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SEMANTiCS - 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Call for Workshops and Tutorials
September 17 - 19, 2024
https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_ws
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SEMANTiCS 2024 is a major venue for research and industrial innovation
and features a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse
practical interests of its audience. This program is intended to offer a
rich diversity of topics to conference attendees and local participants
seeking to pick up new skills and stay up-to-date regarding the latest
developments in the community. We encourage submissions of proposals on
all topics in the general areas of SEMANTiCS 2024 and proposals bridging
or introducing new perspectives and/or challenges in these areas.
Workshops and tutorials may incorporate panel discussions, lightning
talks, meetings, networking or hands-on sessions, hackathons and other
practical formats where applicable. Rooms for business or project
meetings are available upon request as well.
=Important Dates=
Important Dates for Workshops
* Proposals WS Deadline: March 22, 2024 (11:59 pm, AoE)
* Notification of Acceptance: March 29, 2024 (11:59 pm, AoE)
* Workshop website is online: April 15th, 2024
Suggested Dates for Workshop Organizers (with Call for Papers)
* Submission WS papers Deadline: June 14, 2024 (11:59 pm, AoE)
* Notification of Acceptance: July 05, 2024 (11:59 pm, AoE)
Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars,
show-cases, etc., without call for papers)
* Proposals Tutorial Deadline: June 11, 2024 (11:59 pm, AoE)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 2024 (11:59 pm, AoE)
Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem24
=Scope & Goals=
Workshops and tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2024 allow your organisation or
project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased
visibility. The workshops and tutorials will be announced on the
SEMANTiCS website and they will be seen by all participants. SEMANTiCS
2024 workshops and tutorials can be incubators for industrial and
scientific communities that form and share a particular research and
development agenda and they will provide a forum for presenting
contributions and findings to a diverse and knowledgeable community.
Furthermore, the event can be used as a dissemination activity in the
scope of large research projects or as a closed format for
research/commercial project consortia meetings.
=Proceedings=
For the proceedings, we offer two options:
Option A: In case you want to maintain an already existing series or
want to have one of your own, please organize the proceedings yourself.
Option B: In case you do not have enough contributions/page volume to
create proceedings of your own, we offer to publish your papers as part
of the SEMANTiCS side event proceedings. Side events proceedings will
include posters & demos and (optional) contributions from workshops.
In case you want to make use of Option B, please get in touch with the
workshop & tutorial chairs or drop us a note via Easychair.
=Setup and Requirements=
SEMANTiCS 2024 workshops and tutorials may be either half or full day
long. Workshops and tutorials take place on the days before and/or after
the main SEMANTiCS 2024 EU conference (17th of September 2024). Further
details will be communicated in due time.
Organizers of workshops and tutorials will be granted three free tickets
(only for the workshop & tutorial day) for organization purposes or
keynotes. Participants of workshops and tutorials will only be charged a
reduced fee to cover the basic costs.
Workshop and tutorial proposals must include the following information:
* outline of the themes and goals of the event, including a title and a
brief abstract (less than 200 words) intended for the SEMANTiCS 2024
website.
* a statement addressing why the event is important, why the event is
timely, and how it is relevant to SEMANTiCS 2024 and the field of
Semantic Web. For the tutorials, why the presenters are qualified for a
high-quality introduction of the topic.
* related workshops and conferences, i.e., specifying if this is a
continuation of a workshop series or a new workshop. Please provide
information about past versions (in any) and other related workshops
(including URLs and submission/acceptance counts, if available).
* a statement addressing the quality assurance criteria that will be
used by the event organizers to select the papers for the workshops and
the presenters for the tutorials (e.g., peer review or review/evaluation
by event organizers). If a peer review process is chosen as a quality
assurance criterion for the workshops, the organizers will be
responsible for their own reviewing process. Workshop organizers will be
responsible also for their own publicity (e.g., website, timelines and
call for papers) and proceedings production.
* structure of the event and plans for generating and stimulating
discussion; how will the interaction be organized in case of a hybrid event.
* expected number of event participants and (in case of previously held
events) number of registered attendees and website for previous editions
of the event.
* a description of the intended audience and the expected learning outcomes.
* desired prerequisite knowledge of the audience.
* proposed duration of the event (i.e., half or full day), different
sessions if applicable (final time slot will be assigned in accordance
with the SEMANTiCS program).
* any equipment, room capacity, or other logistic constraints.
* full contact information of all organizers of the event and main
contact person; a brief description of each organizer's background,
including relevant past experience in organizing events.
Proposals for workshops and tutorials must be submitted via Easychair:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem24 (as a short paper type)
=Review and Evaluation Criteria=
Workshop and tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the SEMANTiCS 2024
Workshop & Tutorial Chairs, as well as by the SEMANTiCS 2024 organizing
committee, according to the following criteria:
* The potential to advance the state of Semantic Web research and practice
* The quality assurance criteria proposed by the organizers to select
high-quality presenters for tutorials
* The organizers' experience and ability to lead a successful event
* Timeliness and expected interest in the event topics
* The balance and synergy between all SEMANTiCS 2024 events
=Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)=
* Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
* Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management
* Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g.
reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery)
* Interplay between Large Language Models, generative AI and Knowledge
Graphs (e.g., Retrieval Augmented Generation)
* Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction,
authoring, integration, publication)
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering
* Reasoning, Rules and Policies
* Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity
linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and
DBpedia, foundation models)
* Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs
* Data Quality Management and Assurance
* Mathematical Foundation of Knowledge-aware AI
* Multimodal Knowledge Graphs
* Semantics in Data Science
* Semantics in Blockchain environments
* Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
* IoT, Stream Processing, dealing with temporal data
* Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems
* Provenance and Data Change Tracking
* Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.)
* Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases
* Robust and scalable management, querying and analysis of semantics and
data
* User interfaces for the Semantic Web & its management
* Explainable and Interoperable AI
* Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Federated
querying, link traversal)
* Application of Semantically-Enriched and AI-based Approaches, such as,
but not limited to: Knowledge Graphs in Bioinformatics, Medical AI and
Preventive Healthcare; Clinical Use Case of semantic-enabled AI-based
Approaches; AI for Environmental Challenges; Semantics in Scholarly
Communication and Scientific Knowledge Graphs; AI and LOD within GLAM
(galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) institutions; Knowledge
Graphs & hybrid AI for predictive maintenance and Industry 4.0/5.0;
Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage; LegalTech, AI Safety, EU AI
Act; Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems
We especially invite contributions that illustrate the applicability of
the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate the
business relevance of their contribution for specific industries.
Workshop proposals on emerging themes and open challenges for the topics
listed above are encouraged.
In case you have additional questions concerning the submission process,
please do not hesitate to contact us via Easychair.
We are looking forward to your contribution!
Workshop and Tutorial Chairs
Daniel Garijo & Andrea Mannocci
PhD Studentship in Social Statistics in Digital and Computational Demography
University of Manchester and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
We are pleased to invite applications to a 3.5-year University of Manchester doctoral studentship in Social Statistics. The studentship is jointly funded by the Social Statistics Department, University of Manchester, UK, and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Germany. The studentship will be part of the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS) www.imprs-phds.mpg.de<http://www.imprs-phds.mpg.de/>.
The digital and computing revolution has opened up new research opportunities. These are linked to:
(i) the availability of unprecedented amounts of data (e.g., internet and social media data, bibliometric data, crowd-sourced data, geo-spatial and remotely sensed data) to complement existing sources when addressing longstanding population questions;
(ii) new forms of data collection and survey experiments enabled by digital technologies;
(iii) the combination of computationally-intensive methods such as social simulation and machine learning approaches with new statistical techniques.
New methods are required to use and integrate new forms of data with those derived from traditional sources, such as administrative records, censuses and surveys, in order to advance our understanding of demographic processes such as migration/mobility, health dynamics and fertility. We invite highly-motivated and qualified candidates to work with an international team on developing cutting-edge novel statistical, computational or simulation methods to study population dynamics and demographic behaviours.
The successful applicant will spend the first 21 months at the Social Statistics Department<http://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=168977&type=184&DID=72…>, University of Manchester. They will be working in a vibrant community of PhD students in Social Statistics, Social Data Analytics and Biosocial Research. They will participate in research activities of the Department, such as seminars and research away-days. The remainder of the time of the studentship will be spent at the MPIDR in the Department of Digital and Computational Demography<http://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=168977&type=184&DID=72…>.
It is expected that the PhD student will prepare a thesis as a collection of research articles according to the postgraduate research policies of the University of Manchester.
Eligibility Criteria
Academic
* Bachelor's (Honours) degree in a cognate subject at 2:1 or above (or overseas equivalent); and
* Master's degree in a relevant subject - with an overall average of 65% or above, a minimum mark of 65% in your dissertation and no mark below 55% (or overseas equivalent)
English language
International applicants must provide one of the following:
* IELTS test minimum score - 7.0 overall, 7.0 in writing, 6.5 in other sections.
* TOEFL (internet based) test minimum score - 100 overall, 25 all sections.
* Pearson Test of English (PTE) UKVI/SELT or PTE Academic minimum score - 76 overall, 76 in writing, 70 in other sections.
* To demonstrate that you have taken an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in a majority English speaking nation<http://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=168977&type=184&DID=72…> within the last 5 years.
* Other tests may be considered.<http://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=168977&type=184&DID=72…>
Please note, CAS statements are only issued when all conditions of the offer have been satisfied, offer accepted, and a PDF copy of passport received.
Application Procedure
The application deadline will be Midnight (GMT) on 27th February 2024. All supporting documents must be received by the deadline and sent as a zip file to HUMS.doctoralacademy.admissions(a)manchester.ac.uk<mailto:HUMS.doctoralacademy.admissions@manchester.ac.uk?subject=PhD%20Studentship%20in%20Social%20Statistics%20in%20Digital%20and%20Computational%20Demography>, using 'Digital and Computational Demography - Arkadiusz Wisniowski' as the email subject.
The application must include:
* A 1,000 word proposal linked to the studentship's focus;
* A 500-word statement outlining your motivation and qualifications, indicating why you would like to undertake this studentship and explaining how your focus, experience, and skills link to the research outlined above;
* An up to date academic CV, detailing your education and qualifications; employment history; publications; and any other relevant information.
* Copies of the academic transcript and certificate from both your Bachelor's and Master's degrees. If your Master's degree is pending, please provide an interim transcript.
* Names and contact details of two academic referees who can comment on your suitability for PhD study and to undertake the advertised project.
Further Information
For informal enquires please contact:
Arkadiusz Wiśniowski (a.wisniowski(a)manchester.ac.uk<mailto:a.wisniowski@manchester.ac.uk?subject=PhD%20Studentship%20in%20Social%20Statistics%20in%20Digital%20and%20Computational%20Demography%20>),
Emilio Zagheni (zagheni(a)demogr.mpg.de<mailto:zagheni@demogr.mpg.de?subject=PhD%20Studentship%20in%20Social%20Statistics%20in%20Digital%20and%20Computational%20Demography%20>)
Kingsley Purdam (Kingsley.Purdam(a)manchester.ac.uk<mailto:Kingsley.Purdam@manchester.ac.uk?subject=PhD%20Studentship%20in%20Social%20Statistics%20in%20Digital%20and%20Computational%20Demography%20>)
For enquiries about the application process, please contact:
The Humanities Doctoral Academy Admissions Team (HUMS.doctoralacademy.admissions(a)manchester.ac.uk<mailto:HUMS.doctoralacademy.admissions@manchester.ac.uk?subject=PhD%20Studentship%20in%20Social%20Statistics%20in%20Digital%20and%20Computational%20Demography%20>).
The MPIDR is an equal opportunities employer. Our work atmosphere includes respectful treatment of each other, with gender, nationality, religion, disability, age, cultural origin, and sexual identity playing no role. We aim to have an institutional culture that enables everyone to develop their individual skills and competencies.
The Max Planck Society offers a broad range of measures to support the reconciliation of work and family. These are complemented by the MPIDR's own initiatives. The Society has been awarded the certificate "Work and Family" which is granted to institutions committed to establishing a family-friendly corporate culture by binding target agreements. The MPIDR collaborates with a network of local day-care centers that provides childcare places for the children of Institute staff. The Max Planck Society has contracts with a private family service company that offers services such as arranging child care on short notice in various cities in Germany for parents who attend conferences, care services for children of school age up to 14 years, and support for those caring for family members and relatives. The MPIDR also practices flexible working-time models, which include at least one home office day per week, and scheduling meetings only within core working hours. To help accompanying spouses and partners find appropriate work at their new location, the MPIDR works in close cooperation with Dual-Career Partners in regional networks.
The MPIDR values diversity and is keen to employ individuals from minorities. We are committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in our workforce and therefore encourage
applications from such qualified individuals. Furthermore, we seek to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourage women to apply.
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The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is seeking to appoint a full-time post-doctoral researcher to join the newly established ERC-funded Research Group on Migration and Health Inequalities<http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/research_6120/independent_research_groups_11668…>. The group, led by Silvia Loi<http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/about_us_6113/staff_directory_1899/silvia_loi_2…>, will bring together experts from areas like Demography, Sociology, Statistics, Social Epidemiology and Public Health to address the pressing scientific and societal question: Why do immigrants age in poorer health compared to non-immigrants? We are seeking creative, self-driven, collaborative scholars with strong communication skills that can contribute to advancing one or more of these three research areas:
1. quantify the gaps in healthy ageing trajectories between immigrants and non-immigrants by age, gender, socioeconomic status, and their interactions;
2. identify the critical events and circumstances in immigrants' lives that put them on a different healthy ageing trajectory from non-immigrants;
3. study the impact of family composition and family ties in mitigating health inequalities by migration background.
We provide a stimulating research-oriented community, excellent infrastructure at the MPIDR, and an institutional culture that enables everyone to develop their individual skills and competencies. The MPIDR is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world, studying issues of theoretical and policy relevance. These include, but are not limited to mortality, fertility, migration, aging, health, and the redistribution of work and transfers over the life course. The MPIDR is part of the Max Planck Society, a network of 86 institutes that form Germany's premier basic-research organization. Max Planck Institutes have an established record of world-class, foundational research in the sciences, technology, social sciences, and the humanities.
The successful candidate must have a PhD (or receive it in 2024) in Demography, Sociology, Epidemiology, Statistics or related fields, and is expected to have a profile along at least one of the following lines:
1. Migrant health
2. Social determinants of health
3. Social inequalities
4. Measuring and modelling life-course processes
Please apply online via this survey<https://survey.demogr.mpg.de/index.php/169167?lang=en> and include in a single PDF file:
1. Motivation letter, 1-2 pages that describe how your expertise fits into the research agenda of the Research Group<http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/research_6120/independent_research_groups_11668…> and the related project<http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/…>. Please include your research accomplishments, and highlight your technical skills, and areas of expertise.
2. Curriculum Vitae including a list of publications
3. A writing example (e.g., one of your publications or working paper)
4. Contact information for up to 2 academic referees
In order to receive full consideration, applications should be submitted by April 28th, 2024. Interviews will be held in week 13-17 May 2024. We expect candidates to start in the fall 2024 but the exact starting date is flexible. The successful applicant will be offered a contract for up to 3 years with remuneration commensurate to experience (starting from approx. 57,000 EUR gross per year for researchers who have just completed their PhD, up to approx. 70,000 EUR gross per year for more senior scientists), based on the salary structure of the German public sector (Öffentlicher Dienst, TVöD Bund). It is expected that the successful applicant will be in residence at the MPIDR. Support for relocation costs is available.
The Max Planck Society offers a broad range of measures to support the reconciliation of work and family. These are complemented by the MPIDR's own initiatives. For more information, see: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/work-family. In addition, there are a range of central initiatives and measures primarily geared towards helping young female researchers and mothers to advance their career. See the link below for some examples:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/career-development.
Our Institute values diversity and is keen to employ individuals from minorities and under-represented groups. The Max Planck Society is committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages applications from such qualified individuals. Furthermore, the Max Planck Society seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply.
For inquiries about the position, please contact Silvia Loi at loi(a)demogr.mpg.de<mailto:loi@demogr.mpg.de?subject=1%20Post-Doctoral%20Researcher>.
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Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, February 21,
at 8:30 AM PST / 16:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1708533000>. The theme for this showcase is
*Platform Governance and Policies*.
You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xYwRw1rHU. As usual, you can join the
conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
This month's presentation:
Sociotechnical Designs for Democratic and Pluralistic Governance of Social
Media and AIBy *Amy X. Zhang, University of Washington*Decisions about
policies when using widely-deployed technologies, including social media
and more recently, generative AI, are often made in a centralized and
top-down fashion. Yet these systems are used by millions of people, with a
diverse set of preferences and norms. Who gets to decide what are the
rules, and what should the procedures be for deciding them---and must we
all abide by the same ones? In this talk, I draw on theories and lessons
from offline governance to reimagine how sociotechnical systems could be
designed to provide greater agency and voice to everyday users and
communities. This includes the design and development of: 1) personal
moderation and curation controls that are usable and understandable to
laypeople, 2) tools for authoring and carrying out governance to suit a
community's needs and values, and 3) decision-making workflows for
large-scale democratic alignment that are legitimate and consistent.
Best,Kinneret
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Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedia researchers,
Many of you already work in the field of LLMs and Knowledge Graphs (e.g.,
Wikidata). We would therefore like to share the first call for papers of:
The 1st Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KaLLM), to
be held on August 15, 2024, co-located with ACL 2024, Bangkok, Thailand.
First Call for Participation
Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024 at 23:59, UTC -12h, AoE
Website: https://kallmworkshop.github.io/kallm2024/
Contact email: kallmworkshop2024(a)googlegroups.com
The workshop intends to provide a platform for researchers, practitioners,
and industry professionals to explore the synergies between LLMs and KGs.
We aim to provide a space for the LLM community and the community of KG
researchers to interact and explore how these two communities could
collaborate and support one another.
Important Dates
Submission Starts: Feb 05, 2024
Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024
Author Notifications: June 17, 2024
Camera-Ready Deadline: July 1, 2024
Workshop Date: August 15, 2024
Submission Guidelines:
Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the official ACL template.
More details are available on the website.
Scope of the workshop:
KaLLM invites quality research contributions as short or long papers and
resource papers. All submissions will undergo a double-blind review
process, and accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop.
The submissions should focus on the interaction between LLMs and KGs in the
context of NLP. The workshop will cover a diverse range of topics related
to the integration of LLMs and KGs, including but not limited to:
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Knowledge-enhanced language generation
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KG-based question answering using LLMs
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Fact validation and bias mitigation
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KG creation and completion using LLMs
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Privacy considerations in LLM-KG integration
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Interpretability and explainability
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Cross-domain applications
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KG-based text summarisation with LLMs
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Ethical implications of LLM-KG technologies
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Multimodality of KGs and LLMs
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Multilingual LLMs for KGs and vice-versa
We look forward to receiving your submissions and having your valuable
contribution to the success of the workshop. If you have any questions or
require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at
kallmworkshop2024(a)googlegroups.com or visit
https://kallmworkshop.github.io/kallm2024/.
*Organising Committee*
Russa Biswas, Hasso Plattner Institut
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Hasso Plattner Institut
Oshin Agarwal, Bloomberg
Pasquale Minervini, University of Edinburg
Sameer Singh, University of California
Gerard de Melo, Hasso Plattner Institut
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Lucie-Aimée Kaffee
Uncertain Reasoning (UR)
Special Track at
The 37th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-37)
Miramar Beach, Florida, USA
May 18-21, 2024
Website: http://ur-flairs.github.io/2024/
Abstract submission deadline: February 14, 2024 (*extended*)
Paper submission deadline: February 17, 2024 (*extended*)
Notification: March 17, 2024
All accepted papers will be included in the FLAIRS proceedings published
by Florida Online Journals
Invited papers will be published in a special journal issue
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[[ Call For Papers ]]
The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in
FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR Special Track at
the 37th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society
Conference (FLAIRS-37) is the 27th in the series. Like the past tracks,
UR seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related
to reasoning under uncertainty.
[ Topics of Interest ]
Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of
particular interest include, but are not limited to:
* Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies
* Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief function,
vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics
* Modeling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information,
such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of
measures, and interval-valued probabilities
* Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning
* Probabilistic graphical models of uncertainty such as: Bayesian
networks, Markov random field, probabilistic circuits
* Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision-making
* Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process
* Temporal reasoning and uncertainty
* Non-monotonic reasoning
* Conditional Logics
* Argumentation
* Belief change and merging
* Similarity-based reasoning
* Ontologies and description logics
* Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge
discovery
* Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion,
diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment
* Uncertain reasoning in data management
* Practical applications of uncertain reasoning
* Learning probabilistic models
* Applications in computer vision and animation
[ Paper Submission and Publication ]
Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a
journal or another conference while under review.
Interested authors should format their papers according to FLAIRS-37
conference formatting guidelines. Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4
pages for a poster) and are due by February 11, 2024. The reviewing is a
double blind process. Author names and affiliations must be omitted on
submitted papers. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair
conference system, which can be accessed through the main conference web
site (http://www.flairs-37.info/). Authors should indicate the Uncertain
Reasoning special track for submissions. All accepted papers will be
included in the proceedings of FLAIRS, which will be published by the
Florida Online Journals. FLAIRS requires that there be at least one full
author registration per paper.
Instructions on the submission procedure are available at the UR website:
http://ur-flairs.github.io/2024
We anticipate there will be a special issue devoted to extended versions
of selected papers at the track.
[ Important Dates ]
Abstract submission due: Feb. 14, 2024 (*extended*)
Paper submission due: Feb. 17, 2024 (*extended*)
Author Notification: Mar. 17, 2024
Special Track: May 18-21, 2024
[ Program Committee ]
Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland)
Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel)
Christoph Beierle (FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany)
Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France)
Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada)
Lluís Godo (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Christophe Gonzales (LIS, France)
Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund University, Germany)
Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, US)
Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, US)
Tommie Meyer (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Arthur Paul Pedersen (The City College of New York, US)
Rafael Peñaloza Nyssen (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US)
Carlo Taticchi (Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy)
Choh Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, US)
[ Track Chairs ]
Tanya Braun University of Münster, Germany
Kai Sauerwald University of Hagen, Germany
[ Travel Information ]
Additional information on the conference locale and travel planning can
be found at http://www.flairs-37.info.
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SEMANTiCS - 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 17 - 19, 2024
https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/
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The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2024 welcomes papers on
novel scientific research and innovations relevant to the Semantic Web,
Semantic Technologies, and semantic-enabled AI. We also welcome
submissions at the intersection between this field and other scientific
disciplines. Submissions should be original and should not have been
published elsewhere in any form or language. Papers must adhere to the
instructions given in the submission guidelines, including references
and optional appendices. Each submission will receive at least three
independent reviews and will be evaluated based on their novelty,
technical quality, reproducibility, and practical significance.
SEMANTiCS 2024 calls for submissions of excellent quality addressing the
following topics in the Semantic Web area, from both theoretical and
practical perspectives.
= Topics of Interest =
* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
* Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management
* Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g.
reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery)
* Interplay between generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., RAG approach)
* Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction,
authoring, integration, publication)
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering
* Reasoning, Rules, and Policies
* Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity
linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and
DBpedia, foundation models)
* Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs
* Data Quality Management and Assurance
* Mathematical Foundation of Knowledge-aware AI
* Multimodal Knowledge Graphs
* Semantics in Data Science
* Semantics in Blockchain environments
* Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
* IoT, Stream Processing, dealing with temporal data
* Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems
* Provenance and Data Change Tracking
* Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.)
* Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases
* Robust and scalable management, querying and analysis of semantics and
data
* User interfaces for the Semantic Web & its management
* Explainable and Interoperable AI
* Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Federated
querying, link traversal)
Application of Semantically-Enriched and AI-Based Approaches, such as,
but not limited to:
* Knowledge Graphs in Bioinformatics, Medical AI and preventive healthcare
* Clinical Use Case of semantic-enabled AI-based Approaches
* AI for Environmental Challenges
* Semantics in Scholarly Communication and Scientific Knowledge Graphs
* AI and LOD within GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums)
institutions
* Knowledge Graphs & hybrid AI for predictive maintenance and Industry
4.0/5.0
* Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* LegalTech, AI Safety, EU AI Act
* Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems
= Important Dates =
* Abstract Submission Deadline: April 22, 2024 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: April 29, 2024 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 11, 2024 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 09, 2024 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Submissions will be through Easychair. Stay tuned for the submission link.
= Author Guidelines and Submission =
* The Research and Innovation Track welcomes long and short papers. Long
papers should have 12-15 pages of content (excluding references) and
short papers of a maximum length of 6 pages of content (excluding
references). Since references are excluded from page counting, it is
fine to have one or more additional pages for references if they are
relevant to the study submitted.
* Submissions should follow the guidelines of IOS Press. Details are
available at https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions.
* Abstract submission for all papers is a strict requirement. To
facilitate bidding, we strongly suggest the authors submit structured
abstracts.
* All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via
EasyChair.
* Submissions must be in English.
* Submissions must adhere to the fair use of Large Language Models.
Please refer to the SEMANTiCS full policy for more
details.https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/llm-policy
* Submissions must be anonymous; the reviewing process is double-blind,
but reviewers will be able to disclose their identities if they wish, by
signing their reviews.
* Accepted papers will be published in open access proceedings by IOS
Press, and the text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the
accepted papers will be posted on the conference website and will be
archived on Zenodo as publicly available material.
* At least one author of each accepted paper must present it in person
and therefore register for the conference at the ONSITE rate.
* All authors are strongly suggested to provide optional links to code,
materials, and datasets during the submission process - we will have
specific optional fields in the EasyChair submission form - the review
process will take these into account when provided. To anonymise
resources for the reviewing process, authors can use services like
Anonymous GitHub https://anonymous.4open.science/ or figshare/Zenodo as
described here.
* The Research and Innovation Track will not accept papers that, at the
time of submission, are under review or have already been published in
or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference.
* All authors will have the opportunity to provide an ORKG comparison in
the Open Research Knowledge Graph (https://orkg.org) during the
submission process - we will have a specific optional field in the
EasyChair submission form.
= Review and Evaluation Criteria =
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Programme Committee
members. The reviewing process is double-blind. However, reviewers can
disclose their identity by signing their reviews and/or adding one of
their persistent identifiers (e.g. their ORCID).
The text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted
papers will be posted on the conference website with the basic
bibliographic metadata of the reviewed submission (i.e. title and
authors), and it will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available
material. All the signed reviews of the accepted papers will be licensed
using a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY, the copyright
holder will be the reviewer), except the anonymous ones that will be
released in CC0.
Papers submitted to this track will be evaluated according to the
following criteria:
* Appropriateness
* Originality, novelty, and innovativeness
* Impact of results
* Technical quality of the methods
* Soundness of the evaluation
* Proper comparison to related work
* Clarity and quality of writing
* Reproducibility of results and resources
For details please go to: https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/
<https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/>
We are looking forward to your contribution!
Mehwish Alam, Femke Ongenae & Angelo Salatino
Research and Innovation Track Chairs
Hi all,
The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has officially started a new
Formal Collaboration [1] with Dr. Michael Zimmer (Marquette University) to
work collaboratively on Wikimedia Research Best Practices Around Privacy
White Paper [2]. We prioritized responding to this request from the
Arbitration Committee [3] as part of our mission to strengthen Wikimedia
research communities and to support the policy (broadly defined) needs of
the Wikimedia Movement.[4]
Here are a few pieces of information about this collaboration that we would
like to share with you:
* We aim to keep the research documentation for this project in the
corresponding research page on meta.[2] Please note the link on that
project page to the Phabricator task, which contains additional details and
timeline information.
* Research tasks are hard to break down and track in task-tracking
systems. This being said, the page on meta is linked to an Epic level
Phabricator task and all tasks related to this project that can be captured
on Phabricator will be captured there.[5]
* The following formal collaborator (cc-ed) will contribute to this
project: Dr. Michael Zimmer, Marquette University.[6] We are thankful to
them for agreeing to spend their time and expertise on this project, and to
those of you who have already worked with us as we were shaping the
proposal for this project and are planning to continue your contributions
to this program.
* I act as the point of contact for this research in the Wikimedia
Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it
cannot be shared publicly) if you have comments or questions about the
project.
Best,
Eli
--
Eli Asikin-Garmager
Principal Design Researcher (he/him)
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> | Iowa City
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_City,_Iowa> (UTC -6/-5)
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Research_Best_Practices_…
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World_War…
[4] https://research.wikimedia.org/
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337883
[6] https://www.marquette.edu/computer-science/directory/michael-zimmer.php
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/>