Calls for participation: 2020-03

2020-03-11

[Caml-list] Call for Papers :International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (AIBD 2020)

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (AIBD 2020)
April 25~26, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark
https://acsty2020.org/aibd/index.html
Scope

Call for Papers

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (AIBD 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field.

Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Internet of Things.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following
Artificial Intelligence
* AI Algorithms
* Artificial Intelligence Tools and Application
* Computational Theories of Learning
* Data Mining and Machine Learning Tools
* Fuzzy Logic
* Heuristic and AI Planning Strategies and Tools
* Hybrid Intelligent System
* Intelligent System Architecture
* Knowledge Representation
* Natural Language Processing
* Knowledge-based Systems
* Neural Networks
* Pattern Recognition
* Reasoning and Evolution
* Recent Trends and Developments of AI, Big Data
* Robotics
Big Data
* Big Data Techniques, models and algorithms
* Big Data Infrastructure and platform
* Big Data Search and Mining
* Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust
* Big Data Applications in AI, Bioinformatics, Multimedia etc
* Big Data Tools and systems
* Big Data Mining and AI
* Big Data Management
* Cloud and grid computing for Big Data
* Machine Learning and AI for Big Data
* Big Data Analytics and Social Media
* 5G and Networks for Big Data
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by March 14,2020. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).
Selected papers from AIBD 2020, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journal.
* Machine Learning and Applications: An International Journal (MLAIJ)
* International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications (IJAIA)
Important Dates
Submission Deadline : March 14, 2020
Authors Notification : April 10, 2020
Registration & camera -- Ready Paper Due : April 15, 2020

2020-03-03

[Caml-list] Satisfiability Checking and Symbolic Computation - Call for Papers

The 5th International Workshop on
Satisfiability Checking and Symbolic Computation (SC-Square 2020)

July 5th, 2020, Paris, France
http://www.sc-square.org/CSA/workshop5.html
Affiliated with IJCAR 2020:
https://ijcar2020.org/

==== Key Dates
Submissions: Fri. 10 April 2020
Notification: Fri. 8 May 2020
Final version: Fri. 29 May 2020
Workshop: Sun. 5 July 2020

==== Scope
Symbolic Computation is concerned with the efficient algorithmic determination
of exact solutions to complicated mathematical problems. Satisfiability
Checking has recently started to tackle similar problems but with different
algorithmic and technological solutions.

The two communities share many central interests, but researchers from these
two communities rarely interact. Also, the lack of common or compatible
interfaces for tools is an obstacle to their fruitful combination. Bridges
between the communities in the form of common platforms and road-maps are
necessary to initiate an exchange, and to support and direct their interaction.
The aim of this workshop is to provide an opportunity to discuss, share
knowledge and experience across both communities.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

+ Satisfiability Checking for Symbolic Computation
+ Symbolic Computation for Satisfiability Checking
+ Applications relying on both Symbolic Computation and Satisfiability Checking
+ Combination of Symbolic Computation and Satisfiability Checking tools
+ Decision procedures and their embedding into SMT solvers and computer
algebra systems

==== Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be in English, formatted in Springer LNCS style and
submitted via EasyChair using this link:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=scsquare2020

We invite three types of submissions:
+ NP: Normal papers describing research not published or submitted elsewhere
(with a limit of 15 pages).
+ EA: Extended abstracts may be position papers, description of research
prospects, challenges, projects, ongoing works, or applications relevant
to SC-square (with a limit of 8 pages).
+ PO: Posters

To receive the appropriate level of peer review, please declare the category
of your submission by prefixing the title on the EasyChair form with "NP",
"EA" or "PO" accordingly.

For consistency, all submissions must use the LNCS style. The style files are
here:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

We plan to publish the post proceedings of the workshop in digital form either
in EasyChair EPiC series or as a special issue in a journal. Authors may opt
out of this, should they prefer to publish the material elsewhere.

People from industry and business are warmly invited to submit papers to
describe their problems, challenges, goals, and expectations for the SC-square
community.

==== Program committee:
Konstantin Korovin (Co-Chair) (University of Manchester, UK)
Ilias Kotsireas (Co-Chair) (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University)
Curtis Bright (University of Waterloo)
James H. Davenport (University of Bath)
Matthew England (Coventry University)
Vijay Ganesh (Waterloo University)
Marijn Heule (Carnegie Mellon University)
Ahmed Irfan (Stanford University)
Dejan Jovanovic (SRI International)
Manuel Kauers (Johannes Kepler University, Linz)
Stefan Ratschan (Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Martina Seidl (Johannes Kepler University, Linz)
Thomas Sturm (CNRS)
<TBA>

==== Venue
Affiliated with IJCAR, 29 June - 5th July, 2020, Paris, France

[Caml-list] CICM 2020, July 26-31: Call for Papers, extended submission deadline abstracts March 16, 2020/papers March 22, 2020

Call for Papers (***Deadline Extension***)
formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme

13th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2020 -
July 26-31, 2020
Bertinoro, Italy
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2020

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means
for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of
mathematical information.

CICM brings together the many separate communities that have developed
theoretical and practical solutions for mathematical applications such
as computation, deduction, knowledge management, and user interfaces.
It offers a venue for discussing problems and solutions in each of
these areas and their integration.

CICM 2020 Invited Speakers:
Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College, London, UK)
Catherine Dubois (ENSIIE, CNRS, Evry, France)
Christian Szegedy (Google Research, Mountain View, CA, USA)

CICM 2020 Programme committee:
see https://www.cicm-conference.org/2020/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc

CICM 2020 invites submissions in all topics relating to intelligent
computer mathematics, in particular but not limited to

* theorem proving and computer algebra
* mathematical knowledge management
* digital mathematical libraries

CICM appreciates the varying nature of the relevant research in this
area and invites submissions of different forms:

1) Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers
will be published in a volume of Springer LNCS:

* regular papers (up to 15 pages including references) present
novel research results
* project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography)
summarize existing results
* system and dataset descriptions (up to 5 pages including
references) present digital artifacts
* system entry (1 page according to the given LaTeX template)
provides metadata and a quick overview of a new tool or a new
release of an existent tool

2) Informal submissions will be reviewed with a positive bias and
selected for presentation based on their relevance for the community.

* informal papers may present work-in-progress, project
announcements, position statements, etc.
* posters and system demos will be presented in parallel in special
sessions

3) The doctoral programme provides PhD students with a forum to
present early results and receive constructive feedback and mentoring.

*** Important Dates ***

Formal submissions (***extended deadlines***)

- Abstract deadline: March 16
- Full paper deadline: March 22
- Reviews sent to authors: April 24
- Rebuttals due: April 28
- Notification of acceptance: May 1
- Camera-ready copies due: May 10
- Conference: July 26-31

Informal submissions and doctoral programme

Two separate submission rounds are offered so that some authors can
make early travel plans while other authors submit spontaneously.

- First round submission deadline: April 15
- Notification of acceptance: May 1
- Second round submission deadline: June 15
- Notification of acceptance: July 1

All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm13

As in previous years, we will publish the CICM 2020 proceedings with Springer LNCS.

[Caml-list] PPDP 2020 Call For Papers (corrected link)

PPDP 2020 Call For Papers
=========================

The 22nd International Symposium on
Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming,
[PPDP 2020](http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~abela/ppdp20/), (**corrected**)
held 8-10 September 2020 at the University of Bologna, Italy.

TL;DR Abstract deadline: 11 May; paper deadline: 15 May.

Scope
-----

The PPDP 2020 symposium brings together researchers from the
declarative programming communities, including those working in the
functional, logic, answer-set, and constraint handling programming
paradigms. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical
formalisms and methods for analyzing, performing, specifying, and
reasoning about computations, including mechanisms for concurrency,
security, static analysis, and verification.

Submissions are invited on all topics related to declarative
programming, from principles to practice, from foundations to
applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Language Design: domain-specific languages; interoperability;
concurrency, parallelism and distribution; modules; functional
languages; reactive languages; languages with objects; languages for
quantum computing; languages inspired by biological and chemical
computation; metaprogramming.

- Declarative languages in artificial intelligence: logic programming;
database languages; knowledge representation languages;
probabilistic languages; differentiable languages.

- Implementations: abstract machines; interpreters; compilation;
compile-time and run-time optimization; memory management.

- Foundations: types; logical frameworks; monads and effects;
semantics.

- Analysis and Transformation: partial evaluation; abstract
interpretation; control flow; data flow; information flow;
termination analysis; resource analysis; type inference and type
checking; verification; validation; debugging; testing.

- Tools and Applications: programming and proof environments;
verification tools; case studies in proof assistants or interactive
theorem provers; certification; novel applications of declarative
programming inside and outside of CS; declarative programming
pearls; practical experience reports and industrial application;
education.

The PC chair will be happy to advise on the appropriateness of a topic.

PPDP will take place 8-10 September 2020 at the University of Bologna,
Italy, co-located with the 29th Int'l Symp. on Logic-Based Program
Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2020) and the
International conference on [Microservices
2020](https://www.conf-micro.services/2020/).

Submission Categories
---------------------

Submissions can be made in three categories:

- regular Research Papers,
- System Descriptions, and
- Experience Reports.

Submissions of Research Papers must present original research which is
unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 12 pages
ACM style 2-column (including figures, but excluding bibliography).
Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally
published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC
chair in case of questions). Research papers will be judged on
originality, significance, correctness, clarity, and readability.

Submission of System Descriptions must describe a working system whose
description has not been published or submitted elsewhere. They must
not exceed 10 pages and should contain a link to a working
system. System Descriptions must be marked as such at the time of
submission and will be judged on originality, significance,
usefulness, clarity, and readability.

Submissions of Experience Reports are meant to help create a body of
published, refereed, citable evidence where declarative programming
such as functional, logic, answer-set, constraint programming, etc.,
is used in practice. They must not exceed 5 pages **including references**.
Experience Reports must be marked as such at the time
of submission and need not report original research results. They will
be judged on significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability.

Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to:

- insights gained from real-world projects using declarative
programming

- comparison of declarative programming with conventional
programming in the context of an industrial project or a
university curriculum

- curricular issues encountered when using declarative programming
in education

- real-world constraints that created special challenges for an
implementation of a declarative language or for declarative
programming in general

- novel use of declarative programming in the classroom

- programming pearl that illustrates a nifty new data structure or
programming technique.

Supplementary material may be provided via a link to an extended
version of the submission (recommended), or in a clearly marked appendix
beyond the above-mentioned page limits. Reviewers are not required to
study extended versions or any material beyond the respective page
limit. Material beyond the page limit will not be included in the
final published version.

Format of a submission
----------------------

For each paper category, you must use the most recent version of the
"Current ACM Master Template" which is available at
<https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>. The most
recent version at the time of writing is 1.70. You must use the LaTeX
sigconf proceedings template as the conference organizers are unable
to process final submissions in other formats. In case of problems with
the templates, contact
[ACM's TeX support team at Aptara](mailto:acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com).

Authors should note [ACM's statement on author's
rights](http://authors.acm.org/) which apply to final papers.
Submitted papers should meet the requirements of [ACM's plagiarism
policy](http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy).

Requirements for publication
----------------------------

At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to
attend and present the work at the conference. The PC chair may
retract a paper that is not presented. The PC chair may also retract a
paper if complaints about the paper's correctness are raised which
cannot be resolved by the final paper deadline.

Important dates
---------------

-------------------------------- ----- ---- ----------
Title and abstract registration: 11 May 2020 (AoE)
Paper submission: 15 May 2020 (AoE)
Rebuttal period (48 hours): 22-23 June 2020 (AoE)
Author notification: 3 July 2020
Final paper version: 24 July 2020
Conference: 8-10 Sept 2020
-------------------------------- ----- ---- ----------

Organization
------------

------------------------- -------------------- ---------------------
Program committee chair: Andreas Abel, Gothenburg University
General chair: Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna
Steering committee chair: James Cheney, Edinburgh University
------------------------- -------------------- ---------------------

--
Andreas Abel

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden

andreas.abel@gu.se
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~abela/

2020-03-02

[Caml-list] PPDP 2020 Call For Papers

PPDP 2020 Call For Papers
=========================

The 22nd International Symposium on
Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming,
[PPDP 2020](http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~abel/ppdp20/),
held 8-10 September 2020 at the University of Bologna, Italy.

TL;DR Abstract deadline: 11 May; paper deadline: 15 May.

Scope
-----

The PPDP 2020 symposium brings together researchers from the
declarative programming communities, including those working in the
functional, logic, answer-set, and constraint handling programming
paradigms. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical
formalisms and methods for analyzing, performing, specifying, and
reasoning about computations, including mechanisms for concurrency,
security, static analysis, and verification.

Submissions are invited on all topics related to declarative
programming, from principles to practice, from foundations to
applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Language Design: domain-specific languages; interoperability;
concurrency, parallelism and distribution; modules; functional
languages; reactive languages; languages with objects; languages for
quantum computing; languages inspired by biological and chemical
computation; metaprogramming.

- Declarative languages in artificial intelligence: logic programming;
database languages; knowledge representation languages;
probabilistic languages; differentiable languages.

- Implementations: abstract machines; interpreters; compilation;
compile-time and run-time optimization; memory management.

- Foundations: types; logical frameworks; monads and effects;
semantics.

- Analysis and Transformation: partial evaluation; abstract
interpretation; control flow; data flow; information flow;
termination analysis; resource analysis; type inference and type
checking; verification; validation; debugging; testing.

- Tools and Applications: programming and proof environments;
verification tools; case studies in proof assistants or interactive
theorem provers; certification; novel applications of declarative
programming inside and outside of CS; declarative programming
pearls; practical experience reports and industrial application;
education.

The PC chair will be happy to advise on the appropriateness of a topic.

PPDP will take place 8-10 September 2020 at the University of Bologna,
Italy, co-located with the 29th Int'l Symp. on Logic-Based Program
Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2020) and the
International conference on [Microservices
2020](https://www.conf-micro.services/2020/).

Submission Categories
---------------------

Submissions can be made in three categories:

- regular Research Papers,
- System Descriptions, and
- Experience Reports.

Submissions of Research Papers must present original research which is
unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 12 pages
ACM style 2-column (including figures, but excluding bibliography).
Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally
published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC
chair in case of questions). Research papers will be judged on
originality, significance, correctness, clarity, and readability.

Submission of System Descriptions must describe a working system whose
description has not been published or submitted elsewhere. They must
not exceed 10 pages and should contain a link to a working
system. System Descriptions must be marked as such at the time of
submission and will be judged on originality, significance,
usefulness, clarity, and readability.

Submissions of Experience Reports are meant to help create a body of
published, refereed, citable evidence where declarative programming
such as functional, logic, answer-set, constraint programming, etc.,
is used in practice. They must not exceed 5 pages **including references**.
Experience Reports must be marked as such at the time
of submission and need not report original research results. They will
be judged on significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability.

Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to:

- insights gained from real-world projects using declarative
programming

- comparison of declarative programming with conventional
programming in the context of an industrial project or a
university curriculum

- curricular issues encountered when using declarative programming
in education

- real-world constraints that created special challenges for an
implementation of a declarative language or for declarative
programming in general

- novel use of declarative programming in the classroom

- programming pearl that illustrates a nifty new data structure or
programming technique.

Supplementary material may be provided via a link to an extended
version of the submission (recommended), or in a clearly marked appendix
beyond the above-mentioned page limits. Reviewers are not required to
study extended versions or any material beyond the respective page
limit. Material beyond the page limit will not be included in the
final published version.

Format of a submission
----------------------

For each paper category, you must use the most recent version of the
"Current ACM Master Template" which is available at
<https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>. The most
recent version at the time of writing is 1.70. You must use the LaTeX
sigconf proceedings template as the conference organizers are unable
to process final submissions in other formats. In case of problems with
the templates, contact
[ACM's TeX support team at Aptara](mailto:acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com).

Authors should note [ACM's statement on author's
rights](http://authors.acm.org/) which apply to final papers.
Submitted papers should meet the requirements of [ACM's plagiarism
policy](http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy).

Requirements for publication
----------------------------

At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to
attend and present the work at the conference. The PC chair may
retract a paper that is not presented. The PC chair may also retract a
paper if complaints about the paper's correctness are raised which
cannot be resolved by the final paper deadline.

Important dates
---------------

-------------------------------- ----- ---- ----------
Title and abstract registration: 11 May 2020 (AoE)
Paper submission: 15 May 2020 (AoE)
Rebuttal period (48 hours): 22-23 June 2020 (AoE)
Author notification: 3 July 2020
Final paper version: 24 July 2020
Conference: 8-10 Sept 2020
-------------------------------- ----- ---- ----------

Organization
------------

------------------------- -------------------- ---------------------
Program committee chair: Andreas Abel, Gothenburg University
General chair: Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna
Steering committee chair: James Cheney, Edinburgh University
------------------------- -------------------- ---------------------

--
Andreas Abel <>< Du bist der geliebte Mensch.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden

andreas.abel@gu.se
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~abela/

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