25º Escuela de Verano de Ciencias Informáticas-UNRC, Rio 2018

                   25º Escuela de Verano de Ciencias Informáticas

                                      Río 2018
                            19 al 24 de febrero de 2018

http://dc.exa.unrc.edu.ar/rio/

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Departamento de Computación
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físico-Químicas y Naturales
Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto
Córdoba – Argentina
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La 25º Escuela de Verano de Ciencias Informáticas (RIO 2018)
se desarrollará del 19 al 24 de febrero en el Departamento de Computación de la
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físico-Químicas y Naturales de la Universidad
Nacional de Río Cuarto.

La Escuela consiste en cursos intensivos sobre temáticas que no suelen
encontrarse frecuentemente en las carreras de grado. Además ofrece conferencias,
charlas y talleres desarrollados por parte de los sponsors de la RIO.

================================== CURSOS ==================================

Curso 1:  Probabilistic Symbolic Execution
Dr. Antonio Fillieri, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK

Idioma: Ingles

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Curso 2:   Software Testing: Research and Practice
Dr. Jose Miguel Rojas, Department of Computer Science of the University of Sheffield, UK.

Idioma: Castellano

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Curso 3:  El sistema de tipos de Haskell/GHC y sus extensiones
Dr. Guillaume Hoffmann,  Universidad Blas Pascal y CONICET, Argentina

Idioma: Castellano

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Curso 4: Validating Critical Systems with PVS.
Dr. Mariano Moscato,  NASA Langley Formal Methods Group, USA

Idioma: Castellano

================================== CHARLAS ==================================
Título: TBA
Dan_Hirsch, McAfee

Título: TBA
Franco Arito, Mercado Libre

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Los cursos tienen 5 clases de 2:30 hs. de duración, cada una (12,5 hs. en total). Examen opcional.
Se otorgarán certificados de asistencia (80% de las clases) y aprobación
(los exámenes tendrán lugar el día sábado 24 por la mañana).

Facilidades de alojamiento: La Universidad cuenta con un comedor, un amplio campo de deportes, pileta,
residencias (contacto: rioalojamientos@dc.exa.unrc.edu.ar) y lugares para acampar (gratuitos).
Además la ciudad dispone de hoteles de distintas categorías.
Visite la página web de la escuela para obtener mayor información.

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Mas información e inscripciones en:
 http://dc.exa.unrc.edu.ar/rio/
 Consultas: rio@dc.exa.unrc.edu.ar
 Telefono/fax : 54+358-467-6235
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MDAI 2018 CFP. Deadline March 24th

CALL FOR PAPER

15th Int. Conf. Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence
MDAI2018, October 15-18, 2018, Mallorca, Spain.

http://www.mdai.cat/mdai2018

The aim of the MDAI conference series is to provide a forum to discuss
new results on decision making, information fusion and data integration
and their applications to AI.

In MDAI 2018, we encourage the submission of papers on social networks,
data mining, data science and data privacy.

MDAI 2018 is the 15th MDAI conference. Previous conferences were celebrated in Barcelona (2004), Tsukuba (2005), Tarragona (2006), Kitakyushu (2007), Sabadell (2008), Awaji Island (2009), Perpinya (2010), Changsha (2011), Girona (2012), Barcelona (2013), Tokyo (2014), Skovde (2015), St Julia de Loria (2016), and Kitakyushu (2017).

MDAI is rated as a CORE B conference by the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia – CORE.

*Important Dates*

Submission deadline     March, 24th 2018
Acceptance notification June, 6th 2018
Final version           June, 22th 2018
Conference              October 15-18, 2018

*Submission and Publication*

Original technical contributions are sought. Contributions will be selected on the basis of their quality. Papers should not exceed 12 pages in total (using LNCS/LNAI style). Proceedings with accepted papers are expected to be published in the LNAI/LNCS series (Springer-Verlag) and distributed at the conference, as done in previous MDAI conferences. Besides, papers, that according to the evaluation of the referees, are not suitable for the LNAI but that have some merits will be published in a USB proceedings and scheduled in the MDAI program.

*Topics*

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
A)      Methods and Tools:
        Information fusion
        Aggregation operators
        Rational decision making
        Decision making
        Machine learning and statistical learning
        Soft computing
        Optimization methods in AI and decision modeling
        Non-additive measures and integrals
B)      Applications:
        Data science
        Privacy and security
        Social networks
        Bibliometry
        Autonomous robots
        Entertainment computing
        Evaluation methods
        Bioinformatics
        Information access

*MDAI 2018 Organization*

General chairs:
     Isabel Aguilo (University Balearic Islands)
     Joan Torrens (University Balearic Islands)

Program co-chairs:
     Vicenc Torra (U. of Skovde, Sweden)
     Yasuo Narukawa (Toho Gakuen, Japan)

Advisory Board:
     D. Dubois, L. Godo, K. Hirota, J. Kacprzyk, S. Miyamoto, M. Sugeno, R. R. Yager

BigDat 2018: early registration December 27

 
4th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
 
BigDat 2018
 
Timișoara, Romania
 
January 22-26, 2018
 
Organized by:
West University of Timișoara
Rovira i Virgili University
 
http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2018/
 
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— Early registration deadline: December 27, 2017 —
 
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SCOPE:
 
BigDat 2018 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.). Major challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 2 keynote lectures, 25 five-hour and fifteen-minute 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. Also, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
 
ADDRESSED TO:
 
Master students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, BigDat 2018 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
 
STRUCTURE:
 
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 2018 will take place in Timișoara, which has been nominated one of the European Capitals of Culture in 2021. The venue will be:
 
Universitatea de Vest
Blvd. Vasile Parvân, nr. 4
300223 Timișoara
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 
Bing Liu (University of Illinois, Chicago), Towards Machines that Learn like Humans
 
Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), Data Science: Is it Real?
 
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
 
Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [intermediate] tba
 
Nick Duffield (Texas A&M University), [introductory/intermediate] Sampling for Big Data
 
Sašo Džeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute), [introductory/intermediate] Multi-target Prediction: Techniques and Applications
 
Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), [intermediate] Integration of HPC, Big Data Analytics and Software Ecosystem
 
Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete), [intermediate/advanced] Data Streaming Analytics
 
David W. Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Data Visualization with R
 
Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza University of Rome), [intermediate/advanced] Semantic Technologies for Open Data Publishing
 
Bing Liu (University of Illinois, Chicago), [intermediate/advanced] Lifelong Learning and its Applications in NLP
 
B.S. Manjunath (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] Unstructured (Big) Data
 
Folker Meyer (Argonne National Laboratory), [introductory/intermediate] Efficient Multi Cloud Execution of Reproducible Data Analytics using Common Workflow Language, AWE and SHOCK
 
Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences
 
Fionn Murtagh (University of Huddersfield), [introductory/advanced] The New Science of Big Data Analytics, Based on the Geometry and the Topology of Complex, Hierarchic Systems
 
Raymond Ng (University of British Columbia), [introductory] Mining and Summarizing Text Conversations
 
Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Ohio State University), [introductory/intermediate] Network Science Fundamentals
 
Hanan Samet (University of Maryland, College Park), [introductory/intermediate] Sorting in Space: Multidimensional, Spatial, and Metric Data Structures for Applications in Spatial Databases, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Location-based Services
 
Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University), [introductory/intermediate] MapReduce Algorithms for Big Data Analysis
 
Jaideep Srivastava (Qatar Computing Research Institute), [introductory/intermediate] Social Computing
 
Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big-data Algorithms That Aren't Machine Learning
 
Pascal Van Hentenryck (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), [intermediate] Big Data in Transportation and Mobility
 
Sebastián Ventura (University of Córdoba), [intermediate/advanced] Pattern Mining on Big Data
 
Haixun Wang (Facebook), [intermediate/advanced] Understanding Natural Language: End-to-end and Structure Learning Approaches
 
Xiaowei Xu (University of Arkansas, Little Rock), [introductory/advanced] Mining Big Networked Data
 
Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University), [introductory/advanced] Relational and Media Data Learning and Knowledge Discovery
 
OPEN SESSION
 
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary 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 January 15, 2018.
 
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
 
A session will be devoted to demonstrations of practical applications of big data in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration, the duration requested and the logistics necessary. At least one of the people participating in the demonstration should have registered for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by January 15, 2018.
 
EMPLOYER SESSION:
 
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in big data will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. At least one of the people in charge of the search should have registered for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by January 15, 2018.
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair)
Viorel Negru
Manuel J. Parra Royón
Dana Petcu
Monica Sancira (co-chair)
David Silva
 
REGISTRATION:
 
It has to be done at
 
http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2018/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. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
 
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 if the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly 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 will be available in due time.
 
CERTIFICATE:
 
Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures.
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things and Smart Cities will be held in Singapore on Feb 5-8, 2018 – Early Registration Discount end 5 January

Discounted registration rates end 5 January 2018.
IoT World Forum
IoT World Forum
 

2018 IEEE 4th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)
5-8 February 2018
Singapore

The 4th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) conference will be held 5-8 February 2018 in Singapore. The theme of the WF-IoT 2018 is "Smart Cities and Nations," which is fitting since Singapore itself has made impressive strides in the deployment of "smart" technologies.

The conference program will delve into the latest technology developments and innovations in the many fields and disciplines that drive the utility and vitality of IoT solutions and applications. The focus of papers, tutorials, presentations, and events at the conference will be on how to nurture, cultivate, and accelerate the adoption of IoT technologies and applications for the benefit of society.

The conference will also feature dynamic sessions across a wide variety of verticals and topical areas. We have lined up an impressive list of distinguished plenary speakers that are sure to make this conference one that's exciting and absolutely not to be missed. More information about the conference can be found on our website.

http://wfiot2018.iot.ieee.org/

Mark your calendar for 5-8 February 2018 and spread the word about WF-IoT 2018. It's going to be a wonderful experience.

 
Registration Information

Discounted registration rates are offered through 5 January 2018.
Register Now!

Focus 101: Artificial Intelligence Technology

 

Following the great success of past six years, BIT’s7thAnnual World Congress of Advanced Materials (W.C.A.M – 2018) will be held on September 13-15, 2018, in Xiamen, China with theme of “Innovation, Integration, Transformation and Sustainability”.In view of your outstanding contribution in this field, we cordially welcome you to make a presentation as speaker at Focus 101: Artificial Intelligence Technology regarding your latest research in the field of Agents and Artificial Intelligence.

 

In the past several years, five Nobel Prize winners are invited to share their opinion, more than 4,000scholars and guests from more than 50 countries and regions both inacademic and business are attracted to attend, and presented 1,500+ speeches.Based on the experience of previous congresses we are strongly confident W.C.A.M – 2018 will be a great success and meet your expectations.

 

W.C A M-2018will be a perfect platform providing for all participants to exchange the latest and advanced research with other specialists and scholars in this field. Participants could get valuable ideas and make a breakthrough in the research and promote the development of the following frontiers:

 

Optical, Electronic and Magnetic Materials, Nanomaterials, Metals and Alloys, Composite, Hybrid and Multifunctional Materials, Biomaterials, Graphene Technologies, Sensor and Sensing Technology, 3D, 4D Printing Technology, Robotics Technology, Materials for Energy and Environment, and other advanced materials and technology for Materials Science and Engineering.

For more branches on the program, please contact me. We’ll also try to build the part “Master’s Dialog” to discuss the depth cooperation on the program.

 

In addition to academic communication, you could also feel thespectacular sceneryand pleasant tree-lined beaches of Xiamen and the surrounding countryside. It is famous for being an ancestral home to overseas Chinese.This city owns the seaside scenicwith warm sunshine, “Gulangyu”; the largest earthen building in Fujian, “the King of Tulou –Chengqilou” , and Xiamen University, a picturesque campus nestled between the sea and the “Five Old Men” mountains, largely considered to be the most beautiful campus in China, etc.Therefore, this is a wonderful opportunity for academic communication and appreciating the beauty of Xiamen. Hurry to join us!

 

Whichever track you are interested in or involved in your research, please contact us as soon as possible including the title and brief summary (3-5 sentences). We look forward to your reply.

 

Sincerely Yours,

Ms. Elsa XING

Program Coordinator of W.C.A.M-2018

 

Supporting Organization

School of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Xi’an Technological University

 

Part of Renowned Speakers of Past Events

Dr. Dan Shechtman,Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011

Dr. Albert Fert, Scientific Director, Université Paris-Sud 11 staff, France

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007

Dr. George F. Smoot, Professor, University of California at Berkeley, USA

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006

Dr. Akira Suzuki, Emeritus Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010

Dr. Shuji Nakamura, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014

Dr. Bernd Giese,Professor, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Leibniz Prize winner

Dr. Freddy Boey, Deputy President and Provost, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Dr.Chang-Hyun Kim, Vice President, Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., South Korea

Dr. David C. Jiles, Anson Marston Distinguished Professor; Palmer Endowed Departmental Chair, Iowa State University, USA

Dr. Subhash C. Singhal, Battelle Fellow and Director, Fuel Cells, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering, USA

Dr. Baixin Liu, Academician and Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Dr. A. N. Dmitriev, Academician, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Russia

Dr. David Reisner, Founder, The Nano Group, Inc.,USA

Dr. Albert Chin, Academician, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Dr. Jun’ichi Sone, Ex-Executive Vice President, National Institute for Materials Science; Principal Fellow, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST); President, Society of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Japan, Japan

Dr. Ken Reifsnider, Professor, University of South Carolina, USA

Dr. Chris Grovenor, Professor, Oxford University, UK

Dr. William C. Tang,Associate Dean and Professor, University of California, USA

Dr.MengsuYang, Chair Professor, Department of Biology & Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Ms. Jennifer Miller, Senior Engineering Director, MEDTRONIC, USA

Dr, Xinchuang Li, President, China Metallurgical Industry Planning and Research Institute, China

Dr. Alan K. T. Lau, Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; Professor and Executive Director, Centre of Excellence in Engineered FibreComposites, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Dr. Meilin Liu, Regents’ Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Dr.Quinn K. Tong, Global Head of Analytical Solutions; Head, APAC Adhesives Research, Henkel Corporation, Germany

Dr. Guoqiang Yang, Vice President, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Dr. Masakazu Anpo, Dean, International College, Fuzhou University, China; Emeritus Professor (ex-Vice President), Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

Dr. Günter Schmid, Principal Research Scientist, Siemens AG—Corporate Technology, Germany

Dr. V. G. Zavodinsky,Professor and Director, Institute for Materials Science, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Dr. KristiaanNeyts, Professor, Ghent University, Belgium

Dr. Hua Wu, Senior Scientist, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Dr. Steffen Teichert, Dean, The Department SciTec, University of Applied Sciences Jena, Germany

Dr. UllrichScherf, Professor, University of Wuppertal, Germany

Dr. ZhifengRen,M. D. Anderson Chair Professor, Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston, USA

Dr.Marek Kozlowski,Professor, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Dr.Michael Giersig,Professor, Freie University Berlin, Germany

Dr. Young-Woo Heo, Dean, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, South Korea

Dr. Martin Heiss, Technical Product Manager, Oxford Instruments, UK

Dr. Zidong Wei, Professor and Dean, Chongqing University, China

Dr. Henning Heuer, Division Director, Dresden University of Technology&Fraunhofer IKTS Dresden, Germany

Dr. Norbert Kroo,     Vice-President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Dr.Florian Kongoli,CEO, FLOGEN Technologies Inc., USA

Dr.Seung-Bok Choi,Professor, Inha University, South Korea

Dr. Haixia (Alice) Zhang, Professor, Institute of Microelectronics, Peking University, China

Dr. Oomman K. Varghese, Associate Professor, University of Houston, USA

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