1st International Joint Conference on Learning & Reasoning (IJCLR 2021)

The 1st International Joint Conference on Learning & Reasoning (IJCLR 2021), will take place from October 25 to 27 2021 as a fully virtual event:

http://lr2020.iit.demokritos.gr/

The conference is organized by the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, in Athens, Greece. 

After receiving multiple requests the IJCLR organizing team has decided to grant one week's extension for paper submissions.

Final submission deadline: July 7 2021
Submission instructions: http://lr2020.iit.demokritos.gr/papers

Scope
A crucial milestone for taking full advantage of the AI potential is the endowment of algorithms that learn from experience with the ability to consult existing knowledge and reason with what has already been learned. Integrating learning and reasoning constitutes one of the key open questions in AI, and holds the potential of addressing many of the shortcomings of contemporary AI approaches, including the black-box nature and the brittleness of deep learning, and the difficulty to adapt knowledge representation models in the light of new data. Integrating learning and reasoning calls for approaches that combine knowledge representation and machine reasoning techniques with learning algorithms from the fields of neural, statistical and relational learning.

IJCLR 2021 brings together four international conferences & workshops, addressing all aspects of combining knowledge representation & machine reasoning with statistical, neural and symbolic learning:

– The 30th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP).
– The 15th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning & Reasoning (NeSy).
– The 10th International Workshop on Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence (StarAI).
– The 10th International Workshop on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming (AAIP).

IJCLR 2021 aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working on various aspects of learning & reasoning, via presentation of cutting-edge research on topics of special interest to the participating conferences/workshops. In addition to each of the four events' individual programs, which will be held in parallel, IJCLR aims to promote collaboration and cross-fertilization between different approaches and methodologies to integrating learning & reasoning, via joint keynotes, panel discussions and poster sessions.

Submissions are invited to each one of the conferences/workshops participating at IJCLR 2021 (ILP, NeSy, StarAI, AAIP). Paper formatting, proceedings etc. will adhere to each conference/workshop's tradition.
In addition to the separate tracks for each event there is also a “General Track”, where authors are invited to submit work that is relevant to IJCLR, but it does not necessarily fall within the scope of one of ILP, NeSy, StarAI or AAIP. Also, IJCLR invites relevant, high-quality papers to be presented at the conference, which have been recently published, or accepted for publication, by a first-class conference such as AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, ECML/PKDD, ICML, KDD, ICDM, etc., or journal such as MLJ, DMKD, JMLR etc.

Submission deadlines:
Abstract submission (for ILP): July 5 2021.
Paper submission for ILP, NeSy, AAIP and the general track: July 7 2021.
Paper submission StarAI: September 1 2021.
Late-breaking papers (for ILP): September 10 2021.
Recently published papers track: September 10 2021. 

Information and guidelines regarding paper submissions may be found here: http://lr2020.iit.demokritos.gr/papers/   

The IJCLR steering committee and organization team:

Luc De Raedt, KU Leuven, Belgium
Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London, UK
Artur d’Avila Garcez, City University of London, UK
Ute Schmid, University of Bamberg, Germany
Cèsar Ferri, Universitat Politènica de València, Spain
Angelika Kimmig, Cardiff University, UK
Sebastijan Dumančić, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jay Pujara, University of Southern California, USA
Nikos Katzouris, NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece
Alexander Artikis, University of Pireaus & NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece

Workshop MoCS 2021 July 8th.

It is my pleasure to announce the Deadline Extension for the “11th Workshop on Management of Cloud and Smart City Systems” (MoCS 2021).
MoCS 2021 will be held in Athens, Greece September 5, 2021, and will be part of the 26th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2021) conference.

Important dates
Paper submission due: July 1, 2021 July 8, 2021 (FIRM!)
Notification due: July 18, 2021
Workshop date:  September 5, 2021

  
Those are the three reasons why you may want to submit your work to our workshop:
– Accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2021 Conference
Proceedings (Indexed by Scopus and WebOfScience!);
– Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library;
– Best Paper Award will be presented.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
-Application of cloud and MEC systems to smart cities services.
-Models for context-aware crowdsensing techniques at urban-level scale.
-Human-enabled Edge Computing (HEC) paradigm.
-Cloud to Edge continuum.
-Edge data center deployment in urban environments.
-Cloud quantum service model.
-Hybrid quantum for smart city systems.
-ML- and AI-based approaches cloud/edge-based smart city applications.
-AI-driven models, architectures, and frameworks for edge computing.
-Experiences on the (re)use of open platforms for cloud-integrated smart cities services.
-Design and evaluation tools for scalability and efficient resource allocation in smart c-cities.
-Design and application of cloud/edge technologies to Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
-Vehicular cloud architectures for provisioning of smart cities services.
-Models and paradigms for the management of cloud/MEC services within/between data.
-Data-driven approaches for smart transportation in urban areas.
-Blockchain solutions for secure and reliable transactions between the counterparts in data sharing/trading.
-Security and privacy techniques to cloud/edge-based smart city applications.
-Post-quantum security and privacy for smart city applications.

You can find more information on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/mocs-2021/

And this is the link to our CFP: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=133748 

Make sure to follow us on Twitter @cfp_mocs2021 for updates, news, and
more reasons to submit to us.

Have a nice day!
Sincerely,
Michele La Manna.

Journals Submitting an article in JoVE (Impact factor 1.2)

As a Guest Editor for the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), I am organising a Methods Collection titled “Deep Learning for image segmentation”.

JoVE is a leading peer-reviewed scientific methods video journal, aimed at increasing the visibility and reproducibility of research. The Impact Factor for JoVE (ISSN 1940-087X) is 1.2, and it is indexed in major databases, including PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus and Web of Science.

This Methods Collection would include articles on deep learning based segmentation techniques for 2D and 3D images with topic areas covering autonomous driving, robotic vision and navigation, augmented reality, biomedical image analysis, biometrics, video surveillance and remote sensing. 

You can get more details about this collection or submit an abstract here: https://www.jove.com/methods-collections/1094 

Best Regards,

Anuradha Kar
Researcher, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Intelligent Systems Design – Assistant Professor Position at Lawrence Technological University

Please find attached an announcement for a tenure-track Assistant
Professor position in Intelligent Systems Design at Lawrence
Technological University.

Applications are welcome and the starting date is flexible.

Stay well and best wishes,

________________________________

Tarek M. Sobh, Ph.D., P.E.

Provost

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lawrence Technological University

Distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering Emeritus
University of Bridgeport

Fellow, African Academy of Sciences
Member, The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering

Email:              tarekmsobhacct@gmail.com

Phone:             +1 (203) 685-4189

Web:                 http://tareksobh.org

DDP 2021

Second International Conference on Digital Data Processing

Marrakesh, Morocco

November 11-13, 2021

(IEEE CPS. Papers should follow IEEE template)

 

Data grows voluminously and exponentially with heterogeneity and complexity. A single organization or industry processes more than few million transactions hourly and stores several petabytes of data. We live in a world of tremendous pressure to analyze and process data more efficiently where the

Data analytics are able to reflect hidden patterns, incomprehensible relationships, intrinsic information relations, and segmentation. The data applications have introduced cutting-edge possibilities in every activity in our life. Thus, the study of data and its underlying structure, dynamics of data relations, and newer data technologies are a never-ending process. The literature and research on data management are enormous, still, they sufficiently do not solve the data processing requirements.

 

Currently, the use of technology and interrelations among information pieces generate gargantuan amounts of data. Many studies tend to develop models and systems to analyse the voluminous datasets. Analysing the impact of data leads to application domains on various decisions that have a systematic influence. Knowledge generated from the data analysis can enable the production of critical information for several domains.

 

Hence this conference reviews and discusses, the recent trends, opportunities, and pitfalls of data management and how it has impacted organizations to create successful business and technology strategies and remain updated in data technology. This conference also highlights the current open research directions of data analytics that requires further consideration/

The proposed conference will discuss the topics not limited to

 

Data applications in various domains and activities

Data in cloud

Real-world data processing

Data inaccuracy and reliability issues

Data ecosystem

Business analytics

New data analytics techniques

Physical and management challenges

Privacy and Security

Crowdsourcing and Sensing

Data modeling

Deep learning techniques

Data fusion

Descriptive analytic, Diagnostic analytics,  Predictive Analytics, and Prescriptive analytics

Machine learning

Network optimization

 

Publications

 

DDP is technically supported by IEEE CPS. The DDP papers will be submitted for publication and indexing in IEEE Xplore. Besides, modified versions of the papers will appear in the following journals.

 

 1. Journal on Data Semantics 

 2. Technologies 

 3. Data Technologies and Applications 

 4. Webology 

 5. Journal of Digital Information Management 

 6. International Journal of Computational Linguistics 

 7. Journal of Optimization 

 8. Future Internet 

 

Important Dates

 

Full Paper Submission July 31, 2021

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 05, 2021

Registration Due October 05, 2021

Camera Ready Due October 05, 2021

Workshops/Tutorials/Demos November 12, 2021

Main conference November: 11-13 , 2021

 

Keynote Speakers

Eleni (Helen) Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK

 

Program Committee

Honorary Chairs

Ahmed MOUSSA, Director of National School of Applied Sciences, Tangier, Morocco

Bouchta El Moumni, vice-President of Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetouan, Morocco

Mohamed Addou, Dean of the faculty of sciences and techniques, Tangier, Morocco

 

Program Chairs

Aziz El Janati El Idrissi, Ministre d’éducation et d’enseignement supérieur Mohamed V University. Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Zemmour Zaër, Morocco

Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal

Ahmed Moussa, Director of National School of Applied Sciences, Tangier, Morocco

Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau

 

Program Co-Chairs

Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 

Publicity Chair

Mohsin Beniysa, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Morocco

 

 

Contact: ddp@socio.org.uk

 

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