Dear Colleagues,
** Apologies for cross-posting **
This is Michal Ptaszynski from Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan.
We are accepting papers for the Information Processing & Management (IP&M) (IF: 6.222) journal Special Issue on Science Behind Neural Language Models. This special issue is also a Thematic Track at Information Processing & Management Conference 2022 (IP&MC2022), meaning, that at least one author of the accepted manuscript will need to attend the IP&MC2022 conference.
For more information about IP&MC2022, please visit:
https://www.elsevier.com/events/conferences/information-processing-and-mana…
The deadline for manuscript submission is June 15, 2022, but your paper will be reviewed immediately after submission and will be published as soon as it is accepted.
We hope you will consider submitting your paper.
https://www.elsevier.com/events/conferences/information-processing-and-mana…
Info regarding submission:
https://www.elsevier.com/events/conferences/information-processing-and-mana…
Best regards,
Michal PTASZYNSKI, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Kitami Institute of Technology,
165 Koen-cho, Kitami, 090-8507, Japan
TEL/FAX: +81-157-26-9327
michal(a)mail.kitami-it.ac.jp
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Information Processing & Management (IP&M) (IF: 6.222)
Special Issue on "Science Behind Neural Language Models"
&
Information Processing & Management Conference 2022 (IP&MC2022)
Thematic Track on "Science Behind Neural Language Models"
Motivation
The last several years showed explosive popularity of neural language models, especially large pre-trained language models based on the transformer architecture. The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL) experienced a shift from simple language models such as Bag-of-Words, and word representations like word2vec, or GloVe, to more contextually-aware language models, such as ELMo, or more recently, BERT, or GPT including their improvements and derivatives. The general high performance obtained by BERT-based models in various tasks even convinced Google to apply it as a default backbone in its search engine query expansion module, thus making BERT-based models a mainstream, and a strong baseline in NLP/CL research. The popularity of large pretrained language models also allowed a major growth of companies providing freely available repositories of such models, and, more recently, the founding of Stanford University’s Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM).
However, despite the overwhelming popularity, and undeniable performance of large pretrained language models, or “foundation models”, the specific inner-workings of those models have been notoriously difficult to analyze and the causes of - usually unexpected and unreasonable - errors they make, difficult to untangle and mitigate. As the neural language models keep gaining in popularity while expanding into the area of multimodality by incorporating visual and speech information, it has become the more important to thoroughly analyze, fully explain and understand the internal mechanisms of neural language models. In other words, the science behind neural language models needs to be developed.
Aims and scope
With the above background in mind, we propose the following Information Processing & Management Conference 2022 (IP&MC2022) Thematic Track and Information Processing & Management Journal Special Issue on Science Behind Neural Language Models.
The TT/SI will focus on topics deepening the knowledge on how the neural language models work. Therefore, instead of taking up basic topics from the fields of CL and NLP, such as improvement of part-of-speech tagging, or standard sentiment analysis, regardless of whether they apply neural language models in practice, we will focus on promoting research that specifically aims at analyzing and understanding the “bells and whistles” of neural language models, for which the generally perceived science has not been established yet.
Target audience
The TT/SI will aim at the audience of scientists, researchers, scholars, and students performing research on the analysis of pretrained language models, with a specific focus on explainable approaches to language models, analysis of errors such models make, methods for debiasing, detoxification and other methods of improvement of the pretrained language models.
The TT/SI will not accept research on basic NLP/CL topics for which the field has been well established, such as improvement of part-of-speech tagging, sentiment analysis, etc., even if they apply neural language models unless they directly contribute to furthering the understanding and explanation of the inner workings of large scale pretrained language models.
List of Topics
List of Topics
The Thematic Track / Special Issue will invite papers on topics listed, but not limited to the following:
- Neural language model architectures
- Improvement of neural language model generation process
- Methods for fine tuning and optimization of neural language models
- Debiasing neural language models
- Detoxification of neural language models
- Error analysis and probing of neural language models
- Explainable methods for neural language models
- Neural language models and linguistic phenomena
- Lottery Ticket Hypothesis for neural language models
- Multimodality in neural language models
- Generative neural language models
- Inferential neural language models
- Cross-lingual or multilingual neural language models
- Compression of neural language models
- Domain specific neural language models
- Expansion of information embedded in neural language models
Important Dates:
Thematic track manuscript submission due date; authors are welcome to submit early as reviews will be rolling: June 15, 2022
Author notification: July 31, 2022
IP&MC conference presentation and feedback: October 20-23, 2022
Post conference revision due date: January 1, 2023
Submission Guidelines:
Submit your manuscript to the Special Issue category (VSI: IPMC2022 HCICTS) through the online submission system of Information Processing & Management.
https://www.editorialmanager.com/ipm/
Authors will prepare the submission following the Guide for Authors on IP&M journal at (https://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-processing-and-management/030…). All papers will be peer-reviewed following the IP&MC2022 reviewing procedures.
The authors of accepted papers will be obligated to participate in IP&MC 2022 and present the paper to the community to receive feedback. The accepted papers will be invited for revision after receiving feedback on the IP&MC 2022 conference. The submissions will be given premium handling at IP&M following its peer-review procedure and, (if accepted), published in IP&M as full journal articles, with also an option for a short conference version at IP&MC2022.
Please see this infographic for the manuscript flow:
https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/1211934/IPMC2022Timeli…
For more information about IP&MC2022, please visit https://www.elsevier.com/events/conferences/information-processing-and-mana….
Thematic Track / Special Issue Editors:
Managing Guest Editor:
Michal Ptaszynski (Kitami Institute of Technology)
Guest Editors:
Rafal Rzepka (Hokkaido University)
Anna Rogers (University of Copenhagen)
Karol Nowakowski (Tohoku University of Community Service and Science)
For further information, please feel free to contact Michal Ptaszynski directly.
I am pleased to share with you a new proposal for a Wikimedia project: Wikianswers. The project intends to integrate artificial intelligence question-answering systems with a wiki question-and-answer platform.
Like similar projects, users will receive one or more answers to their questions from artificial intelligence question-answering systems, but, unlike other projects, they will subsequently be able to edit those answers, as well as any provided explanations and argumentation, per wiki technology. User-corrected content could later be utilized to retrain the question-answering systems.
The proposed project aims to provide value as a new resource for users and as training data for multiple artificial intelligence systems.
While the proposed project can provide users with answers across various question domains, a scenario of interest to me is that of moral question answering. I hope that this scenario is also of some interest to you.
The hyperlink to the project proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikianswers .
Thank you for any ideas, comments, questions, or suggestions with which to improve the project proposal. Thank you for taking the time to express your support of or opposition to the proposed new project.
Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
http://www.phoster.com
Dear Colleague,
we are writing to you as we understand you may be interested in this
year’s edition of the EAI International Conference *“AI for People:
Towards Sustainable AI” (CAIP’21)*.
Below you will find the official Call for Full papers.
Please feel free to distribute it to mailing lists you manage and to
everybody who may be interested.
Thank you and we hope to see you in *CAIP’21*!
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*International Conference “AI for People: Towards Sustainable AI” (CAIP’21)*
November 20-24, 2021
https://aiforpeople.org/conference
*Call for Full Papers*
https://aiforpeople.org/conference/cfp.php
Please distribute
(Apologies for cross-posting)
If you wish to receive more information about CAIP’21
https://mailchi.mp/281085ba7b4b/caip21
CAIP'21 is technically sponsored by: *European Alliance for Innovation
(EAI)*.
CAIP'21 is supported by: *Technology Innovation Institute (TII)*,
*European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI)*.
CAIP'21 partners: Encode Justice, The Future Society (TFS), MLDawn
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The International Conference “AI for People: Towards Sustainable AI” was
born out of the idea of shaping Artificial Intelligence technology
around human and societal needs. While Artificial Intelligence (AI) can
be a beneficial tool, its development and its deployment impact society
and the environment in ways that need to be thoroughly addressed and
confronted.
This year’s edition will focus on Sustainable AI, covering different
aspects of social development, environmental protection, and economic
growth applied in the design and deployment of AI systems. The
conference will provide its participants with opportunities to gain a
better understanding of the major challenges of utilizing AI for the
societal good. Additionally, it should serve as an incubator for
interdisciplinary communities that share a research agenda to exchange
and discuss ideas related to the design and application of Sustainable
AI. Here, Sustainable AI is a movement to foster change towards greater
ecological integrity and social justice in the entire life cycle of AI
systems.
**** Themes and Topics ****
The conference will be interdisciplinary and it welcomes contributions
from different disciplines, spanning from computer science, the social
sciences, and the humanities.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- AI applications for the social good and towards sustainable
development goals
- Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- Sustainable AI for Smart Cities
- Policy recommendations for Sustainable AI
- Green AI for environmental protection
- Accuracy and Robustness of AI systems
- Bias and Fairness in AI Systems
- Privacy and Accountability in AI Systems
- Safety and Security in AI Systems
- Explainability and Transparency in AI Systems
**** Important Dates ****
Submission deadline: October 1st, 2021
Notification: November 1st, 2021
Camera-ready: November 6th, 2021
Conference Days: November 20-24, 2021
**** EAI Proceedings ****
Conference proceedings will be published in the EAI CORE Proceedings and
included in the European Digital Library (EUDL) and will be submitted
for inclusion in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI
Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP.
**** Keynote Speakers ****
CAIP’21 will host international keynote speakers (to be completed):
- Priya Donti, Chair at Climate Change AI
- Sneha Revanur, Founder of Encode Justice
- Nicolas Miailhe, President of The Future Society
- Maria De-Arteaga, Assistant Prof. at University Texas
**** Organising Committee ****
The International Conference on “AI for People: Towards Sustainable AI”
is organized by the nonprofit international organization “AI for People”
(aiforpeople.org).
/General Chairs/
- Marta Ziosi (Oxford Internet Institute, University Oxford)
- Philipp Wicke (University College, Dublin)
- João Miguel Cunha (University of Coimbra)
- Angelo Trotta (University of Bologna)
/Program Chairs/
- Lea Buchhorn (Leiden University)
- Vincenzo Lomonaco (University of Pisa)
/Finance Chair/
- Aina Turillazzi (Tilburg University)
/Publication Chair/
- Angelo Trotta (University of Bologna)
TPC Chair
- Kevin Trebing (Plan D GmbH)
- Gabriele Graffieti (University of Bologna)
/Technical Program Committee (to be completed)/
- Adam Poulsen – Charles Sturt University
- Aiste Gerybaite – University of Bologna
- Andrea Cossu – Scuola Normale Superiore
- Aníbal Monasterio Astobiza – IFS-CSIC
- Christoph Lütge – Technical University of Munich
- Clàudia Figueras – Stockholm University
- Claudio Gallicchio – University of Pisa
- Daniel Schiff – Georgia Institute of Technology
- Federico Montori – University of Bologna
- Giovanni Sartor – EUI/CIRSFID
- Jake Goldenfein – University of Melbourne
- Jakob Mökander – Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
- Jason Borenstein – Georgia Institute of Technology
- Keng Siau – City University of Hong Kong
- Laurynas Adomaitis – NordSec
- Lorenzo Pellegrini – University of Bologna
- Luca Bedogni – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
- Maria Celia Fernández Aller – Technical University of Madrid
- Maria Milossi – University of Macedonia
- Marianna Ganapini – Union College
- Marija Slavkovik – University of Bergen
- Michele Loi – University of Zurich
- Pradeep Murukannaiah – TU Delft, NL
- Rajitha Ramanayake – University College Dublin
- Seth D. Baum – Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
- Stefan Sarkadi – INRIA, France
*Date:* Thursday, 7 October 2021
*Location*: Virtual, co-located with AKBC 2021
*Contact Email: *cskb-akbc21(a)googlegroups.com
*Website:* http://akbc-cskb.github.io/
Recent advances in large pre-trained language models have shown that
machines can directly learn large quantities of commonsense knowledge
through self-supervised learning on raw text. However, they still fall
short of human-like understanding capabilities: they make inconsistent
predictions, learn to exploit spurious patterns, and fail to robustly apply
learned knowledge to downstream applications. Consequently, the development
and integration of unpaired, outside knowledge representation sources
remains critically important to provide machine commonsense engines with
scaffolding to learn structured reasoning. We organize this workshop to
encourage discussion of current progress on building machines with
commonsense knowledge and reasoning abilities, with special focus on
commonsense knowledge bases (CSKBs).
*** Topics of Interest ***
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Resources: acquiring commonsense knowledge (from text corpora, images,
videos, pre-trained neural models, etc.); constructing and completing
(semi-)structured CSKBs; consolidating CSKBs under unified schemas.
* Benchmarks: designing challenging tasks and building datasets to evaluate
models' commonsense knowledge and reasoning abilities; designing new
evaluation schemas and metrics for commonsense reasoning tasks,
particularly for open-ended and generative tasks.
* Methods: methods for commonsense reasoning tasks; methods that integrate
CSKBs and neural models; methods that use CSKBs to improve the
interpretability and explainability of neural models for commonsense
reasoning and more.
* Analysis: methods to probe commonsense knowledge from NLP models; methods
to understand reasoning mechanisms of existing methods; methods that
identify limitations of existing methods for AI applications (including but
not limited to NLP, CV and robotics) due to lack of commonsense knowledge.
*** Submission Information ***
Papers should be submitted in OpenReview:
https://openreview.net/group?id=AKBC.ws/2021/Workshop/CSKB.
We solicit two categories of papers:
* Workshop papers: describing new, previously unpublished research in this
field. The submissions should follow the AKBC 2021 style guidelines:
https://github.com/akbc-conference/style-files/blob/master/akbc-latex.zi...
and contain up to 10 pages, excluding references and appendices (which
should be put after references). Submissions will be subject to a
single-blind review process (i.e. they need not be anonymized). Final
versions of accepted papers will be allowed 1 additional page of content so
that reviewer comments can be taken into account.
* Papers on topics relevant to the workshop theme, previously published at
NLP or ML conferences. These papers can be submitted in their original
format. Submissions will be reviewed for fit to the workshop topics.
In both categories, accepted papers will be published on the workshop
website (note that the workshop is non-archival), and will be presented at
the workshop either as a talk or a poster.
*** Important Dates ***
* All paper submissions due – August 5, 2021
* Notification of acceptance – Sep 10, 2021
* Camera-ready papers due – September 30, 2021
* Workshop – October 7, 2021
*** CSKB 2021 Keynote Speakers ***
We’re excited to have the following keynote speakers at CSKB 2021:
* Rachel Rudinger, University of Maryland
* Sara Hooker, Google Brain
* Maarten Sap, Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and CMU
* Xiang Ren, University of Southern California
We will also be holding a panel discussion with the invited speakers as
well as the following panelists:
* Mohit Bansal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
* Greg Durrett, UT Austin
* Sameer Singh, UC Irvine
* Aida Nematzadeh, DeepMind
*** Organizing Committee ***
Vered Shwartz, Allen Institute for AI (AI2), University of Washington, and
University of British Columbia
Antoine Bosselut, Stanford University and EPFL
Xiang Lorraine Li, UMass Amherst
Bill Yuchen Lin, University of Southern California
Dear colleagues,
this is a kind reminder that these are the last days to submit to the IEEE
ICTS4eHealth Conference has been extended to July 1, 2021. Please note that
this deadline is firm and final.
We also remind you that the Best Conference Paper Award is sponsored by
MDPI Computers Journal with a prize money amounting to 300 CHF.
Additionally, authors of papers presented at this conference may submit a
technically extended version to two Special Issues, one on Sensors Journal
(IF 2019: 3.275) and another one on Computers Journal (indexed in ESCI-Web
of Science and Scopus).
Please find below the Call For papers.
We do hope it can be of interest to you.
Yours sincerely
the IEEE ICTS4eHealth Conference Chairs
[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]
=======================================================
IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions for e-Health
ICTS4eHealth 2021
Athens, Greece, September 5-8, 2021
www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it
in conjunction with the Twenty-Sixth IEEE Symposium on Computers and
Communications
=======================================================
MISSION:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
e-Health is one of the major research topics that have been attracting
cross-disciplinary research groups. The deployment of new emerging ICT
technologies for Health, especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of
Things (IoT), and Computational Intelligence, is attracting the interest of
many researchers. The use of Cloud computing, IoT technologies, and methods
typical of Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence have been very
prominent recently and can be of great help in finding good solutions to
many practical healthcare applications.
Following five successful workshop editions, ICTS4eHealth 2021 is the
International IEEE Conference dedicated to ICT solutions for e-Health,
especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and
Computational Intelligence.
The conference will bring together researchers from academia, industry,
government, and medical centers in order to present the state of the art in
the emerging area of the use of cloud systems in connected health
infrastructure and applications, and the use of IoT and Computational
Intelligence techniques in the area of eHealth.
TOPICS:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Cloud computing applications for eHealth
- Internet of Things (IoT) applications for eHealth
- Assistive Technology (AT).
- Informatization, Management and Organization of BME Environments
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Medicine
- Communication, Networking and Monitoring in Bio-systems
- Monitoring of Vital Functions with Sensor and ICT Systems
- Biosensors and Sensor Networks
- Advanced Bio-signal Processing
- Distributed BME Applications
- Telehealth, Telecare, Telemonitoring, Telediagnostics
- e-Healthcare, m-Healthcare, x-Health
- Assisted Living
- Smartphones in BME Applications
- Social Networking, Computing and Education for Health
- Computer Aided Diagnostics
- Improved Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Methods
- Intelligent Bio-signal Interpretation
- Data and Visual Mining for Diagnostics
- Advanced Medical Visualization Techniques
- Personalized Medical Devices and Approaches
- Modelling and Computer Simulations in BME
- Human Responses in Extreme Environments
- Other Emerging Topics in BME
- E-Accessibility
- Web accessibility
- Hardware & Software personalized assistive technologies
- Assistive systems for users who are blind or visually impaired
- Cloud computing and AT
- Integration between home-based assistive technologies and patient health
data
- User-centered design of electronic assistive technologies
- Usability of assistive technologies
- Computer vision in AT
- User interfaces for home-based assistive technologies
- Use of prescription systems and assistive technologies
- Experience from real world assistive environment deployment
- Assistive Technologies for Urban Environments
- Healthcare modeling and simulation
- Knowledge discovery and decision support
- Biomedical data processing
- Wearable devices
- Sensor-based mHealth applications
IMPORTANT DATES (EXTENDED, FIRM AND FINAL):
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
• Submission deadline: July 1, 2021
• Notification of paper acceptance: July 22, 2021
• Submission of camera-ready papers: August 5, 2021
• Registration: August 5, 2021
PAPER SUBMISSION:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 7
pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers in the IEEE double
column proceedings format including tables, figures and references.
Download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings from:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…
Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no
additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee.
Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted.
In IEEE ICTS4eHealth 2021, as well as in IEEE ISCC 2021, all submissions
must be done through EDAS by using the link https://edas.info/N28521.
Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE ISCC 2021 Proceedings and will
be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ISCC Proceedings have been
indexed in the past by ISI, dblp and Scopus. This makes the ISCC conference
one of the publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both
Computer and Communications areas.
SPECIAL ISSUES:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Authors of papers presented at this conference may submit a technically
extended version to Special Issues with reduced or no fees:
- MDPI Sensors Journal (Impact Factor 2019: 3.275, Journal Rank: JCR - Q1
(Instruments & Instrumentation) / CiteScore - Q1 (Instrumentation))
Special Issue on “The power of edge computing and IoT to support healthcare”
- MDPI Computers Journal (Journal Rank: JCR - Q2 (Computer Networks and
Communications)
Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning approaches
for eHealth”
Other Special Issues will be announced.
BEST PAPER AWARD:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A "Best Paper Award" Certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a
paper presented at the workshop, selected by the Chairs based on scientific
significance, originality and outstanding technical quality of the paper,
as assessed also by the evaluations of the members of the Program Committee.
The Best Conference Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI Computers Journal. The
authors of this paper will be entitled a prize money amounting to 300 CHF.
Please visit http://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it for more information and if
you have any questions kindly get back to us by sending an email at
icts4ehealth(a)googlegroups.com.
Kind regards,
ICTS4eHealth Organising Committee
Dear colleagues,
this is a kind reminder that the submission deadline for the IEEE
ICTS4eHealth Conference has been extended to July 1, 2021. Please note that
this new deadline is firm and final.
We also remind you that the Best Conference Paper Award is sponsored by
MDPI Computers Journal with a prize money amounting to 300 CHF.
Additionally, authors of papers presented at this conference may submit a
technically extended version to two Special Issues, one on Sensors Journal
(IF 2019: 3.275) and another one on Computers Journal (indexed in ESCI-Web
of Science and Scopus).
Please find below the Call For papers.
We do hope it can be of interest to you.
Yours sincerely
the IEEE ICTS4eHealth Conference Chairs
[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]
=======================================================
IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions for e-Health
ICTS4eHealth 2021
Athens, Greece, September 5-8, 2021
www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it
in conjunction with the Twenty-Sixth IEEE Symposium on Computers and
Communications
=======================================================
MISSION:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
e-Health is one of the major research topics that have been attracting
cross-disciplinary research groups. The deployment of new emerging ICT
technologies for Health, especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of
Things (IoT), and Computational Intelligence, is attracting the interest of
many researchers. The use of Cloud computing, IoT technologies, and methods
typical of Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence have been very
prominent recently and can be of great help in finding good solutions to
many practical healthcare applications.
Following five successful workshop editions, ICTS4eHealth 2021 is the
International IEEE Conference dedicated to ICT solutions for e-Health,
especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and
Computational Intelligence.
The conference will bring together researchers from academia, industry,
government, and medical centers in order to present the state of the art in
the emerging area of the use of cloud systems in connected health
infrastructure and applications, and the use of IoT and Computational
Intelligence techniques in the area of eHealth.
TOPICS:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Cloud computing applications for eHealth
- Internet of Things (IoT) applications for eHealth
- Assistive Technology (AT).
- Informatization, Management and Organization of BME Environments
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Medicine
- Communication, Networking and Monitoring in Bio-systems
- Monitoring of Vital Functions with Sensor and ICT Systems
- Biosensors and Sensor Networks
- Advanced Bio-signal Processing
- Distributed BME Applications
- Telehealth, Telecare, Telemonitoring, Telediagnostics
- e-Healthcare, m-Healthcare, x-Health
- Assisted Living
- Smartphones in BME Applications
- Social Networking, Computing and Education for Health
- Computer Aided Diagnostics
- Improved Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Methods
- Intelligent Bio-signal Interpretation
- Data and Visual Mining for Diagnostics
- Advanced Medical Visualization Techniques
- Personalized Medical Devices and Approaches
- Modelling and Computer Simulations in BME
- Human Responses in Extreme Environments
- Other Emerging Topics in BME
- E-Accessibility
- Web accessibility
- Hardware & Software personalized assistive technologies
- Assistive systems for users who are blind or visually impaired
- Cloud computing and AT
- Integration between home-based assistive technologies and patient health
data
- User-centered design of electronic assistive technologies
- Usability of assistive technologies
- Computer vision in AT
- User interfaces for home-based assistive technologies
- Use of prescription systems and assistive technologies
- Experience from real world assistive environment deployment
- Assistive Technologies for Urban Environments
- Healthcare modeling and simulation
- Knowledge discovery and decision support
- Biomedical data processing
- Wearable devices
- Sensor-based mHealth applications
IMPORTANT DATES (EXTENDED, FIRM AND FINAL):
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
• Submission deadline: July 1, 2021
• Notification of paper acceptance: July 22, 2021
• Submission of camera-ready papers: August 5, 2021
• Registration: August 5, 2021
PAPER SUBMISSION:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 7
pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers in the IEEE double
column proceedings format including tables, figures and references.
Download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings from:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…
Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no
additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee.
Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted.
In IEEE ICTS4eHealth 2021, as well as in IEEE ISCC 2021, all submissions
must be done through EDAS by using the link https://edas.info/N28521.
Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE ISCC 2021 Proceedings and will
be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ISCC Proceedings have been
indexed in the past by ISI, dblp and Scopus. This makes the ISCC conference
one of the publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both
Computer and Communications areas.
SPECIAL ISSUES:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Authors of papers presented at this conference may submit a technically
extended version to Special Issues with reduced or no fees:
- MDPI Sensors Journal (Impact Factor 2019: 3.275, Journal Rank: JCR - Q1
(Instruments & Instrumentation) / CiteScore - Q1 (Instrumentation))
Special Issue on “The power of edge computing and IoT to support healthcare”
- MDPI Computers Journal (Journal Rank: JCR - Q2 (Computer Networks and
Communications)
Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning approaches
for eHealth”
Other Special Issues will be announced.
BEST PAPER AWARD:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A "Best Paper Award" Certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a
paper presented at the workshop, selected by the Chairs based on scientific
significance, originality and outstanding technical quality of the paper,
as assessed also by the evaluations of the members of the Program Committee.
The Best Conference Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI Computers Journal. The
authors of this paper will be entitled a prize money amounting to 300 CHF.
Please visit http://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it for more information and if
you have any questions kindly get back to us by sending an email at
icts4ehealth(a)googlegroups.com.
Kind regards,
ICTS4eHealth Organising Committee
Dear colleagues,
it is our pleasure to inform you that the submission deadline for the IEEE
ICTS4eHealth Conference has been extended to July 1, 2021. Please note that
this new deadline is firm and final.
We also remind you that the Best Conference Paper Award is sponsored by
MDPI Computers Journal with a prize money amounting to 300 CHF.
Additionally, authors of papers presented at this conference may submit a
technically extended version to two Special Issues, one on Sensors Journal
(IF 2019: 3.275) and another one on Computers Journal (indexed in ESCI-Web
of Science and Scopus).
Please find below the Call For papers.
We do hope it can be of interest to you.
Yours sincerely
the IEEE ICTS4eHealth Conference Chairs
[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]
=======================================================
IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions for e-Health
ICTS4eHealth 2021
Athens, Greece, September 5-8, 2021
www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it
in conjunction with the Twenty-Sixth IEEE Symposium on Computers and
Communications
=======================================================
MISSION:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
e-Health is one of the major research topics that have been attracting
cross-disciplinary research groups. The deployment of new emerging ICT
technologies for Health, especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of
Things (IoT), and Computational Intelligence, is attracting the interest of
many researchers. The use of Cloud computing, IoT technologies, and methods
typical of Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence have been very
prominent recently and can be of great help in finding good solutions to
many practical healthcare applications.
Following five successful workshop editions, ICTS4eHealth 2021 is the
International IEEE Conference dedicated to ICT solutions for e-Health,
especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and
Computational Intelligence.
The conference will bring together researchers from academia, industry,
government, and medical centers in order to present the state of the art in
the emerging area of the use of cloud systems in connected health
infrastructure and applications, and the use of IoT and Computational
Intelligence techniques in the area of eHealth.
TOPICS:
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- Cloud computing applications for eHealth
- Internet of Things (IoT) applications for eHealth
- Assistive Technology (AT).
- Informatization, Management and Organization of BME Environments
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Medicine
- Communication, Networking and Monitoring in Bio-systems
- Monitoring of Vital Functions with Sensor and ICT Systems
- Biosensors and Sensor Networks
- Advanced Bio-signal Processing
- Distributed BME Applications
- Telehealth, Telecare, Telemonitoring, Telediagnostics
- e-Healthcare, m-Healthcare, x-Health
- Assisted Living
- Smartphones in BME Applications
- Social Networking, Computing and Education for Health
- Computer Aided Diagnostics
- Improved Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Methods
- Intelligent Bio-signal Interpretation
- Data and Visual Mining for Diagnostics
- Advanced Medical Visualization Techniques
- Personalized Medical Devices and Approaches
- Modelling and Computer Simulations in BME
- Human Responses in Extreme Environments
- Other Emerging Topics in BME
- E-Accessibility
- Web accessibility
- Hardware & Software personalized assistive technologies
- Assistive systems for users who are blind or visually impaired
- Cloud computing and AT
- Integration between home-based assistive technologies and patient health
data
- User-centered design of electronic assistive technologies
- Usability of assistive technologies
- Computer vision in AT
- User interfaces for home-based assistive technologies
- Use of prescription systems and assistive technologies
- Experience from real world assistive environment deployment
- Assistive Technologies for Urban Environments
- Healthcare modeling and simulation
- Knowledge discovery and decision support
- Biomedical data processing
- Wearable devices
- Sensor-based mHealth applications
IMPORTANT DATES (EXTENDED, FIRM AND FINAL):
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• Submission deadline: July 1, 2021
• Notification of paper acceptance: July 22, 2021
• Submission of camera-ready papers: August 5, 2021
• Registration: August 5, 2021
PAPER SUBMISSION:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 7
pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers in the IEEE double
column proceedings format including tables, figures and references.
Download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings from:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…
Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no
additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee.
Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted.
In IEEE ICTS4eHealth 2021, as well as in IEEE ISCC 2021, all submissions
must be done through EDAS by using the link https://edas.info/N28521.
Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE ISCC 2021 Proceedings and will
be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ISCC Proceedings have been
indexed in the past by ISI, dblp and Scopus. This makes the ISCC conference
one of the publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both
Computer and Communications areas.
SPECIAL ISSUES:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Authors of papers presented at this conference may submit a technically
extended version to Special Issues with reduced or no fees:
- MDPI Sensors Journal (Impact Factor 2019: 3.275, Journal Rank: JCR - Q1
(Instruments & Instrumentation) / CiteScore - Q1 (Instrumentation))
Special Issue on “The power of edge computing and IoT to support healthcare”
- MDPI Computers Journal (Journal Rank: JCR - Q2 (Computer Networks and
Communications)
Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning approaches
for eHealth”
Other Special Issues will be announced.
BEST PAPER AWARD:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A "Best Paper Award" Certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a
paper presented at the workshop, selected by the Chairs based on scientific
significance, originality and outstanding technical quality of the paper,
as assessed also by the evaluations of the members of the Program Committee.
The Best Conference Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI Computers Journal. The
authors of this paper will be entitled a prize money amounting to 300 CHF.
Please visit http://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it for more information and if
you have any questions kindly get back to us by sending an email at
icts4ehealth(a)googlegroups.com.
Kind regards,
ICTS4eHealth Organising Committee
Dear colleagues,
this is just a reminder that the submission deadline for the IEEE
ICTS4eHealth Conference is June 15, 2021.
Please find below the Call For papers.
We do hope it can be of interest to you.
Yours sincerely
the IEEE ICTS4eHealth Conference Chairs
[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]
=======================================================
IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions for e-Health
ICTS4eHealth 2021
Athens, Greece, September 5-8, 2021
www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it
in conjunction with the Twenty-Sixth IEEE Symposium on Computers and
Communications
=======================================================
MISSION:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
e-Health is one of the major research topics that have been attracting
cross-disciplinary research groups. The deployment of new emerging ICT
technologies for Health, especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of
Things (IoT), and Computational Intelligence, is attracting the interest of
many researchers. The use of Cloud computing, IoT technologies, and methods
typical of Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence have been very
prominent recently and can be of great help in finding good solutions to
many practical healthcare applications.
Following five successful workshop editions, ICTS4eHealth 2021 is the
International IEEE Conference dedicated to ICT solutions for e-Health,
especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and
Computational Intelligence.
The conference will bring together researchers from academia, industry,
government, and medical centers in order to present the state of the art in
the emerging area of the use of cloud systems in connected health
infrastructure and applications, and the use of IoT and Computational
Intelligence techniques in the area of eHealth.
TOPICS:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Cloud computing applications for eHealth
- Internet of Things (IoT) applications for eHealth
- Assistive Technology (AT).
- Informatization, Management and Organization of BME Environments
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Medicine
- Communication, Networking and Monitoring in Bio-systems
- Monitoring of Vital Functions with Sensor and ICT Systems
- Biosensors and Sensor Networks
- Advanced Bio-signal Processing
- Distributed BME Applications
- Telehealth, Telecare, Telemonitoring, Telediagnostics
- e-Healthcare, m-Healthcare, x-Health
- Assisted Living
- Smartphones in BME Applications
- Social Networking, Computing and Education for Health
- Computer Aided Diagnostics
- Improved Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Methods
- Intelligent Bio-signal Interpretation
- Data and Visual Mining for Diagnostics
- Advanced Medical Visualization Techniques
- Personalized Medical Devices and Approaches
- Modelling and Computer Simulations in BME
- Human Responses in Extreme Environments
- Other Emerging Topics in BME
- E-Accessibility
- Web accessibility
- Hardware & Software personalized assistive technologies
- Assistive systems for users who are blind or visually impaired
- Cloud computing and AT
- Integration between home-based assistive technologies and patient health
data
- User-centered design of electronic assistive technologies
- Usability of assistive technologies
- Computer vision in AT
- User interfaces for home-based assistive technologies
- Use of prescription systems and assistive technologies
- Experience from real world assistive environment deployment
- Assistive Technologies for Urban Environments
- Healthcare modeling and simulation
- Knowledge discovery and decision support
- Biomedical data processing
- Wearable devices
- Sensor-based mHealth applications
IMPORTANT DATES:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
• Submission deadline: June 15, 2021
• Notification of paper acceptance: July 15, 2021
• Submission of camera-ready papers: July 25, 2021
• Registration: July 25, 2021
PAPER SUBMISSION:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 7
pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers in the IEEE double
column proceedings format including tables, figures and references.
Download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings from:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…
Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no
additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee.
Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted.
In IEEE ICTS4eHealth 2021, as well as in IEEE ISCC 2021, all submissions
must be done through EDAS by using the link https://edas.info/N28521.
Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE ISCC 2021 Proceedings and will
be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ISCC Proceedings have been
indexed in the past by ISI, dblp and Scopus. This makes the ISCC conference
one of the publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both
Computer and Communications areas.
SPECIAL ISSUE:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MDPI Sensors Journal (Impact Factor 2019: 3.275, Journal Rank: JCR - Q1
(Instruments & Instrumentation) / CiteScore - Q1 (Instrumentation))
Special Issue on “Intelligent Systems for Clinical Care and Remote Patient
Monitoring”
BEST PAPER AWARD:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A "Best Paper Award" Certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a
paper presented at the workshop, selected by the Chairs based on scientific
significance, originality and outstanding technical quality of the paper,
as assessed also by the evaluations of the members of the Program Committee.
Please visit http://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it for more information and if
you have any questions kindly get back to us by sending an email at
icts4ehealth(a)googlegroups.com.
Kind regards,
icts4ehealth Organization
Hey folks!
Will the #wikimedia-ai channel be moving as well?
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Bryan Davis <bd808(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, May 20, 2021 at 2:00 PM
Subject: [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] #wikimedia-cloud IRC channel available on
libera.chat
To: <cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
TL;DR:
* The #wikimedia-cloud IRC channel is moving from Freenode to Libera.Chat.
* Register an account on Libera.Chat and join us there!
There has been a lot of activity over the last 2-3 days related to
staffing changes on the Freenode IRC network [0]. The Wikimedia IRC
Group Contacts (GCs) [1] evaluated the situation and decided that
moving the Wikimedia IRC channels from Freenode to the brand new
Libera.Chat IRC network [2] would be the best course of action [3].
So, we are moving!
A new #wikimedia-cloud channel has been created on irc.libera.chat for
this Wikimedia sub-community to use. The old channel on Freenode still
exists and will be maintained at least until we can get all the bots
moved, our documentation updated on wikitech, and we see more folks on
the Libera channel than the Freenode one. Messages to our channel in
either IRC network, as well as the Telegram channel [4], will be seen
on all other channels.
There is a new subpage on meta [5] for information on how to create a
new account for yourself on Libera.Chat and other related information.
There is also a tracking task [6] that you can look at to see various
activities that the community hopes to take action on to complete the
migration.
One last thing: The #wmhack Freenode channel is bridged to
#wikimedia-hackathon on Libera.Chat. The new channel name will make it
easier for the GCs to help manage spam and other issues that come up
occasionally on IRC. Don't miss the fun of our 2021 virtual hackathon
from Friday, May 21st to Sunday, May 23rd! [7]
[0]: https://www.kline.sh/
[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Group_Contacts
[2]: https://libera.chat/
[3]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=21476411
[4]: https://t.me/wmcloudirc
[5]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Migrating_to_Libera_Chat
[6]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283247
[7]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2021
Bryan, on behalf of the WMCS team and the Cloud VPS and Toolforge admins
--
Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA
[[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808
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*Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law (SAIL)*
31 May - 04 June, 2021 | Virtual event
https://sites.google.com/view/sail-2021/
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law (SAIL) aims to bring
together experts from Industry and Academia to discuss the future of AI and
Law. The Symposium aims to provide a venue for academic and
industrial/governmental AI-Law researchers and law professionals to come
together, present and discuss research results, use cases, innovative
ideas, challenges, and opportunities that arise from applications of AI in
the Legal Domain.
The Symposium is organized by Computer Science and AI researchers from IIT
Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IISER Kolkata, TCG CREST (all from India) and CSIRO
Australia, and Law researchers from the WB National University of Juridical
Sciences (WBNUJS) and Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India. Details of
organizers can be found on the website.
== Invited talks ==
The symposium will have invited talks from eminent Law-AI researchers from
both academia and industry (details available on the symposium website):
* Kevin Ashley -- Professor of Law and Intelligent Systems, University of
Pittsburgh, USA
* Maura Grossman -- Professor, University of Waterloo; Adjunct Professor at
Osgoode Hall Law School, USA
* Jack G. Conrad -- Director and Lead Researcher, Center for AI and
Cognitive Computing, Thomson Reuters, USA
* Lyria Bennett Moses -- Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and
Innovation; Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney,
Australia
* Christoph Sorge -- Professor of Legal Informatics, University of
Saarland, Germany
* Dave Lewis -- Executive Vice President for AI Research and Ethics at
Reveal-Brainspace, USA
* Adam Wyner -- Faculty of Law and Computer Science, Hillary Rodham Clinton
School of Law, Swansea University, UK
* Guido Governatori -- Group Leader, Software Systems Research Group,
CSIRO, Australia
* Sachin Kumar -- Senior Data Scientist at LexisNexis, Raleigh, North
Carolina, USA
* Arthur Dyevre -- Faculty of Empirical Jurisprudence, KU Leuven, Belgium
* Shiri Krebs -- Faculty, Deakin Law School, Australia
* Suzan Verberne -- Group leader of Text Mining & Retrieval, Leiden
University, Netherlands
* Angshuman Hazarika -- Faculty, IIM Ranchi, India; Doctor of Law, Saarland
Uni, Germany
* Matthias Grabmair -- Faculty, LegalTech, TU Munich, Germany; Adjunct
Professor, CMU LTI
* Sshubham Joshi -- Founder, Lawnics, India
== Panel Discussions ==
The symposium will have panel discussions on the future of AI and Law, with
a special focus on the Law-AI scenario in India. Details are uploaded on
the website.
== Participation ==
The symposium will be fully online. Anyone interested in Law or application
of AI in the legal domain is welcome to attend. Participation is free of
cost, but prior registration is necessary. Interested participants need to
register themselves on the symposium website https://sites.google.com/view/
sail-2021/ (under the "Participate" tab).
Kind Regards,
*Kripabandhu Ghosh*
Co-organizer
SAIL