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The dg.o '17 Beyond Bureaucracy (BB) Track aims to outline and discuss
challenges along the boundaries of society, technology, and governance,
which reach beyond established e-governance research paths and priorities.
The BB-Track invites contributions that discuss pending technological
challenges, promotes the economic potentials of disruptive new technological
ecosystems, and serves as a platform for pro/con deliberations on BB thought
and knowledge.
Some corresponding thoughts have been outlined by scholars in BB Volume
(http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319541419) that has been released
recently. Moreover, after Vienna, Krems, and Shanghai, BB is comming to the
dg.o 2017 in New York! More information regarding dg.o 2017 (18th Annual
International Conference on Digital Government Research) is available on
conference's official website (http://dgo2017.dgsociety.org/).
We're welcoming research papers, works in progress and tutorials that deal
with innovation and ideas, which bypass BB and look forward with regard to
ICT and governance. All submissions have to be forwarded with the subject
"dg'o 17 BB-Track" to both the track chairs:
Dr. Alois Paulin, TU Vienna, Austria (alois(a)apaulin.com
<mailto:alois@apaulin.com> )
Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos, TEI Thessaly, Greece (lanthopo(a)teilar.gr
<mailto:lanthopo@teilar.gr> )
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3rd INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
BigDat 2017
Bari, Italy
February 13-17, 2017
Organized by:
University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/
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AIM:
BigDat 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 23 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes.
ADDRESSED TO:
In principle, graduate students, PhD students and postdocs from around the world will be the most typical profiles. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for participation in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be differences in level, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. BigDat 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
REGIME:
In addition to keynotes, 2-3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
VENUE:
BigDat 2017 will take place in Bari, a lively university city on the Adriatic Sea in Southern Italy. The venue will be:
Department of Computer Science
University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
via Orabona, 4
70125 Bari, Italy
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Ernesto Damiani (EBTIC, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi & University of Milan), Model-driven Development of Big Data Applications
Daniele Quercia (Bell Labs), Good City Life
PROFESSORS AND COURSES:
Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models
Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics
Tamás Budavári (Johns Hopkins University), [introductory] Big Data Approaches in Astronomy
Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [advanced] Data-aware Processes: Modeling and Verification
Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Managing Big Data in the Cloud
Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University), [intermediate] Using High Performance Computing for Big Data Analytics
Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete), [intermediate/advanced] Streaming Big Data Analytics
David W. Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Data Visualization with R
Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Signal Processing Tools for Big Network Data Analytics
Sander Klous (University of Amsterdam), [introductory] We Are Big Data
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia), [introductory] Analysis of Large Social Networks
Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza University of Rome), [intermediate/advanced] Ontology-based Data Management
Soumya D. Mohanty (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), [introductory/intermediate] Swarm Intelligence Methods and Optimization Problems in Big Data Analytics
Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato), [introductory] Introduction to Data Stream Mining for Big Data
Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), [introductory/intermediate] Harnessing Big Data for Building Smart Things
Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] Coupled Oscillators Approach in Time Series Analysis
Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate] Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud
V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Big Data and Cybersecurity
Alexander S. Tuzhilin (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems and Big Data
Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big Data Algorithms that Aren't Machine Learning
Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania), [introductory] Sentiment Mining from User Generated Content
John Wright (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for High-Dimensional Data: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University), [introductory/advanced] Knowledge Discovery from Relational and Multimedia Data
OPEN SESSION
An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by February 10, 2017.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Annalisa Appice
Michelangelo Ceci (co-chair)
Stefano Franco
Corrado Loglisci
Donato Malerba (co-chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair)
Manuel Jesús Parra Royón
Gianvito Pio
David Silva
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done at
http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/registration.php
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event.
FEES:
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
ACCOMMODATION:
Suggestions for accommodation are available on the website.
CERTIFICATE:
Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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* Please kindly forward to those who may be interested.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Artificial Immune Systems: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory
IEEE CEC 2017 Special Session
June 5-8, 2017, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain
http://ieee-cis-ais.org/ais-cec2017/
ais.cec2017(a)gmail.com
*** EXTENDED DEADLINE: January 30, 2017
*** NEWS: The BEST ACCEPTED papers, and the ones most REPRESENTATIVE
in AIS will be invited to be significantly extended in order to be
considered for a SPECIAL ISSUE in NATURAL COMPUTATION journal.
* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Computational & Mathematical modelling of the Immune System;
- Theoretical aspects of immune inspired algorithms;
- Novel algorithms and new immune operators;
- Benchmarking immune inspired algorithms against other techniques;
- Empirical and Theoretical investigations into performance and
complexity of immune inspired algorithms;
- Hybridisation of immune inspired algorithms with other techniques;
- Systems & Synthetic Immunology.
This special session is supported by IEEE CIS Task Force on Artificial
Immune Systems (http://ieee-cis-ais.org).
* IMPORTANT DATES:
paper submission: January 30, 2017
notification of acceptance: February 26, 2017
final paper submission: March 12, 2017
Conference dates: June 5-8, 2017
* ORGANIZERS:
Thomas Jansen, Aberystwyth University, UK
Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
Jon Timmis, University of York, UK
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Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD)
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Catania
V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy
tel: 0039 095 7383038
fax: 0039 095 330094
Email: mpavone(a)dmi.unict.it
http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/
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*** Third Call for Doctoral Consortium ***
21st European Conference on Advances in Databases
and Information Systems
ADBIS 2017
Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
24 - 27 September, 2017
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…
The internationally recognized ADBIS conference already for 21 years is
gathering researchers and practitioners around topics related to databases,
data processing, and information systems, in general. The conference is run
in Europe but attracts researchers from all over the world. The 21st ADBIS
conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference is accompanied
by satellite events, including doctoral consortia and workshops.
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a forum where PhD students can present
their research ideas, confront them with the scientific community, receive
feedback from mentors, and tie cooperation bounds. Students will receive
inspiration from their peers and will have a chance to discuss their research
objectives with senior members of the community in the context of an
established international conference.
The DC session will take place on September 24, in parallel with the
workshop sessions. Each participant will present her/his work, followed by
a discussion with senior researchers.
ELIGIBILITY
We seek PhD students who have either determined the direction of their
thesis research (probably with some preliminary results already published),
but who still have substantial work to complete, or PhD student participants
who are in the early stages of their dissertation year. It is not required to
have a paper accepted for the main conference in order to participate in
the DC.
SUBMISSIONS
To apply to the DC, please submit a single-authored paper (which will
appear in the proceedings of DC), accompanied by a short email from the
thesis advisor stating support for your participation in the DC, describing
the current status of the thesis research, and giving your expected date of
graduation.
The papers for DC should be at most 12 pages in Springer format (formatting
instructions can be obtained via
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… and
describe the state of the whole PhD project, rather than a specific completed
result. The paper should outline the objectives, the problem, state of the art,
results obtained so far, and what is still to be done in the frame of the PhD
project. If an author prefers to present a completed research result, the
paper should be submitted to the main conference or one of accompanying
workshops. A paper submitted to the DC may not be under review for any
other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for the DC.
Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format at CMT:
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…. In case of multiple
files, please submit a single compressed file (zip or rar). After logging into
CMT, please choose the "ADBIS 2017 Doctoral Consortium" track.
REVIEW PROCESS
Each paper submitted to the DC will be reviewed by at least two members
of the DC program committee and will be judged based on originality,
technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance. The authors of
successful submissions must take into account the reviewers' comments
during the preparation of the final version and describe the changes in a
separate document to be submitted together with the final camera-ready
version. The program committee reserves the right to reject a paper if the
final version does not meet the requirements above.
Applications not adhering to the provided guidelines (including page limits)
will not be considered. The authors of accepted papers must register to the
conference, attend the DC and present their work.
PROCEEDINGS
The DC papers will be published by Springer, together with the ADBIS
workshops proceedings, in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and
Computing series.
IMPORTANT DATES
· Submission: May 19, 2017
· Acceptance/Rejection Notification: June 30, 2017
· Camera-ready Submission: July 14, 2017
· Doctoral Consortium: September 24, 2017
COMMITTEES
Steering Committee Chair
· Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia
General Chair
· George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Chairs
· Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
· Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Proceedings Chair
· Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Workshops Chairs
· Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
· Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
· Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France
· Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy
The Second International Workshop on the Internet of Agents (IoA)
- In conjunction with AAMAS Conference 2017
- São Paulo, Brazil: May 8, 2017
- http://ioa.alqithami.com/2017/
- [ CALL FOR PAPER ] :
Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained much attention due to the
overwhelming advantages it brings to our daily lives. The metaphor “Things"
in an IoT does not only represent a variety of hardware, such as simple
sensors, actuators or complex devices (e.g., vehicles, charging stations,
heating control) it can also comprise pure software instances that might be
service-oriented or data-driven. Thus, huge interoperable networks evolve
producing large amounts of data and providing a tremendous quantity of
services that are supposed to be handled in a distributed manner. An IoT
offers the possibility to develop completely new cross-domain solutions but
also comes with a lot of challenges for areas such as data aggregation,
automated service selection or distributed planning.
On the confluence between IoT and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), there is a
strong ongoing trend for the IoT to adapt to the intelligent
nature/architecture of the MAS that we termed as “Internet of Agents”
(IoA). The IoA workshop emphasizes on the current range of nascent network
centric agents that operate on IoT infrastructures. From a broader point of
view, this includes agents’ efforts to form collaborative units as well as
the techniques and methodologies for constructing online agents that
represent interests of their actual counterparts (e.g., hardware devices or
sensors) and take actions autonomously. This workshop will reflect the
impacts of the dynamic network proliferation and start of smart agent
systems that exploit and explore opportunities heralded by the fast
social-pace of interconnectivity. From a narrow point of view, we aim to
collect, to present, and to discuss (practical) applications and cognitive
foundations surrounding agent-based approaches that successfully overcome
well-known challenges of software that operates on IoT environments in
order to identify promising scenarios that motivate a broader use of
agent-technology for the development of IoT-software.
- [ WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND AREAS ] :
The workshop seeks to attract papers concerning:
- Presenting a formal or interdisciplinary architecture of IoA,
- Discussing an experiment or prototype for IoA,
- Providing a novel approach to IoA, or
- Mapping an existing approach to IoA.
This can be through a theoretical modeling, animation, simulation, or
by presenting existing (real-world) applications.
The topics of interest for the IoA workshop will comprise all technical
issues that are related to IoT systems and can be solved via a
(multi-)agent based approach. More concrete, these include but are not
limited to:
- Agents-based interactive environments
- Architectures of cognitively reasoned things and interactions
- Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms
- Automated service discovery or selection
- Quality-of-Service (QoS) and service composition
- Computational models of distributed technologies
- IoT/M2M applications and services employing MAS
- Globalized networks and grid alliances
- Network-centric warfare, individualism or organizations
- IoA security including self-healing and self-protection
- IoA monitoring and control including
self-configuration/-adaption/-optimization
Papers may address one or more of the listed topics, although authors
should not feel limited by them. All topics and submission formats are open
to both research and industry contributions. Papers should be written in
English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed
16 pages.
- [ IMPORTANT DATES ] :
Submission DEADLINE: February 7, 2017
Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2017
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17th Annual International Workshop on
Computational Geometry and Applications CGA'17
in conjunction with
The 2017 International Conference on Computational Science
and its Applications (ICCSA 2017)
http://www.iccsa.org/
July 3 - 6, 2017
University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Paper submission link: http://ess.iccsa.org/
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 5, 2017
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Important Dates
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March 5, 2017 (extended): Deadline for draft paper submission.
April 28, 2017: Notification of Acceptance
May 15, 2017: Camera-ready version and Pre-registration
July 3-6, 2017: CGA'17 Workshop and ICCSA 2017
Workshop Description
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This year the Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications and Security,
held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications, will take place in Trieste, Italy.
The workshop is intended as an international forum for researchers in computational geometry and related areas, with the goal of
advancing the state of research in computational geometry and related disciplines. We invite submission of papers presenting
high-quality original research in one of the three Workshop tracks:
- theoretical computational geometry
- applied computational geometry
- security and performance issues
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
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- Design and analysis of geometric algorithms
- Geometric algorithms in path planning and robotics
- Computational geometry in biometrics
- Intelligent geometric computing
- Geometric algorithms in computer graphics and computer vision
- Geometric modeling
- Voronoi diagrams and generalizations
- Geometric data structures
- 3D Geometric modeling
- Geometric algorithms in Geographical Information Systems
- Algebraic geometry
- Discrete and combinatorial geometry
- Interpolation and surface reconstruction
- Implementation issues and numerical precision in geometric algorithms
- Applications in computational biology, physics, chemistry, geography, medicine, education, networks.
- Visualization of geometric algorithms
- Security applications
- Geometry in biometrics
Submissions in other related areas will also be considered.
Proceedings
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Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by Springer/IEEE CS.
Proceedings of the previous Workshops on Computational Geometry and Applications appeared in LNCS Springer and IEEE_CS.
Papers from the previous CGA Workshops have appeared in the special issues of International Journal of Computational
Geometry and Applications, Journal of CAD/CAM, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE),
the Journal of Supercomputing and Transactions on Computational Science, Springer.
Location and Conference fees
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This year CGA'17 located in beautiful Trieste, Italy. For all details with respect to the conference fees please consult the ICCSA 2011 web page.
Special discount for students and session organizers is available. For more information, please visit the ICCSA 2017 web site.
Submission
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The submission must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules posted on ICCSA 2017 web site.
Electronic submissions in PS, PDF, or LaTex (please also submit all .eps, .dvi, and .ps files).
MS Word submissions will also be accepted.
Please submit your paper through the CyberChair electronic submission system,
please follow instructions available at http://www.iccsa.org/.
During Step 1 of the abstract submission you will be asked to submit your abstract to the CyberChair:
please select CGA workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops.
For additional references or enquiries, please send your e-mail directly
to the Workshop Chair:
marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca
International Program Committee Members (TBC):
Tetsuo Asano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Sergei Bereg (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary, Canada)
Ovidiu Daescu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Tamal Dey (Ohio State University, USA)
Marina L. Gavrilova (University of Calgary, Canada)
Christopher Gold (University of Glamorgan, UK)
Hisamoto Hiyoshi (Gunma University, Japan)
Andres Iglesias (University de Cantabria, Spain)
Deok-Soo Kim (Hanyang University, Korea)
Ivana Kolingerova (Unversity of West Bohemia, Czech Republic)
Nikolai Medvedev (Novosibirsk Russian Academy of Science, Russia)
Asish Mukhopadhyay (University of Windsor, Canada)
Dimitri Plemenos (Universite de Limoges, France)
Val Pinciu (Southern Connecticut State University, USA)
Jon Rokne (University of Calgary, Canada)
Kokichi Sugihara (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Vaclav Skala (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic)
Muhammad Sarfraz (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia)
Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Chee Yap (New York University, USA)
Marina L. Gavrilova
CGA'11 General Chair
Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Calgary,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N1N4
Telephone: (403) 220-5105
Fax: (403) 284-4707
E-mail: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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TSD 2017 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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The twentieth anniversary International Conference on
TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2017)
Praha (Prague), Czech Republic
August 27-31, 2017
http://www.tsdconference.org
TSD HIGHLIGHTS
* Invited speakers: Tomas Mikolov (Facebook AI Research Group, USA), Lucia
Specia (The University of Sheffield, UK), Rico Sennrich (The University
of Edinburgh, UK) and other eminent personages with various expertise
related to the topics of the conference have been asked to give their
respective pieces of speech.
* TSD is traditionally published by Springer-Verlag and regularly listed in
all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings
Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc.
* TSD offers high-standard transparent review process - double blind, final
reviewers discussion.
* The TSD2017 conference is supported by the International Speech
Communication Association (ISCA). It holds the status of an ISCA
Supported Event.
* TSD is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017 satellite event.
* TSD will take place in the historical centre of Prague, the Capital of
the Czech Republic.
* The conference is organized in co-operation with the Institute of Formal
and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the
Charles University.
* TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all
meals, one social event, etc.) for an easily affordable fee starting at
290 EUR for students and 360 EUR for full participants.
* Moreover, we succeeded in our effort to provide students with an
accommodation option for an affordable price of 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for
the breakfast) in the nearby dormitories.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 31, 2017 ......... Deadline for submission of contributions
May 10, 2017 ........... Notification of acceptance or rejection
May 31, 2017 ........... Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers
August 27-31, 2017 ..... TSD2017 conference date
The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in form of navigable
content. Printed books will be available for extra fee.
TSD SERIES
TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between
researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over
the world. Proceedings of the TSD conference form a book published by
Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major
citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX.
TOPICS
Topics of the 20th anniversary conference will include (but are not limited
to):
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech,
handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of
feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling).
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text, and
spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized
lexicons, dictionaries).
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity
speech synthesis, computer singing).
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual
processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text
labeling, summarization, authorship attribution).
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction,
information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge
representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism
detection).
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine
translation, natural language understanding, question-answering
strategies, assistive technologies).
Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues).
Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotion and
personality modelling).
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
All programme committee members are listed on the conference web pages:
http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017/index.php?page=committees
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event is English, however, papers on issues
related to text and speech processing in languages other than English are
strongly encouraged.
CONFERENCE FEES
The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on the participant's
status (full or student). It includes one copy of the conference
proceedings (on a USB flash drive), refreshments/coffee breaks, lunches and
dinners, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event
admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as
possible, the accommodation and the conference trip are not included in it
this time.
Full participant:
early registration by May 31, 2017 - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR)
late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 11 000 (approx. 400 EUR)
on-site registration - CZK 12 000 (approx. 444 EUR)
Student (reduced):
early registration by May 31, 2017 - CZK 8 000 (approx. 290 EUR)
late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 8 700 (approx. 322 EUR)
on-site registration - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR)
Dormitory accommodation 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast)
Please, keep in mind that the fees are preliminary and they may slightly
change in the future.
LOCATION
Praha (Prague)--also called The City of a Hundred Spires or The Heart of
Europe--is situated in the very centre of Bohemia on the banks of the river
Vltava. There live more than 1.2 million people in the metropolitan area.
Thus, Praha is considered the centre of science, higher education, culture,
economy and authorities.
The city is divided into ten districts. Each of them offers its own
charming atmosphere predicated upon its rich history. A good example can
be the Jewish Quarter (Josefov) known especially for the legend of Golem
and famous writer Franz Kafka. Then, walking the Parizska street (said to
be the most luxurious street in the city), there is the Old Town Square.
One of the most important squares of the city renowned for the rare Prague
Astronomical Clock (Orloj), number of galleries, Bethlehem Chapel and
a monument of religious reformer Jan Hus.
The next place of interest can be found in the area of the New Town. The
Wenceslas square with the monument of St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of
the Czech state, is the longest square of the republic. Its capacity is
fully used by various shops, restaurants, clubs and street artists. Also
the renaissance revival-styled building of National Museum, which is now
under reconstruction, is situated on the upper end of the square.
Modern art and architecture together with technical mastery demonstration
are represented by the Zizkov Television Tower, the Dancing House (Fred and
Ginger Building) or the Stefanik's Observatory on the Petrin hill located
in the neighbourhood of the quarter Hradcany. Also Krizik's light fountain
or Industrial Palace in the area of the Holesovice Showground are worth
seeing.
However, the dominant feature of the skyline is still created by the Prague
Castle and the Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral spires. The Golden Lane heading
down to the Lesser Town shows the tiny and colorful medieval houses. There
are many bridges connecting the banks of the Vltava River.
However, only one of them is well known in the whole world--the Charles
bridge. Czech King and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV promoted its
construction in the 14th century. The bridge is 520 metres long and stands
for a connection between the Lesser Town and the Old Town. It was built in
the Gothic style as well as the St. Vitus Cathedral.
Charles IV was also the founder of the University, which now proudly bears
his name--The Charles University. It is one the world's oldest universities
and with 17 faculties, 3 institutes, 6 centres of teaching, research and
development it is also the largest and best rated university in the Czech
Republic. The students can choose some of the 642 courses within 300 of
accredited degree programmes in the field of medicine, law, theology,
pharmacy, arts, science, mathematics and physics, education, social
sciences, physical education and sports, and humanities.
We are justifiably very proud of the fact that the campus of the Charles
University is going to host the TSD2017 conference.
ABOUT CONFERENCE
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University
of West Bohemia, Pilsen, the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University,
Brno, and the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of
Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University.
The TSD2017 conference is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017
satellite event and it holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event as well.
Venue:
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University
Mala Strana Campus - "S" Building
Malostranske nam. 2/25
CZ-118 00 Praha 1
Accommodation:
Orea Hotel Pyramida ****
Belohorska 24
CZ-169 00 Praha 6
CONTACT
The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is
writing an e-mail to:
Mrs Romana Strapkova, TSD2017 Conference Secretary
E-mail: tsd2017(a)tsdconference.org
Phone: (+420) 736 664 500
All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
TSD2017 - KIV
Fakulta aplikovanych ved
Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni
Univerzitni 8
CZ-306 14 Plzen
Czech Republic
Fax: (+420) 377 632 402 -- Please, mark the faxed material with large
capitals 'TSD' on top.
TSD 2017 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017
Dear colleagues!
We cordially invite you to attend the Second Russia and Pacific Conference
on Computer Technology and Applications (RPC-2017) to be held during
September 25-29, 2017, on Russky Island at the Far Eastern Federal
University Campus.
The conference is organized by Far Eastern Federal University, Institute
of Automation and Control Processes of Far Eastern Branch of Russian
Academy of Sciences, and IEEE New South Wales Section (Australia).
The conference proceedings will be published in the international journal "Information Technology in Industry". It is indexed in Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index) by Thomson Reuters.
The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for academics and
engineers in computer technology to meet, exchange ideas, and establish
professional networks. It is a forum which focuses on specific
disciplinary research as well as on multi-disciplinary studies. The
uniqueness of RPC is that it enables scientists from Russia to link with
academics from all around the world and that it gathers researchers not only from technical areas, but also from areas which apply the technologies. The working language of the conference is English.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
-- intelligent computing;
-- agent-based modeling and web-applications;
-- computer networking, telecommunication and mobile communications;
-- security and hacking;
-- cloud computing: architecture, platforms, applications;
-- ontologies for different domains and applications;
-- IT in health care and education;
-- computer vision, multimedia, GIS.
Registration due: April 1, 2017
Full paper submission due: April 30, 2017
The First Information Letter:
http://rpc2017.dvo.ru/files/inform_2017_eng.pdf.
For more information please visit the official website:
http://rpc2017.dvo.ru/
Sincerely,
Organizing Committee RPC 2017
Institute for Automation and Control Processes FEB RAS
5, Radio Street, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia
E-mail: it(a)iacp.dvo.ru
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The 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and
Applications (Innovate-Data 2017)
21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/
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Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and
governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of
complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing
capabilities of conventional software and databases. The increasing
volume and velocity of the data, captured by business organizations,
web repositories, social media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have
resulted in the exponential growth of big data.
Big data provides a key basis for innovations in various domains and
applications. It can benefit data managers, developers, companies and
various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data
pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex
problems that can help societies and economies and speed up
innovations.
The aim of the Innovate-Data 2017 conference is to promote the state
of the art in scientific and practical research of big data and to
bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry,
and public sector in an effort to present their research work and
share research and development ideas.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Innovations in big data
- Data models and architectures
- Applications of big data
- Big data engineering and design
- Security, privacy, and trust
- Data protection and integrity
- Identity theft, data loss and leakage
- Legal and ethical issues
- Data analytics and metrics
- Data representation and structures
- Data management and processing
- Data capturing and acquisition
- Tools and technologies
- QoS of big data
- Social networks analysis
- Data searching and mining
- Visualisation of data
- Personal data logging and quantified-self
- Context-aware data
- Personalisation of data
- Data economics
- Applications of open and big data
- Open and linked data
- Methodologies and use cases
- Usability issues
- Storages and network requirements
- Network models and protocols
- Big data in cloud and IoT
Paper submission and Publication:
Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research
results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and
for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE
two-column template. See instructions on the conference website
(http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/).
All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference
Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the
IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries.
The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI
(Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions
of their papers for special issues in international journals (see
website).
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 10 March 2017
Authors Notification: 30 May 2017
Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017
Organising Committee
General Chair
Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA
Program Co-Chairs
Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Local Organising Chair
Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Publication Chair
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Workshop Coordinator
Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia
International Liaison Chair
Ruben Casado, Accenture Digital, Madrid, Spain
Publicity Chair
Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Journal Special Issues Coordinator
Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia