CFP META’2023 @Marrakech

February 14th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise

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                               META'2023
International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing
                             01-04 Nov 2023
                           Marrakech, Morocco
                 http://meta2023.sciencesconf.org/
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META is one of the main event focusing on the progress of the area of
metaheuristics and their applications. As in previous editions,
META’2023 will provide an opportunity to the international research
community in metaheuristics to discuss recent research results, to
develop new ideas and collaborations, and to meet old friends and make
new ones in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.

All selected long papers will be published in the Springer (SCOPUS, ISI,
DBLP) conference proceedings.

META'2023 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of metaheuristic
research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact applications,
new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation
issues, and in-depth experimental studies. META'2023 strives for a
high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited
talks, tutorials, workshops and special sessions.

The scope of the META conference includes, but is not limited to:
     * Local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, VNS, ILS, …
     * Evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, bio-inspired
algorithms, …
     * Emergent nature inspired algorithms: artificial immune systems,
bee colony, DNA computing, …
     * Quantum computing, neuromorphic computing
     * Parallel and distributed algorithms
     * Decomposition methods
     * Hybrid methods with machine learning, game theory, mathematical
programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary, …
     * Application to real-lide problems: logistics and transportation,
networks, scheduling, data mining, engineering design, energy, cloud,
bio-medical, …
     * Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence,
problem difficulty, very large neighbourhoods, …
     * Multi-objective optimization, bi-level optimization
     * Dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty, stochastic
optimization, robust optimization, …
     * Parameter tuning (static, dynamic, adaptive, self-adaptive)
     * Hyper-heuristics, cross-domain metaheuristics
     * Software frameworks for metaheuristics and nature inspired computing

Submission of papers:
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– Submission of papers via the website

     S1) Short papers: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and
position papers of a maximum of 3 pages.
     S2) Long papers: Original research contributions of a maximum of 12
pages.
     S3) Journal papers: High-quality manuscripts that have recently,
within the last year, been submitted or accepted for journal
publication. For this special case, the submission should have the same
title that the accepted work, the abstract AND the complete reference of
the work.

– Proceedings of the conference will be provided. Selected papers of
type S2 will be published in a Springer book (SCOPUS, ISI, DBLP).
– Predefined styles are available on the website
http://meta2023.sciencesconf.org/
– Proposals for invited sessions, workshops and tutorials: contact
meta2023@sciencesconf.org

Important dates
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– Submission deadline: April 28, 2023
– Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2023

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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): Second Call for Papers

February 14th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise
19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023)

October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus

eScience 2023 provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Its objective is to promote and encourage all aspects of eScience and its associated technologies, applications, algorithms, and tools,
with a strong focus on practical solutions and open challenges. The conference welcomes conceptualization, implementation, and experience contributions enabling and driving innovation in data- and compute-intensive research across all disciplines, from the physical and biological sciences to the social sciences, arts, and humanities; encompassing artificial intelligence and machine learning methods; and targeting a broad spectrum of architectures, including HPC, Cloud, and IoT.

The overarching theme of the eScience 2023 conference is “open eScience”. This year, the conference is promoting four additional key topics:
• Computational Science for sustainable development
• FAIR
• Research Infrastructures for eScience
• Continuum Computing: Convergence between Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (IoT)

The conference is soliciting two types of contributions:
• Full papers (10 pages) presenting previously unpublished research achievements or eScience experiences and solutions
• Posters (2 pages) showcasing early-stage results and innovations

Submitted papers should use the IEEE 8.5×11 manuscript guidelines: double-column text using single-spaced 10-point font on 8.5×11-inch pages. Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html .

Submissions should be made via the Easy Chair system using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2023 .

All submissions will be single-blind peer reviewed. Selected full papers will receive a slot for an oral presentation. Accepted posters will be presented during a poster reception. Accepted full papers and poster papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Rejected full papers can be re-submitted for a poster presentation. At least one author of each accepted
paper or poster must register as an author at the full registration rate. Each author registration can be applied to only one accepted submission.
AWARDS

eScience 2023 will host the following awards, which will be announced at the conference.
• Best Paper Award
• Best Student Paper Award
• Best Poster Award
• Best Student Poster Award
• Outstanding Early Career Contribution – this award is associated with poster submissions and short presentations of attendees in their early career phase (i.e., postdoctoral researchers and junior scientists).
KEY DATES

• Paper Submissions Due: Friday, May 26, 2023 (AoE)
• Notification of Paper Acceptance: Friday, June 30, 2023
• Poster Submissions due: Friday, July 7, 2023 (AoE)
• Poster Acceptance Notification: Monday, July 24, 2023
• All Camera-ready Submissions due: Monday, August 14, 2023
• Author Registration Deadline: Monday, August 14, 2023
ORGANISATION

General Chair
• George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Technical Program Co-Chairs
• Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK

Organisation Committee

Steering Committee

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Speakers confirmed for the ICRA2023 Workshop on “The Role of Robotics Simulators for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”

February 14th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise

**Speakers confirmed for the AerialSim Workshop at ICRA2023**

https://imrclab.github.io/workshop-uav-sims-icra2023/

For the ICRA 2023 half day workshop “The Role of Robotics Simulators for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, we are excited to host a lineup of exceptional speakers, including:


Invited Speakers

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  • Davide Scaramuzza – University of Zürich

  • Angela Schoellig – Technical University of Münich

  • Tomáš Báča – Czech Technical University in Prague

  • Sashi Mishra  – Microsoft, AirSim

  • Praveen Palanisamy – Microsoft, AirSim

Additionally, we are pleased to announce the release of a preliminary schedule for the workshop and the opportunity for participants to showcase their work through poster presentations by submitting an extended abstract.

Preliminary Schedule

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Friday 2nd of June

08:25 – Introduction and overview workshop

08:30 – Tomáš Báča – Abstractions and Simulations as the Backbone of Reproducible Research

09:00 – Angela Schoellig – TBD

09:30 – Coffee break

09:45 – Saskhi Mishra & Pavreen Palanisamy – Microsoft Project AirSim for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

10:15 – Davide Scaramuzza – Vision based Agile Flight, from simulation to reality

10:45 – Coffee break

11:00-  Posters contributed abstracts

11:30-  Breakout sessions

12:00-  Presentation session + Open discussion

12:20 – Final remark

Important Dates

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Abstract submission deadline: March 20th, 2023.

Notification to authors: April 10th, 2023

Workshop day: morning of 2nd of June 2023 (after the main conference of ICRA’23)

Summary Workshop

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The workshop aims to provide the participants with the knowledge and experience of researchers who have struggled to find, customize, or design a robotic simulator for their own purposes or specific application. The focus is on aerial vehicles, especially multi-rotor aircraft, where we expect simulation solutions to be of continued importance for both research and industrial applications. Simulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a specialized task, because of aerodynamic interactions (with the environment or other robots), the fast operating speed compared to other robots (e.g., mobile, legged), and the potentially large number of interacting robots in three dimensions (e.g., swarms of delivery drones).

Organizing Committee

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  • Kimberly McGuire, Bitcraze AB

  • Giuseppe Silano, RSE S.p.A. and CTU Prague

  • Chiara Gabellieri, TU Twente

  • Wolfgang Hönig, TU Berlin

Steering Committee

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  • Antonio Franchi, Technical University of Twente

  • Martin Saska, Czech Technical University in Prague 

  • Gianluca Antonelli, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio

  • Vincenzo Lippiello, University of Naples Federico II

  • Gurav Sukhatme, University of Southern California

  • Stefano Stramigioli, Technical University of Twente


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EPIA 2023 – 22nd EPIA Conference on AI (Azores, Portugal)

February 14th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise
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Nuno Moniz
nuno.moniz@nd.edu

Associate Research Professor @ Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society 

Associate Director @ DIAL Lab
Office: 619 Flanner Hall
University of Notre Dame
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ACII 2023: CALL FOR PAPERS – international conference to be held at the MIT Media Lab, September 10-13 2023

February 14th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise

Affective Computing and Intelligent Interactions 2023: CALL FOR PAPERS

The Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) invites you to join us at our 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), which will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on September 10th – 13th, 2023. 

The Conference series on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is the premier international venue for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and, more generally, affective phenomena. All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore (conditional on the approval by IEEE Computer Society) and indexed by EI. A selection of the best articles at ACII 2023 will be invited to submit extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

The theme of ACII 2023 is “Affective Computing: Context and Multimodality”. Fully understanding, predicting, and generating affective processes undoubtedly requires the careful integration of multiple contextual factors (e.g., gender, personality, relationships, goals, environment, situation, and culture), information modalities (e.g., audio, images, text, touch, and smells) and evaluation in ecological environments. Thus, ACII 2023 especially welcomes submitted research that assesses and advances Affective Computing’s ability to do this integration.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

Recognition and Synthesis of Human Affect from ALL Modalities

  • Multimodal Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States
  • Contextualized Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States
  • Facial and Body Gesture Recognition, Modeling and Animation
  • Affective Speech Analysis, Recognition and Synthesis
  • Recognition and Synthesis of Auditory Affect Bursts (Laughter, Cries, etc.)
  • Motion Capture for Affect Recognition
  • Affect Recognition from Alternative Modalities (Physiology, Brain Waves, etc.)
  • Affective Text Processing and Sentiment Analysis
  • Multimodal Data Fusion for Affect Recognition
  • Synthesis of Multimodal Affective Behavior
  • Summarisation of Affective Behavior

Affective Science using Affective Computing Tools

  • Studies of affective behavior perception using computational tools
  • Studies of affective behavior production using computational tools
  • Studies of affect in medical/clinical settings using computational tools
  • Studies of affect in context using computational tools

Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Designing Computational Systems

  • Computational Models of Affective Processes
  • Issues in Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems
  • Cultural Differences in Affective Design and Interaction 

Affective Interfaces

  • Interfaces for Monitoring and Improving Mental and Physical Well-Being
  • Design of Affective Loop and Affective Dialogue Systems
  • Human-Centred Human-Behaviour-Adaptive Interfaces
  • Interfaces for Attentive & Intelligent Environments
  • Mobile, Tangible and Virtual/Augmented Multimodal Proactive Interfaces
  • Distributed/Collaborative Multimodal Proactive Interfaces
  • Tools and System Design Issues for Building Affective and Proactive Interfaces
  • Evaluation of Affective, Behavioural, and Proactive Interfaces

 Affective, Social and Inclusive Robotics and Virtual Agents

  • Artificial Agents for Supporting Mental and Physical Well-Being
  • Emotion in Robot and Virtual Agent Cognition and Action
  • Embodied Emotion
  • Biologically-Inspired Architectures for Affective and Social Robotics
  • Developmental and Evolutionary Models for Affective and Social Robotics
  • Models of Emotion for Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Personality in Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Memory, Reasoning, and Learning in Affective Conversational Agents

Affect and Group Emotions

  • Analyzing and modeling groups taking into account emergent states and/or emotions
  • Integration of artificial agents (robots, virtual characters) in the group life by leveraging its affective loop: interaction paradigms, strategies, modalities, adaptation
  • Collaborative affective interfaces (e.g., for inclusion, for education, for games and entertainment)

Open Resources for Affective Computing

  • Shared Datasets for Affective Computing
  • Benchmarks for Affective Computing
  • Open-source Software/Tools for Affective Computing 

Fairness, Accountability, Privacy, Transparency and Ethics in Affective Computing   

  • Bias, imbalance and inequalities in data and modeling approaches in the context of Affective Computing
  • Bias mitigation in the context of Affective Computing
  • Explainability and Transparency in the context of Affective Computing
  • Privacy-preserving affect sensing and modeling
  • Ethical aspects in the context of Affective Computing

Applications

  • Health and well-being
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Consumer Products
  • User Experience

Important dates

Main track submissions: 14 April 2023

Decision notification to authors: 2 June 2023

Camera ready submission for main track: 16 June 2023

The remaining important dates can be found at the ACII website and at the bottom of this document.

We hope to see you at ACII 2023!

ACII2023 Organizers

AFFECTIVE COMPUTING & INTELLIGENT INTERACTION


All Important Dates

Call for workshop-, special track-, and tutorial proposals.

5 Jan 2023

Call for papers for the main conference track

5 Jan 2023

Submission deadline for workshop-, special track-, and tutorial proposals

17 Feb 2023

Notification for workshop-, special track-, and tutorial proposals

3 March 2023

Submission system opens for *all* tracks

6 March 2023

Call for special track contributions (including special tracks, DC, demo,    workshop papers, and LBR)

6 March 2023

Submission deadlines for *all* contributions, except late breaking reports (no extensions possible)

14 April 2023

Notifications for *all* contributions

2 June 2023

Late Breaking Results (LBR) submission deadline

16 June 2023

Revision submission main conference track deadline

16 June 2023

LBR notifications

30 June 2023

Revisions main track notifications

30 June 2023

Early bird registration deadline

7 July 2023

Camera ready deadline for all contributions including LBR

1 Aug 2023

Conference

10-13 Sept 2023

Workshops and tutorials

10 Sept 2023

Main conference

11-13 Sept 2023

Agata Lapedriza
Head of the Artificial Intelligence for Human Well-being Lab
eHealth Center 
alapedriza@uoc.edu

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