until October 10, 2011.For participation, please register at the conference web page www.humanoids2011.org

The 6th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots

2011-09-15T16:44:00.001-07:00

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The 6th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots
http://www.humanoidsoccer.org/ws11
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11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Bled, Slovenia, October 26th 2011
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Motivation and Objectives

Humanoid soccer has seen a lot of progress in recent years, e.g.,
with the introduction of a bipedal standard platform robot (Nao),
soccer games for larger robots (TeenSize), and the introduction
of competitions for simulated humanoid robots (3D Simulation).
The ultimate goal of Humanoid Soccer Robotics is to develop a
team of "humanoid soccer players" – i.e. robots with human-like
motion, intelligence, and skills in playing soccer. This
initiative poses a unique set of challenges to robotics, AI, and
many other fields.
The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from the
RoboCup and FIRA communities, as well as other researchers
interested in the subject.

Submissions

We solicit paper submissions, optionally accompanied by a video.
Papers should be up to 6 pages in length, formatted according to
IEEE conference layout (two-column). All contributed workshop
presentations are subject to a peer review process.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Design of humanoid soccer robots
* Bipedal locomotion
* Generation of complex motions
* Control architectures
* Motion planning for soccer
* Perception for soccer robots
* Team coordination
* Skill and strategy learning
* 3D simulation of humanoid robots

Important Dates

* Paper submission: September 18th, 2011
* Acceptance notification: October 9th, 2011
* Final paper due: October 19th, 2011
* Workshop: October 26th, 2011

Organizers

Sven Behnke, University of Bonn, Germany
Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Thomas Röfer, DFKI Bremen, Germany

Workshop Website With Detailed Information

http://www.humanoidsoccer.org/ws11

Call for Participation: IROS Workshop on Methods for Safer Surgical Robotics Procedures

2011-09-11T14:11:00.001-07:00

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Call for Participation: *IROS Workshop on Methods for Safer Surgical
Robotics Procedures*
September, 30th 2011
San Francisco, California
http://www.robotic.dlr.de/iros2011_workshop_safer_surgical
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Dear Colleagues,
we invite you to attend the "IROS Workshop on Methods for Safer Surgical
Robotics Procedures" that will be held on September 30th, 2011, during
the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2011, in
San Francisco, USA. http://www.iros2011.org/

This full day workshop will present methods and future directions to
increase safety and quality in prospective surgical robotics procedures.
It is intended to cover current research on
*Simulation, Modelling, Haptics, Force Feedback, Human Robot
Interaction, Operating Room Sensing and Reasoning*.

We will present the following exciting talks:

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Session on Simulation and Modelling
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Robotic Surgery learning requirements: Simulation Based & Schoolhouse
Training to Improve Safety
/Nikhil L. Shah (Director of Minimally-Invasive and Robotic Surgery,
Department of Surgery, Saint Joseph's Hospital, Atlanta)
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Robotic System Simulation and Modelling
/Stefan Jörg (Robotics and Mechatronics Center, German Aerospace Center
(DLR))/

Tissue modeling for Safer Robotic Interventions
/Prof. Allison Okamura (Stanford University, Department of Mechanical
Engineering)/

Balancing Safety and Cost in Robotically Assisted Surgery
/Ph.D. Louai Adhami (SimQuest, Washington D.C.)/

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Session on Haptics, Force Feedback and Human Robot Interaction
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Safe Human-Robot Interaction
/Dipl.-Ing., MSc. Sami Haddadin (Robotics and Mechatronics Center,
German Aerospace Center (DLR))/

Multimodal Haptics for Improved Safety in Robotic Surgery
/Prof. Hannes Bleuler and Laura Santos-Carreras (Ecole Polytechnique
Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Robotic Systems Laboratory)
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Toward safe endonasal surgery using teleoperated continuum robots
/Dr. Jessica Burgner (Vanderbilt University, Medical & Electromechanical
Design Laboratory, Nashville)
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Hybrid Actuation Approaches for Robotic Systems and Haptic Interfaces
/Ph.D. Francois Conti (Force Dimension / Stanford University, Artificial
Inteligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science)
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Safety Principles: the Safros Stance on Patient Safety
/Prof. Paolo Fiorini (Department of Computer Science, University of Verona)
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Session on Operating Room Sensing and Reasoning
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Operation Room Supervision for Safe Robotic Surgery with a Multi
3D-Camera Setup
/Dr.rer.nat. Jörg Raczkowsky and Phillip Nicolai (Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Institute of Process Control and Robotics, Medical group (MeGI))
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Vision-based Analysis of Conventional Surgical Procedures
/Prof. Darius Burschka and Oliver Ruepp (Technische Universität München,
Lab for Robotics and Embedded Systems, Machine Vision and Perception Group)
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Real-time 3D reconstruction: applications to collision detection and
surgical workflow monitoring
/Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab and Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Stefan Holzer, M.Sc.
(Technische Universität München, Computer Aided Medical Procedures &
Augmented Reality)
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Human-machine Cooperation in the Operating Room
/Prof. Greg Hager and Ph.D. Nicolas Padoy (The Johns Hopkins University,
Computational Interaction and Robotics Lab (CIRL))
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A Data Revolution for Robotic Surgical Safety
/Dr. Marco A. Zenati (MD Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA)
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Best regards
Rainer Konietschke, Stefan Jörg, and Paolo Fiorini

http://www.robotic.dlr.de/iros2011_workshop_safer_surgical

Postdoctoral position in Human Robot Interaction

2011-09-11T13:59:00.000-07:00

Postdoctoral position in Human Robot Interaction

THE TWELFTH SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING

2011-09-07T08:31:00.000-07:00

Call for Contributions

SDM'12: THE TWELFTH SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING
Anaheim, California, USA
Apr 26 - 28, 2012
URL: http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm12/

IMPORTANT DATES
September 30, 2011 11:59 PM PST: Workshop/Tutorial Proposals
October 14, 2011 11:59 PM PST: Paper Submission
December 21, 2011 11:59 PM PST: Author Notification
January 25, 2012: Camera Ready Papers Due

DESCRIPTION
Data mining is an important tool in science, engineering, industrial processes, healthcare, business, and medicine. The datasets in these fields are large, complex, and often noisy. Extracting knowledge requires the use of sophisticated, high performance and principled analysis techniques and algorithms, based on sound theoretical and statistical foundations. These techniques in turn require implementations that are carefully tuned for performance; powerful visualization technologies; interface systems that are usable by scientists, engineers, and physicians as well as researchers; and infrastructures that support them.

This conference provides a venue for researchers who are addressing these problems to present their work in a peer-reviewed forum. It also provides an ideal setting for graduate students and others new to the field to learn about cutting-edge research by hearing outstanding invited speakers and attending presentations and tutorials (included with conference registration). A set of focused workshops are also held on the last day of the conference. The proceedings of the conference are published in archival form, and are also made available on the SIAM web site.

THEMES
Methods and Algorithms
• Classification
• Clustering
• Frequent Pattern Mining
• Probabilistic & Statistical Methods
• Spatial & Temporal Mining
• Data Stream Mining
• Abnormality & Outlier Detection
• Feature Selection/ Feature Extraction
• Dimension Reduction
• Data Reduction
• Mining with Constraints
• Data Cleaning & Noise Reduction
• Computational Learning Theory
• Multi-Task Learning
• Adaptive Algorithms
• Scalable & High-Performance Mining
• Mining Graphs
• Mining Semi structured Data
• Mining Complex Datasets
• Mining on Emerging Architectures
• Text & Web Mining
• Other Novel Methods

Applications
• Astronomy & Astrophysics
• High Energy Physics
• Collaborative Filtering
• Earth Science
• Risk Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Customer Relationship Management
• Finance
• Genomics & Bioinformatics
• Drug Discovery
• Healthcare Management
• Automation & Process Control
• Logistics Management
• Intrusion & Fraud detection
• Bio-surveillance
• Sensor Network Applications
• Social Network Analysis
• Intelligence Analysis
• Other Novel Applications & Case Studies

Human Factors and Social Issues
• Ethics of Data Mining
• Intellectual Ownership
• Privacy Models
• Privacy Preserving Data Mining & Data Publishing
• Risk Analysis
• User Interfaces
• Interestingness & Relevance
• Data & Result Visualization

WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
The conference will feature workshops and tutorials on several special topics. Please see the SDM 2012 website for submission requirements. Examples of workshops and tutorials are available through the SDM 2011 website, http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm11/

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Steering Committee Chair
Chandrika Kamath, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Conference Chairs
Joydeep Ghosh, University of Texas - Austin, USA
Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA

Program Chairs
Ian Davidson, University of California - Davis, USA
Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, USA

Workshop Chairs
Rui Kuang, University of Minnesota, USA
Chandan Reddy, Wayne State University, USA

Tutorial Chair
Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA

Publicity Chairs
Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

Sponsorship Chairs
Jennifer Dy, Northwestern University, USA
Jimeng Sun, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Local Chair
Yan Liu, University of Southern California, USA

NIPS Workshop on PHILOSOPHY AND MACHINE LEARNING

2011-09-07T08:21:00.000-07:00

NIPS Workshop on
PHILOSOPHY AND MACHINE LEARNING

Sierra Nevada, Spain
16 or 17 December 2011

http://www.dsi.unive.it/PhiMaLe2011

The fields of machine learning and pattern recognition can arguably be considered as a modern-day incarnation of an endeavor which has challenged mankind since antiquity. In fact, fundamental questions pertaining to categorization, abstraction, generalization, induction, etc., have been on the agenda of mainstream philosophy, under different names and guises, since its inception. Nowadays, with the advent of modern digital computers and the availablity of enormous amount of raw data, these questions have taken a computational flavor.

As it often happens with scientific research, in the early days of machine learning there used to be a genuine interest around philosophical and conceptual issues, but over time the interest shifted almost entirely to technical and algorithmic aspects and became driven mainly by practical applications. In recent years, however, there has been a renewed interest around the foundational and/or philosophical problems of machine learning and pattern recognition, from both the computer scientist's and the philosopher's camps. This suggests that the time is ripe to initiating a long-term dialogue between the philosophy and the machine learning communities with a view to foster cross-fertilization of ideas.

In particular, we do feel the present moment is appropriate for reflection, reassessment and eventually some synthesis, with the aim of providing the machine learning field a self-portrait of where it currently stands and where it is going as a whole, and hopefully suggesting new directions. The aim of this workshop is precisely to consolidate research efforts in this area, and to provide an informal discussion forum for researchers and practitioners interested in this important yet diverse subject.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Connections to epistemology and philosophy of science
- Essentialism vs anti-essentialism
- Foundations of probability and causality
- Abstraction and generalization
- Connections to decision and game theory
- Similarity and categorization
- The nature of information

The workshop is planned to be a one-day meeting. The program will feature invited as well as contributed oral presentations. We feel that the more informal the better and we would like to solicit open and lively discussions and exchange of ideas from researchers with different backgrounds and perspectives. Plenty of time will be allocated to questions, discussions, and breaks.

Researchers who want to contribute a talk should submit a 4-page extended abstract of their work (using the NIPS style guide) by e-mail to Marcello Pelillo (pelillo@dsi.unive.it) by ***23 October 2011***

The organizers will review all submissions. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by 13 November 2011.

Organizers:

Marcello Pelillo, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy
Joachim Buhmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Tiberio Caetano, NICTA, Canberra, Australia
Bernhard Schoelkopf, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany
Larry Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

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Prof. Marcello Pelillo
DAIS - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Via Torino 155, 30172 Venezia Mestre, Italy
Tel: (39) 041 2348.440
Fax: (39) 041 2348.419
E-mail: pelillo@dsi.unive.it
URL: http://www.dsi.unive.it/~pelillo

European Conference on Mobile Robots

2011-09-02T16:03:00.000-07:00

ECMR 2011 in Örebro

International Conference on Automatic Control and Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2012)

2011-09-02T15:52:00.000-07:00

The International Conference

Special Track on Robotics on AAMAS 2012!

2011-09-01T18:02:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

*** Special Track on Robotics ***
11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
(AAMAS 2012)

Valencia, Spain
June 4–8, 2012

http://aamas2012.webs.upv.es

** ABOUT AAMAS **

AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and
multiagent systems. Since 2010 the conference has included a special track on
robotics, with its own dedicated programme committee.

The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 by merging three highly
respected meetings: the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS);
the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL);
and the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). The aim of the joint
conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally respected
archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous
agents and multiagent systems.

AAMAS 2012 is the eleventh conference in the AAMAS series, following enormously
successful previous conferences, and will be held at the Universitat Politècnica
de València in Valencia, Spain, June 4-8, 2012.

See http://www.ifaamas.org for more information on the AAMAS conference series.

** SPECIAL TRACK ON ROBOTICS (Chair: Daniele Nardi) **

Papers that advance theory and applications of single and multiple robots are
welcome, specifically those focusing on real robots that interact with their
environment. Papers should clearly explain how the work addresses challenges in
robotics, opportunities for novel applications, and fundamental research issues in
autonomous robotic systems. The goal is to demonstrate the synergy achieved from
integration of research in agents and robotics.

Topics of interest for the Robotics Track:

1. Cognitive robotics
2. Formal methods
3. Integrated perception, cognition, and action
4. Intelligence for human-robot interaction
5. Machine learning for robotics
6. Mapping (including exploration, coverage, and SLAM)
7. Networked robot/sensor systems
8. Robot planning (including action and motion planning)
9. Robot teams, multi-robot systems
10. Robot coordination
11. Robotic agent languages and middleware for robot systems

** KEY DATES **

For Authors:

Electronic Abstract Submission: October 7, 2011 (11:59 PM HST)
Full Paper Submission: October 12, 2011 (11:59 PM HST)
Rebuttal Phase: November 29 – December 1, 2011 (11:59 PM HST)
Author Notification: December 21, 2011 (11:59 PM HST)
Conference: June 4–8, 2012

For Reviewers:

Bidding deadline: October 14, 2011 (11:59pm HST)
Paper assignments announced: October 24, 2011
Reviewing Period: October 24 – November 21, 2011
Discussion Period: December 2–9, 2011

** SUBMISSION **

AAMAS 2012 seeks submissions of high-quality full papers, limited to 8 pages in
length. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated on the basis of
originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of
the art, and overall quality of their technical contribution. Reviews will be
double blind; authors must avoid including anything that can be used to identify
them. Please note that prior submission of an abstract is required to submit a
full paper. However, the abstracts will not be reviewed and full (8 page) papers
must be submitted for the review process to start. All work must be original
(must not have appeared in a conference proceedings, book, or journal).

* Submission Instructions *

To register and submit your paper (in PDF format), please go to the submission
website: http://aamas2012.confmaster.net and follow the instructions.

Please keep in mind that you must submit an abstract by October 7, 2011 to be able
to upload your paper (abstract submission is required to submit a paper, but
abstracts will NOT be reviewed). The abstract and paper submissions close at 11:59
PM Hawaii Standard Time (HST = GMT - 10:00) on Oct 7 and Oct 12 respectively.

If any substantial part of your work appeared previously, please provide the
citation and a one sentence description of the differences in the box provided. It
is OK to submit work that has previously appeared in a workshop (without an
associated archival publication). For such papers simply fill in the paper and
workshop info. For papers that build on earlier work that appeared in an archival
publication, please provide the citation and a one sentence description of the key
advances/differences. This information will be kept from the reviewers to ensure a
double-blind review and will only be used by the program chairs.

* Formatting Instructions *

The page limit for AAMAS 2012 submissions is 8 pages. The format follows the ACM
proceedings guidelines and consists of balanced double columns, 9 pt text, 1"
(2.54cm) margins top and bottom, and 0.75" (1.9cm) margins left and right. Each
column is 3.33" (8.45cm) wide with a separation of 0.33" (0.83cm). A LaTeX style
file and a Microsoft Word template will be available soon on the conference Web
site (http://aamas2012.webs.upv.es). Please do not modify the style files, or any
layout parameters.

To ensure the effectiveness of the double-blind review process, make sure to put
paper numbers (provided upon paper registration) instead of author names. In
addition, please ensure that any references to your own previous work is made in a
way that does not disclose author identity (for example, instead of "in previous
work, we have shown X [ref]" use "X was shown in [ref]"). In some cases where the
work is clearly a continuation of your earlier work, you may consider removing
citations to your own work until the final version (for example, "we have shown X
[ref]" where [ref]= "Anonymous, 200X"). Please also check that the PDF file
submitted does not contain embedded identifying information.

* Mandatory Sections *

The mandatory sections of the ACM styles are also mandatory for AAMAS 2012
submissions. Not only will these sections help select the reviewers, but according
to ACM: "these index terms effect the ease and accuracy of retrieval within the
Digital Library which ultimately benefits authors by allowing for greater
distribution of their work". Thus, although it may not be trivial to find the
appropriate classification information, you should make an effort filling these
sections:

1. Categories and Subject Descriptors:
Details of the ACM Computing Classification Scheme are available at
http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/

2. General Terms:
This section is limited to the following 16 terms: Algorithms, Management,
Measurement, Documentation, Performance, Design, Economics, Reliability,
Experimentation, Security, Human Factors, Standardization, Languages, Theory,
Legal Aspects, Verification.

3. Keywords:
This section is your choice of terms you would like to be indexed by. Please
refer to the Topics of Interest above for a list of keywords.

Deep Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning Workshop

2011-08-31T17:57:00.001-07:00

Call for Papers: Deep Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning Workshop
held in conjunction with Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011)
December 16 or 17, 2011, Granada, Spain

(This is a one-day workshop, and the date will be determined soon.)

http://deeplearningworkshopnips2011.wordpress.com/

Overview
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In recent years, there has been a lot of interest in algorithms that
learn feature representations from unlabeled data. Deep learning
algorithms such as deep belief networks, sparse coding-based methods,
convolutional networks, ICA methods, and deep Boltzmann machines have
shown promise and have already been successfully applied to a variety
of tasks in computer vision, audio processing, natural language
processing, information retrieval, and robotics. In this workshop, we
will bring together researchers who are interested in deep learning
and unsupervised feature learning, review the recent technical
progress, discuss the challenges, and identify promising future
research directions.

The workshop invites paper submissions that will be either presented
as oral or in poster format. Through invited talks, panel discussions
and presentations by the participants, this workshop attempts to
address some of the more controversial topics in deep learning today,
such as whether hierarchical systems are more powerful, and what
principles should guide the design of objective functions used to
train these models. Panel discussions will be led by the members of
the organizing committee as well as by prominent representatives of
the vision and neuroscience communities.

The goal of this workshop is two-fold. First, we want to identify the
next big challenges and propose research directions for the deep
learning community. Second, we want to bridge the gap between
researchers working on different (but related) fields, to leverage
their expertise, and to encourage the exchange of ideas with all the
other members of the NIPS community.

Dates
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- Submission deadline: October 14, 2011
- Acceptance notification: November 11, 2011
- Workshop date: December 16 or 17, 2011 (This is a one-day workshop,
and the date will be determined soon.)

A tentative schedule is available at:
http://deeplearningworkshopnips2011.wordpress.com/schedule

Submissions
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We solicit submissions of unpublished research papers. Papers should
be at most 8 pages (plus 1 additional page containing references only)
and must satisfy the formatting instructions of the NIPS 2011 call for
papers.
Style files are available at http://nips.cc/PaperInformation/StyleFiles.
Please note that the reviewing is double blind, so your manuscript
should not contain authors’ identifying information.
Papers should be submitted through
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DLUFL2011/ no later than 23:59 EST
on Friday, October 14, 2011.

We encourage submissions on the following and related topics:
* unsupervised feature learning algorithms
* deep learning algorithms
* semi-supervised and transfer learning algorithms
* inference and optimization
* theoretical foundations of unsupervised learning
* theoretical foundations of deep learning
* applications of deep learning and unsupervised feature learning
The best papers will be awarded by an oral presentation, all other
papers will have a poster presentation accompanied by a short
spotlight presentation.

Organizers
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* Adam Coates – Stanford University
* Yoshua Bengio – University of Montreal
* Yann LeCun – New York University
* Nicolas Le Roux – INRIA
* Andrew Y. Ng – Stanford University
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New Journal of Causal Inference!

2011-08-31T17:53:00.000-07:00

Journal of Causal Inference

4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY AND REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SYSTEMS

2011-08-30T16:23:00.001-07:00

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ERLARS 2011

4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
EVOLUTIONARY AND REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SYSTEMS

December 9-10 2011, HTW University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Submission deadline: October 9 2011

http://www.erlars.org/2011/

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CALL FOR PAPERS

*** Objectives ***

Learning is essential for an autonomous robot system. The range of
unexpected situations it can handle while performing its task depends on
its ability to adapt. Recent developments have taken autonomous robots
beyond industrial settings, for example at home as toys and cleaners.

However, production models usually interact with their environment
following a fixed control strategy, which limits their range of
application. More adaptable robots require control strategies that learn
more and better from interactions with their environment. The ERLARS
workshop addresses the challenge to develop efficient and versatile
learning architectures for autonomous robot systems, with the main focus
on adequate evolutionary and reinforcement learning algorithms.

*** Relevant Topics ***

Papers are invited on all aspects of learning methods for the control of
autonomous robot systems, including, but not limited to:

* Model-free visual servoing
* Mobile robot navigation by means of reinforcement learning
* Combining offline- and online learning methods for robot control
* Reinforcement learning by evolutionary algorithms of neural network-based
and other robot controllers
* Hybrid systems that combine modelling and parameter estimation by
reinforcement learning
* Learning from scratch and cascaded learning architectures
* Knowledge-based reinforcement learning
* Developmental and epigenetic robotics
* Balancing exploration and exploitation of acquired knowledge
* Simulated environments for autonomous robot learning scenarios

*** Important Dates ***

* October 9 2011 : Paper submissions due
* November 1 2011 : Notification of paper acceptance
* November 14 2011 : Camera ready paper submission
* December 9/10 2011 : Workshop takes place

*** Workshop Chairs ***

Nils T Siebel
Building Automation Lab, Department of Engineering 1,
HTW University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Yohannes Kassahun
Research Group Robotics, Robotics Innovation Center,
University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

*** Programme Committee ***

Andrew Barto (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Peter Dürr (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
Christian Igel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
Takanori Koga (Yamaguchi University, Japan)
Tim Kovacs (University of Bristol, UK)
Jun Ota (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Jan Peters (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany)
Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK)
Marcello Restelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Stefan Schiffer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Juergen Schmidhuber (Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland)
Marc Toussaint (TU Berlin, Germany)
Jeremy Wyatt (University of Birmingham, UK)

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More information on the workshop website: http://www.erlars.org/2011/

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ERLARS Workshop
International Workshop on
Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems
http://www.erlars.org/

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Nils T Siebel
Department of Engineering 1
HTW University of Applied Sciences Berlin
Wilhelminenhofstr. 75A
12459 Berlin, Germany

European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD)

2011-08-26T16:06:00.000-07:00

ECML/PKDD-2011
Athens, Greece, September 5-9, 2011
http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/
generalchairs@ecmlpkdd2011.org
pcchairs@ecmlpkdd2011.org

EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: JULY 29th
NORMAL REGISTRATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 28th
REGISTRATION AND HOTEL ACCOMMODATION:
http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/registration.php

The European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the European
Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in
Databases (PKDD) will be held co-located in ATHENS, GREECE, September
5-9, 2011.

VENUE: The conference will be held at the Athens Royal Olympic Hotel,
in the center of the town of Athens. Athens Royal Olympic Hotel lays
just in front of the famous Temple of Zeus and the National Gardens.
It is underneath the Acropolis and only 2 minutes walk to the new
Athens Acropolis Museum. Blocks of rooms have been reserved at various
hotels, most at a walking distance from the conference site. Please
make your registration and hotel arrangements as early as possible:
hotel booking is available together with the online registration
procedure.

TRAVEL INFO: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/travelInfo.php

REGISTRATION:

The registration fees are quite attractive

1)REGULAR:
365 Euro **until July 29**,
450 Euro **July 30-August 28**,
550 Euro **later**

2)STUDENT:
290 Euro **until July 29**,
360 Euro **July 30-August 28**,
440 Euro **later**

3)STUDENT DISCOUNT:
195 Euro **until July 29**,
265 Euro **July 30-August 28**
345 Euro **later**

REGULAR AND STUDENT REGISTRATION FEES INCLUDE: participation to
technical program (Monday-Friday), lunch breaks (Tuesday-Thursday),
free ticket to the welcome reception (Monday), the banquet (Wednesday)
and the farewell party (Thursday)
STUDENT DISCOUNT REGISTRATION FEES INCLUDE: participation to technical
program (Monday-Friday) and lunch breaks (Tuesday - Thursday)
EXTRA TICKETS FOR ACCOMPANYING PERSONS INCLUDE: welcome reception
(Monday), the banquet (Wednesday) and the farewell party (Thursday)

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

The ECML/PKDD MAIN PROGRAM starts with a plenary session in the
evening of Monday 5, and closes with another plenary session on Friday
9 September. A detailed schedule will be available soon.

There will be six KEYNOTE TALKS by distinguished scholars and
researchers in the area of Machine Learning and Data Mining:

- Rakesh Agrawal
Microsoft Search Labs, California, USA
http://rakesh.agrawal-family.com/

- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Center of Complex Networks Research, Northeastern University and
Department of Medicine, Harvard University
http://nd.edu/~alb/

- Christopher Bishop
Microsoft Research Labs, Cambridge, UK
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/

- Marco Gori
University of Siena, Italy
http://www.dii.unisi.it/~marco/

- Heikki Mannila
Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/mannila/

- Andrei Broder
Yahoo! Research
http://research.yahoo.com/Andrei_Broder

INVITED KEY NOTE TALKS ABSTRACTS: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/keynoteTalks.php

The program comprises 121 full papers, which have been accepted for
presentation in the technical sessions, but they will also be
exhibited collectively in a poster session on Tuesday evening. The
program also comprises a DEMO SESSION, where 11 selected demonstrators
exhibit innovative applications or successful experiences/prototypes
that show the integration of new Data Mining and Machine Learning
technologies.

ACCEPTED PAPERS AND DEMOS:
http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/acceptedPapers.php

There is a wide WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL program, consisting of eleven
workshops, the DISCOVERY CHALLENGE workshop, and seven tutorials, to
be held on Monday 5 and Friday 9 September.

WORKSHOPS: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/workshops.php
TUTORIALS: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/tutorials.php
DISCOVERY CHALLENGE: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/challenge.php

There are also two co-located events:
EWRL 2011: The 9th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning,
September 9 - 11, 2011 (http://ewrl.wordpress.com/)
NGDM 2011: The Next Generation Data Mining Summit on Ubiquitous
Knowledge Discovery for Energy Management in Smart Grids and
Intelligent Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Telematics, Sunday, 4th
September, 2011 (http://www.kd2u.org/NGDM11/)

VENUE and SOCIAL PROGRAMME

The ECML PKDD 2011 takes place in Athens Royal Olympic Hotel a five
star property in the center of Athens. It lays just in front of the
famous Temple of Zeus and the National Gardens. It is underneath the
Acropolis and only 2 minutes walk to the new Athens Acropolis Museum.
After its complete renovation that finished in 2009, the Royal Olympic
was transformed to an art hotel very elegantly decorated and more
important very well looked after in every detail. It is worth
mentioning the breathtaking views to the Acropolis and the famous
Temple of Zeus and the National Gardens. See details at:
http://ecmlpkdd2011.org/conferenceVenue.php

Apart from Acropolis, Athens offers a very rich collection of
monuments spanning its 3000 years long history accompanied by very
interesting museums. Nevertheless Athens is a just a 20mins tramway
ride away from the Athenian Riviera, a 40 km long coast. See more at:
http://www.breathtakingathens.com/.

Also Athens offers a wide variety of top quality cultural events in
the context of the International Athens Festival taking place in open
air ancient theaters as well. See more details at: http://www.greekfestival.gr/en/.

Finally, a rich Social program is prepared to bring the conference
delegates and their companions in contact with the virtues of Athens
(see: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/socialEvents.php).

Looking forward to meeting you in Athens!

ECML/PKDD General co-Chairs are:
Prof. A. Likas (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Prof. Y. Theodoridis (University of Piraeus, Greece)

ECML PKDD Program Committee chairs are:

Dr. T. Hofmann (Google Research)
Prof. Donato Malerba (University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy)
Prof. D. Gunopulos (University of Athens)
Prof. M. Vazirgiannis (Athens University of Economics and Business,
Greece)

IMPORTANT DATES:
First Early Registration Deadline July 29th, 2011
Second Early Registration Deadline August 28th, 2011
Conference Dates September 5-9, 2011
Workshops and Tutorials Dates September 5 and 9, 2011

TRAVEL GRANTS
The UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy (http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat)
offers financial support to offset some of the costs associated with
attending ECML PKDD 2011 for participants coming from "transition"
countries, which are nations other than USA, Canada, Western Europe,
New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. Preference is
given to student authors, and authors of accepted papers.

SPONSORS:
- Google
- Pascal 2
- Xerox
- Yahoo Lab
- COST/MOVE (Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects)
- FP7/MODAP (Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy)
- Rapid-I (report the future)
- Athena/IMIS (Institute for the Management of Information Systems)
- EETN (Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society)
- MDS Marathon Data Systems
- Transinsight
- SONY
- UNESCO Privacy Chair
- Springer-Verlag
- Universita degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"
- Athens University of Economics and Business
- University of Ioannina
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- University of Piraeus

3er Congreso Mexicano de Inteligencia Artificial - COMIA 2011

2011-08-26T14:50:00.001-07:00

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Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial

http://www.smia.org.mx/

3er Congreso Mexicano de Inteligencia Artificial - COMIA 2011

18 al 21 de Octubre de 2011

Atizapán de Zaragoza, Estado de México.

http://www.comia.org.mx

Fecha --EXTENDIDA-- límite de presentación: 4 de septiembre de 2011

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INFORMACIÓN GENERAL

El Congreso Mexicano de Inteligencia Artificial - COMIA 2011 está organizado por la Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial (SMIA), en coordinación con la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. COMIA es un nuevo esfuerzo de la SMIA para promover la investigación y enseñanza de la Inteligencia Artificial en universidades e instituciones de enseñanza superior Mexicanas, y se promueve como un foro científico serio para presentación y publicación de trabajos de investigación derivados de tesis o proyectos, terminados o en proceso, en Español.

El COMIA surge con el propósito de ofrecer una alternativa seria para la publicación de trabajos de investigación en Español en un congreso científico soportado por una sociedad profesional de amplio prestigio internacional como la SMIA.

El Comité de Programa COMIA'11 invita a la presentación de documentos técnicos para COMIA'11, que se celebrará en Atizapán de Zaragoza, México, del 18 al 21 de octubre 2011. Los trabajos enviados deben someterse con contenidos sobre la investigación significativa, original y no publicada anteriormente, en todos los aspectos de la inteligencia artificial. El COMIA está abierto a todas las áreas de la Inteligencia Artificial, ya sea de investigación o aplicaciones.

Los artículos deberán ser sometidos en línea utilizando el sistema de EasyChair:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comia2011

Los trabajos deberán ser enviados sin nombres de los autores, afiliación y/o auto-referencias para realizar una revisión doblemente ciega. Al presentar un artículo se asume que al menos un autor se registrará en la conferencia y presentara el trabajo aceptado o un, de ser el caso, póster. El costo de registro será pagado por completo por cada uno de los artículos que sean aceptados. Se planea tener además talleres, concursos y tutoriales en el marco de la conferencia.

PROCEDIMIENTO

Los artículos aceptados para su presentación oral serán publicados por Editorial SMIA con número de Volumen e ISBN.

Los artículos no deberán exceder de 10 páginas, y deberán ser presentados en el formato de Springer LNAI, las plantillas para word o latex están disponibles en cualquiera de las dos páginas siguientes;

http://www.springer.com/lncs/
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Habrá premios y reconocimientos para los mejores artículos.

FECHAS IMPORTANTES

Fecha límite para envío de artículos: Septiembre 4 (extendida)

Notificación de aceptación: Septiembre 9

Envío de versión final: Septiembre 17

Celebración del Congreso: Octubre 18 al 21

TEMAS

Los temas de interés son todas las áreas de la Inteligencia Artificial, incluyendo pero no limitado a:

Sistemas expertos y sistemas basados en conocimientos
Representación y Manejo del Conocimiento
Adquisición del Conocimiento
Sistemas Multi-agente y IA distribuida
Organizaciones Inteligentes
Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
Ontologías
Interfaces Inteligentes: Multimedia, Realidad Virtual
Visión por Computador y Procesamiento de Imágenes
Redes Neuronales
Algoritmos Genéticos
Lógica Difusa
Aprendizaje Automático
Reconocimiento de Patrones
Revisión de creencias
Razonamiento cualitativo
Incertidumbre y Razonamiento Probabilístico
Razonamiento basado en modelos
Razonamiento No-monótono
Razonamiento del Sentido Común
Razonamiento Basado en Casos
Razonamiento Espacial y Temporal
Programación con Restricciones
Programación de la lógica
Demostración de Teoremas Automatizada
Robótica
Planificación y Programación
Sistemas Inteligentes Híbridos
Bioinformática y Aplicaciones Médicas
Cuestiones Metodológicas y Filosóficas de la IA
Sistemas de tutorías inteligente
Minería de datos
Aplicaciones

PREGUNTAS GENERALES Y DATOS DE CONTACTO

Presidentes Generales:
Raúl Monroy (raulm@itesm.mx)
Grigori Sidorov (raulm@itesm.mx)

Organización del Evento:
Miguel Gonzalez Mendoza (mgonza@itesm.mx)
Oscar Herrera Alcántara (oha@correo.azc.uam.mx)

Sede local: Universidad Autónoma del estado de México, Valle de México

Workshop on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts

2011-08-26T06:35:00.001-07:00

IEEE ARSO 2011: A workshop on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts

October 2-4 2011
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Half-Moon Bay, California

--- Workshop Website ----

http://www.arso2011.org/

--- Workshop Description ---

The 2011 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts
(ARSO) will explore applied robotics research in the context of social
impact and related commercial and legal issues. Participants will be
world class robotics researchers, investors, and industry and
government representatives. This year's workshop will be held
immediately after the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent
Robots and Systems (IROS) 2011 in the Ritz-Carlton Resort, Half Moon
Bay in California. The workshop will focus on discussions and
developing collaborations, serving as a venue to share our vision for
the future of robotics and its impact on society. Organized in single
track sessions consisting of panel discussions, and invited talks, the
workshop will include robotics in areas such as (but not limited to)
the following:

education,
entertainment,
rehabilitation and medical applications,
service,
search and rescue,
transportation, and
telepresence.

--- Important Dates ---

Deadline for hotel registration: September 1, 2011
Workshop: October 2-4, 2011

On behalf of the organization committee,
Radu.
--
ARSO 2011 General Chair

International Journal on Data Mining and Intelligent Information Technology Applications (IJMIA)

2011-08-25T20:27:00.001-07:00

IJMIA: Call for Papers and Editors

International Journal on Data Mining and Intelligent Information Technology Applications (IJMIA)
Web Site: http://www.aicit.org/IJMIA, Contact: IJMIA@aicit.org

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Call for Editors (Associate Editors-in-Chief, Editors, Technical Editors)
We are inviting some editors who serve the journal as an editor. If you want to be an editor, please visit the website and submit your information. For more details, http://www.aicit.org/IJMIA

Scope and Topics
IJMIA invites new and original submissions addressing theoretical and practical topics and its applications in convergence/hybrid information technology and industrial technologies fields including (but not limited to these topics):

Topic 1: Core Data Mining
Topic 2: Information Technology Applications Related
Topic 3: Data Mining For Intelligent IT Application

Paper Types:
We welcome all kinds of the papers, reports and articles which can give meaningful information to other authors/members.
- Original Research papers
- Technical Reports
- Technical Articles
- Surveys and/or Analysis of the New Trends

General Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Simon Fong (University of Macau, Macau)

Associate Editors
Dr. Russel Pears (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
Dr. Eric Pardede (La Trobe University, Australia)

Managing and Executive Publication Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Yunji Na (AICIT, Korea(Rep. of))

Special Issue Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Franz Ko (Dongguk University, Korea(Rep. of))

Submission: http://www.aicit.org/IJMIA
Authors are cordially invited to submit papers in IJMIA's web site.
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ICAS 2012, The Eighth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems

2011-08-23T13:13:00.001-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICAS 2012, The Eighth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
March 25-29, 2012 - St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ICAS12.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPICAS12.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitICAS12.html

Submission deadline: November 5, 2011

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ICAS 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

SYSAT: Advances in system automation

Methods, techniques ant tools for automation features; Methodologies for automating of design systems; Industrial automation for production chains; Nonlinear optimization and automation control; Nonlinearities and system stabilization; Automation in safety systems; Structured uncertainty; Open and closed automation loops; Test systems automation; Theory on systems robustness; Fault-tolerant systems
AUTSY: Theory and Practice of Autonomous Systems

Design, implementation and deployment of autonomous systems; Frameworks and architectures for component and system autonomy; Design methodologies for autonomous systems; Composing autonomous systems; Formalisms and languages for autonomous systems; Logics and paradigms for autonomous systems; Ambient and real-time paradigms for autonomous systems; Delegation and trust in autonomous systems; Centralized and distributed autonomous systems; Collocation and interaction between autonomous and non-autonomous systems; Dependability in autonomous systems; Survivability and recovery in autonomous systems; Monitoring and control in autonomous systems; Performance and security in autonomous systems; Management of autonomous systems; Testing autonomous systems; Maintainability of autonomous systems

AWARE: Design and Deployment of Context-awareness Networks, Services and Applications

Context-aware fundamental concepts, mechanisms, and applications; Modeling context-aware systems; Specification and implementation of awareness behavioral contexts; Development and deployment of large-scale context-aware systems and subsystems; User awareness requirements and design techniques for interfaces and systems; Methodologies, metrics, tools, and experiments for specifying context-aware systems; Tools evaluations, Experiment evaluations
AUTONOMIC: Autonomic Computing: Design and Management of Self-behavioral Networks and Services

Theory, architectures, frameworks and practice of self-adaptive management mechanisms; Modeling and techniques for specifying self-ilities; Self-stabilization and dynamic stability criteria and mechanisms; Tools, languages and platforms for designing self-driven systems; Autonomic computing and GRID networking; Autonomic computing and proactive computing for autonomous systems; Practices, criteria and methods to implement, test, and evaluate industrial autonomic systems; Experiences with autonomic computing systems
CLOUD: Cloud computing and Virtualization

Hardware-as-a-service; Software-as-a-service [SaaS applicaitions]; Platform-as-service; On-demand computing models; Cloud Computing programming and application development; Scalability, discovery of services and data in Cloud computing infrastructures; Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues; Performance and QoS; Dynamic resource provisioning; Power-efficiency and Cloud computing; Load balancing; Application streaming; Cloud SLAs, business models and pricing policies; Custom platforms; Large-scale compute infrastructures; Managing applications in the clouds; Data centers; Process in the clouds; Content and service distribution in Cloud computing infrastructures; Multiple applications can run on one computer (virtualization a la VMWare); Grid computing (multiple computers can be used to run one application); Virtualization platforms; Open virtualization format; Cloud-computing vendor governance and regulatory compliance

MCMAC: Monitoring, Control, and Management of Autonomous Self-aware and Context-aware Systems

Agent-based autonomous systems; Policy-driven self-awareness mechanisms and their applicability in autonomic systems; Autonomy in GRID networking and utility computing; Studies on autonomous industrial applications, services, and their developing environment; Prototypes, experimental systems, tools for autonomous systems, GRID middleware
CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments

Theory, frameworks, mechanisms and case studies for satellite systems; Spatial/temporal constraints in satellites systems; Trajectory corrections, speed, and path accuracy in satellite systems; Mechanisms and case studies for nomadic code systems; Platforms for mobile agents and active mobile code; Performance in nomadic code systems; Case studies systems for mobile robot systems; Guidance in an a priori unknown environment; Coaching/learning techniques; Pose maintenance, and mapping; Sensing for autonomous vehicles; Planning for autonomous vehicles; Mobile networks, Ad hoc networks and self-reconfigurable networks

ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation

Control theory and specific characteristics; Types of computation theories; Tools for computation and control; Algorithms and data structures; Special algorithmic techniques; Algorithmic applications; Domain case studies; Technologies case studies for computation and control; Application-aware networking

MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SOA

Modeling techniques, tools, methodologies, languages; Model-driven architectures (MDA); Service-oriented architectures (SOA); Utility computing frameworks and fundamentals; Enabled applications through virtualization; Small-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Resource containers, physical resource multiplexing, and segmentation; Large-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Management of virtualized systems; Platforms, tools, environments, and case studies; Making virtualization real; On-demand utilities; Adaptive enterprise; Managing utility-based systems; Development environments, tools, prototypes

SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems

Novel approaches to modeling and representing context adaptability, self-adaptability, and self-manageability; Models of computation for self-management context-aware systems; Use of MDA/MDD (Model Driven Architecture / Model Driven Development) for context-aware systems; Design methods for self-adaptable context-aware systems; Applications of advanced modeling languages to context self-adaptability; Methods for managing adding context to existing systems and context-conflict free systems; Architectures and middleware models for self-adaptable context-aware systems; Models of different adaptation and self-adaptation mechanisms (component-based adaptation approach, aspect oriented approach, etc.); System stability in the presence of context inconsistency; Learning and self-adaptability of context-aware systems; Business considerations and organizational modeling of self-adaptable context-aware systems; Performance evaluation of self-adaptable context-aware systems; Scalability of self
-adaptable context-aware systems
KUI: Knowledge-based user interface

Evolving intelligent user interface for WWW; User interface design in autonomic systems; Adaptive interfaces in a knowledge-based design; Knowledge-based support for the user interface design process; Built-in knowledge in adaptive user interfaces; Requirements for interface knowledge representation; Levels for knowledge-based user interface; User interface knowledge on the dynamic behavior; Support techniques for knowledge-based user interfaces; Intelligent user interface for real-time systems; Planning-based control of interface animation; Model-based user interface design; Knowledge-based user interface migration; Automated user interface requirements discovery for scientific computing; Knowledge-based user interface management systems; 3D User interface design; Task-oriented knowledge user interfaces; User-interfaces in a domestic environment; Centralised control in the home; User-interfaces for the elderly or disabled; User-interfaces for the visually, aurally, or mobility impai
red; Interfacing with ambient intelligence systems; Assisted living interfaces; Interfaces for security/alarm systems

AMMO: Adaptive management and mobility

QoE and adaptation in mobile environments; Content marking and management (i.e. MPEG21); Adaptive coding (H.265, FEC schemes, etc.. ); Admission control resource allocation algorithms; Monitoring and feedback systems; Link adaptation mechanisms; Cross layer approaches; Adaptation protocols (with IMS and NGNs scenarios); QoE vs NQoS mapping systems; Congestion control mechanisms; Fairness issues (fair sharing, bandwidth allocation...); Optimization/management mechanisms (MOO, fuzzy logic, machine learning, etc.)

Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComICAS12.html

11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012)

2011-08-23T08:36:00.001-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
(AAMAS 2012)

Valencia, Spain
June 4–8, 2012

http://aamas2012.webs.upv.es

** ABOUT AAMAS **

AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and
multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 by merging
three highly respected meetings: the International Conference on Multi-Agent
Systems (ICMAS); the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and
Languages (ATAL); and the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). The
aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally
respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of
autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

AAMAS 2012 is the eleventh conference in the AAMAS series, following enormously
successful previous conferences, and will be held at the Universitat Politècnica
de València in Valencia, Spain, June 4-8, 2012.

Seehttp://www.ifaamas.org for more information on the AAMAS conference series.

** WHAT’S NEW? **

We realise that many of you will not read the CFP in detail. Please at least read
the following points, which highlight significant recent changes.

1. When submitting papers, if the paper has appeared anywhere before, even as a
short paper or in a workshop, then you must provide information on this - see
the Submission Instructions section below for details.

2. The "industry track" changed in 2011 to the "innovative applications" track.

3. In response to comments at the AAMAS 2011 community discussion session, AAMAS
2012 also invites "perspective" papers (see the end of topic list for more
information)

** TOPICS OF INTEREST **

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Agent Communication:
1. Agent commitments
2. Communication languages
3. Communication protocols
4. Speech act theory

Agent Cooperation:
1. Biologically-inspired approaches and methods
2. Collective intelligence
3. Distributed problem solving
4. Human-robot/agent interaction
5. Multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction
6. Teamwork, coalition formation, coordination
7. Incentives for Cooperation
8. Implicit Cooperation

Agent Reasoning:
1. Planning (single and multiagent)
2. Reasoning (single and multiagent)
3. Cognitive models
4. Knowledge representation

Agent Societies and Societal issues:
1. Artificial social systems
2. Environments, organisations and institutions
3. Ethical and legal issues
4. Peer to peer coordination
5. Privacy, safety and security
6. Social and organizational structure
7. Trust, reliability and reputation

Agent Theories, Models and Architectures:
1. BDI
2. Belief revision
3. Bounded rationality
4. Formal models of agency
5. Logic-based approaches and methods
6. Mobile agents
7. Modeling other agents and self
8. Modeling the dynamics of MAS
9. Reactive vs. deliberative approaches
10. Service oriented architectures
11. Verification of MAS

Agent-based simulation:
1. Artificial societies
2. Emergent behavior
3. Simulation techniques, tools and environments
4. Social simulation

Agent-based system development:
1. Agent development techniques, tools and environments
2. Agent programming languages
3. Agent specification or validation languages
4. Design languages for agent systems
5. Development environments
6. Programming languages
7. P2P, web services, grid computing
8. Software engineering (agent- or multi agent-oriented)

Agreement Technologies:
1. Argumentation
2. Collective decision making
3. Judgment aggregation and belief merging
4. Negotiation
5. Norms

Economic paradigms:
1. Electronic markets
2. Economically-motivated agents
3. Game Theory (cooperative and non-cooperative)
4. Social choice theory
5. Voting protocols
6. Artificial economies/markets
7. Auction and mechanism design
8. Bargaining and negotiation

Learning and Adaptation:
1. Computational architectures for learning
2. Reward structures for learning
3. Evolution, adaptation
4. Co-evolution
5. Single agent Learning
6. Multiagent Learning

Systems and Organisation:
1. Autonomic computing
2. Complex systems
3. Self-organisation

Perspectives (see below)

* Perspective Papers *

These are papers that analyse in some way the agents research community, or part
of it. These papers will be handled like any other AAMAS submission; they will be
evaluated in terms of their originality, soundness, significance, presentation,
understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality of their technical
contribution. Papers that merely present a numerical analysis of trends without
insightful interpretation, or that fail to situate their analysis within the
existing body of literature, are unlikely to be accepted.

Examples of appropriate topics for perspective papers include (but are not
necessarily limited to):

1. An analysis of data concerning trends in a given sub-area of agents, along with
a discussion of these trends.

2. An overview of the state of adoption in practice of agents, along with an
analysis of reasons and future trends

3. Any other papers that take a "step back" and consider the research and/or
adoption of some aspect (or all of) the agents community

** KEY DATES **

For Authors:

Electronic Abstract Submission: October 7, 2011 (11:59 PM HST)
Full Paper Submission: October 12, 2011 (11:59 PM HST)
Rebuttal Phase: November 29 – December 1, 2011 (11:59 PM HST)
Author Notification: December 21, 2011 (11:59 PM HST)
Conference: June 4–8, 2012

For Reviewers:

Bidding deadline: October 14, 2011 (11:59pm HST)
Paper assignments announced: October 24, 2011
Reviewing Period: October 24 – November 21, 2011
Discussion Period: December 2–9, 2011

** SUBMISSION **

AAMAS 2012 seeks submissions of high-quality full papers, limited to 8 pages in
length. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated on the basis of
originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of
the art, and overall quality of their technical contribution. Reviews will be
double blind; authors must avoid including anything that can be used to identify
them. Please note that prior submission of an abstract is required to submit a
full paper. However, the abstracts will not be reviewed and full (8 page) papers
must be submitted for the review process to start. All work must be original
(must not have appeared in a conference proceedings, book, or journal).

* Submission Instructions *

To register and submit your paper (in PDF format), please go to the submission
website:http://aamas2012.confmaster.net and follow the instructions.

Please keep in mind that you must submit an abstract by October 7, 2011 to be able
to upload your paper (abstract submission is required to submit a paper, but
abstracts will NOT be reviewed). The abstract and paper submissions close at 11:59
PM Hawaii Standard Time (HST = GMT - 10:00) on Oct 7 and Oct 12 respectively.

If any substantial part of your work appeared previously, please provide the
citation and a one sentence description of the differences in the box provided. It
is OK to submit work that has previously appeared in a workshop (without an
associated archival publication). For such papers simply fill in the paper and
workshop info. For papers that build on earlier work that appeared in an archival
publication, please provide the citation and a one sentence description of the key
advances/differences. This information will be kept from the reviewers to ensure a
double-blind review and will only be used by the program chairs.

* Formatting Instructions *

The page limit for AAMAS 2012 submissions is 8 pages. The format follows the ACM
proceedings guidelines and consists of balanced double columns, 9 pt text, 1"
(2.54cm) margins top and bottom, and 0.75" (1.9cm) margins left and right. Each
column is 3.33" (8.45cm) wide with a separation of 0.33" (0.83cm). A LaTeX style
file and a Microsoft Word template will be available soon on the conference Web
site (http://aamas2012.webs.upv.es). Please do not modify the style files, or any
layout parameters.

To ensure the effectiveness of the double-blind review process, make sure to put
paper numbers (provided upon paper registration) instead of author names. In
addition, please ensure that any references to your own previous work is made in a
way that does not disclose author identity (for example, instead of "in previous
work, we have shown X [ref]" use "X was shown in [ref]"). In some cases where the
work is clearly a continuation of your earlier work, you may consider removing
citations to your own work until the final version (for example, "we have shown X
[ref]" where [ref]= "Anonymous, 200X"). Please also check that the PDF file
submitted does not contain embedded identifying information.

* Mandatory Sections *

The mandatory sections of the ACM styles are also mandatory for AAMAS 2012
submissions. Not only will these sections help select the reviewers, but according
to ACM: "these index terms effect the ease and accuracy of retrieval within the
Digital Library which ultimately benefits authors by allowing for greater
distribution of their work". Thus, although it may not be trivial to find the
appropriate classification information, you should make an effort filling these
sections:

1. Categories and Subject Descriptors:
Details of the ACM Computing Classification Scheme are available at
http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/

2. General Terms:
This section is limited to the following 16 terms: Algorithms, Management,
Measurement, Documentation, Performance, Design, Economics, Reliability,
Experimentation, Security, Human Factors, Standardization, Languages, Theory,
Legal Aspects, Verification.

3. Keywords:
This section is your choice of terms you would like to be indexed by. Please
refer to the Call for Paper page for a list of keywords.

** SPECIAL TRACKS **

In addition to submissions in the main track, AAMAS-2012 will be soliciting papers
in three special tracks. The review process for the special tracks will be
similar to the main track, but with program committee members specially selected
for that track.

* Special Track on Robotics (Chair: Daniele Nardi) *

Papers that advance theory and applications of single and multiple robots are
welcome, specifically those focusing on real robots that interact with their
environment. Papers should clearly explain how the work addresses challenges in
robotics, opportunities for novel applications, and fundamental research issues in
autonomous robotic systems. The goal is to demonstrate the synergy achieved from
integration of research in agents and robotics.

Keywords for Robotics Track:

1. Cognitive robotics
2. Formal methods
3. Integrated perception, cognition, and action
4. Intelligence for human-robot interaction
5. Machine learning for robotics
6. Mapping (including exploration, coverage, and SLAM)
7. Networked robot/sensor systems
8. Robot planning (including action and motion planning)
9. Robot teams, multi-robot systems
10. Robot coordination
11. Robotic agent languages and middleware for robot systems

* Special Track on Virtual Agents (Chair: Stefan Kopp) *

Virtual agents are embodied agents in interactive virtual or physical environments
that emulate human-like behavior. We encourage papers on the design,
implementation, and evaluation of virtual agents as well as challenging
applications featuring them. The goal is to provide an opportunity for interaction
and cross-fertilization between the AAMAS community and researchers working on
virtual agents and to strengthen links between the two communities.

Keywords for Virtual Agents Track:

1. Modeling cognition and socio-cultural behavior
2. Conversational agents
3. Verbal and non-verbal expression
4. Affect and personality
5. Multimodal agent interaction
6. Computational models of narrative
7. Pedagogical, companion, and coaching agents
8. Culturally-aware agents
9. Virtual character modeling and animation in games, education, training, and
virtual environments
10. Empirical studies

* Special Track on Innovative Applications (Chairs: Klaus Fischer& Alex Rogers) *

The Innovative Applications Track is a continuation of the tradition started by
the Industry Track in past years. Due to the growing maturity of the field there
are now agent-based applications in widespread use across many domains,
responsible for the generation of significant revenues, or the saving of major
costs, or for supporting important public policy and business strategy
decision-making. This special track provides the ideal forum to present and
discuss your work: to inform and inspire the largest international gathering of
agent technology researchers and practitioners with presentations and
demonstrations of your compelling applications, agent system deployment
experiences, and new business ideas. The goal is to promote the fostering of
mutually beneficial relationships between members of the AAMAS community who are
engaged in foundational scientific research and those who are working to make
autonomous agents and multi-agent systems a commercial or public policy
reality. Due to the special review process for the Innovative Applications track,
papers accepted in this track may be designated in the proceedings as belonging to
this track.

For submissions to the special track on innovative applications, authors are
particularly encouraged to address the following questions: What is the rationale
for using agent-based technology in this application domain, as opposed to other
approaches? If you have deployed your technology, what insights have you gained
from the experience? For instance, what lessons do you have for anyone pitching,
designing, implementing, deploying, using, or evaluating similar agent systems or
working in similar domains? What improvements or external factors (such as
technology standards) might facilitate wider-spread adoption of your technology?
What improvements in fundamental agent technology might improve your application,
or enable it to be adopted more broadly, or support its better use?

Keywords for Innovative Applications Track:

1. Telecommunications and media
2. Energy and emissions
3. Bio-technology and health care
4. Financial markets
5. Manufacturing and logistics
6. Transportation and telematics
7. Ambient intelligence
8. Surveillance and security
9. Aerospace and defense
10. Business strategy and marketing
11. e-Government and e-Democracy
12. Public policy and Economics
13. Simulation
14. Implementation lessons
15. Business cases for MAS

--
Daniele Nardi

Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
"Sapienza" Università di Roma
Via Ariosto 25, 00185 ROMA, Italy

tel. +39-06-77274113, fax +39-06-77274106
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~nardi
email: daniele.nardi@dis.uniroma1.it

AAMAS 2012

2011-08-23T08:26:00.000-07:00

AAMAS 2012: Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

IBM unveils cognitive computing chips, combining digital ‘neurons’ and ‘synapses’ | KurzweilAI

2011-08-19T15:45:00.000-07:00

IBM unveils cognitive computing chips, combining digital ‘neurons’ and ‘synapses’ | KurzweilAI

The 6th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots

2011-08-19T15:41:00.001-07:00

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Call for Papers

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The 6th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots
http://www.humanoidsoccer.org/ws11
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11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Bled, Slovenia, October 26th 2011
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Motivation and Objectives

Humanoid soccer has seen a lot of progress in recent years, e.g.,
with the introduction of a bipedal standard platform robot (Nao),
soccer games for larger robots (TeenSize), and the introduction
of competitions for simulated humanoid robots (3D Simulation).
The ultimate goal of Humanoid Soccer Robotics is to develop a
team of "humanoid soccer players" – i.e. robots with human-like
motion, intelligence, and skills in playing soccer. This
initiative poses a unique set of challenges to robotics, AI, and
many other fields.
The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from the
RoboCup and FIRA communities, as well as other researchers
interested in the subject.

Submissions

We solicit paper submissions, optionally accompanied by a video.
Papers should be up to 6 pages in length, formatted according to
IEEE conference layout (two-column). All contributed workshop
presentations are subject to a peer review process.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Design of humanoid soccer robots
* Bipedal locomotion
* Generation of complex motions
* Control architectures
* Motion planning for soccer
* Perception for soccer robots
* Team coordination
* Skill and strategy learning
* 3D simulation of humanoid robots

Important Dates

* Paper submission: September 18th, 2011
* Acceptance notification: October 9th, 2011
* Final paper due: October 19th, 2011
* Workshop: October 26th, 2011

Organizers

Sven Behnke, University of Bonn, Germany
Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Thomas Röfer, DFKI Bremen, Germany

Workshop Website With Detailed Information

http://www.humanoidsoccer.org/ws11

Fifteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics

2011-08-19T15:40:00.001-07:00

AISTATS*2012 Call for Papers
Fifteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
April 21-23, 2012, La Palma, Canary Islands

http://www.aistats.org

AISTATS is an interdisciplinary gathering of researchers at the
intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, machine
learning, statistics, and related areas. Since its inception in 1985,
the primary goal of AISTATS has been to broaden research in these
fields by promoting the exchange of ideas among them. We encourage the
submission of all papers which are in keeping with this objective at
http://www.aistats.org.

In the 2012 edition of AISTATS we are particularly encouraging
submissions with a focus on scientific data sets. Examples could
include astronomical data, biological data etc. These submissions have
been assigned the keywords "scientific data analysis".

The Conference Programme will include invited talks, contributed talks,
and posters. Contributed talks and posters will be selected via a
rigorous double-blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be
published in the AISTATS Conference Proceedings to be published as a
volume of JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings.

This year's invited talks will be given by Sir David Cox (Oxford),
Gábor Lugosi (Pompeu Fabra) and Rien van de Weygaert (Groningen).

Some time at the conference will be set aside for "breaking news"
posters submitted on the basis of a one-page abstract. These are
reports on ongoing or unpublished projects, projects already published
elsewhere, partially developed ideas, negative results etc, and are
meant as informal forums to encourage discussion. The review process
of these posters will be very light-touch but presentation of these at
the Conference will not lead to publication in the Proceedings.

Solicited topics include, but are not limited to:

* Bayesian models and estimation (graphical models, causality,
Gaussian processes, approximate inference, ...)
* Non-Bayesian models and estimation (kernel methods, nonparametric
models, statistical and computational learning theory, manifolds and
embedding, sparsity and compressed sensing, ...)
* Classification, regression, density estimation, unsupervised and
semi-supervised learning, clustering, topic models, ...
* Structured prediction, relational learning, logic and probability
* Reinforcement learning, planning, control
* Game theory, no-regret learning, multi-agent systems
* Algorithms and architectures for high-performance computation in AI
and statistics
* Software for and applications of AI and statistics

For a more detailed list of keywords, see http://www.aistats.org/keywords.php.

Submission Requirements

Electronic submission of papers is required. Papers may be up to 8
double-column pages in length, excluding references; formatting and
submission information will be made available on the conference
website at aistats.org/submit.php.

Submissions will be considered if they are received by 23:59, October
14th, 2011, UTC. See the conference website for additional important
dates: http://www.aistats.org/dates.php.

All accepted papers will be presented at the Conference either as
contributed talks or as posters, and will be published in the AISTATS
Conference Proceedings. Papers for talks and posters will be treated
equally in publication.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been previously published in a
journal or in the proceedings of a conference, and should not be under
consideration for publication at another conference at any point
during the AISTATS review process. It is acceptable to have a
substantially extended version of the submitted paper under
consideration simultaneously for journal publication, so long as the
journal version's planned publication date is in 2012 or later, the
journal submission does not interfere with AISTATS's right to publish
the paper, and the situation is clearly described at the time of
AISTATS submission. Please describe the situation in the appropriate
box on the submission page (and do not include author information in
the submission itself, to avoid accidental unblinding).

Programme Chairs:
Mark Girolami, University College London
Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield

General Chair:
Bernhard Schölkopf, Max Planck Institute, Tübingen

Local Arrangements Chair:
Fernando Perez Cruz, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Fundraising Chair:
Suvrit Sra, Max Planck Institute, Tübingen

Publicity Chair:
Kun Zhang, Max Planck Institute, Tübingen

Publications Chair:
Nicolò Fusi, University of Sheffield

Senior Program Committee:
Ryan P. Adams, Harvard University
Edo Airoldi, Harvard University
Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal
Matthew Blaschko, University of Oxford
David Blei, Princeton University
Guillaume Bouchard, Xerox Research Centre Europe
Nicolas Chopin, CREST
Koby Crammer, Technion University
Arnaud Doucet, University of Oxford
Nial Friel, University College, Dublin
Matthias Hein, Saarland University
Katherine Heller, MIT
Dirk Husmeier, Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland
Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University
Brendan Murphy, University College, Dublin
Christian Robert, Université de Paris, Dauphine
Dan Roy, University of Cambridge
Ricardo Silva, University College, London
Oliver Stegle, Max Planck Institute, Tübingen
Charles Sutton, University of Edinburgh
Bill Triggs, CNRS
Aki Vehtari, Aalto University
Jean-Phillipe Vert, Mines ParisTech
Hao Helen Zhang, North Carolina State University
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Professor M.A. Girolami FRSE FIET
Chair of Statistics
EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow
Department of Statistical Science
University College London
1-19 Torrington Place
London, WC1E 7HB

Tel : +44 (0)20 7679 1861
Fax: +44 (0)20 3108 3105

email: girolami@stats.ucl.ac.uk
web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/people/markgirolami
web: http://www.csml.ucl.ac.uk/
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Twelfth International Symposium on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and MATHEMATICS

2011-08-19T15:38:00.001-07:00

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Twelfth International Symposium on
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and MATHEMATICS
ISAIM 2012
http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2012/
January 9-11, 2012
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, September 23, 2011

The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM) is a biennial meeting that fosters interactions between mathematics, theoretical computer science, and artificial intelligence. This is the twelfth Symposium in the series, which is sponsored by Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. We seek submissions of recent results with a particular emphasis on the foundations of AI and mathematical methods used in AI. Papers describing applications are also encouraged, but the focus should be on principled lessons learned from the development of the application. Traditionally, the Symposium attracts participants from a variety of disciplines, thereby providing a unique forum for scientific exchange. The three-day Symposium includes invited speakers, presentations of technical papers, and special topic sessions.

SPECIAL TOPIC INVITED SESSIONS:

o Computational Social Choice
-Organized by Judy Goldsmith, University of Kentucky

o Boolean and pseudo-Boolean Functions
-Organized by Endre Boros, Rutgers University, and Yves Crama, University of Liège

o Causal Learning from Complex Data Structures
-Organized by David Danks, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition; and Carnegie Mellon University

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Paper submission will be electronic via the submission link to ConfMaster on the Paper Submission page of the Symposium website (/www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2012/). Papers must be formatted in accordance with the guidelines given there.

The submission deadline is Friday, September 23, 2011 (11:59PM PDT). Papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by Friday, October 28, 2012. Final versions of accepted papers, for inclusion in the conference electronic proceedings, are due by Monday, December 5, 2011.

Work that has already been published as of the ISAIM submission deadline should not be submitted to ISAIM unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. However, the ISAIM web site proceedings are not archival, so papers submitted to ISAIM can be under review at the time of submission and can be submitted elsewhere after ISAIM.

Authors of a selected set of papers from the Symposium will be invited to submit full versions of their papers for inclusion in a special volume of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, published by Springer. Those invited submissions will be subject to refereeing at the usual standards of the journal, and authors will receive more details with the acceptance notice. Papers must of course be new and unpublished to be considered for the special volume.

Any questions regarding paper submission should be sent to the program committee chair at the email address .

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: Friday, September 23, 2011
Notification: Friday, October 28, 2011
Final version due: Monday, December 5, 2011
Workshop: January 9-11, 2012, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

ORGANIZERS:

o General Chair: Martin Charles Golumbic, University of Haifa
o Conference Chair: Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University
o Program Committee Chair: Robert H. (Bob) Sloan, University of Illinois at Chicago
o Publicity Chair: Dimitrios I. Diochnos, University of Illinois at Chicago

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Stéphane Airiau University of Amsterdam
Eyal Amir University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
Endre Boros Rutgers University
Emma Brunskill University of California Berkeley
Arthur Choi University of California Los Angeles
Berthe Choueiry University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Yves Crama University of Liège
Marek Druzdzel University of Pittsburgh
Edith Elkind Nanyang Technological University
Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz University of Illinois at Chicago
Vibhav Gogate University of Washington
Lisa Hellerstein Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Roni Khardon Tufts University
Richard Korf University of California Los Angeles
Gerhard Lakemeyer Aachen University of Technology
Hector Levesque University of Toronto
Vladimir Lifschitz University of Texas at Austin
Victor Marek University of Kentucky
Loizos Michael Open University of Cyprus
Maurice Pagnucco University of New South Wales
Patrice Perny Pierre et Marie Curie University
Marek Petrik IBM Research
Steven Prestwich Cork Constraint Computation Centre
Francesca Rossi University of Padova
Wheeler Ruml University of New Hampshire
Ashish Sabharwal IBM Research
Robert Schapire Princeton University
Linda Sellie Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Meinolf Sellmann Brown University
Bart Selman Cornell University
Robert H. Sloan University of Illinois at Chicago
Balázs Szörényi University of Szeged
Miroslaw (Mirek) Truszczynski University of Kentucky
Miroslav Velev Aries Design Automation
Neil Yorke-Smith American University of Beirut
Rong Zhou PARC
Shlomo Zilberstein University of Massachusetts Amherst

Send inquiries and requests to isaim2012 at cs DOT uic DOT edu.
Visit http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2012/.
Join isaim@googlegroups.com to receive announcements related to ISAIM.

AI Hall of fame ...

2011-08-17T17:20:00.000-07:00

Computing Now | August 2011 | What's New | AI’s Hall of Fame

AIIDE 2011 StarCraft AI Tournament - In Progress - YouTube

2011-08-17T08:56:00.000-07:00

AIIDE 2011 StarCraft AI Tournament - In Progress - YouTube

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ICRA 2017 due Sept20

2011-08-17T08:20:00.001-07:00

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ICRA 2017 due Sept20

IEEE-RAS Vice President Nikos Papanikolopoulos and the -RAS Conference
Activities Board are seeking proposals to host the 2017 IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, to be held in
Asia or Australia.

Minimum proposal information required includes the following:

--Location and plan –venue description, accessibility
--Proposed organizers with write-ups about their backgrounds and
interactions with the Robotics and Automation Society
--Technical Program discussion, in particular new events or
changes in organization of technical program
--Budget Plan
--Milestones to be met
--Statement of willingness to sign a ‘contract’ with
responsibilities of organizers

The IEEE provides many resources for conference organizers. Before
submitting their proposals candidates are encouraged to visit the
following site and review the information:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/organizers/index.html

Proposals must be submitted prior to September 20 to Nikos
Papanikolopoulos, npapas@mail.cs.umn.edu. Proposals will be reviewed by
the RAS Conference Board at their September meeting in San Francisco and
two finalists will be chosen to be submitted to the AdCom in May 2012.

Call For Papers for the International Journal of Social Robotics Special Issue on Robot Learning from Demonstration

2011-08-16T11:52:00.000-07:00

Call For Papers for the International Journal of Social Robotics

Special Issue on Robot Learning from Demonstration

The International Journal of Social Robotics invites papers for a special issue on robot learning from demonstration.

Research in learning from demonstration seeks to enable robots to learn from human instruction, harnessing human expertise to learn tasks and customizing behavior to match human preferences. Demonstration learning approaches assume little or no robotics knowledge on behalf of the human user, enabling a lay human to teach a robot what to do through demonstration instead of by programming.

This special issue will focus on the current advances in the areas of robot learning from demonstration and imitation learning, including demonstration techniques, policy learning methods, evaluation metrics and impact on human-robot interaction.

Papers are solicited on all areas directly related to these topics, including but not limited to:

Learning from human demonstration
Imitation learning
Interaction interfaces for robots learning from humans
Active learning in social settings
Human behavior prediction
Social learning mechanisms
Use of social cues in interactive learning
Models of human and animal imitation learning as applied to robots

Papers must contain high-quality original contributions and be prepared in accordance with IJSR guidelines. Authors who intend to submit a manuscript are encouraged to contact the guest editors as soon as possible in order to ensure that the planned submission falls within the aims and scope of the special issue. All papers will be reviewed following the regular reviewing procedure of the Journal.

Guest Editors
Sonia Chernova, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (soniac@cs.wpi.edu)
Andrea Thomaz, Georgia Institute of Technology (athomaz@cc.gatech.edu)

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: November 1, 2011
Notification to authors: February 1, 2012
Submission of revised papers: April 1, 2012
Final acceptance: June 1, 2012

Online Submission
http://www.editorialmanager.com/soro/

About the Journal
http://www.springer.com/engineering/robotics/journal/12369

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Andrea Thomaz
Asst. Professor, Interactive Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~athomaz
http://www.SoWheresMyRobot.com

Neural Networks Special Issue: Autonomous Learning

2011-08-11T12:25:00.001-07:00

Neural Networks Special Issue: Autonomous Learning

Autonomous learning is a very broad term and includes many different kinds of learning. Fundamental to all of them is some kind of a learning algorithm. Whatever the kind of learning, we generally have not been able to deploy the learning systems on a very wide scale, although there certainly are exceptions.

One of the biggest challenges to wider deployment of existing learning systems comes from algorithmic control. Most of the current learning algorithms require parameters to be set individually for almost every problem to be solved. The limitations of the current learning systems, compared to biological ones, was pointed out in a 2007 National Science Foundation (USA) report ((). Here’s a part of the summary of that report:

“Biological learners have the ability to learn autonomously, in an ever changing and uncertain world. This property includes the ability to generate their own supervision, select the most informative training samples, produce their own loss function, and evaluate their own performance. More importantly, it appears that biological learners can effectively produce appropriate internal representations for composable percepts -- a kind of organizational scaffold - - as part of the learning process. By contrast, virtually all current approaches to machine learning typically require a human supervisor to design the learning architecture, select the training examples, design the form of the representation of the training examples, choose the learning algorithm, set the learning parameters, decide when to stop learning, and choose the way in which the performance of the learning algorithm is evaluated. This strong dependence on human supervision is greatly retarding the development and ubiquitous deployment autonomous artificial learning systems.”

This special issue of Neural Networks will be on the topic of autonomous learning, focusing mainly on automation of learning methods that can avoid the kinds of dependencies highlighted in the NSF report. We invite original and unpublished research contributions on algorithms for any type of learning problem.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS:

Topics of interest include – but are not limited to:

* Unsupervised learning systems;

* Autonomous learning of reasoning;

* Autonomous learning of motor control;

* Autonomous control systems and free will;

* Autonomous robotic systems;

* Autonomy as based on internal reward and value systems and their learning and development;

* Autonomous systems and the human situation

* Emergent models of perception, cognition and action

* Emergent cognitive architectures
* Developmental and embodied models of learning

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Prospective authors should visit http://ees.elsevier.com/neunet/ for information on paper submission. On the first page of the manuscript as well as on the cover letter, indicate clearly that the manuscript is submitted to the Neural Networks Special Issue: Autonomous Learning. Manuscripts will be peer reviewed using Neural Networks guidelines.

Manuscript submission due: January 1, 2012

First review completed: April 1, 2012

Revised manuscript due: June 1, 2012

Second review completed, final decisions to authors: July 1, 2012

Final manuscript due: August 1, 2012

Guest editors:

Asim Roy, Arizona State University, USA (asim.roy@asu.edu) (Lead guest editor)

John Taylor, King’s College London, UK (john.g.taylor@kcl.ac.uk )

Bruno Apolloni, University of Milan, Italy (apolloni@dsi.unimi.it )

Leonid Perlovsky, Harvard University and The Air Force Research Laboratory, USA (leonid@seas.harvard.edu )

Ali Minai, University of Cincinnati, USA (minaiaa@gmail.com)

Workshop for Women in Machine Learning

2011-08-10T14:21:00.001-07:00

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Workshop for Women in Machine Learning
Co-located with NIPS, Granada, Spain
December 12, 2011
http://www.wimlworkshop.org

INTRODUCTION

Machine learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer
science research. Search engines, face recognition, DNA sequence
analysis, speech and handwriting recognition, credit card fraud
detection, premature baby monitoring and autonomous locomotion are
just some of the applications in which machine learning is routinely
used.

In spite of the wide reach of machine learning and the variety of
theory and applications it covers, the percentage of female
researchers is lower than in many other areas of computer science.
This day-long workshop gives female faculty, research scientists, and
graduate students in the machine learning community an opportunity to
meet, exchange ideas and learn from each other.

A limited number of scholarships will be available for students to
offset travel costs.

Workshop registration is free.

WORKSHOP FORMAT

The workshop will consist of talks by established researchers, talks
and poster sessions for graduate students to showcase their research,
and panel discussions to address current research trends and career
choices in machine learning.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

We strongly encourage female students and post-docs in all areas of
machine learning to submit an abstract (500 words or less) describing
either new or previously published research. Authors of accepted
abstracts will be asked to present their research at the workshop.

Abstracts should be submitted via the workshop website:
http://www.wimlworkshop.org

IMPORTANT DATES

* September 15, 2011 - Abstract Submission Deadline
* October 15, 2011 - Notification of Acceptance
* November 15, 2011 - Registration Deadline
* December 12, 2011 - WiML Workshop

WiML 2011 Organizers
Nevena Lazic (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
Monica Babes-Vroman (Rutgers University)
Rongjing Xiang (Purdue University)
Faculty Advisor: Hanna Wallach (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

The European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD)

2011-08-05T08:36:00.001-07:00

Call for Participation

ECML/PKDD-2011
Athens, Greece, September 5-9, 2011
http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/
generalchairs@ecmlpkdd2011.org
pcchairs@ecmlpkdd2011.org

EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: JULY 29th
NORMAL REGISTRATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 28th
REGISTRATION AND HOTEL ACCOMMODATION:
http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/registration.php

The European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the European
Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in
Databases (PKDD) will be held co-located in ATHENS, GREECE, September
5-9, 2011.

VENUE: The conference will be held at the Athens Royal Olympic Hotel,
in the center of the town of Athens. Athens Royal Olympic Hotel lays
just in front of the famous Temple of Zeus and the National Gardens.
It is underneath the Acropolis and only 2 minutes walk to the new
Athens Acropolis Museum. Blocks of rooms have been reserved at various
hotels, most at a walking distance from the conference site. Please
make your registration and hotel arrangements as early as possible:
hotel booking is available together with the online registration
procedure.

TRAVEL INFO: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/travelInfo.php

REGISTRATION:

The registration fees are quite attractive

1)REGULAR:
365 Euro **until July 29**,
450 Euro **July 30-August 28**,
550 Euro **later**

2)STUDENT:
290 Euro **until July 29**,
360 Euro **July 30-August 28**,
440 Euro **later**

3)STUDENT DISCOUNT:
195 Euro **until July 29**,
265 Euro **July 30-August 28**
345 Euro **later**

REGULAR AND STUDENT REGISTRATION FEES INCLUDE: participation to
technical program (Monday-Friday), lunch breaks (Tuesday-Thursday),
free ticket to the welcome reception (Monday), the banquet (Wednesday)
and the farewell party (Thursday)
STUDENT DISCOUNT REGISTRATION FEES INCLUDE: participation to technical
program (Monday-Friday) and lunch breaks (Tuesday - Thursday)
EXTRA TICKETS FOR ACCOMPANYING PERSONS INCLUDE: welcome reception
(Monday), the banquet (Wednesday) and the farewell party (Thursday)

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

The ECML/PKDD MAIN PROGRAM starts with a plenary session in the
evening of Monday 5, and closes with another plenary session on Friday
9 September. A detailed schedule will be available soon.

There will be six KEYNOTE TALKS by distinguished scholars and
researchers in the area of Machine Learning and Data Mining:

- Rakesh Agrawal
Microsoft Search Labs, California, USA
http://rakesh.agrawal-family.com/

- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Center of Complex Networks Research, Northeastern University and
Department of Medicine, Harvard University
http://nd.edu/~alb/

- Christopher Bishop
Microsoft Research Labs, Cambridge, UK
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/

- Marco Gori
University of Siena, Italy
http://www.dii.unisi.it/~marco/

- Heikki Mannila
Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/mannila/

- Andrei Broder
Yahoo! Research
http://research.yahoo.com/Andrei_Broder

INVITED KEY NOTE TALKS ABSTRACTS: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/keynoteTalks.php

The program comprises 121 full papers, which have been accepted for
presentation in the technical sessions, but they will also be
exhibited collectively in a poster session on Tuesday evening. The
program also comprises a DEMO SESSION, where 11 selected demonstrators
exhibit innovative applications or successful experiences/prototypes
that show the integration of new Data Mining and Machine Learning
technologies.

ACCEPTED PAPERS AND DEMOS:
http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/acceptedPapers.php

There is a wide WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL program, consisting of eleven
workshops, the DISCOVERY CHALLENGE workshop, and seven tutorials, to
be held on Monday 5 and Friday 9 September.

WORKSHOPS: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/workshops.php
TUTORIALS: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/tutorials.php
DISCOVERY CHALLENGE: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/challenge.php

There are also two co-located events:
EWRL 2011: The 9th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning,
September 9 - 11, 2011 (http://ewrl.wordpress.com/)
NGDM 2011: The Next Generation Data Mining Summit on Ubiquitous
Knowledge Discovery for Energy Management in Smart Grids and
Intelligent Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Telematics, Sunday, 4th
September, 2011 (http://www.kd2u.org/NGDM11/)

VENUE and SOCIAL PROGRAMME

The ECML PKDD 2011 takes place in Athens Royal Olympic Hotel a five
star property in the center of Athens. It lays just in front of the
famous Temple of Zeus and the National Gardens. It is underneath the
Acropolis and only 2 minutes walk to the new Athens Acropolis Museum.
After its complete renovation that finished in 2009, the Royal Olympic
was transformed to an art hotel very elegantly decorated and more
important very well looked after in every detail. It is worth
mentioning the breathtaking views to the Acropolis and the famous
Temple of Zeus and the National Gardens. See details at:
http://ecmlpkdd2011.org/conferenceVenue.php

Apart from Acropolis, Athens offers a very rich collection of
monuments spanning its 3000 years long history accompanied by very
interesting museums. Nevertheless Athens is a just a 20mins tramway
ride away from the Athenian Riviera, a 40 km long coast. See more at:
http://www.breathtakingathens.com/.

Also Athens offers a wide variety of top quality cultural events in
the context of the International Athens Festival taking place in open
air ancient theaters as well. See more details at: http://www.greekfestival.gr/en/.

Finally, a rich Social program is prepared to bring the conference
delegates and their companions in contact with the virtues of Athens
(see: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/socialEvents.php).

Looking forward to meeting you in Athens!

ECML/PKDD General co-Chairs are:
Prof. A. Likas (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Prof. Y. Theodoridis (University of Piraeus, Greece)

ECML PKDD Program Committee chairs are:

Dr. T. Hofmann (Google Research)
Prof. Donato Malerba (University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy)
Prof. D. Gunopulos (University of Athens)
Prof. M. Vazirgiannis (Athens University of Economics and Business,
Greece)

IMPORTANT DATES:
First Early Registration Deadline July 29th, 2011
Second Early Registration Deadline August 28th, 2011
Conference Dates September 5-9, 2011
Workshops and Tutorials Dates September 5 and 9, 2011

TRAVEL GRANTS
The UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy (http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat)
offers financial support to offset some of the costs associated with
attending ECML PKDD 2011 for participants coming from "transition"
countries, which are nations other than USA, Canada, Western Europe,
New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. Preference is
given to student authors, and authors of accepted papers.

SPONSORS:
- Google
- Pascal 2
- Xerox
- Yahoo Lab
- COST/MOVE (Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects)
- FP7/MODAP (Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy)
- Rapid-I (report the future)
- Athena/IMIS (Institute for the Management of Information Systems)
- EETN (Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society)
- MDS Marathon Data Systems
- Transinsight
- SONY
- UNESCO Privacy Chair
- Springer-Verlag
- Universita degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"
- Athens University of Economics and Business
- University of Ioannina
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- University of Piraeus

5th International Conference on Automation, Robots and Applications (ICARA 2011)

2011-08-05T08:34:00.001-07:00

Call for Papers

Information on the call for papers is available in PDF (276kb) format.

School of Engineering and Advanced Technology (SEAT), Massey University, is pleased to announce that the 5th International Conference on Automation, Robots and Applications (ICARA 2011) will be held in Wellington, New Zealand, from 6th to 8th December, 2011.

ICARA 2011 is intended to provide a stimulating forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in the area of automation and robotics. ICARA 2011 will include keynote addresses by eminent scientists as well as special, regular and poster sessions. All papers will be peer reviewed on the basis of an extended manuscript and acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. Topics will include, but are not limited to:

Networked and Distributed Intelligent Control
Real Time Supervisory Control
Adaptive Control Systems
Biorobotics, Biomechatronics
Artificial Neural Networks in Biorobotics
Artificial Intelligence in Biosystems
Embedded Systems
Autonomous Systems
Virtual Systems
Multi-Agent Collaborative Systems (MACS)
Cooperative Robotics
Entertainment Robotics
Rescue Robotics
Field Robotics
Service Robotics
Biped and Humanoid Robots
Human-Machine Interfaces and Interaction
Factory and Home Automation

Simulation and Modelling of Robotic Systems
Novel Robotic Locomotion
Decision Making and Information Retrieval
Educational Technology
Mechatronics/robotics Education
Fuzzy Systems, Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
Rough Sets, Data Mining
Navigation, Mapping and Path Planning
Genetic Algorithm (GA)
Evolutionary Computation (EC) and Algorithms
Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms
DNA Computing for Autonomous Agents
Vision Systems for Automation and Robotics
Robotics and Industrial Monitoring
Smart Sensors and Sensor Fusion
Implantable Sensors for Robotic Applications
Sensors for Factory and Home Automation
Instrumentation for Robotics and Automation

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit the Review Manuscripts (4 to 6 pages including references) of their technical paper, for oral or poster presentation. Papers in PDF format may be uploaded via the web using EDAS paper management system at www.edas.info. The MS Word templates are available. Final manuscripts will be limited to six (6) A4 size pages.
The conference proceedings will be published on CD-ROM and included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Special Sessions

ICARA solicits special session proposals. The special sessions are intended to stimulate in-depth discussions on cutting edge topics relevant to the conference theme. The session organizers will coordinate the review process for their session papers. The conference proceedings will include all papers from the special sessions.

Please submit your proposal to ICARA2011@massey.ac.nz

Review Manuscript Submission

Acceptance Notification

Final Manuscript Submission

Advance Registration

1 August 2011 12 August

9 September 2011

23 September 2011

7 October 2011

For further details, please contact:

G. Sen Gupta
Serge Demidenko

2012 International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM2012)

2011-07-12T11:15:00.001-07:00

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2012 International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Applications and Methods (ICPRAM2012)

February 6-8, 2012
Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
http://www.icpram.org
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ICPRAM (1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Applications and Methods - http://www.icpram.org/) has an open call
for papers, whose deadline is set for July 26, 2011. We hope you can
participate in this conference by submitting a paper reflecting your
current research in any of the following tracks:

- Theory and Methods
- Applications

ICPRAM 2012 will be held in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal next year, on
February 6-8, 2012.

The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems and
Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) in
cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI) and Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and
Computational Learning (PASCAL2), and technically co-sponsored by IEEE
Signal Processing Society, Machine Learning for Signal Processing
(MLSP) Technical Committee of IEEE, AERFAI (Asociación Espanola de
Reconocimiento de Formas y Analisis de Imagenes) and APRP (Associacao
Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padroes). INSTICC is member of the
Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC).

ICPRAM would like to become a major point of contact between
researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Pattern
Recognition, both from theoretical and application perspectives.
Contributions describing applications of Pattern Recognition
techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research,
experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights that
advance Pattern Recognition methods are especially encouraged.

We also would like to highlight the possibility to submit to the
following Special Sessions:

- Algebraic Geometry in Machine Learning

- Shape Analysis and Deformable Modeling

- Machine Learning for Sequences

- Pattern Recognition Applications in Remotely Sensed Hyperspectral
Image Analysis

- High-Dimensional Inference from Limited Data: Sparsity, Parsimony
and Adaptivity

- Interactive and Adaptive Techniques for Machine Learning,
Recognition and Perception

Workshops and further special sessions are also invited, with the
condition that the topics do not overlap with the existing ones. If
you wish to propose a workshop or a special session, for example based
on the results of a specific research project, please contact the
secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit
from logistics support and other types of support, including
secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a
valid idea.

ICPRAM 2012 will be held in conjunction with ICAART 2012 (http://
www.icaart.org/home.asp) and ICORES (http://www.icores.org) in
Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal next year, on February 6-8, 2012.
Registration to ICPRAM will enable free access to the ICAART and
ICORES conferences (as a non-speaker).

IMPORTANT DATES:
Regular Paper Submission: July 26, 2011
Authors Notification (regular papers): October 6, 2011
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 26, 2011

CONFERENCE CHAIR:
Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
J. Salvador Sanchez, Jaume I University, Spain
Pedro Latorre Carmona, Jaume I University, Spain

KEYNOTES SPEAKERS:
Ludmila Kuncheva, Bangor University, U.K.
Tiberio Caetano, NICTA, Australia
Francis Bach, INRIA, France
Jose C. Principe, University of Florida, U.S.A.
Joachim M. Buhmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Please check the program committee members at http://www.icpram.org/program_committee.asp

CONFERENCE TRACKS:
TRACK 1: THEORY AND METHODS
- Exact and Approximate Inference
- Density Estimation
- Bayesian Models
- Gaussian Processes
- Model Selection
- Graphical and Graph-based Models
- Missing Data
- Ensemble Methods
- Neural Networks
- Kernel Methods
- Large Margin Methods
- Classification
- Regression
- Sparsity
- Feature Selection and Extraction
- Spectral Methods
- Embedding and Manifold Learning
- Similarity and Distance Learning
- Matrix Factorization
- Clustering
- ICA, PCA, CCA and other Linear Models
- Fuzzy Logic
- Active Learning
- Cost-sensitive Learning
- Incremental Learning
- On-line Learning
- Structured Learning
- Multi-agent Learning
- Multi-instance Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Instance-based Learning
- Knowledge Acquisition and Representation
- Meta Learning
- Multi-strategy Learning
- Case-based Reasoning
- Inductive Learning
- Computational Learning Theory
- Cooperative Learning
- Evolutionary Computation
- Information Retrieval and Learning
- Hybrid Learning Algorithms
- Planning and Learning
- Convex Optimization
- Stochastic Methods
- Combinatorial Optimization

TRACK 2: APPLICATIONS
- Natural Language Processing
- Information Retrieval
- Ranking
- Web Applications
- Economics, Business and Forecasting Applications
- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Audio and Speech Processing
- Signal Processing
- Image Understanding
- Sensors and Early Vision
- Motion and Tracking
- Image-based Modelling
- Shape Representation
- Object Recognition
- Video Analysis
- Medical Imaging
- Learning and Adaptive Control
- Perception
- Learning in Process Automation
- Learning of Action Patterns
- Virtual Environments
- Robotics

Call for Papers for NISS / ICMIA / NASNIT

2011-07-07T20:43:00.000-07:00

Call for Papers for NISS / ICMIA / NASNIT

The 5th International Conference on New Trends in Information
and Service Science (NISS)
http://www.humanpub.org/niss/

The 3rd International Conference on Data Mining and Intelligent
Information Technology Applications (ICMIA)
http://www.humanpub.org/icmia/

The 16th North-East Asia Symposium on Nano, Information Technology
and Reliability (NASNIT)
http://www.seita.or.kr/nasnit

October 24-26, 2011
Macao, Venetian

Sponsored and Organized by:
IEEE / IEEE Macau Section / IEEE Korea Council / University of Macau / AICIT

Important Dates
Date of Main Conference: October 24 - 26, 2011
Paper Submission: June 13 - July 15, 2011
Paper Review: August 1 - 24, 2011
Review Results (Acceptance/Reject) Notification: August 1 - 26, 2011
Registration/Final Camera-ready Submission: August 8 - 31, 2011

Important Dates (for Invited Sessions/ Workshops: To Organizers)
Date of Main Conference: October 24 - 26, 2011
Paper Submission: June 13 - July 15, 2011
Paper Review: August 1 - 24, 2011
Review Results (Acceptance/Reject) Notification: August 1 - 26, 2011
Registration/Final Camera-ready Submission: August 8 - 31, 2011

Call for Papers
NISS2011, ICMIAS2011 and NASNIT2011 will be a platform for the two research directions to converge. It aims to provide an intellectual forum for researchers in academia, and practitioners and engineers from IT industries to present their latest research findings and to identify future challenges in this novel combination of research areas.

• NISS2011 Call for Papers http://www.humanpub.org/niss/cfp.html
• ICMIAS2011 Call for Papers http://www.humanpub.org/icmia/cfp.html
• NASNIT2011 Call for Papers http://www.seita.or.kr/nasnit/cfp.html

Call for Workshop / Invited Session
Workshops & Invited Sessions of NISS2011, ICMIAS2011 and NASNIT2011 will provide the participants with opportunities to discuss and explore areas related to the Theory, Development, Applications, Experiences and Evaluation of Interaction Sciences with fellow students, researchers and practitioners. Workshops and Invited Sessions may concern any topic within the conference scope.

About AICIT Conferences
1. Peer Reviewed International Conferences
AICIT Conferences are peer reviewed international conferences by more than 400 scientific members from more than 50 countries. Please see the conference websites which you have interest in. You can find the review process and scientific members easily.

2. More than 400 Scientific Members from more than 50 countries
AICIT respects all researchers from scholars in the developing countries to scholars in the developed countries. You can find more than 400 scientific members from more than 50 countries as AICIT is unbiased organization. AICIT always welcome new scientific members from all over the world.

If you need further information, please feel free to contact us. We will do the best to make the conference a great success. We are looking forward to seeing you at the conference.

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Special Issue on "Machine and Robotic Networking" IEEE Network Magazine

2011-07-04T16:13:00.001-07:00

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Call for Papers

Special Issue on "Machine and Robotic Networking"

IEEE Network Magazine

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The advances in communication networking technologies have been very
successful in academia, industry and consumer markets. “Being connected”
becomes an essential part of our daily life. Recently, we have been also
observing that the communication distance between transmitters and receivers
shrinks in many commercial applications. This includes sensor/RFID networks,
WiFi and near field communication (NFC) devices. Such shortened distance is
mostly caused by the high volume of data demand of users. One other reason
is that the modern communications is not any more for human-to-human (H2H)
information exchange only but also for machine-to-machine (M2M) or
machine-to-human (M2H). The inter-machine distance will be gradually
decreasing in many upcoming applications. This trend adds complexity to the
communication protocols with very high node density and unpredictable
interference in particular in wireless networks.

The machine in M2M or M2H refers to various devices from remote metering
modules to vehicles or small networked robots with communication functions
embedded. M2M applications and use cases currently under consideration by
ETSI, 3GPP, 3GPP2 and IEEE are mainly focused on stationary nodes (machines)
or at least control of node mobility is out of scope of M2M applications.
However, the controllable node mobility willconstitute a core part of M2M
communications. Robotic networks will belong to this class of M2M, where the
position of nodes can be changed to meet the needs of M2M applications.

Independently, in the automatic control and robotics community, there has
been special interest in connecting multiple robots for effectively
achieving the common mission of a group of autonomous robots. This area is
known as networked robotics. The main background of this approach is that
connecting robots with less intelligence would be more beneficial than a
single isolated robot with full intelligence. In particular, there have been
a group of researchers focusing on the behaviours of small animals to mimic
their grouping patterns such as group navigation and communications.

This special issue is dedicated to fundamentals and applications in the
machine and robotic networks. The main emphasis is to introduce and to open
new research horizon to the networking researchers. Those who are currently
investigating protocols for inter-machine data exchange or designing a group
of networked machines (including robots) are potential authors for this
special issue. The comprehensive survey and forecasting of this
inter-disciplinary area with deep insight on research challenges and
business opportunities are also seriously considered.

The special issue encourages authors to submit their papers on the specific
areas, which are not strictly limited to the followings, though:

· Networking protocol design for machine and robotic networks

· Distributed algorithm design for machine and robotic networks

· Resource management for machine and robotic networks

· Networked robots with special emphasis on networking and
distributed computing

· Capacity issues in machine and robotic networks

· Mobility issues in machine and robotic networks

· Cognitive machine and robotic networks

· Bio-inspired networking in robotics

· Design and application issues in M2M and networked robots

· Business models and use cases for M2M and networked robots

The interested authors are expected to submit their papers confirming to the
guidelines of*IEEENetwork*,
http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html according to the
following schedule:

All paper processing will be through an online system, which will be
announced later. In the mean time, you may contact the guest editors.

· Paper submissions: October 15, 2011

· Notifications to authors: January 15, 2012

· Final manuscripts: March 1, 2012

· Publication of special issue: May 2012

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*Guest Editors*

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Seong-Lyun Kim

Yonsei University, Korea

slkim@yonsei.ac.kr

Dapeng Oliver Wu

University of Florida, USA

wu@ece.ufl.edu

Klaus Schilling

Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany

schi@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de

IEEE ROBIO 2011 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics

2011-07-04T16:11:00.001-07:00

IEEE ROBIO 2011
2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics
December 7-11, 2011, Phuket, Thailand

www.ieee-robio.org/2011/

Submission of original PDF full papers and video clips
deadline: Jul. 21, 2011

The IEEE ROBIO 2011 conference will take place from December 7 to 11,
2011 in Phuket, Thailand. The theme of ROBIO 2011 is “New Challenges of
Robotics and Biomimetics”, reflecting the ever growing interests in
research, development and applications in the dynamic and exciting areas
of robotics and biomimetics. The host city Phuket island, Asia’s most
popular beach destination in South Thailand, will provide ROBIO 2011
attendees spectacular scenery, stunning tropical sunsets and warm blue
sea. ROBIO 2011 promises to be a great event for researchers and
scholars in robotics and biomimetics areas, with attractive technical
and social programs. The ROBIO 2011 conference invites high quality
original research and development papers in all areas related to
robotics, biomimetics and related topics.

Contributed Papers: Original papers are solicited in all related areas
of robot¬ics and biomimetics. Full papers must be submitted in PDF
format prepared trictly following the IEEE PDF Requirements for Creating
PDF Documents for the IEEE Xplore. For detailed format information,
please visit the conference website. All accepted papers will be indexed
by EI and included in IEEE Xplore.

Tutorials & Workshops: Proposals for tutorials and workshops addressing
new topics in robotics and biomimetics are invited for submission to the
T/W chair.

Tour Packages: Tourist packages to Phuket attractions will be available.

Important Dates:
Jul. 21, 2011 Submission of original PDF full papers and video clips
Jul. 21, 2011 Submission of proposals for tutorials and workshops
Oct. 1, 2011 Notification of paper, video clip and T/W acceptance
Oct. 20, 2011 Submission of final IEEE PDF papers and video clips

Sponsors:
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Chiba Institute of Technology
Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Robio Foundation

Technical Co-Sponsors:
The Robotics Society of Japan
The society of Instrument and Control Engineers
The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers

Advisory Committee Chair:
Tzyh-Jong Tarn, Washington University, USA

Advisory Committee Co-Chairs:
Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore, Sant’Anna, Italy
Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
Shigeo Hirose, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Chih-Ming Ho, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Steering Committee
Wen J. Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kazuhiro Kosuge, Tohoku University, Japan
Eiji Nakano, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
Ning Xi, Michigen State University, USA

Honery General Co-Chair
Kazuhiro Kosuge, Tohoku University, Japan
General Chair
Zhidong Wang, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
General Co-Chair
Wen J. Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Program Chair
Aiguo Ming, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Organizing Committee Chair
Ren Lou, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Detailed up-to-date information will be appeared on the ROBIO conference
web site:

www.ieee-robio.org/2011/

Dr. Aiguo Ming,
The University of Electro-Communications,
Tokyo, Japan

The 3rd Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2011)

2011-07-01T13:46:00.001-07:00

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The 3rd Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2011)

Taoyuan, Taiwan, November 13-15, 2011

http://acml2011.ncu.edu.tw/

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The 3rd Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2011) will be held
in November 13-15, 2011, in Taoyuan, Taiwan. The conference aims at
providing a leading international forum for researchers in Machine
Learning and related fields to share their new ideas and achievements.
Submissions from other than the Asia-Pacific regions are also highly
encouraged.

Important dates:
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* July 11, 2011, 23:59 (CST): Electronic abstracts due
(extended from 1 July)
* July 19, 2011, 23:59 (CST): Electronic papers due
* September 6, 2011: Notification of acceptance or rejection
* September 20, 2011: Camera-ready copy due at ACML office

ACML2011 calls for papers that report high quality original research
results on machine learning and related fields. The topics include
but are not limited to the following:

1. Learning problems

* Active learning
* Cost-sensitive Learning
* Ensemble methods
* Feature selection/extraction/construction
* Incremental learning and on-line learning
* Learning in graphs and networks
* Multi-agent learning
* Multi-instance learning
* Reinforcement learning
* Semi-supervised learning
* Supervised learning
* Classification, regression, ranking, structured, logical
* Transfer and multi-task learning
* Unsupervised learning
* Clustering, deep learning, latent variable models
* Other learning problems

2. Analysis of learning systems

* Computational learning theory
* Experimental evaluation methodology
* Others

3. Applications

* Bioinformatics
* Collaborative filtering
* Computer vision
* Information retrieval
* Mobile and pervasive computing
* Natural language processing
* Social networks
* Web search
* Other applications

4. Learning in knowledge-intensive systems

* Knowledge refinement and theory revision
* Multi-strategy learning
* Other systems

5. Other learning problems

Abstract and Paper Submission:
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Electronic abstract and paper should be submitted through the
ACML 2011 submission site:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ACML2011/Default.aspx
Papers should be written in English and formatted according to the JMLR
Workshop and Conference Proceedings format
(http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings/). The maximum length of
papers is 16 pages in this format. Overlength submissions or submissions
without appropriate format will be rejected without review. Paper
submissions should ensure double-blind reviews. Please be sure to remove
any information from your submission that can identify the authors,
including author names, affiliations, self citations and any
acknowledgments.

Proceedings will be published as a volume of JMLR: Workshop and Conference
Proceedings (this is not equivalent to a regular issue of JMLR) at
http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings/

Papers submitted to this conference must not have been published, accepted
for publication or be under review for another conference or journal.
Novelty is an important criterion in the selection of papers.

To encourage interdisciplinary contributions, ACML will welcome papers
that address applications of machine learning in other areas.
For these application papers, the novelty will be judged based on the
applications of machine learning methods. These papers will be
evaluated differently for the algorithmic papers. Authors of these
papers should choose "Applications" as the primary topic.

Submitting a paper to ACML 2011 means that if the paper is accepted,
at least one author will attend the conference to present the paper. All
papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only,
before the deadline through the submission system. More information,
including detailed author instruction, is available at:
http://acml2011.wikispaces.com/Call+for+Papers

For questions and suggestions on paper submission, write to:
acml2011.ncu@gmail.com

Organizers
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General Co-Chairs
* Chih-Jen Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
* Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Program Co-Chairs
* Chun-Nan Hsu (Academia Sinica & University of Southern California)
* Wee Sun Lee (National University of Singapore)

Local Arrangement Chair
* Chia-Hui Chang (National Central University, Taiwan)

ACML Steering Committee
* Tom Detterich (Oregon State University, USA)
* Tu Bao Ho (JAIST, Japan)
* Hiroshi Motoda, Chair (Osaka University, Japan)
* Bernhard Pfahringer (Waikato University, New Zealand)
* Masashi Sugiyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
* Takashi Washio (Osaka University, Japan)
* Geoff Webb (Monash University, Australia)
* Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
* Zhi-Hua Zhou, Co-Chair (Nanjin University, China)

Senior Program Committee
* Wray Buntine (Australian ICT, Australia)
* Edward Chang (Google Research China, China)
* Chris Ding (University of Texas, USA)
* Wei Fan (IBM T.J.Watson Research, USA)
* Xiaofei He (Zhejiang University, China)
* Steven Hoi (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
* Aapo Hyvarinen (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology,
Finland)
* Kenji Fukumizu (Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)
* Irwin King, (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
* Pavel Laskov (University of Tubingen, Germany)
* Ping Li (Cornell University, USA)
* Yoonkyun Lee (The Ohio State University, USA)
* Yuh-Jye Lee (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology,
Taiwan)
* Klaus-Robert Müller (Technical University Berlin, Germany)
* Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
* Fei Sha (University of Southern California, USA)
* Shirish Shevade (Indian Institute of Science, India)
* Ivor Tsang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
* S. V. N. Vishwanathan (Purdue University, USA)
* Jieping Ye (Arizona State University, USA)
* Kai Yu (NEC Laboratories America, USA)
* Denny Zhou (Micorsoft Research, USA)
* Xiaojin Jerry Zhu (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012)

2011-06-30T17:09:00.001-07:00

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Call For Papers, Videos, Tutorials/Workshops

7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012)

http://hri2012.org

March 5-8, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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HRI 2012 is the 7th Annual Conference for basic and applied human-robot
interaction research. Scientists from across the world attend and
submit their best work to HRI for exchanging ideas about the latest
theories, technology, data, and videos furthering the state-of-the-art
in human-robot interaction.

Each year, the HRI conference highlights a particular area through a
theme. The theme of HRI 2012 is "Robots in the Loop". This theme is
intended to highlight the importance of autonomously capable robots in
enhancing the experiences of human users in everyday life and work
activities. HRI 2012 will emphasize embodied robotic systems that
operate, collaborate with, learn from, and meet the needs of human
users in real-world environments. One central aspect of this theme is
interdisciplinary nature of HRI and the need for complementary
contributions technology-focused disciplines in addition to
empirically-driven disciplines.

The HRI Conference is a highly selective annual international
conference that aims to showcase the very best interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary research in human-robot interaction with roots in
robotics, social psychology, cognitive science, HCI, human factors,
artificial intelligence, engineering, and many more. We invite broad
participation.
Important Dates

9 September 2011: Submission of full papers and tutorial/workshop proposals
28 October- 1 November 2011: Rebuttal Period
16 November 2010: Notification of full paper acceptance
1 December 2010: Submission of late breaking reports and videos
14 December 2011: Notification of late breaking reports and videos
6 January 2012: Final camera-ready full papers due
10 January 2012: Final camera-ready late breaking reports and videos due

Full Papers

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format
for full and short papers. Eight camera ready pages including figures are
allowed for each full paper. Accepted full papers will be published in the
conference proceedings, archived in the ACM Digital Library, and be
presented in an oral session.

To facilitate quality interdisciplinary reviewing, full paper
submissions will be required to be tag their main contribution as
"human-centered," "technology-centered," or "both." Strong
technology-centered papers contribute novel and sound algorithmic,
engineering, or computational methods that have the potential to
improve robot performance when interacting with actual human users.
Strong human-centered papers contribute experimentally sound and
interesting findings that have the potential to improve robot technology
for interacting with humans with respect to usability, design, and similar
topics.

Late Breaking Reports

Authors are encouraged to submit their late-breaking results for short
papers. Two pages are allowed for each short paper. Accepted short
papers will be presented as a poster, but will be published in the
conference
proceedings.

Video Session

We invite videos related to all aspects of HRI. Besides the importance of
the
lessons learned and the novelty of the situation, the entertainment value
will
be judged. The video itself must be self-explanatory for the audience. The
videos will be published in the conference proceedings and archived in the
ACM Digital Library.

Tutorials and Workshops

Proposals are sought from those wishing to organize a Tutorial or a
Workshop on a HRI-related theme. Tutorials and Workshops will be
held on March 5, one day before the main technical sessions.

Exhibitions

There will be an exhibition site at the conference and promoters are
encouraged to display state-of-the-art products and services in all
areas of robotics and human-robot interaction.

Topics of interest include:

Collaboration between humans and robots
Social robotics
Mechatronics and robot platforms for HRI
HRI for field and service robots
Robot learning from human guidance and demonstration
User studies of HRI
Art and design for robotics
Robot middleware and software architectures
Lifelike robots
Robot companions
Assistive robotics (autism, healthcare, rehabilitation, aging in place)
Telepresence robots
Robotic navigation and mobile manipulation
Dialog and natural language for HRI
Mixed initiative and sliding autonomy
Privacy and security for real world HRI
Perception and recognition of human actions and activities
Safety and physical interactions between robots and humans
Task allocation and coordination
Metrics and benchmarking for HRI
HRI group dynamics
Multi-modal interaction, perception, and decision making
Long term interaction with robots
Autonomy and trust
Ethnography and field studies
Ethical and societal issues of HRI
Enabling reproducibility and interoperability in robotics

Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs:
Aaron Steinfeld, Carnegie Mellon University
Holly Yanco, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Program Co-Chairs:
Vanessa Evers, University of Amsterdam
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Brown University

Publicity Co-Chairs
Hideaki Kuzuoka, University of Tsukuba
Aude Billard, EPFL

Workshop/Tutorials Co-Chairs:
Jill Drury, The MITRE Corporation
Angelika Peer, TU-Munich

Late-Breaking Reports Co-Chairs:
Frank Broz, University of Hertfordshire
Astrid Weiss, University of Salzburg

Publication Chairs:
Jeonghye Han, Cheongju National University of Education
Adriana Tapus, ENSTA

Finance Co-Chairs:
Sylvain Calinon, IIT & EPFL
Leila Takayama, Willow Garage

Local Arrangements Chairs:
Sonia Chernova, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Candy Sidner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Video Session Co-Chairs:
Wendy Ju, Stanford & California College of Arts
Martin Saerbeck, A*STAR

Fundraising and Exhibition Co-Chair:
Takashi Minato, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories
Jennifer Burke, SA Technologies

Design Chair:
Irene Rae, University of Wisconsin Madison
Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin Madison

Program Committee

Sara Kiesler, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Andrea Thomaz, Georgia Tech, USA
Sonia Chernova, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Leila Takayama, Willow Garage, USA
Mike Goodrich, Brigham Young University, USA
Brian Scassellatti, Yale University, USA
Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin, USA
Christoph Bartneck, Canterbury University, New Zealand
Kai Oliver Arras, Freiburg University, Germany
Michita Imai, Keio University, Japan
Yukie Nagai, Osaka University, Japan
Gerhard Sagerer, Bielefeld University, Germany
Candace Sidner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Greg Trafton, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Bill Smart, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Adriana Tapus, ENSTA-ParisTech, France
Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg, Austria
Peter Kahn, University of Washington, Seattle USA
Terry Fong, NASA Ames, USA
Rachid Alami, LAAS, France
Jeonghye Han, Cheongju National Univ. of Education, Korea
Paul Rybski, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Hideaki Kuzuoka, Tsukuba University, Japan
Elisabeth Croft, University of British Columbia, Canada
Peter Robinson, Cambridge University, UK

Machine Learning for Human Behavior Understanding and Assisted Living

2011-06-27T16:09:00.001-07:00

Special Session on

Machine Learning for Human Behavior Understanding and Assisted Living

10th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) 2011

http://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla11/index.htm

With the growing need for assisted living technologies, the use of machine learning for human behavior understanding in assistive environments (both web-based and physical), as well as the design of newer machine learning algorithms to address the challenges, has increased in recent years. This special session solicits high-quality papers describing machine learning contributions from theoretical or application perspectives in human behavior understanding with a focus on assistive and rehabilitative technologies.

Examples of work in this area include stochastic modeling using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) for dialogue systems in assistive robots, transfer learning for activity recognition in geriatric care systems, machine learning techniques in brain-computer interfaces, active learning for video-based behavior understanding for assistive technologies for individuals with visual impairments, spatiotemporal learning frameworks for gait understanding in patients with Parkinson’s disease, graphical models for facial expression recognition for children with autism, probabilistic methods for autonomous navigation and interaction in intelligent wheelchairs, and context-based machine learning framework for sensor-based home monitoring of elderly patients.

Topics:

We recommend authors to submit papers describing their machine learning contributions in human behavior understanding with a focus on assistive and rehabilitative technologies. Papers are sought on a range of topics from theory and applications related to but not limited to:

* Multimodal analysis and information fusion
* Decision making under uncertainty
* Sequence modeling and spatio-temporal analysis
* Preference elicitation and user modeling
* Learning with humans in the loop
* Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
* Reinforcement learning
* Transfer learning and domain adaptation
* Active and interactive learning
* Stochastic modeling such as Markov Decision Processes
* Probabilistic graphical models

Organizers:

Vineeth Balasubramanian, Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC), Arizona State University

Sethuraman Panchanathan, Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC), Arizona State University

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: Jul 15, 2011

Notification of Acceptance: Sep 2, 2011

Camera-ready Papers and Pre-registration: Oct 1, 2011

The ICMLA Conference: Dec 18-21, 2011

Please see http://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla11/specSess.htm#HBU for more details.

The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2011)

2011-06-27T16:08:00.000-07:00

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Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline for ICTAI 2011 is
extended to July 1 2011 (Firm).
The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial
Intelligence (ICTAI 2011), Boca Raton, Florida, USA, November 7-9,
2011
http://www.cse.fau.edu/ictai2011/

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The IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial
Intelligence (ICTAI) is a premier international research forum which
stimulates and fosters the exchange of ideas for artificial
intelligence-related applications in academia, industry, and
government agencies.

ICTAI seeks to advance all technical, theoretical, and practical
aspects of Artificial Intelligence-based components of tools,
including algorithms, applications, software, systems, and services.

Representative issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to:
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Artificial Intelligence Foundations
Artificial Intelligence in Domain Specific Applications
Artificial Intelligence and Agent Systems
AI in Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Cognitive Modeling
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

Paper Submission
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Papers should be submitted electronically, through the ICTAI 2011
submission system, in PDF format. All submissions should conform to
the IEEE proceedings specifications (single-spaced, double-column, 10-
point font size, up to 8 pages). For detailed instructions, please
refer to the IEEE website.

Special Issue Publication
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Extended versions of the best papers at the conference will be invited
for publication in a special issue of the International Journal on
Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI Indexed).

Paper Submission Date : July 1st 2011 (FIRM)

Program Committee Co-Chairs
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Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton,
Florida, USA
khoshgof@fau.edu
Xingquan (Hill) Zhu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
xqzhu@it.uts.edu.au

ECML/PKDD-2011

2011-06-24T15:42:00.001-07:00

ECML/PKDD-2011
Athens, Greece, September 5-9, 2011
http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/
generalchairs@ecmlpkdd2011.org
pcchairs@ecmlpkdd2011.org

FIRST EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: JULY 15th
SECOND EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 15th
REGISTRATION AND HOTEL ACCOMMODATION:
http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/registration.php

The European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the European
Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in
Databases (PKDD) will be held co-located in ATHENS, GREECE, September
5-9, 2011.

VENUE: The conference will be held at the Athens Royal Olympic Hotel,
in the center of the town of Athens. Athens Royal Olympic Hotel lays
just in front of the famous Temple of Zeus and the National Gardens.
It is underneath the Acropolis and only 2 minutes walk to the new
Athens Acropolis Museum. Blocks of rooms have been reserved at various
hotels, most at a walking distance from the conference site. Please
make your registration and hotel arrangements as early as possible:
hotel booking is available together with the online registration
procedure.

TRAVEL INFO: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/travelInfo.php

REGISTRATION:

The registration fees are quite attractive

1)REGULAR:
365 Euro **before July 15**,
450 Euro **July 16-August 15**,
550 Euro **later**

2)STUDENT:
290 Euro **before July 15**,
360 Euro **July 16-August 15**,
440 Euro **later**

3)STUDENT DISCOUNT:
195 Euro **before July 15th,
265 Euro **July 16-August 15**
345 Euro **later**

REGULAR AND STUDENT REGISTRATION FEES INCLUDE: participation to
technical program (Monday-Friday), lunch breaks (Tuesday-Thursday),
free ticket to the welcome reception (Monday), the banquet (Wednesday)
and the farewell party (Thursday)
STUDENT DISCOUNT REGISTRATION FEES INCLUDE: participation to technical
program (Monday-Friday) and lunch breaks (Tuesday - Thursday)
EXTRA TICKETS FOR ACCOMPANYING PERSONS INCLUDE: welcome reception
(Monday), the banquet (Wednesday) and the farewell party (Thursday)

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

The ECML/PKDD MAIN PROGRAM starts with a plenary session in the
evening of Monday 5, and closes with another plenary session on Friday
9 September. A detailed schedule will be available soon.

There will be six KEYNOTE TALKS by distinguished scholars and
researchers in the area of Machine Learning and Data Mining:

- Rakesh Agrawal
Microsoft Search Labs, California, USA
http://rakesh.agrawal-family.com/

- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Center of Complex Networks Research, Northeastern University and
Department of Medicine, Harvard University
http://nd.edu/~alb/

- Christopher Bishop
Microsoft Research Labs, Cambridge, UK
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/

- Marco Gori
University of Siena, Italy
http://www.dii.unisi.it/~marco/

- Heikki Mannila
Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/mannila/

- Andrei Broder
Yahoo! Research
http://research.yahoo.com/Andrei_Broder

INVITED KEY NOTE TALKS ABSTRACTS: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/keynoteTalks.php

The program comprises 121 full papers, which have been accepted for
presentation in the technical sessions, but they will also be
exhibited collectively in a poster session on Tuesday evening. The
program also comprises a DEMO SESSION, where 11 selected demonstrators
exhibit innovative applications or successful experiences/prototypes
that show the integration of new Data Mining and Machine Learning
technologies.

ACCEPTED PAPERS AND DEMOS:
http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/acceptedPapers.php

There is a wide WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL program, consisting of eleven
workshops, the DISCOVERY CHALLENGE workshop, and seven tutorials, to
be held on Monday 5 and Friday 9 September.

WORKSHOPS: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/workshops.php
TUTORIALS: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/tutorials.php
DISCOVERY CHALLENGE: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/challenge.php

There are also two co-located events:
EWRL 2011: The 9th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning,
September 9 - 11, 2011 (http://ewrl.wordpress.com/)
NGDM 2011: The Next Generation Data Mining Summit on Ubiquitous
Knowledge Discovery for Energy Management in Smart Grids and
Intelligent Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Telematics, Sunday, 4th
September, 2011 (http://www.kd2u.org/NGDM11/)

VENUE and SOCIAL PROGRAMME

The ECML PKDD 2011 takes place in Athens Royal Olympic Hotel a five
star property in the center of Athens. It lays just in front of the
famous Temple of Zeus and the National Gardens. It is underneath the
Acropolis and only 2 minutes walk to the new Athens Acropolis Museum.
After its complete renovation that finished in 2009, the Royal Olympic
was transformed to an art hotel very elegantly decorated and more
important very well looked after in every detail. It is worth
mentioning the breathtaking views to the Acropolis and the famous
Temple of Zeus and the National Gardens. See details at:
http://ecmlpkdd2011.org/conferenceVenue.php

Apart from Acropolis, Athens offers a very rich collection of
monuments spanning its 3000 years long history accompanied by very
interesting museums. Nevertheless Athens is a just a 20mins tramway
ride away from the Athenian Riviera, a 40 km long coast. See more at:
http://www.breathtakingathens.com/.

Also Athens offers a wide variety of top quality cultural events in
the context of the International Athens Festival taking place in open
air ancient theaters as well. See more details at: http://www.greekfestival.gr/en/.

Finally, a rich Social program is prepared to bring the conference
delegates and their companions in contact with the virtues of Athens
(see: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/socialEvents.php).

Looking forward to meeting you in Athens!

ECML/PKDD General co-Chairs are:
Prof. A. Likas (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Prof. Y. Theodoridis (University of Piraeus, Greece)

ECML PKDD Program Committee chairs are:

Dr. T. Hofmann (Google Research)
Prof. Donato Malerba (University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy)
Prof. D. Gunopulos (University of Athens)
Prof. M. Vazirgiannis (Athens University of Economics and Business,
Greece)

IMPORTANT DATES:
First Early Registration Deadline July 15th, 2011
Second Early Registration Deadline August 15th, 2011

Conference Dates September 5-9, 2011
Workshops and Tutorials Dates September 5 and 9, 2011

TRAVEL GRANTS
The UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy (http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat)
offers financial support to offset some of the costs associated with
attending ECML PKDD 2011 for participants coming from "transition"
countries, which are nations other than USA, Canada, Western Europe,
New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. Preference is
given to student authors, and authors of accepted papers.

SPONSORS:
- Google
- Pascal 2
- Xerox
- Yahoo Lab
- COST/MOVE (Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects)
- FP7/MODAP (Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy)
- Rapid-I (report the future)
- Athena/IMIS (Institute for the Management of Information Systems)
- EETN (Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society)
- MDS Marathon Data Systems
- Transinsight
- SONY
- UNESCO Privacy Chair
- Springer-Verlag
- Universita degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"
- Athens University of Economics and Business
- University of Ioannina
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- University of Piraeus

ACAL11 -- The Fifth Australian Conference on Artificial Life

2011-06-23T17:25:00.000-07:00

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ACAL11 -- The Fifth Australian Conference on Artificial Life
6-8 December 2011, Perth, Western Australia
http://robots.newcastle.edu.au/ACAL11/

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PAPER SUBMISSION AND AUTHOR INFORMATION

Proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the "Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI/LNBI)" Series.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers in English with
no more than 12 pages in Springer LNCS style including results,
figures and references. All papers for ACAL11 must be submitted
electronically through the easychair conference management system:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acal11

All correctly submitted papers will be peer reviewed by at least three
members of the international programme committee.

Paper templates in LNCS/LNAI/LNBI format are available at Springer-
Verlag's website

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

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NEWS

* The International Journal of Emerging Sciences (IJES) will invite
extended versions of selected ACAL11 papers.
* Updated special session programme includes special sessions on
"Information Processing, Inference and Learning", "Biological
Information Processing", and "Biologically Inspired Electricity
Systems".
See details at http://www.robots.newcastle.edu.au/ACAL11/specialsessions_v01.html

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IMPORTANT DATES

Full Paper Submission: 28 June 2011 (watch out for updates)
Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 15 August 2011
Camera Ready Submission: 10 September 2011

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TOPICS

Artificial life (Alife) refers to models and simulations of living
systems as they appear in nature as well as to possible alternative
life forms and concepts that may not have occurred in natural
evolution. ACAL is a biennial conference that was organised for the
first time in 2003. It has become an exciting, interdisciplinary forum
for innovative, emerging and sometimes exotic ideas associated with
the computational and algorithmic concepts underlying living systems.
ACAL11 invites high-quality papers relevant to artificial life where
topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Adaptive Ecologies, Affective Computing, Alife Art/Design and Music,
Ant Colony Optimisation, Anthropocentric Biocybernetic Computing,
Applications of ALife Technologies, Autonomous Agents and Robotics,
Artificial Chemistry, Artificial Evolution, Artificial Insects,
Artificial Neural Networks, Artificial Societies and Markets,
Autonomous Agents, Behaviour Simulations and Analysis, Bioinformatics,
Biologically-Inspired Optimisation Methods, Braintheory, Cellular
Automata, Coevolution, Cognitive Neuroscience, Collective
Intelligence, Complex Systems , Complexity of Alife Systems,
Computational Intelligence, Computational Neuroscience, Connectionism,
Data Mining in Alife and Biosystems, Deep Learning, Developmental
Learning, Dimensionality Reduction, Embodiment and Robotics, Emergence
of Collaborative Behaviour, Engineering of Consciousness and Mind,
Epidemiology Simulations, Ethics of Artificial Life, Evo-Devo
Modelling, Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Design, Facial
Expression Analysis, Forecasting of Complex Systems, Fractal
Techniques, Game Playing Agents, Generative Design, Genetic
Algorithms, Human Machine Interaction, Humanoid Robots, Image and
Video Analysis, Information Theoretic Learning, Kernel Machines,
Legged and Crawling Robots, Machine Learning, Manifold Learning,
Mathematical Models in Alife, Memetic Algorithms, Metalearning, Models
of Emotions, Multi-Agent Systems, Neural Information Processing,
Neurodynamic Programming, Networks in Alife and Biology, Optimisation
and Heuristics, Organic Computing, Origins of Life, Philosophy of
Artificial Life, Reinforcement Learning, Robotic Life, Self-
Organisation, Self-Replication, Social Networks and Alife,
Sociogenetic Dynamics, Smart Devices, Smart Grid Techniques,
Statistical Learning, Swarm Algorithms, Synthetic Life Computations,
Systems Biology, Visual Information Processing.

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COMMITTEES

Conference Chairs
Stephan Chalup (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Philip Hingston (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
Marcus Randall (Bond University, Australia)

Advisory Board
Hussein Abbass (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
Mark Bedau (Reed College, USA)
Chrystopher Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

Local Organising Committee
Philip Hingston (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
Cara MacNish (The University of Western Australia, Australia)
Cesar Ortega-Sanchez (Curtin University, Australia)
Kevin Wong (Murdoch University, Australia)

International Programme Committee
Alan Blair (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
Terry Bossomaier (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
David Cornforth (CSIRO Energy Technology - Newcastle, Australia)
Marcus Frean (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Marcus Gallagher (University of Queensland, Australia)
Junbin Gao (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
John Gero (Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, USA)
Kevin Korb (Monash University, Australia)
Suhuai Luo (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Cara MacNish (The University of Western Australia, Australia)
Frederic Maire (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Alexandre Mendes (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Pablo Moscato (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Oliver Obst (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)
Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Michael Quinlan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Hiroki Sayama (Binghamton University, State University of New York,
USA)
Detlef Seese (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
James Tan Swee Chuan (SIM University, Singapore)
Giuseppe Vizzari (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Shangfei Wang (University of Science and Technology, China)
Janet Wiles (University of Queensland, Australia)

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COLOCATED EVENT

The Fifth Australian Conference on Artificial Life, (ACAL11), will be
colocated with The 2011 Australian Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AI11) at the campus of Murdoch University, South St,
Murdoch, Western Australia 6150.

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ENQUIRIES

For enquiries please send an email to the conference chair at
ACALPerth2011@gmail.com
or visit the conference webpage for further details and recent updates
at

http://robots.newcastle.edu.au/ACAL11/

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ICDM 2011 Workshop on Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare

2011-06-23T17:23:00.001-07:00

ICDM 2011 Workshop on Biological Data Mining and its Applications in
Healthcare (http://www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~xlli/BioDM.html) will be
held Vancouver, Canada, December 10, 2011.

1. Introduction

Biologists are stepping up their efforts in understanding the
biological processes that underlie disease pathways in the clinical
contexts. This has resulted in a flood of biological and clinical data
from genomic and protein sequences, DNA microarrays, protein
interactions, to disease pathways, biomedical images, and electronic
health records. We are in a scenario where our capability to generate
biomedical data has greatly surpassed our abilities to mine and
analyze the data.

To exploit these data for discovering new knowledge that can be
translated into clinical applications, there are fundamental data
analysis difficulties that have to be overcome. Practical issues such
as handling noisy and incomplete data (e.g. protein interactions have
high false positive and false negative rates), processing compute-
intensive tasks (e.g. large scale graph mining), and integrating
various data sources (e.g. linking genomic data, proteomics data with
clinical databases) are new challenges faced by biologists in the post-
genome era.

Data mining has been designed to handle such challenging data analysis
problems. We can therefore expect data mining to play an increasingly
crucial role in revolutionizing biological research. Data mining will
be the next technical innovation employed by biologists to enable them
to make meaningful observations and discoveries from a wide array of
heterogeneous data from molecular biology to pharmaceutical and
clinical domains.

As data mining is poised to become integrated into the next-generation
pipeline of biomedical discovery process, there are unprecedented
opportunities for data mining researchers from the computer science
domain to come together to contribute to this meaningful scientific
pursuit with the biologists and clinical scientists. The mission of
this workshop is therefore to disseminate the research results and
best practices of data mining approaches to the cross-disciplinary
researchers and practitioners from both the data mining disciplines
and the life sciences domains. We encourage submission of papers using
data mining techniques to address the challenging issues in various
biological data analysis. In particular, we especially welcome the
submissions reporting data mining techniques in healthcare related
applications that integrate the use of biological data in a clinical
context for translational research.

The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
* Biological and medical data collection, cleansing, and integration
* Biological and medical data visualization
* Bioimage analysis
* Data pre-processing to handle noisy, missing biological and medical
data
* Knowledge representation and annotation of biological and medical
data
* Machine learning algorithms for biological and healthcare
applications
* Disease bioinformatics
* Computational methods for drug discovery
* Biological markers detection
* Pharmacogenomics data mining
* Analysis of complex disorders
* Integration of biological and clinical data for translational
research
* Bioinformatics databases and resources
* Text mining algorithms for biological and healthcare applications
* Biological network analysis (protein interaction network, metabolic
network, transcription factor network, signalling network, etc.)
* Pattern analysis in computational genetics, genomics and proteomics
* Semantic web and knowledge acquisition in biology and healthcare
* Electronic health records and biomedical repositories

2. Important Dates

Aug 5, 2011: Due date for paper submission
September 20, 2011: Notification of paper acceptance
October 11, 2011: Camera-ready versions of accepted papers
December 10, 2011: Workshop

3. Submissions
Paper submissions are limited to a maximum of 10 pages in the IEEE 2-
column format, which is the same as the camera-ready format (see the
IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines). All papers
will be reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality,
relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. A
double blind reviewing process will be adopted. Authors should
therefore avoid using identifying information in the text of the
paper. All papers should be submitted through the ICDM Workshop
Submission Site.

All accepted workshop papers will be published in a separate ICDM
workshop proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. In
addition, authors with accepted papers to the workshop will have the
opportunity to be invited to publish their extended versions in the
following two venues: a) as book chapters in an edited book which will
be published by World Scientific and b) as journal papers in
International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics
(IJKDB).

4. PC members (confirmed so far)
Zhang Aidong, State University of New York at Buffalo (UB), USA
Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan
Zeyar Aung, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, UAE
Vladimir Bajic, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,
Saudi Arabia
Jin Chen, Michigan State University, USA
Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University, Australia
Honnian Chua, Harvard University, USA
Juan Cui, University of Georgia, USA
Yang Dai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Xin Gao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi
Arabia
Xiaoxu Han, Eastern Michigan University, USA
David Hansen, Australian e-Health Research Centre, Australia
Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada
Raphael Isokpehi, Jackson State University, USA
Dawei Li, Yale University, USA
Haiquan Li, University of Chicago, USA
Igor Jurisica, University of Toronto, Canada
Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, USA
Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia
Chee Keong Kwoh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Kyoto University, Japan
Laxmi Parida, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
George Perry, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Mark A. Ragan, The University of Queensland, Australia
Raul Rabadan, Columbia University, USA
Jianhua Ruan, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Indra Neil Sarkar, University of Vermont, USA
Ambuj K Singh, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Science, India
Zeeshan Syed, University of Michigan, USA
Vincent S. Tseng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Spain
Hong Yan, City University of Hong Kong, China
Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Erliang Zeng, University of Notre Dame, USA
Xiaoling Zhang, Boston University, Boston, MA
Marketa Zvelebil, Breaktrhough Breast Cancer Research - ICR, UK

We look forward to your submissions. In addition, we will greatly
appreciate it if you can distribute the Call for Papers to your
colleagues, students and other community members and encourage them to
contribute to the workshop. Thank you!

Kind Regards,

Workshop Co-Chairs

Xiao-Li Li, See-Kiong Ng and Jason T. L. Wang

IEEE-ROBIO 2011 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics

2011-06-20T12:59:00.001-07:00

IEEE-ROBIO 2011
2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics
December 7-11, 2011, Phuket, Thailand

www.ieee-robio.org/2011/

Submission of original PDF full papers and video clips
deadline: Jul. 21, 2011

The IEEE ROBIO 2011 conference will take place from December 7 to 11,
2011 in Phuket, Thailand. The theme of ROBIO 2011 is .New Challenges of
Robotics and Biomimetics., reflecting the ever growing interests in
research, development and applications in the dynamic and exciting areas
of robotics and biomimetics. The host city Phuket island, Asia.s most
popular beach destination in South Thailand, will provide ROBIO 2011
attendees spectacular scenery, stunning tropical sunsets and warm blue
sea. ROBIO 2011 promises to be a great event for researchers and
scholars in robotics and biomimetics areas, with attractive technical
and social programs. The ROBIO 2011 conference invites high quality
original research and development papers in all areas related to
robotics, biomimetics and related topics.

Contributed Papers: Original papers are solicited in all related areas
of robotÂ¬ics and biomimetics. Full papers must be submitted in PDF
format prepared trictly following the IEEE PDF Requirements for Creating
PDF Documents for the IEEE Xplore. For detailed format information,
please visit the conference website. All accepted papers will be indexed
by EI and included in IEEE Xplore.

Tutorials & Workshops: Proposals for tutorials and workshops addressing
new topics in robotics and biomimetics are invited for submission to the
T/W chair.

Tour Packages: Tourist packages to Phuket attractions will be available.

Important Dates:
Jul. 21, 2011 Submission of original PDF full papers and video clips
Jul. 21, 2011 Submission of proposals for tutorials and workshops
Oct. 1, 2011 Notification of paper, video clip and T/W acceptance
Oct. 20, 2011 Submission of final IEEE PDF papers and video clips

Sponsors:
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Chiba Institute of Technology
Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Robio Foundation

Technical Co-Sponsors:
The Robotics Society of Japan
The society of Instrument and Control Engineers
The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers

Advisory Committee Chair:
Tzyh-Jong Tarn, Washington University, USA

Advisory Committee Co-Chairs:
Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore, Sant.Anna, Italy
Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
Shigeo Hirose, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Chih-Ming Ho, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Steering Committee
Wen J. Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kazuhiro Kosuge, Tohoku University, Japan
Eiji Nakano, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
Ning Xi, Michigan State University, USA

Honorary General Co-Chair
Kazuhiro Kosuge, Tohoku University, Japan
General Chair
Zhidong Wang, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
General Co-Chair
Wen J. Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Program Chair
Aiguo Ming, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Organizing Committee Chair
Ren Lou, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Detailed up-to-date information will be on the ROBIO conference
web site: www.ieee-robio.org/2011/

Sincerely,
ROBIO 2011 Organizing Committee

Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2012)

2011-06-14T15:15:00.000-07:00

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Fifth ACM International Conference on
Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2012)

February 8-12, 2012, Seattle, WA
http://www.wsdm2012.org/

Co-Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGMOD and SIGWEB

Submission deadline: August 4, 2011
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WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is the premier international ACM conference
covering research in the areas of search and data mining on the
Web. The Fifth ACM WSDM Conference will take place in Seattle,
Washington, USA during February 8-12, 2012.

WSDM publishes original, high quality papers and presentations related
to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an
emphasis on practical but principled novel models of search, retrieval
and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economic implications,
and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance.

WSDM 2012 is a highly selective, single track meeting that includes
invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed
papers. Topics covered include but are not limited to:

Web Search
==========
* Web dynamics and search
* Multifaceted and task-driven search
* Multimedia Web search
* Security and privacy in Web search and mining
* User interfaces and interaction
* User and search modeling
* Personalized search and ranking
* Distributed, meta, and peer-to-peer search
* Vertical portals and search
* Search quality benchmarking and evaluation
* Ranking and machine learning for ranking
* Searching social and real-time content

Web Mining
==========
* Web measurements, Web evolution, Web models
* Clustering, classification, and summarization of Web data
* Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
* Multimodal data mining
* Data, entity, event and relationship extraction
* Sense and entity disambiguation
* Data integration and data cleaning
* Discovery-driven Web and social network mining
* Traffic and log analysis
* Algorithms and systems for Web-scale search and mining

Social Search and Mining
========================
* Social network analysis, theories, models, and applications
* Social media analysis: blogs and friendship networks
* Social reputation, influence, and trust
* User profiling and recommendation systems
* User activity modeling and exploitation
* Tags, users, and search
* Collaborative search and question answering
* Searching social media and collaboratively generated content

Important Dates
===============
August 4, 2011 - Paper abstracts deadline
August 11, 2011 - Paper submission deadline
October 26, 2011 - Author notification

Organizing Committee
====================

Conference General Chairs
* Eytan Adar, University of Michigan, USA
* Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research, USA

Program Committee Chairs
* Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, USA
* Yoelle Maarek, Yahoo! Research, Israel

Treasurer
* Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research, USA

Local Chairs
* Misha Bilenko, Microsoft Research, USA
* Jeff Huang, University of Washington, USA

Workshop Chair
* Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Tutorial Chair
* Paul Bennett, Microsoft Research, USA

Doctoral Consortium Chairs
* Brian Davison, Lehigh University, USA
* Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA

Senior Program Committee
========================
* Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, USA
* Ziv Bar-Yossef, Technion and Google, Israel
* Andras Benczur, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
* Paolo Boldi, University of Milano, Italy
* Ed Chang, Google Beijing, China
* Charles Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada
* Nick Craswell, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
* Fernando Diaz, Yahoo! Labs, USA
* Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo!, USA
* Vanja Josifovski, Yahoo! Research, Israel
* Irwin King, CUHK and AT&T Labs Research, Hong Kong/USA
* Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
* Ronny Lempel, Yahoo!, Israel
* Jure Lescovec, Stanford, USA
* Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore
* Kevin McCurley, Google, USA
* Marc Najork, Microsoft Research, USA
* Wolfgang Nejdl, Leibniz UniversitÃ¤t Hannover, Germany
* Fillip Radlinski, Microsoft, Canada
* Fabrizio Sebastiani, National Research Council, Italy
* Chua Tat-Seng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Andrew Tomkins, Google, USA
* Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik, Germany
* Ryen White, Microsoft Research, USA
* ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Steering Committee
==================
* Rakesh Agrawal, Microsoft, USA
* Ricardo Baeza-Yates,Yahoo!, University of Chile, Spain
* Ziv Bar-Yossef, Technion, Google, Israel
* Soumen Chakrabarti, IIT Bombay, India
* Monika Henzinger, EPFL, Google, Switzerland
* Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, USA
* Marc Najork, Microsoft, USA

Paper Format
============
Papers must report original research not accepted or under submission
to any journal or conference with public proceedings (previous
submissions in informal workshops or as posters are allowed, but must
be indicated). Papers must be formatted according to ACM guidelines
and style files to fit within 10 pages, including references,
diagrams, and appendices if any. A submitted paper must be
self-contained and in English.

Submissions
===========
Papers must be submitted in PDF format to the paper submission Web
site (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsdm2012). PDF files
must have all non-standard fonts embedded. After upload, please check
the copy stored on the site. Submissions that do not view or print
properly may be rejected without a chance to rectify the
problem. Please contact wsdm2012 [at] easychair.org for any questions
on the submission or review process.

Review Process
==============
The review process will be single-blind (that is, the identity of
authors is known to the reviewers). Each paper will be reviewed by at
least three regular PC members and one or two senior PC members. The
acceptance decisions will take into account paper novelty, technical
depth, elegance, practical or theoretic impact, and presentation.

Publication and Presentation
============================
All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. At
the conference, all the papers will be allocated a slot at the
interactive poster session to encourage discussion. Additionally,
selected papers will be presented during the plenary oral sessions;
others will be included in a short "madness" session.

Workshops & Tutorials
=====================
We invite proposals for full-day and half-day tutorials and workshops
to be held on February 8th and February 12th respectively. Topics
should be aligned with those identified above. For the full CFPs see:
http://wsdm2012.org/workshops/ and http://wsdm2012.org/tutorials/.

Machine Learning for Affective Computing (ACII Workshop)

2011-06-14T15:13:00.001-07:00

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Machine Learning for Affective Computing (ACII Workshop)

Memphis, TN, USA, Sunday, October 9th, 2011

http://mlac.media.mit.edu/

Submission Deadline: June 24th, 2011

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Affective computing (AC) is a unique discipline which attempts to model affect using one or multiple modalities by drawing on techniques from many different fields. AC often deals with problems that are known to be very complex and multi-dimensional, involving different kinds of data (numeric, symbolic, visual etc.). However, with the advancement of machine learning techniques, a lot of those problems are now becoming more tractable.

The purpose of this workshop is to engage the machine learning and affective computing communities towards solving the problems related to understanding and modeling social affective behaviors. We welcome the participation of researchers from diverse fields, including signal processing and pattern recognition, statistical machine learning, human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, robotics, conversational agents, experimental psychology, and decision making.

There is a need for a set of high standards for recognizing and understanding affect. At the same time, these standards need to take into account that the expectations and validations in this area may be different than in traditional research on machine learning. This should be reflected in the design of machine learning techniques used to tackle these problems. For example, affective data sets are known to be noisy, high dimensional, and incomplete. Classes may overlap. Affective behaviors are often person specific and require temporal modeling with real-time performance. This first edition of the ACII Workshop on Machine Learning for Affective

Computing will be the perfect venue to invoke such discussions and engage the community towards design and validation of learning techniques for affective sensing.

Topics:

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We invite submissions of high-quality papers describing novel research on machine learning applied to human affective computing and related topics. Suitable themes include, but are not limited to:

* Automatic recognition of spontaneous affective states

* Multimodal integration of speech, facial expressions and body posture

* Audio-visual signal processing

* Context-based understanding of affective state

* Feature selection and engineering

* Online user adaptation and calibration

* Unsupervised analysis of affective behaviors

* Spontaneous datasets for affective learning

* Evaluation metrics for probabilistic modeling of affective states

The paper should not include work previously published elsewhere or under review in other conferences/journals.

Program Committee (partial list):

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Alessandro Vinciarelli (Glasgow)

Ashish Kapoor (Microsoft Research)

Athanassios (Nassos) Katsamanis (USC)

Carlos Busso (UT-Dallas)

Dan Bohus (Microsoft Research)

Fernando De la Torre (CMU)

Ginevra Castellano (Queen Mary University)

Jean-Claude Martin, (LIMSI-CNRS)

France Jeffrey Cohn (Pitt)

Jonathan Gratch (USC)

Julia Hirschberg (Columbia)

Magalie Ochs (Telecom Paris Tech)

Matthew Turk (UCSB)

Nicu Sebe (Trento)

Peter Robinson (Cambridge)

Rana el-Kaliouby (MIT)

Ross Beveridge (Colorado State)

Shri Narayanan (USC)

Tanzeem Chowdhury (Dartmouth)

Winslow Burleson (ASU)

Submission guidelines:

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Papers will be published in the proceedings of ACII 2011 by Springer. Papers should not exceed 10 pages and should be formatted to the Springer LNCS formatting guidelines http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0/ Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair Conference system, which can be accessed via the web at

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=acii20110.

Important dates:

-------------------------------

Submission deadline: June 24th, 2011, 11:59pm PDT

Notification of acceptance: July 15th, 2011

Camera ready version due: July 25th, 2011

Workshop: October 9th, 2011

Organizers:

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M. Ehsan Hoque (MIT)

Dan McDuff (MIT)

Louis Philippe Morency (USC)

Rosalind Picard (MIT)

Neurocomputing Call for Papers Special Issue on Distributed Machine Learning and Sparse Representation with Massive Data Sets

2011-06-14T15:11:00.001-07:00

Neurocomputing
Call for Papers
Special Issue on Distributed Machine Learning and Sparse Representation with Massive Data Sets

Summary and Scope:

The exponentially increasing demand for computing power as well as
physical and economic limitations has contributed to a proliferation
of distributed and parallel computer architectures. To make better use
of current and future high-performance computing, and to fully benefit
from these massive amounts of data, we must discover, understand and
exploit the available parallelism in machine learning. Simultaneously,
we have to model data in an adequate manner while keeping the models
as simple as possible, by making use of a sparse representation of the
data or sparse modelling of the respective underlying problem.

This special issue follows the 2011 Symposium on "Distributed Machine
Learning and Sparse Representation with Massive Data Sets" (DMMD
2011). We invite both new submissions as well as previously
unpublished work that have been presented on DMMD 2011. Suggested
topics for this special issue include:

- Distributed, Multicore and Cluster based Learning Techniques
- Machine Learning on Alternative Hardware (GPUs, Robots, Sensor Networks, Mobile Phones, Cell Processors ...)
- Sparsity in Machine Learning and Statistics
- Learning results and techniques on Massive Datasets
- Dimensionality Reduction, Sparse Matrix, Large Scale Kernel Methods
- Fast Online Algorithms for Large Scale Data
- Parallel Computing Tools and Libraries

Dates:
Submission deadline: September 16, 2011
Final decision: December 16, 2011

Submission and Review Process:

Authors should follow the Neurocomputing guideline to prepare their
submissions, and submit their papers online through
http://ees.elsevier.com/neucom/default.asp (please select "SI: Massive
Data Sets" for the Article Type when submitting the paper online). All
submissions should be the authors’ original work and should not have
been published (nor be currently under review) elsewhere.

Guest Editors:
Oliver Obst CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia; oliver.obst@csiro.au
Tiberio Caetano NICTA, Canberra, ACT, Australia; tiberio.caetano@nicta.com.au
Michael Mahoney Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; mmahoney@cs.stanford.edu

The 3rd International Conference on Data Mining and Intelligent Information Technology Applications (ICMIA)

2011-06-10T17:44:00.001-07:00

The 3rd International Conference on Data Mining and Intelligent
Information Technology Applications (ICMIA)

October 24-26, 2011 / Macao
http://www.humanpub.org/icmia/
Sponsored and Organized by:
IEEE / IEEE Korea Council / University of Macau / AICIT

NISS2011, the 3rd International Conference on Data Mining and Intelligent Information Technology Applications will be held in Macao from October 24-26, 2011. It aims to provide an intellectual forum for researchers in academia, and practitioners and engineers from IT industries to present their latest research findings and to identify future challenges in this novel combination of research areas. (http://www.humanpub.org/icmia/cfp.html)

Important Dates
Date of Main Conference: October 24 - 26, 2011
Paper Submission: June 13 - July 15, 2011
Paper Review: August 1 - 24, 2011
Review Results (Acceptance/Reject) Notification: August 1 - 26, 2011
Registration/Final Camera-ready Submission: August 8 - 31, 2011

Scope and Topics
We especially encourage paper submissions from the two categories of topics: Data mining and Intelligent IT applications, ranging from theories, algorithms, analysis, models, designs, and applications to industry experiences. Topics include but not necessarily limited to the following areas:

• Group 1) Core Data Mining Topics
• Group 2) Information Technology Applications Related Topics
• Group 3) Data Mining For Intelligent IT Application Topics

More Information: (http://www.humanpub.org/icmia/scope.html)

About AICIT Conferences
1. Peer Reviewed International Conferences
AICIT Conferences are peer reviewed international conferences by more than 400 scientific members from more than 50 countries. Please see the conference websites which you have interest in. You can find the review process and scientific members easily.

2. More than 400 Scientific Members from more than 50 countries
AICIT respects all researchers from scholars in the developing countries to scholars in the developed countries. You can find more than 400 scientific members from more than 50 countries as AICIT is unbiased organization. AICIT always welcome new scientific members from all over the world.

If you need further information, please feel free to contact us. We will do the best to make the conference a great success. We are looking forward to seeing you at the conference.

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3rd IEEE International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining

2011-06-10T15:43:00.001-07:00

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Call for Papers --- PADM 2011
3rd IEEE International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining
(in conjunction with ICDM 2011, December 10, 2011, Vancouver,
Canada)
http://www.zurich.ibm.com/padm2011/
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IMPORTANT DATES
* Workshop paper submission deadline: ** Aug 5, 2011 (11:59pm Hawaii
time) **
* Workshop paper acceptance notification: September 20, 2011
* Workshop paper camera-ready deadline: October 11, 2011
* Workshop meeting: December 10, 2011

OVERVIEW
Machine learning and data mining algorithms have now penetrated our
everyday lives in a wide range of applications, like web search,
social networking, communication networks, mobility data, advertising,
cloud computing, and business intelligence. Each application can have
its own privacy requirements, which include protection of personal
information and statistical disclosure control, protection of business
secrets, and knowledge hiding in general. Adaptations of traditional
privacy definitions such as randomized response, k-anonymity, and
differential privacy to these new applications do not always
adequately protect sensitive information. Attacks on supposedly
anonymized data and additional privacy issues raised in the literature
have shown that developing a robust privacy definition for a new
application requires a tremendous feat of engineering. Another
challenge in privacy preserving data analysis is maintaining accuracy
(or utility) of the algorithms. There is an inherent trade-off between
privacy and utility which needs to be formally captured for each data
mining task. Often, the utility guarantee provided by an algorithm is
dependent on the privacy notion it satisfies. Comparing the utilities
of algorithms that implement different privacy definitions is still an
open challenge. Where theoretical utility analysis is difficult or
impossible, it is important to develop performance and data
benchmarks, facilitating reliable comparison of competing methods.
Finally, there is a need to address the new privacy challenges
presented by emerging applications such as mobility data mining,
social network analysis, advertising, and cloud computing. PADM will
be a full-day workshop that will be held in conjunction with the IEEE
ICDM 2011 conference in Vancouver, Canada. The purpose of this
workshop is to encourage principled research that develops
methodologies to address open privacy problems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following
areas:
* Disclosure prevention of sensitive information when the attacker has
detailed knowledge about the privacy mechanisms
* Design guidelines for privacy definitions
* Measuring/comparing utility across different privacy definitions
* Techniques for analyzing perturbed data (e.g. uncertain data
analysis)
* Privacy under simultaneous, independent leakages or prior release of
information (composition)
* Statistical disclosure control and privacy in social and physical
sciences
* Information-theoretic or computational barriers to privacy and
utility
* Privacy preservation against data manipulation prior to
anonymization
* Privacy preservation using knowledge hiding
* Privacy challenges in emerging applications such as mobility, cloud
computing, advertising, and social networking
* Privacy challenges in location-based social networks (e.g.
Foursquare, Gowalla)
* Benchmarks and data sets for testing privacy preserving algorithms
in emerging application areas

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the
IEEE 2-column format. All papers will be double-blind reviewed by the
Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to
privacy aspects of data mining, originality, significance, and
clarity. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under
review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for
PADM 2011. The authors of a small number of selected (best) papers
from the workshop will be invited to prepare a substantially revised
and extended version of their work for publication to a special issue
that will be organized after the workshop.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
* Raghav Bhaskar, Microsoft Research, India
* Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, IBM Research-Zurich, Switzerland
* Dan Kifer, Pennsylvania State University, USA
* Srivatsan Laxman, Microsoft Research, India

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Chris Clifton, Purdue University, USA
* Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia
* Michael Hay, Cornell University, USA
* Panos Kalnis, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,
Saudi Arabia
* Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
* Kun Liu, Yahoo! Labs, California, USA
* Grigorios Loukides, Vanderbilt University, USA
* Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Yahoo! Research, USA
* Frank McSherry, Microsoft Research, USA
* Gerome Miklau, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
* Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
* Mehmet Sayal, Hewlett Packard, USA
* Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University, Turkey
* Aleksandra Slavkovic, Penn State University, USA
* Adam Smith, Penn State University, USA
* Trian Marius Truta, Northern Kentucky University, USA
* Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
* Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA
* Li Xiong, Emory University, USA

More information about PADM 2011 can be found at: http://www.zurich.ibm.com/padm2011/
Questions should be directed to the workshop co-chairs at:
padm2011.workshop gmail.com

Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Health Care and Medicine (KD-HCM)

2011-06-10T15:41:00.000-07:00

EXTENDED DEADLINE: June 11, 2011

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Health Care and Medicine (KD-HCM)

ECML PKDD 2011
September 5-9, Athens, Greece
http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~hrangwal/kd-hcm
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Throughout its modern existence, humankind has benefited from
continuous advances in health care and medicine resulting in
substantial improvements in the quality of life. Better disease
understanding, improved medicines, and effective treatment protocols,
are just some of the reasons behind the 10+ years increase in life
expectancy from 1950 to 1997. However, in the last decade, despite the
widely held belief that the post-genomic era will lead to substantial
additional improvements, we have witnessed a considerable slow down at
the rate at which new treatments are discovered and introduced into
the health care system. In addition, the ever increasing costs
associated with modern health care, makes it critical to reduce
unnecessary treatments and procedures while still ensuring the best
possible health outcomes. To this end, mining massive amounts of data
being generated in health care is increasingly considered an integral
part of technological breakthroughs needed to provide meaningful
solutions to the above problems.

The purpose of this workshop is to report on the latest advances in
data mining research for solving health care-related problems. The
workshop is organized around the three themes of (i) mining of health-
related data, (ii) mining in drug discovery, and (iii) mining for
personalized medicine; all of which represent high-impact areas of
ongoing and emerging data mining research. Health-related data (e.g.,
electronic health-records, health-related scientific literature,
treatment and care guidelines, adverse effects reporting systems,
health-related social media, etc.) provide an unprecedented
opportunity for the development and application of data mining methods
towards improving global health by identifying better practices and
diagnosis, monitoring and predicting epidemics, and performing post-
market surveillance of drugs and practices. Within the area of drug
discovery, data mining is already an integral part of the drug
development life cycle as it is used extensively to understand,
predict and improve biological characteristics of therapeutic agents.
In addition, exciting new opportunities for data mining research are
emerging in drug discovery. Researchers in academia and industry have
been developing data mining techniques to inform the design of novel
drugs and biologics for novel and orphan molecular targets, to
establish relations between the chemical and biological space in order
to eliminate adverse side effects, to mine and predict absorption &
distribution characteristics of drugs in humans, and to enhance the
efficacy of a therapeutic agent by exploiting polypharmacology.
Finally, personalized medicine is the next frontier in designing
effective medical treatments. Personalized medicine is a broad term
that encompasses technologies as well as practices in medicine
tailored towards individual patients as opposed to standard of care
principles generated from large samples of a given population. This
involves identification of key bio-markers (e.g., genetic markers,
proteomic profiles) and patient characteristics and associating them
to certain outcomes such as efficacy and toxicity in the presence of a
drug.

Topics of interest includes (but are not limited to):

1. Knowledge discovery in electronic medical records.
2. Text mining of unstructured and semi-structured biomedical health-
related data, drug target validation, indications discovery, and
adverse event mining.
3. Analysis of complex preclinical in-vivo outcomes.
4. Medical insurance fraud and abuse detection.
5. Patient-centered and evidence-based care.
6. Information retrieval for health applications.
7. Knowledge discovery for improving patient-provider communication.
8. Large-scale longitudinal mining of medical records.
9. Medical and wellness recommender system (e.g., medical products,
fitness programs)
10. Personalized predictive modeling for clinical management.
11. Privacy preserving mining of health records.
12. Patient management.
13. Social media analytics for disease and outbreak monitoring and
prediction.
14. Data integration for drug discovery research.
15. Gene expression analysis for target validation and toxicity
analysis
16. Data-mining and machine learning in designing therapeutic agents.
17. Mining and prediction of characteristics such as absorption &
distribution of therapeutic agents.
18. Patent mining and analysis for pharmaceutical research.
19. Computational discovery of genetic biomarkers for selecting the
right patient population.
20. Integrating and mining diverse data (text, pathology, phenotypic
data) to predict patient outcomes.
21. Pharmacovigilance and post-market surveillance.
22. Impact of social networks on personalized medicine.
23. Medical device fault detection and prevention.
24. Pattern recognition in medical images and data.

Important dates:

Submission deadline (extended): June 11, 2011
Acceptance notification: July 1, 2011
Camera-ready deadline: July 21, 2011

KD-HCM Organizers:

Huzefa Rangwala, Assistant Professor
rangwala@cs.gmu.edu
Department of Computer Science
George Mason University
VA 22030, USA

Andrea Tagarelli, Assistant Professor
tagarelli@deis.unical.it
Department of Electronics, Computer and Systems Sciences
University of Calabria,
Rende, CS 87036, Italy

Nikil Wale, Senior Scientist
nikil.wale@pfizer.com
Computational Sciences Center of Emphasis (CS CoE)
Worldwide Research and Development, Pfizer Inc.
Groton, CT 06340, USA

George Karypis, Professor
karypis@cs.umn.edu
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

PC Members

1. Shivani Agarwal, Indian Institute of Science, India
2. Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining, University of
Manchester, UK
3. Karsten Borgwardt, Max Planck Institute, Tubingen, Germany
4. Eric Gifford, CS CoE, Pfizer Inc, Groton, USA
5. Max Kuhn, Bio-statistics, Pfizer Inc, Groton, USA
6. Jessica Lin, George Mason University, USA
7. Huan Luke, University of Kansas, USA
8. Zoran Obradovic, Information Science and Technology Center, Temple
University, USA
9. Ketan Patel, CS CoE, Pfizer Inc, Sandwich UK
10. Jan Ramon, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
11. I. V. Tetko, Helmholtz Zentrum, M√ºnchen, Germany
12. Alfonso Valencia, Structural Computational Biology Group, Spanish
National Cancer Research Center
13. Ian A. Watson, Eli lilly and Company, Indianapolis, USA
14. Ying Zhao, Tshingua University, China

Submission Instructions: Papers submitted to this workshop should have
a maximum length of 12 pages and formatted according to the Springer-
Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence guidelines. Authors
instructions and style files can be downloaded at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
All papers (in PDF format) should be submitted via the Microsoft CMT
system at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/KDHCM2011.

Special Journal Issues: Authors of selected papers from the workshop
will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a
special issue of BMC Bioinformatics and/or International Journal of
Data Mining and Bioinformatics.

Special Journal Issue on Cognitive and Neural Aspects in Robotics with Applications 2011

2011-06-03T16:11:00.001-07:00

Call for Papers with Extended Deadline of July 1, 2011: Special Journal Issue
on Cognitive and Neural Aspects in Robotics with Applications 2011 (CNAR 2011),
Journal of Robotics

It would be appreciated if you could forward this call for papers to anyone who
might be interested in it.

URL: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/si/cnar11/

It is our pleasure to announce a new call for papers for the second special
issue of Journal of Robotics in year 2011. The call for papers on cognitive and
neural sciences related to robotic systems appeared to be a successful
challenge.

Robotics has been widely applied for various fields such as automation and other
control and engineering systems. Recent developments of humanoid and human-like
robots are a milestone in the field of robotics, and they can be a platform for
breaking new ground of robotics applications for human-friendly medical and
welfare systems. Cognitive and learning aspects for such robots are, however,
still underdeveloped compared to highly controlled mechanisms of recent robotic
systems.

Similarly to the previous call of CNAR, the main challenges of this new call for
the special issue are the cognitive aspects of robotics, especially the neural
and fuzzy basis of human intelligence and the fundamental model of human
cognitive and motor functions from the brain sciences point of view. We welcome
papers focused on special and newest hardware and biocomputing implementations
that enhance cognitive capabilities in the field of robotics.

We invite authors to present original research articles as well as review
articles that will cross-fertilize the fields of cognitive sciences and
robotics. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

-- Cognitive aspects of robotics
-- Neural network and fuzzy basis for robotic intelligence
-- Current applications and future prospects of cognitive sciences for robotics
-- Human–robot perceptions and interactions
-- Biocomputing for cognitive computation for robotics
-- New algorithms of computational intelligence for robotics
-- New hardware implementations of cognitive algorithms in robotics
-- Robotics for assisting physical and mental disability
-- Cognitive algorithms in robotics to support biomedical applications

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's author
guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/guidelines/
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete
manuscript through the journal manuscript tracking system at
http://mts.hindawi.com/according to the following timetable:

Important Dates

Manuscript Due July 1, 2011
First Round of Reviews September 1, 2011
Publication Date December 1, 2011

Web page: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/si/cnar11/

Lead Guest Editor

-- Madan M. Gupta, FIEEE, FIFSA, FSPIE, Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory,
College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N
5A9

Guest Editors

-- Noriyasu Homma, Research Division on Advanced Information Technology,
Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
-- Zeng-Guang Hou, Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science,
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
-- Ivo Bukovsky, Division of Automatic Control and Engineering Informatics,
Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, 166 07 Prague 6, Czech
Republic
-- A. M. G. Solo, FBCS, Maverick Technologies America Inc., Suite 808, 1220
North Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19801, U.S.A.

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