Call for Articles – September Issue – International Journal of Chaos, Control, Modelling and Simulation (IJCCMS)

Workshop page: https://sites.google.com/view/histoinformatics2021workshop/home
Conference page:https://2021.jcdl.org/

** INTRODUCTION **

HistoInformatics2021 – the 6th International Workshop on Computational History will be held on September 30th, 2021 in conjunction with The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL2021). The HistoInformatics workshop series brings together researchers in the historical disciplines, computer science and associated disciplines as well as the cultural heritage sector. Historians, like other humanists, show keen interests in computational approaches to the study and processing of digitized sources (usually text, images, audio). In computer science, experimental tools and methods stand the challenge to be validated regarding their relevance for real-world questions and applications. The HistoInformatics workshop series is designed to bring researchers in both fields together, to discuss best practices as well as possible future collaborations. Traditionally, historical research is based on the hermeneutic investigation of preserved records and artifacts to provide a reliable account of the past and to discuss different hypotheses. Alongside this hermeneutic approach historians have always been interested in translating primary sources into data and used methods, often borrowed from the social sciences, to analyze them. A new wealth of digitized historical documents have however opened up completely new challenges for the computer-assisted analysis of e.g. large text or image corpora.

Historians can greatly benefit from the advances of computer and information sciences which are dedicated to the processing, organization, and analysis of such data. New computational techniques can be applied to help verify and validate historical assumptions. We call this approach HistoInformatics, analogous to Bioinformatics and ChemoInformatics which have respectively proposed new research trends in biology and chemistry. The main topics of the workshop are (1) support for historical research and analysis in general through the application of computer science theories or technologies, (2) analysis and re-use of historical texts, (3) visualizations of historical data, (4) provision of access to historical knowledge.

Our objective is to provide for the two different research communities a place to meet and exchange ideas and to facilitate discussion. We hope the workshop will result in a survey of current problems and potential solutions, with particular focus on exploring opportunities for collaboration and interaction of researchers working on various subareas within Computer Science and History Sciences.

** THEMES AND TOPICS **

We invite papers from a wide range of topics which are of relevance for history, the cultural heritage sector and the humanities in general. Besides original research papers, we also invite submissions of diverse types including position papers, project descriptions, or demo type papers. The workshop targets researchers who work on the intersections of history and computer science. The papers on the following and related topics (but not limited to) are especially welcome:

Natural language processing and text analytics applied to historical documents
Analysis of longitudinal document collections
Time Series Analysis and Survival Analysis
Search and retrieval in document archives and historical collections, associative search
Causal relationship discovery based on historical resources
Named entity recognition and disambiguation
Entity relationship extraction, detecting and resolving historical references in text
Finding analogical entities over time
Network Analysis
Computational linguistics for old texts
Analysis of language change over time
Modelling evolution of entities and relationships over time
Automatic multimedia document dating
Simulating and recreating the past course of actions, social relations, motivations, figurations
Handling uncertain and fragmentary text and image data
Mining Wikipedia for historical data
OCR and transcription old texts
Effective interfaces for searching, browsing or visualizing historical data collections
Studies on collective memory
Studying and modeling forgetting and remembering processes
Estimating credibility of historical findings
Epistemologies in the Humanities and Computer Science
Computer Vision applied to historical image collections

** SUBMISSION INFORMATION **

Full paper submissions are limited to 8 pages, while short paper submissions should be no more than 4 pages (including bibliography). Submissions need to be:

formatted according to Easychair paper formatting guidelines (https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors).
original and have not been submitted for publication elsewhere.
submitted in English in PDF format at the workshop’s Easychair page (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=hi20210#).
submissions do not need to be anonymized.

There is no requirement of anonymity so it is up to authors if they wish to reveal or conceal their names in submissions. Submissions will be evaluated by at least three different reviewers with backgrounds in Computer Science and History. The accepted papers will be published on CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/).

Selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit to the special issue at the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (https://jdmdh.episciences.org/) or at the International Journal on Digital Libraries (https://www.springer.com/journal/799).

Papers should be submitted using https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=hi20210#

** IMPORTANT DATES **

Paper submission deadline: 15th August 2021 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
Notification of acceptance: 11th September 2021
Camera ready copy deadline: 21th September 2021
Workshop date: 30th September 2021

** ORGANISING COMMITTEE **

Yasunobu Sumikawa (Takushoku University, Japan)
Ryohei Ikejiri (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Antoine Doucet (University of La Rochelle, France)
Eva Pfanzelter (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Mohammed Hasanuzzaman (Munster Technological University, Ireland)
Gael Dias (University of Caen Normandy, GREYC CNRS, France)
Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

** CONTACT **
Please direct all questions and inquiries to our official e-mail address
(histoinformatics2021@easychair.org) or contact any of the organizers

===Workshop Overview===
The deployment of robotic systems has been accelerating in many domains that have a substantial impact on society. For example, robotic systems have been proposed for applications that range from elder care and autonomous driving to nuclear energy production and military technology. However, while our ability to build robotic systems that integrate into our daily lives has expanded over the years, it has outstripped our ability to build robotic systems that can account for the large number of different ethical considerations that may arise during operation. This workshop therefore focuses on building and evaluating ethical robotic systems at every level of the robotics stack while broadening the scope of areas that should be considered by researchers, such as how users can interact with new and existing technology or how legislators can develop actionable standards and regulations.

ERS 2021 aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry to discuss key challenges, learn from real-world case studies, identify potential research avenues, explore recent technical advances, present novel data sets, and survey existing work related to ethical robotic systems. Given this aim, we invite contributions that draw from a range of methods in artificial intelligence and robotics, such as planning, reinforcement learning, machine learning, deep learning, human-robot interaction, safety, explainability, transparency, formal verification, social preferences, and human factors. Most importantly, we welcome researchers from disciplines beyond robotics, including philosophy, psychology, sociology, and law, in order to represent diverse perspectives on building and evaluating ethical robotic systems.

Relevant research topics include but are not limited to:
– Value alignment in robotic systems
– Cultural, political, and societal impacts of robotics
– Methods for analyzing the ethical implications of autonomous systems
– Moral reasoning in autonomous systems
– Safe, transparent, explainable, or interpretable AI systems
– Ethical compliance in robotic systems
– Ethically sensitive design and implementation of autonomous systems
– Human-compatible or beneficial AI systems
– Law, regulation, and governance of robotics
– Challenges of building and evaluating ethical robotic systems
– Ethical models and algorithms in robotic systems
– Impacts of robotics on vulnerable groups
– Novel data sets or test suites for ethical robotic systems

===Workshop Format===
This is a virtual IROS workshop that will include invited speakers, oral presentations of accepted papers, poster sessions of accepted papers, discussion sessions, and moderated panels.

===Submission Guidelines===
We encourage a range of submission types to facilitate broad participation:
– Highlight Paper (up to 2 pages)
– Short Technical Paper (up to 4 pages)
– Full Technical Paper (up to 6 pages)
– Position Paper (up to 4 pages)
– Case Study Paper (up to 6 pages)
– Survey Paper (up to 8 pages)

Details: Papers published, accepted, or under review at other conferences can be submitted and presented at the workshop subject to the conference guidelines. There is no page limit for references and supplementary materials. Submissions should be in PDF and follow the IROS 2021 format guidelines. All accepted papers will be included in an electronic, non-archival proceedings.

===Best Paper Award===
The Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) at UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI) are generously sponsoring the ERS 2021 Best Paper Award. The best paper will be selected based on a vote among the organizers and the program committee. The authors of the best paper will receive a $400 cash prize and a printed certificate at the end of the workshop.

===Important Dates===
– Paper Submission: August 13, 2021 (AoE)
– Author Notification: August 25, 2021
– Camera-Ready Submission: TBD

===Invited Speakers===
– Ron Arkin, Georgia Tech
– Francesca Rossi, IBM
– Matthias Scheutz, Tufts University
– Ben Kuipers, University of Michigan
– Bertram Malle, Brown University

===Organizers===
– Paul Bello, Naval Research Laboratory
– Louise Dennis, University of Manchester
– Dylan Hadfield-Menell, MIT
– Samer Nashed, UMass Amherst (Co-Chair)
– Justin Svegliato, UMass Amherst (Co-Chair)
– Alan Winfield, UWE Bristol