Announcement and Call for Paper

I am writing to inform you that Signals (Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr.
Toshihisa Tanaka, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/signals), an open access
journal published by MDP, is indexed by theInspec (IET), DOAJ and
Academic OneFile (Gale) databases, and released its first issue of
second volume in March 2021.

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to submit a feature
contribution (i.e., either a long review or research paper) to be
published (subject to the standard peer review process). Please contact
the Signals Editorial Office (signals@mdpi.com) if you are interested.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of MDPI, we may provide discount
applies as follows:

CHF 1000 discount coupon (Full Article Processing Charge is 1000 CHF),
submission deadline 31 July 2021

To submit to the journal click here:
http://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=signals.

If you are interested in my proposal, would you please let me know
within one week? I hope this invitation will receive your favorable
consideration. If there is anything else I can help with, please let me
know.

Kind regards,

Signals Editorial office
Signals (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/signals)

Call for POSITION PAPERS; FedCSIS 2021 (all events); FedCSIS is ranked B in CORE 2021; IEEE #52320; deadline: June 14th, 2021, 23:59 UCT

16th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS’2021)

Online, 2-5 September, 2021

www.fedcsis.org

Strict submission deadline: June 14th, 2021, 23:59 UCT (no extensions)

FedCSIS IEEE conference number: #52320

FedCSIS is ranked B in CORE2021

********************** COVID-19 Information **********************

While we have planned the 2021 conference to take place in Sofia,
Bulgaria, slow progress in fighting the global pandemic has forced us to
switch to the fully online mode. Therefore, we plan to organize FedCSIS
2022 in Sofia, and hope that by that time COVID will be over, and we
will be able to meet in person.

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Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and
associates who could be interested in it.

The FedCSIS 2021 Federated Conference invites submissions of POSITION
PAPERS to its respective events. Position papers must not exceed 8 pages
and they should relate to an ongoing research or experience. Position
papers will be presented by the authors alongside regular papers.
Position papers may be also submitted as DEMO PAPERS and presented as
demonstrations of software tools and products. They should describe
non-for-profit software tools in a prototype-, alpha-, or beta-version.

We invite TWO TYPES OF POSITION PAPERS:

– EMERGING RESEARCH PAPERS present preliminary research results from
work-in-progress based on sound scientific approach but presenting work
not completely validated as yet. They must describe precisely the
research problem and its rationale. They must also define the intended
future work including the expected benefits from solution to the tackled
problem.

– CHALLENGE PAPERS propose and describe research challenges in theory or
practice of computer science and information systems. The papers in this
category must be based on deep understanding of existing research or
industrial problems and should be defining new promising research
directions.

FedCSIS TRACKS AND TECHNICAL SESSIONS

The FedCSIS 2021 consists of five conference Tracks, hosting Technical
Sessions, and a Doctoral Symposium:

Track 1: Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Applications (16th
Symposium AAIA'21)
         *Computational Optimization (14th Workshop WCO'21)

Track 2: Computer Science & Systems (CSS'21)
         * Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars (1st Workshop 4A'21)
         * Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (14th Workshop CANA'21)
         * Multimedia Applications and Processing (14th International
Symposium MMAP'21)
         * Scalable Computing (12th Workshop WSC'21)

Track 3: Network Systems and Applications (NSA'21)
         * Internet of Things – Enablers, Challenges and Applications
(5th Workshop IoT-ECAW'21)
         * Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust (2nd International Forum
NEMESIS'21)

Track 4: Advances in Information Systems and Technologies (AIST'21)
         * Data Science in Health, Ecology and Commerce (3rd Special
Session DSH'21)
         * Information Systems Management (16th Conference ISM'21)
         * Knowledge Acquisition and Management (27th Conference KAM'21)

Track 5: Software, System and Service Engineering (S3E'21)
         * Cyber-Physical Systems (8th Workshop IWCPS-8)
         * Software Engineering (41th IEEE Workshop SEW-41)
         * Advances in Programming Languages (8th Workshop WAPL'21)

Recent Advances in Information Technology (7th Doctoral Symposium
DS–RAIT'21)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

* David Bader
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Keynote title: Solving Global Grand Challenges with High Performance
Data Analytics

* Rajkumar Buyya,
Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab, The University of
Melbourne, Australia; and CEO, Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Keynote title: Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud and Edge Computing

* Hristo Djidjev
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Keynote title: Using quantum annealing for discrete optimization

* Moshe Y. Vardi
Rice University
Keynote title: Lessons from COVID-19: Efficiency vs Resilience

ZDZISŁAW PAWLAK BEST PAPER AWARD

The Professor Zdzisław Pawlak Awards are given in the following categories:

•       Best Paper Award (€600)
•       Young Researcher Paper Award (€400)
•       Industry Cooperation Award (€400)
•       International Cooperation Award (€400)

All papers accepted to FedCSIS are eligible to be considered as the
award winners.

This award will be awarded independently from awards given by individual
FedCSIS events (Tracks and/or Technical Sessions).

Past Award winners can be found here: https://fedcsis.org/2021/zp_award

POSITION PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION:

Position papers will be published as a Volume of the Annals of Computer
Science and Information Systems series (https://annals-csis.org/), with
an ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers. The papers will be submitted for indexing
to DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar (see, also:
https://annals-csis.org/indexation). The Annals-CSIS volume will NOT be
placed in the IEEE Digital Library and will NOT be submitted to
Clarivate Analytics Web of Science.

Authors should submit a position paper in English, carefully checked for
correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference website
ought to be used for all submitted papers. The required submission
format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check, and
carefully follow, the instructions and templates provided. Papers that
are out of the conference scope of the selected event, or that contain
any form of (self)plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. All
position papers will be refereed before inclusion in the conference program.

IMPORTANT DATES
+ Position paper submission:                    June 14, 2021
+ Author notification:                          July 5, 2021
+ Final paper submission and registration:      July 26, 2021
+ Conference date:                              September 2-5, 2021

CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki

CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat@fedcsis.org

ABOUT FedCSIS Conference Series

FedCSIS is an annual international conference, this year organized
jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), IEEE Poland
Section Computer Society Chapter and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The
mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly
acclaimed forum in computer science and information systems. We invite
researchers from around the world to contribute their research results
and participate in Technical Sessions focused on their scientific and
professional interests in computer science and information systems.

Announcement and Invitation to Contribute

I am writing to inform you that Signals (Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr.
Toshihisa Tanaka, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/signals), an open access
journal published by MDP, is indexed by theInspec (IET), DOAJ and
Academic OneFile (Gale) databases, and released its first issue of
second volume in March 2021.

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to submit a feature
contribution (i.e., either a long review or research paper) to be
published (subject to the standard peer review process). Please contact
the Signals Editorial Office (signals@mdpi.com) if you are interested.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of MDPI, we may provide discount
applies as follows:

CHF 1000 discount coupon (Full Article Processing Charge is 1000 CHF),
submission deadline 31 July 2021

To submit to the journal click here:
http://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=signals.

If you are interested in my proposal, would you please let me know
within one week? I hope this invitation will receive your favorable
consideration. If there is anything else I can help with, please let me
know.

Kind regards,

Signals Editorial office
Signals (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/signals)

Summer Shool CfP – 4th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: From Deep Learning to Data Analytics

4th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: From Deep Learning to Data Analytics (AI-DLDA) 2021

Virtual – June 28th – July 2nd, 2021

Web:  http://www.aidlda.it
Contact: segreteria@ditedi.it
Organized by: University of Udine, Italy / IP4FVG, Italy / DiTeDi, Udine
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=== SCOPE ===
AI-DLDA 2021 is an International Summer School for young researchers and Ph.D. students with the main scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the area of Artificial Intelligence, ranging from deep learning to data analytics. The school will give an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art research and will cover a large spectrum of current research activities and industrial applications dealing with big data, computer vision, human-computer interaction, biomedical informatics, deep learning and serious games.

=== ADDRESSED TO ===
Master's students, Ph.D. students, researchers, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal prerequisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. The selected participants will benefit from direct interaction with world leaders in AI.

=== STRUCTURE ===
The School will be organized in five teaching days with keynote lectures from both academia and industry (during the morning) and laboratory sessions (during the afternoon) and 1 round table. Invited industries will present their advanced applications in the field of AI. The last day is also reserved for the final exam for those who need credits.

=== COURSES and LIST OF SPEAKERS ===

   – Alessio Del Bue – Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
   – Konrad Schindler – ETH Zurich, Switzerland
   – Jung-Woo Ha – Naver AI Labs, South Korea
   – Francois Bremond – STARS – Sophia Antipolis – INRIA
   – Alberto Del Bimbo – University of Florence, Italy
   – Antonino Funari – University of Catania, Italy
   – Cosimo Distante – Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent systems – CNR, Italy

=== VENUE ===
AI-DLDA 2021 will take place virtually

=== REGISTRATION ===
It has to be done through http://www.aidlda.it
Participation to the school will be limited to 30 students. The selection will be made by the organizing committee and by the school directors based on the scientific curriculum. A white paper on their research activity is mandatory for students requiring free admission to the school.

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RSS’21 workshop on Robotics for People (R4P)

We are now accepting submissions to the Robotics for People: Perspectives on Interaction, Learning, and Safety workshop, to be held at the Robotics: Science and Systems 2021 conference.

This is a full-day workshop that aims to bring together experts from the Human-Robot Interaction, Machine Learning, and Motion Planning communities to create a road map for safer, smarter robots.

Our workshop accepts extended abstracts (2 pgs excluding references) and short/position papers (4 pgs excluding references) in IEEE two column format. Papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process, and accepted papers and posters will be hosted on our website. We are a non-archival workshop, meaning we also accept iterations on previous or ongoing work.

The workshop will include keynote talks, a panel debate, a poster session, and short talks for accepted papers.

Topics for submission include (but are not limited to):

– Decision-making under uncertainty and safety-oriented approaches
– Safety considerations in uncertain, interactive settings
– Safety-critical applications for HRI
– Probabilistic models for robot learning
– Social navigation
– Human-robot collaboration and human behavior modeling
– Multi-agent approaches for human-robot teams
– Calibrating and estimating uncertainty in learned models
– Learning from demonstration
– Human-interactive robot learning
– Cognitive architectures for interactive robots
– HRI datasets, metrics, and benchmarks
– Robot-interpretable human models
– Explainability, transparency, and interpretability

More information is available at our website: https://sites.google.com/view/r4p2021/

*** Important Dates ***
Paper Submission: June 20th, 2021, anywhere on Earth
Notification of Acceptance: July 1st, 2021, anywhere on Earth
Camera-ready Deadline: July 12th, 2021, anywhere on Earth

*** Confirmed Speakers ***
Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London, UK
Stefanie Tellex, Brown University, USA
Dan Bohus, Microsoft AI Research, USA
Changliu Liu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

*** Organizing Committee ***

General Chairs:
Matthew Gombolay (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Shreyas Kousik (Stanford University)
Program Chairs:
Tesca Fitzgerald (Carnegie Mellon University)
Amir Aly (University of Plymouth)
Invited Speaker Chairs:
Kim Baraka (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Filipa Correia (University of Lisbon)
Social Chairs:
Andrea Bajcsy (University of California Berkeley)
SiQi Zhou (University of Toronto)
David Fridovich-Keil (Stanford University)
Angela P. Schoellig (University of Toronto)
Web and Publishing Chairs:
Nakul Gopalan (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Ransalu Senanayake (Stanford University)

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