April 4-9 2011. Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel Boston, MA. USA.
http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/wainer/DEVS11
Sponsored by
The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
in cooperation with ACM/SIGSIM and ICST
The purpose of this symposium is to provide a forum to discuss recent
advancements in Theory of M&S. The main focus is on theory of modeling,
methodology, practice and software to cope with the challenges arising
out of these, as well as lessons learned and challenges. The Symposium
bridges different areas in the field of Theory of M&S, including formal
modeling, model-checking, graph transformation, modeling methodologies.
It also provides an opportunity to exchange ideas with other SpringSim'11
symposia participants in different fields.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
Theory
- DEVS, Petri Nets, Finite State Machines, Timed Automata, Process Algebras
- Hybrid system modeling and integration of formalisms
- Formal analysis and symbolic reasoning
- Model Checking
- Graph Transformations
M&S Software
- M&S Software, including frameworks and libraries for DEVS, PN, FSM, TA,
PA, etc.
- Education aspects of Theory of M&S
Methodology
- Parallel & distributed simulators
- Middleware and simulators Interoperability (grid, cloud, web services)
- M&S Engineering
- M&S-Based development methods
Practice and Lessons Learned
- Military systems and infrastructures
- Real-time and embedded systems
- High performance computing
- Software-intensive/networked systems
- Transportation and traffic systems
- Ecological and environmental systems
- Standards
All papers will be included in the conference proceedings and archived in
both the the ACM and EU Digital Libraries; Full Papers will be also printed
in
hard copy.
Important Dates
===============
Paper Submission: 21 Nov 2010
Notification: 21 Dec 2010
Final Paper: 25 Jan 2011
Main conference: 4-9 Apr 2011
Submission Procedures
=====================
The conference committee will accept three types of papers submitted as a
PDF file to the conference website (http://www.softconf.com/scs/DEVS11/)
as listed below. All the submitted papers should be original and not have
been submitted to other venues; they will be peer reviewed with respect to
their quality, originality and relevance.
1. Full manuscript: 8 pages in final conference format. In addition to
publication in the conference proceedings, they will be considered for best
paper award. Full papers will be published both in hard copy and CD-ROM.
2. Work in Progress: Short papers up to 6 pages in final conference format.
3. Short Papers: Papers with industrial focus, military or government
applications, and work-in-progress in abstract or short paper format.
DEVS AWARD
==========
This year, the Symposium will hold the Second Bernard P. Zeigler DEVS M&S
Award, to recognize high-impact innovations in M&S methods, applications
and tools (sponsored by RTSync - Chair: Doohwan Kim).
WORKSHOPS
=========
Authors interested in organizing satellite workshops can contact the
organizers. Up to date, two workshops have been confirmed:
- Mod4Sim: M&S and Software Engineering (Chairs: Andrea D'Ambroggio -
UniRoma "Tor Vergata" - and Dorina Petriu - Carleton University -).
http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/mod4sim11/
- DEVS Standardization (Chairs: Xiaolin Hu - Georgia State - and Hessam
Sarjoughian - University of Phoenix -).
DEVS 2011 Organizing committee
==============================
General Chairs:
Gabriel A. Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
Mamadou K. Traoré, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Program Chairs:
Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Jan Himmelspach, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Advisory Board
Bernard P. Zeigler (FIEEE, FSCS, LAA-SCS), University of Arizona, USA
(Chair)
Christos Cassandras (FIEEE, FIFAC), Boston University, USA
François Cellier (FSCS), ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Mo Jamshidi (FIEEE, FASME, FAAAS), University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Kishor Trivedi (FIEEE, GCM IEEE CS), Duke University, USA
DEVS 2011 International Technical Program Committee
===================================================
http://sce.carleton.ca/faculty/wainer/DEVS11/doku.php?id=organizing_committe
e
Further information:
http://sce.carleton.ca/faculty/wainer/DEVS11/doku.php
Dienstag, 28. September 2010
Call of Papers: SYMPOSIUM ON THEORY OF MODELING AND SIMULATION (DEVS 2011)
Donnerstag, 9. September 2010
ARGAIP 2010: Call for Papers
1st Workshop on Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy: computational and philosophical perspectives
http://wsarg2010.ing.unibs.it/
Part of the 11th Symposium of the Italian Association for the Artificial Intelligence
Brescia, December 1-3, 2010
Argumentation is an important and exciting research topic that cuts
across a variety of disciplines: Philosophy, Psychology, Communications
Studies and Computer Science, in particular Artificial Intelligence. In
spite of the wide range of disciplines interested in Argumentation,
scientific communities tend to be organized along disciplinary
boundaries, with only moderate integration occurring between
computational models and philosophical theories of Argumentation. This
workshop aims to rectify this situation, bringing together people
from various disciplines (most notably, Artificial Intelligence,
Philosophy, and Psychology) and asking them to compare their methods and
results in the study of Argumentation.
The “Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy:
computational and philosophical perspectives” workshop will be hosted by
the University of Brescia, Italy, in the context of the 11th Symposium
on Artificial Intelligence of the Italian Association for Artificial
Intelligence (AI*IA 2010), December 1-3. The expected date of the
workshop, December 1, is to be confirmed (a possible change to December
2/3 depends on organizational reasons).
Submissions are invited for full papers, in English or Italian, no
longer than 8 pages (including references), presenting original research
on Argumentation from a philosophical and/or computational perspective
(see details below). Each contribution will be reviewed.
Topics of interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Analysis of controversies
- Applications of argumentation technologies (e.g. e-democracy, risk
assessment, law and medicine)
- Argument schemes
- Argumentation and epistemology
- Argumentation and game theory
- Argumentation and human-computer interaction
- Argumentation for coordination and coalition formation
- Argumentation in a legal context
- Argumentation in a medical context
- Argumentation in a political context
- Argumentation in agent and multi-agent systems
- Argumentation in debate
- Argumentation in the media
- Argumentation structures
- Argumentation, trust and reputation
- Argumentation-based negotiation
- Computational properties of argumentation
- Decision making based on argumentation
- Dialogue systems based on argumentation
- Fallacies
- Formal and informal models for argumentation
- Implementation of argumentation systems
- Persuasion research
- Reasoning about action and time with argumentation
- Rhetoric and argumentation
- Strategies and argumentation
- Systems for learning through argument
- Tools for supporting argumentation
- Visual argumentation
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2010
Acceptance Notification: October 20, 2010
Camera ready: October 28, 2010
Early registration: October 25, 2010
Workshop: December 1, 2010 (to be confirmed)
Proceedings
Accepted papers will be made available via the workshop web-site and
possibly published in the Symposium Proceedings (the publication of the
Symposium Proceedings is to be confirmed by AI*IA). Furthermore, the
possibility of publishing an extended version of selected accepted
papers in a special issue of a journal is under consideration by the
organising committee of the workshop.
Papers should be written in English or Italian and not exceed 8 pages,
including references. All papers should be prepared in the AAAI style
available from the conference website. Paper submission is managed
through EasyChair and is open between July 27 and September 30.
Organising committee
Workshop Chair: Massimiliano Giacomin (University of Brescia, Italy)
Computational Track Chair: Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy)
Philosophical Track Chair: Fabio Paglieri (ISTC-CNR Roma, Italy)
Dienstag, 7. September 2010
Elektronische Akten in der Justiz - Daniela Freiheit
Elektronische Akten in der Justiz
oder: Die ergonomische Benutzeroberfläche als Conditio-sine-qua-non für die juristische Fallbearbeitung mit elektronischen Akten -ein Lösungsansatz
JurPC Web-Dok. 150/2010, Abs. 1 – 77
Anmerkung: Der Aufsatz stellt Anforderungen an eine elektronische Akte in der Justiz dar und konkretisiert diese mit einem visualisierten Lösungsansatz. Dieser Aufsatz ist lesenswert für alle, die sich mit diesem Thema befassen.
RuleML-2010 - 4th International Rule Challenges
October 21-23, 2010, Washington, DC, USA *
http://2010.ruleml.org/ruleml-
==============================
* Call for Demos - Submission Deadline - August 20th, 2010 *
* Forthcoming RuleML special journal issue *
* International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS) *
* Springer journal AI & Law *
* New categories in the Challenge with prestigious prizes *
* 15% RuleML-2009 Partner discounts - see registration page *
******************************
Overview and Aim
==============================
This year, the 4th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML-2010) will be held near Washington, DC, USA. RuleML-2010 (http://2010.ruleml.org/) is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications, which need language standards for rules (inter)operating in, e.g., the Semantic Web, Enterprise Systems, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Applications.
The RuleML-2010 Challenge is one of the highlights at the main conference RuleML-2010 with prestigious prizes. Submissions of benchmarks/evaluations, demos, case studies / use cases, experience reports, best practice solutions (e.g. design patterns, reference architectures, models), rule-based implementations/ tools/ applications, demonstrations engineering methods, implementations of rule standards (e.g. RuleML, RIF, SBVR, PRR, rule-based Event Processing languages, BPMN+rules, BPEL+rules, ...), rules + industrial standards (e.g. XBRL, MISMO, Accord, ...), and industrial problem statements are particularly encouraged.
This year, the RuleML-2010 Challenge will have a special focus theme:
* Modelling Rules in the temporal and geospatial applications
- temporal modelling and reasoning
- geospatial modelling and reasoning
- cross-linking between temporal and geospatial knowledge
- visualization of rules with graphic models in order to support end-user interaction
Key themes of the RuleML-2010 Challenge include the following:
* Demos related to the RuleML-2010 Track Topics: http://2010.ruleml.org/topics.
* Extensions and implementations of W3C RIF
* Editing environments and IDEs for Web rules
* Benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines
* Distributed rule bases and rule services
* Reports on industrial experience about rule systems
Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications from the main focus theme and for the all categories. All accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session.
Submission
==============================
The submission is composed of two parts:
- open-source or commercial demo
- demo papers describing research, implementation, and technical details of your submission.
Submissions to the Rules Challenge 2010 consist of a demo paper of 4-8 pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a presentation about the demonstration, or a download site for the demonstration.
Demo papers submission website:
http://www.easychair.org/
Demo systems submission website:
http://ruleml-challenge.cs.
Please upload all demo papers submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/
Proceedings and Post-proceedings
==============================
The peer-reviewed and selected papers will be published in additional special Challenge proceedings (will be published as CEUR proceedings) along with the online publication of your demo in the highly visible growing Rules Challenge pool.
A selection of revised papers from the Challenge will be invited to already agreed upcoming journal special issues in the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS), and the Springer journal AI & Law.
Important dates
==============================
Submission deadline for demo papers and demo systems:
August 20th, 2010
Notification of accepted demo papers and demo systems:
September 3rd, 2010
Submission deadline for demo systems only:
September 17th, 2010 (contingent on availability of demo slots)
Notification for demo systems only:
October 1st, 2010
Rule Challenge Chairs
==============================
Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG-CNR, Italy
Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna - CIRSFID, Italy
Omair Shafiq, University of Calgary, Canada
Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna - Department of Computer Science, Italy
Program Committee
==============================
Hassan Ait-Kaci, IBM Canada Ltd., Canada
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution, Inc., US
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Mikael Berndtsson, University of Skövde, Sweden
Antonis Bikakis, Institute of Computer Science, FO.R.T.H., Greece
Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Peter Bollen, Department of Organization & Strategy, University of
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Jordi Cabot, INRIA-École des Mines de Nantes, France
Carlos Castro, Departamento de Informática Universidad Técnica
Federico Santa María, Chile
Horatiu Cirstea, Loria, France
Claudia d'Amato, Computer Science Department - University of Bari, Italy
Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, US
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, Dept. of Computer Science, UK
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies, US
Guido Governatori, NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory, Australia
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece
Minsu Jang, Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH - ITI, Greece
Ian Mackie, University of Sussex, UK
Christopher J. Matheus, Versatile Information Systems, Inc., US
Jing Mei, Versatile Information Systems, Inc., US
Jörg P. Müller, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Maher Rahmouni, Hewlett Packard Labs, UK
Dave Reynolds, Epimorphics Ltd, UK
Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Italy
Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Terrance Swift, CENTRIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Leon van der Torre, ILIAS, Luxembourg
Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia
URSW 2010 – Call for Papers
6th International Workshop on
Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2010
In conjunction with the
9th International Semantic Web Conference
Shanghai, China
November 7, 2010
You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty
Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 9th
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in November of 2010 at the
Shanghai International Convention Center, China.
ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research
on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning Workshop
is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization
between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web
community.
Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing
many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the
ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty
is extremely limited. Recently, there has been a groundswell of
demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web
researchers and developers.
This surge of interest creates a unique opening to bring together two
communities with a clear commonality of interest but little history of
interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark
dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision.
AUDIENCE
The intended audience for this workshop includes the following:
* Researchers in uncertainty reasoning technologies with interest in
Semantic Web and Web-related technologies.
* Semantic web developers and researchers.
* People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the
Semantic Web.
* Ontology researchers and ontological engineers.
* Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web.
* Developers of tools designed to support Semantic Web
implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protégé developers,
OWL-API developers...
TOPIC LIST
We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to
the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web (including
fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore,
the following list should be just an initial guide.
* Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web languages
to enable representation of uncertainty
* Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web languages
* Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that
terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts
* Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology
mapping
* Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies
* The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic
Web
* Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or
controversial information in the Semantic Web
* The role of uncertainty as it relates to Web services
* Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve
interoperability among Web services
* Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic
Web
* Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of
the Semantic Web
* Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning
with uncertainty
* The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web
IMPORTANT DATES
September 7, 2010 Paper submissions due
September 30, 2010 Paper acceptance notification
October 15, 2010 Camera-ready papers due
November 4, 2010 Presentations due
November 7, 2010 6th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for
the Semantic Web
SUBMISSION DETAILS
The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position
papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least
three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be
based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential
significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will
be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting
authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2010
Conference, and committed to attend the URSW Workshop.
Submissions to the Workshop are only accepted in electronic format and
should be sent via the workshop’s submission site:
http://www.easychair.org/
Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format
for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the
very same format adopted by the ISWC 2010. For complete details,
see Springer’s Author Instructions
(http://www.springer.com/
Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed
12 pages, including figures. Submissions exceeding this limit
will not be reviewed.
Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research
efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 4 pages.
Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2010 conference, papers
that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been
published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference
will not be accepted to the URSW workshop.
PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION
URSW 2010 will be a full-day workshop divided into three sessions.
Two of those sessions will be devoted to paper presentations, while
the remaining session will be planned in a format that invites an
open debate on the results, conclusions, recommendations, and
follow-up work of the URSW-XG group. We also plan to convey a
work meeting after the workshop, in case the last session need
to be extended.
All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the
workshop and published in the workshop proceedings, which will
be available as a separate publication after the Conference.
Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to
present their work, while authors of accepted position
papers will have a 10-minute slot to share their ideas. Both
technical and position papers will be published in the URSW
Workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2010 Conference.
In addition, technical papers accepted for presentation at the URSW 2010
will be eligible for participating in the selection to the planned Springer
LNCS volume on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
– Vol. II. This will be the second volume of this series and will
include selected papers from URSW 2008 to URSW 2010.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order):
* Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain.
* Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA
* Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA.
* Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy.
* Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy.
* Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA.
* Ken Laskey – MITRE Corporation, USA.
* Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK.
* Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK.
* Matthias Nickles - Technical University of Munich, Germany.
* Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
The confirmed members of the program committee are the following (in
alphabetical order):
* Fernando Bobillo - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
* Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA
* Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA
* Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
* Claudia D'Amato - University of Bari, Italy
* Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy
* Marcelo Ladeira - University of Brasilia, Brazil
* Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA
* Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA
* Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK
* Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK
* Matthias Nickles - Technical University of Munich, Germany
* Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, UK
* Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA
* Livia Predoiu - Universität Mannheim, Germany
* Guilin Qi - University of Karlsruhe, Germany
* Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK
* Daniel Sánchez - University of Granada, Spain
* Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
* Giorgos Stoilos - Oxford University, UK
* Umberto Straccia – ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
* Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA
* Johanna Voelker - University of Karlsruhe, Germany
We are looking forward to seeing you in Shanghai!
MIWAI'10 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
The 4th Mahasarakham International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence.
December 9-10, 2010, Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, Thailand.
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/
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***NEW - STUDENT TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS***
------------------------------
Some travel scholarships are now available for students wishing to
attend MIWAI 2010:
. At least one scholarship for students enrolled at universities outside
Thailand of up to a maximum of 20,000 Thai Baht (approx 630 USD).
. FOUR scholarships for students enrolled at Thai universities of
2,500 Baht each.
More scholarships may be made available soon. For details about
how to apply see
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/
------------------------------
Important Dates
------------------------------
Papers due: October 15, 2010
Author notification: November 12, 2010
Camera-ready papers due: November 22, 2010
Registration deadline: December 2, 2010
Tutorial: December 8, 2010
Workshop dates: December 9-10, 2010
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About MIWAI
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has broad applications in real world
problems. Examples include control, planning and scheduling, pattern
recognition, knowledge mining, software applications and strategy games.
The ever-evolving needs in business both on a local and on a global scale
demand better technologies for solving more and more complex problems. Such
needs can be found in all industrial sectors and in any part of the world.
This workshop aims to be a meeting place where excellence in AI research
meets the needs for solving dynamic and complex problems in the real world.
The academic researchers, developers, and industrial practitioners will
have extensive opportunities to present their original work, technological
advances and practical problems. Participants can learn from each other and
exchange their experiences in order to fine tune their activities in order
to help each other better.
The main purposes of the MIWAI series of workshops are as follows:
. to provide a meeting place for AI researchers and practitioners in
Thailand and beyond.
. to inform Thai students about cutting-edge AI research via the presence
of outstanding international invited speakers.
. to raise the standards of practice of AI research in the whole of
Thailand by providing Thai researchers and students with feedback from an
internationally-renowned program committee.
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Invited Speakers + Tutorials
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Invited Speakers:
1.Arun Agarwal (University of Hyderabad, India)
2.Anthony Cohn (University of Leeds, UK)
Tutorial (December 8):
Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg and Mahasarakham)
"Reasoning using Argumentation: An Introduction"
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Awards
------------------------------
There will be five awards given out at the workshop:
(i) Best original paper: Given to the best category A submission (see
below), from any origin.
(ii) Best original paper by a PhD student: Given to the best category A
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MIWAI'10 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 4th Mahasarakham International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence.
December 9-10, 2010, Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, Thailand.
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/
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***NEW - STUDENT TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS***
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Some travel scholarships are now available for students wishing to
attend MIWAI 2010:
. At least one scholarship for students enrolled at universities outside
Thailand of up to a maximum of 20,000 Thai Baht (approx 630 USD).
. FOUR scholarships for students enrolled at Thai universities of
2,500 Baht each.
More scholarships may be made available soon. For details about
how to apply see
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/
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Important Dates
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Papers due: October 15, 2010
Author notification: November 12, 2010
Camera-ready papers due: November 22, 2010
Registration deadline: December 2, 2010
Tutorial: December 8, 2010
Workshop dates: December 9-10, 2010
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About MIWAI
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has broad applications in real world
problems. Examples include control, planning and scheduling, pattern
recognition, knowledge mining, software applications and strategy games.
The ever-evolving needs in business both on a local and on a global scale
demand better technologies for solving more and more complex problems. Such
needs can be found in all industrial sectors and in any part of the world.
This workshop aims to be a meeting place where excellence in AI research
meets the needs for solving dynamic and complex problems in the real world.
The academic researchers, developers, and industrial practitioners will
have extensive opportunities to present their original work, technological
advances and practical problems. Participants can learn from each other and
exchange their experiences in order to fine tune their activities in order
to help each other better.
The main purposes of the MIWAI series of workshops are as follows:
. to provide a meeting place for AI researchers and practitioners in
Thailand and beyond.
. to inform Thai students about cutting-edge AI research via the presence
of outstanding international invited speakers.
. to raise the standards of practice of AI research in the whole of
Thailand by providing Thai researchers and students with feedback from an
internationally-renowned program committee.
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Invited Speakers + Tutorials
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Invited Speakers:
1.Arun Agarwal (University of Hyderabad, India)
2.Anthony Cohn (University of Leeds, UK)
Tutorial (December 8):
Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg and Mahasarakham)
"Reasoning using Argumentation: An Introduction"
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Awards
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There will be five awards given out at the workshop:
(i) Best original paper: Given to the best category A submission (see
below), from any origin.
(ii) Best original paper by a PhD student: Given to the best category A
paper whose first author is a registered PhD student, from any origin.
(iii) Best original paper by a Masters student: Given to the best category
A paper whose first author is a registered Masters student, from any
origin.
(iv) Best demonstration: Given to the best demonstration (see category C
submissions below - note this prize will only be awarded in case at least 3
demonstrations are presented at the workshop).
(v) Best reviewer: Given to the reviewer who has given the most helpful
feedback on the papers they have been assigned to review.
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Call for Papers
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Submission of papers is due on October 15, 2010. The research areas in AI
include but not limited to:
- Agent-based simulation
- Agent-oriented software engineering
- Agents and Web services
- Agent-based electronic commerce, auctions and markets
- AI in video games
- Computer vision
- Constraint satisfaction
- Data mining
- Decision theory
- Distributed AI
- E-Commerce and AI
- Game theory
- Internet/WWW intelligence
- Industrial applications of AI
- Intelligent tutoring
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Machine learning
- Multiagent planning and learning
- Multiagent systems and their applications
- Multiagent systems and evolving intelligence
- Natural language processing
- Neural networks
- Planning and scheduling
- Robotics
- Uncertainty in AI
- Web services
Submission requirements
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Submissions of the following three categories are invited:
Category A: REGULAR PAPERS
..............................
Papers presenting new original work. Submitted papers should not exceed a
length of 12 pages in the IEEE format style (templates here:
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/
papers will be reviewed on overall quality and relevance. Reviewing of
category A papers will be (at least) double-blind. In order to make blind
reviewing possible, the authors should follow that:
. The authors' names and institutions should not appear in the paper.
. Unpublished work of the authors should not be cited.
. Using "we" or "us" in reviews of literature should be avoided, e.g.,
"In [1] we have proposed..." should be changed to "In [1] the authors have
proposed...".
The program committee will evaluate Category A papers as either rejected‚
or accepted as a long paper, or accepted as a short paper. All accepted
category A papers (long and short) will be fully published in the
proceedings.
Category B: COMPRESSED CONTRIBUTIONS
..............................
Papers that have been accepted after June 1 2009 for AI-related refereed
conferences or journals can be resubmitted and will be accepted as
"compressed contributions". Authors are invited to submit the published
version (without page or format restriction) together with a 1 or 2-page
abstract prepared in the IEEE format style (links to templates above). Note
the above double-blind instructions apply only to category A papers, not to
category B. The abstract of the paper will be published in the proceedings.
Every author may submit at most one B-paper of which they are the
corresponding author, and only if they do not submit any A-paper as
corresponding author.
Category C: DEMONSTRATIONS AND APPLICATIONS
..............................
Proposals for demonstrations will be evaluated based on submitted
demonstration summaries stating the following: the purpose of the system to
be demonstrated, its user groups, the organization or project for which it
is developed, the developers, and the technology used. In addition, the
system requirements and the duration of the demo (not exceeding 30 minutes)
should be mentioned. Especially master students are encouraged to submit
papers presenting their applications and experiences. The maximum size of
demonstration summaries is 2 pages (links to templates above). Reviewing of
category C papers will be double-blind (see above under "category A" papers
for details).
The workshop proceedings will be published with ISBN number.
At least one author of each accepted paper (in each submission category) is
required to attend the workshop.
Language Requirements
..............................
As MIWAI is an international workshop, its official language is English.
This means all submitting authors must submit an English language version
of their paper, as well as present their paper in English if accepted for
the workshop.
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Committees
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Advisory Committee
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-Wanchai Rivepaiboon (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand)
-Wirat Pongsiri (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
-Sujin Butdeesuwan (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
-Somnuk Puangpronpitag (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
Program Co-Chairs
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- Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg and Mahasarakham University,
Thailand)
- Chattrakul Sombattheera (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
Publicity Chairs
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-Wijittra Noisanguan (Rajamangala University of Technology, Isan, Surin
campus, Thailand)
-Mana Setwong (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
Program Committee (provisional)
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- Arun Agarwal (Hyderabad, India)
- Samir Aknine (Paris 6, France)
- Laor Boongasame (Bangkok University, Thailand)
- Roger Boyle (Leeds, UK)
- Kosin Chamnongthai (KMUTT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Matthew Dailey (AIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Juergen Dix (Clausthal, Germany)
- Patrick Doherty (Linkoping, Sweden)
- Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
- Jerome Lang (CNRS, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France)
- Kittichai Lavangnananda (KMUTT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Fangzhen Lin (HKUST, Hong Kong)
- Jerome Mengin (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
- Ekawit Nantajeewarawat (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Eric Pacuit (Tilburg, Netherlands)
- Vineet Padmanabhan (Hyderabad, India)
- Patrice Perny (Paris 6, France)
- Supawan Phonphitakchai (Naresuan University, Thailand)
- Guilin Qi (Southeast University, Nanjing, China)
- Jun Shen (Wollongong, Australia)
- Alok Singh (Hyderabad, India)
- Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)
- Siriwan Suebnukarn (Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Leon van der Torre (Luxembourg)
- Thanaruk Theeramunkong (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Siba Kumar Udgata (Hyderabad, India)
- Paul Weng (Paris 6, France)
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Contact
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Please direct any comments or enquiries to Chattrakul Sombattheera
(chattrakul.s[AT]msu.ac.th) or Richard Booth (richard.booth[AT]uni.lu).
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ICAIL 2011 - 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Law - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
13th International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence & Law (ICAIL 2011)
June 6 – June 10, 2011
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
http://www.law.pitt.edu/icail2011
Call for Papers
The field of AI and Law is concerned with the study of legal reasoning using computational methods; computational models of argumentation; knowledge acquisition techniques for the legal domain, including natural language processing and data mining; and the formal representation of norms, normative actions, normative systems, norm-governed societies, and multi-agent systems. The field also includes the investigation of techniques from advanced information technology, using law as the illustrative domain; and applications of advanced information technology to support tasks in the legal domain.
ICAIL provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research results and practical applications and stimulates interdisciplinary and international collaboration. Previous ICAIL conferences have been held biennially since 1987, with proceedings published by ACM. The journal Artificial Intelligence and Law regularly publishes expanded versions of selected ICAIL papers.
Authors are invited to submit papers on topics including but not restricted to
- Formal and computational models of legal reasoning
- Knowledge acquisition techniques for the legal domain, including natural language processing and data mining
- Computational models of argumentation and decision making
- Legal knowledge representation including legal ontologies and common sense knowledge
- Computational models of evidential reasoning
- Modeling norms for multi-agent systems
- Modeling negotiation and contract formation
- Computational models of case-based legal reasoning
- Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval
- Automated information extraction from legal databases and texts
- Intelligent legal tutoring systems
- Intelligent support systems for the legal domain
- E-discovery and e-disclosure
- Automatic legal text classification and summarization
- Machine learning and data mining applied to legal databases
ICAIL Workshops and Tutorials
ICAIL 2011 will include workshops and tutorials on the first and last days. Proposals for workshops and tutorials are invited, and should be sent to the Program Chair. Tutorials should cover a broad topic of relevance to the AI and Law community. Proposals should contain enough information to permit evaluation on the basis of importance, quality, and community interest. Each workshop should have one or more designated organizers and a program or organizing committee. Proposals should be about 2 to 4 pages and include at least the following information
- The workshop or tutorial topic and goals, their significance, and their appropriateness for ICAIL 2011
- The intended audience, including the areas from which participants may come, the likely number of participants (with some of their names, if known), and plans for publicizing the workshop
- Organization of the workshop or tutorial, including the intended format (such as invited talks, presentations, panel discussions, or other methods for ensuring an interactive atmosphere) and the expected length (full day or half day)
- Organizers’ details: a description of the main organizers’ background in the proposed topic; and complete addresses including web pages of all organizers and committee members (if applicable).
Mentoring Program for ICAIL 2011
The International Association for AI and Law will offer a mentoring program for papers being submitted to the ICAIL conference. The mentoring program is intended primarily for junior authors who have not previously published an Artificial Intelligence and Law paper at a conference or in a journal.
Important Dates
These dates are tentative and subject to change
- Mentoring program request deadline: November 8, 2010
- Mentoring program paper deadline: November 15, 2010
- Submission of workshop and tutorial proposals: December 6, 2010
- Submission of abstracts (optional): January 3, 2011
- Submission of papers deadline: January 10, 2011
- Notification of acceptance: tba
- Final revised and formatted papers due: tba
- Conference: June 6 - June 10, 2011
Submission Details
Papers should not exceed 5000 words. If an approved style file is used, the maximum length is 10 pages. Style format template files can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers should be submitted by the above paper submission deadline, in PDF or MS Word format.
To aid the reviewing process, authors are requested to submit abstracts of their papers by the above abstract submission deadline. Abstracts should include at least the title of the paper, up to four keywords, and a contact address for the author.
Both papers and abstracts should be submitted electronically to the conference support system (details to be announced).
Authors will be notified of the referees’ decision in March 2011. Papers not accepted for full publication and presentation may be accepted as short research abstracts. Papers (including research abstracts) must be presented at the conference in order to appear in the proceedings. Final versions of papers for publication in the proceedings will be due in April 2011.
Donald H. Berman Award for Best Student Paper
To encourage participation by students, IAAIL has created the Donald H. Berman Award for the best paper submitted to ICAIL by a student or students. The award consists of a cash gift and free attendance at ICAIL 2011. For a paper to be considered for the award, the student author(s) should be clearly designated as such when the paper is submitted, and any nonstudent co-authors should provide a statement that the paper is primarily student work. Notification will be made through the ICAIL website, and the award will be presented at the conference banquet.
Conference Officials
Program Chair
Tom van Engers
University of Amsterdam/Faculty of Law
Leibniz Center for Law
www.LeibnizCenter.org
vanEngers@uva.nl
Conference Chair
Kevin D. Ashley
Professor of Law and Intelligent Systems
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Ashley@pitt.edu
Secretary/Treasurer
Anne Gardner
Atherton, California, USA
gardner.anne@sbcglobal.net