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7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
SLSP 2019
Ljubljana, Slovenia
October 14-16, 2019
Co-organized by:
Jožef Stefan Institute
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London
http://slsp2019.irdta.eu/
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PROGRAM
Monday, October 14
09:00 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 09:40 Opening
09:40 - 10:30 Jure Leskovec. Learning and Reasoning with Knowledge Graphs - Invited lecture
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:40
Izidor Mlakar, Darinka Verdonik, Simona Majhenic and Matej Rojc. Towards Pragmatic Understanding of Conversational Intent: A Multimodal Annotation Approach to Multiparty Informal Interaction – the EVA Corpus
Matthieu Riou, Bassam Jabaian, Stéphane Huet and Fabrice Lefèvre. Lilia, a Showcase for Fast Bootstrap of Conversation-like Dialogues Based on a Goal-oriented System
Natalia Tomashenko, Antoine Caubrière, Yannick Estève, Antoine Laurent and Emmanuel Morin. Recent Advances in End-to-end Spoken Language Understanding
Adrien Bardet, Fethi Bougares and Loïc Barrault. A Study on Multilingual Transfer Learning in Neural Machine Translation: Finding the Balance between Languages
12:40 - 14:10 Lunch
14:10 - 15:25
Daphné Chopard and Irena Spasic. A Deep Learning Approach to Self-expansion of Abbreviations Based on Morphology and Context Distance
Ondrej Herman, Miloš Jakubícek, Vojtech Kovár and Pavel Rychlý. Word Sense Induction Using Word Sketches
Tatiana Kachkovskaia. Temporal "Declination" in Different Types of IPs in Russian: Preliminary Results
15:25 - 15:55 Break
15:55 - 16:45
Sammy Khalife, Leo Liberti and Michalis Vazirgiannis. Geometry and Analogies: A Study and Propagation Method for Word Representations
Blaž Škrlj and Senja Pollak. Language Comparison via Network Topology
16:45 - 17:00 Break
17:00 - 17:40 Poster session I
Abdulrahman Alqarafi and Kevin Swingler. Arabic Multi-dialects Multi-modal Sentiment Analysis
Andrejaana Andova and Mitja Luštrek. Four Attempts at Cross-dataset Speech Emotion Recognition
Leila Ben Letaifa, Mikel de Velasco, Raquel Justo and M. Inés Torres. First Steps to Develop a Corpus of Interactions between Elderly and Virtual Agents in Spanish with Emotion Labels
Fuad Mire Hassan and Mark Lee. Multi-stage Stance Detection using Classical and Deep Learning Approaches
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Tuesday, October 15
09:00 - 09:50 Alexandros Potamianos. Emotion and Behavioral Tracking in the Lab and in the Wild - Invited lecture
09:50 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:35
Rimah Amami, Hassan Eraky and Rim Amami. An Incremental System for Voice Pathology Detection Combining Possibilistic SVM and HMM
Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín and Juan Montero. External Attention LSTM Models for Cognitive Load Classification from Speech
Dominik Machácek, Jonáš Kratochvíl, Tereza Vojtechová and Ondrej Bojar. A Speech Test Set of Practice Business Presentations with Additional Relevant Texts
11:35 - 12:05 Break
12:05 - 12:55
Meysam Shamsi, Damien Lolive, Nelly Barbot and Jonathan Chevelu. Investigating the Relation between Voice Corpus Design and Hybrid Synthesis under Reduction Constraint
Nirayo Hailu Gebreegziabher and Andreas Nuernberger. An Amharic Syllable-based Speech Corpus for Continuous Speech Recognition
12:55 - 14:25 Group photo and Lunch
14:25 - 15:40
Diana Geneva, Georgi Shopov and Stoyan Mihov. Building an ASR Corpus Based on Bulgarian Parliament Speeches
Jens Heitkaemper, Thomas Feher, Michael Freitag and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. A Study on Online Source Extraction in the Presence of Changing Speaker Positions
Sean Robertson, Gerald Penn and Yingxue Wang. Improving Speech Recognition with Drop-in Replacements for f-bank Features
15:40 - 16:10 Break
16:10 - 17:00
Balázs Tarján, György Szaszák, Tibor Fegyó and Péter Mihajlik. Investigation on N-gram Approximated RNNLMs for Recognition of Morphologically Rich Speech
Jan Vanek, Josef Michalek and Josef Psutka. Tuning of Acoustic Modeling and Adaptation Technique for a Real Speech Recognition Task
17:00 - 17:15 Break
17:15 - 17:55 Poster session II
Denis Memmesheimer and Karin Harbusch. Analytical and Visual Support Choosing the Optimal k for Top k Parse Reordering in Natural Language Ambiguity Resolution
Shamila Nasreen and Matthew Purver. Interaction Patterns in Conversations with Alzheimer's Patients
Rémi Uro, Marc Evrard, Nicolas Hervé and Béatrice Mazoyer. The Constitution of a French Tweet Corpus for Automatic Stance Detection
Olga Yakovenko and Ivan Bondarenko. Convolutional Variational Autoencoders for Audio Feature Representation in Speech Recognition Systems
18:00 - 20:00 Touristic visit
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Wednesday, October 16
09:00 - 09:50 Odette Scharenborg. The Representation and Processing of Speech in Human Listeners and Deep Neural Network-based Automatic Speech Recognition Systems - Invited lecture
09:50 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:35
Luís Barbosa, João Filgueiras, Gil Rocha, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Luis Paulo Reis, João Pedro Machado, Ana Cristina Caldeira and Ana Maria Oliveira. Automatic Identification of Economic Activities in Complaints
Rajarshi Biswas, Michael Barz, Aditya Mogadala, Dietrich Klakow and Daniel Sonntag. Automatic Judgement of Neural Network-Generated Image Captions
Fuad Mire Hassan and Mark Lee. Imbalanced Stance Detection by Combining Deep Learning and External Features
11:35 - 11:50 Break
11:50 - 13:05
Kristian Miok, Dong Nguyen-Doan, Blaž Škrlj, Daniela Zaharie and Marko Robnik-Šikonja. Prediction Uncertainty Estimation for Hate Speech Classification
Polina Panicheva and Tatiana Litvinova. Authorship Attribution in Russian in Real-World Forensics Scenario
Blaž Škrlj, Andraž Repar and Senja Pollak. RaKUn: Rank-based Keyword Detection via Unsupervised Learning and Meta Vertex Aggregation
13:05 - 13:15 Closing
13:15 Lunch
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6th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
BigDat 2020
Ancona, Italy
January 13-17, 2020
Co-organized by:
Department of Information Engineering, Marche Polytechnic University
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA)
Brussels / London
https://bigdat2020.irdta.eu/
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SCOPE:
BigDat 2020 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Major challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 2 keynote lectures and 24 four-hour and a half courses, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
ADDRESSED TO:
Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, BigDat 2020 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
STRUCTURE:
3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
VENUE:
BigDat 2020 will take place in Ancona, a city founded by Greek settlers and today one of the main ports on the Adriatic Sea. The venue will be:
Department of Information Engineering
Marche Polytechnic University
Via Brecce Bianche 12
60131 Ancona
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed)
Jie Tang (Tsinghua University), Graph Embedding and Reasoning
PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)
Sanchita Bhattacharya (University of California, San Francisco), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Immunology: Sharing, Dissemination, and Repurposing
Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [introductory] Virtual Knowledge Graphs for Data Integration
Sheelagh Carpendale (University of Calgary), [introductory] Data Visualization
Nitesh V. Chawla (University of Notre Dame), [intermediate/advanced] Learning from Imbalanced Data
Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Blockchain
Charles Elkan (University of California, San Diego), [intermediate] A Rapid Introduction to Modern Deep Learning
Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [advanced] From Unstructured Text to TextCube: Automated Construction and Multidimensional Exploration
Xiaohua Tony Hu (Drexel University), [introductory/advanced] Data Mining and Analysis in Big Microbiome Data
Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California), [intermediate/advanced] Building Knowledge Graphs
Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences
Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University), [intermediate] Context-aware Recommender Systems
Jayanti Prasad (Embold Technologies), [introductory/intermediate] Big Code
Lior Rokach and Bracha Shapira (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems
Peter Rousseeuw (KU Leuven), [introductory] Anomaly Detection by Robust Methods
Asim Roy (Arizona State University), [intermediate] Hardware-based (GPU, FPGA based) Machine Learning – An Overview of Algorithms and Implementation Ideas and Methods
Hanan Samet (University of Maryland), [intermediate] Multidimensional, Spatial, and Metric Data Structures for Sorting in Space and Similarity Searching
Rory Smith (Monash University), [introductory/intermediate] Learning from Data, the Bayesian Way
Mayte Suárez-Fariñas (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), [intermediate/advanced] Meta-analysis Methods for High-dimensional Data
Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big-data Algorithms That Aren't Machine Learning
Wil van der Aalst (RWTH Aachen University), [introductory/intermediate] Process Mining: A Very Different Kind of Machine Learning That Can Be Applied in Any Organization
OPEN SESSION
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david(a)irdta.eu by January 5, 2020.
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of big data in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david(a)irdta.eu by January 5, 2020.
EMPLOYER SESSION:
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in big data will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for, to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david(a)irdta.eu by January 5, 2020.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Emanuele Frontoni (Ancona, co-chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
Flavio Tonetto (Ancona, industrial chair)
Domenico Ursino (Ancona, co-chair)
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done at
https://bigdat2020.irdta.eu/registration/
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
FEES:
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
ACCOMMODATION:
Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time.
CERTIFICATE:
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
david(a)irdta.eu
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) – Brussels/London
CONFINDUSTRIA Marche Nord
CINI AIIS National Lab
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The 6th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (TPNC 2019) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. TPNC 2019 will be held in Kingston, Ontario on December 9-11, 2019. See
https://tpnc2019.irdta.eu/
Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion.
TOPICS
Presentations displaying novel work in progress on computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature are invited. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome.
KEY DATES
Poster submission deadline: November 2, 2019
Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: November 9, 2019
SUBMISSION
Please submit a .pdf abstract through:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2019
It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words.
PRESENTATION
Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion.
PUBLICATION
Posters will not appear in the LNCS proceedings volume of TPNC 2019. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in Natural Computing (Springer, 2018 JCR impact factor: 0.860).
REGISTRATION
At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by November 25, 2019. The registration fare is reduced: 285 Euros. It gives the same rights all other conference participants will have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, coffee breaks, lunches). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.
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14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
LATA 2020
Milan, Italy
March 2-6, 2020
Co-organized by:
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication
University of Milano-Bicocca
and
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice
Brussels/London
https://lata2020.irdta.eu
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AIMS:
LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. LATA 2020 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas.
VENUE:
LATA 2020 will take place in Milan, the third largest economy among European cities and one of the Four Motors for Europe.
SCOPE:
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
algebraic language theory
algorithms for semi-structured data mining
algorithms on automata and words
automata and logic
automata for system analysis and programme verification
automata networks
automatic structures
codes
combinatorics on words
computational complexity
concurrency and Petri nets
data and image compression
descriptional complexity
foundations of finite state technology
foundations of XML
grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.)
grammatical inference, inductive inference and algorithmic learning
graphs and graph transformation
language varieties and semigroups
language-based cryptography
mathematical and logical foundations of programming methodologies
parallel and regulated rewriting
parsing
patterns
power series
string processing algorithms
symbolic dynamics
term rewriting
transducers
trees, tree languages and tree automata
weighted automata
STRUCTURE:
LATA 2020 will consist of:
invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Eric Allender (Rutgers University), The New Complexity Landscape around Circuit Minimization
Christoph Haase (University College London), Approaching Arithmetic Theories with Finite-state Automata
Artur Jeż (University of Wrocław), Recompression: Technique for Word Equations and Compressed Data
Jean-Éric Pin (CNRS), How to Prove that a Language Is Regular or Star-free?
Thomas Place (University of Bordeaux), Deciding Classes of Regular Languages: A Language Theoretic Point of View
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Jorge Almeida (University of Porto, PT)
Franz Baader (Technical University of Dresden, DE)
Alessandro Barenghi (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT)
Djamal Belazzougui (CERIST, DZ)
Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, NL)
Flavio Corradini (University of Camerino, IT)
Bruno Courcelle (University of Bordeaux, FR)
Laurent Doyen (ENS Paris-Saclay, FR)
Manfred Droste (Leipzig University, DE)
Rudolf Freund (Technical University of Vienna, AT)
Paweł Gawrychowski (University of Wrocław, PL)
Tero Harju (University of Turku, FI)
Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University, US)
Lane A. Hemaspaandra (University of Rochester, US)
Marcin Jurdziński (University of Warwick, UK)
Juhani Karhumäki (University of Turku, FI)
Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, FI)
Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, US)
François Le Gall (Kyoto University, JP)
Markus Lohrey (University of Siegen, DE)
Parthasarathy Madhusudan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US)
Sebastian Maneth (University of Bremen, DE)
Nicolas Markey (IRISA, Rennes, FR)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT)
Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest, RO)
Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, US)
Gennaro Parlato (University of Molise, IT)
Dominique Perrin (University of Paris-Est, FR)
Nir Piterman (Chalmers University of Technology, SE)
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (University of Connecticut, US)
Antonio Restivo (University of Palermo, IT)
Wojciech Rytter (University of Warsaw, PL)
Kai Salomaa (Queen’s University, CA)
Helmut Seidl (Technical University of Munich, DE)
William F. Smyth (McMaster University, CA)
Jiří Srba (Aalborg University, DK)
Edward Stabler (University of California, Los Angeles, US)
Benjamin Steinberg (City University of New York, US)
Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore, SG)
Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, NL)
Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, US)
Tomáš Vojnar (Brno University of Technology, CZ)
Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, RU)
James Worrell (University of Oxford, UK)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Alberto Leporati (Milan, co-chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada)
Rafael Peñaloza Nyssen (Milan)
Dana Shapira (Ariel)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
Bianca Truthe (Giessen)
Claudio Zandron (Milan, co-chair)
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). If necessary, exceptionally authors are allowed to provide missing proofs in a clearly marked appendix.
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2020
PUBLICATIONS:
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.
A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
REGISTRATION:
The registration form can be found at:
https://lata2020.irdta.eu/registration
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
Paper submission: October 18, 2019
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 25, 2019
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 2, 2019
Early registration: December 2, 2019
Late registration: February 17, 2020
Submission to the journal special issue: June 6, 2020
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
david (at) irdta.eu
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
IRDTA – Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London
**20th International GI/ITG Conference on “Measurement, Modelling and
Evaluation of Computing Systems”**
https://www.mmb2020.de/
***Call for Papers***
MMB 2020
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March 16 – 18, 2020, Saarbrücken, Germany
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The GI/ITG Technical Committee on “Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation
of Computing Systems (MMB)” is
the major German forum covering all scientific aspects of measurement,
modelling and evaluation of intelligent
systems including computer architectures, communication networks,
distributed systems and software, autonomous
systems, workflow systems, cyber-physical systems and networks,
Internet-of-Things, as well as highly dependable,
highly performant and highly secure systems. In 2020 the committee
invites to its 20th international conference,
**MMB 2020**.
In addition to the scientific programme, this jubilee edition of the
conference will comprise invited keynotes,
tool presentations, state-of-the-art tutorials, and workshops focusing
on hot topics.
Topics of MMB 2020 include:
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Models and Methods
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* Quantitative evaluation techniques related to performance,
dependability, security, privacy, survivability,
real-time constraints, cost, energy-efficiency and combined aspects
like performance-security tradeoffs;
* Testing, measuring, benchmarking, learning, and runtime monitoring of
systems and networks;
* Parameter estimation, model learning, extremal-value and outlier
analysis, big data analytics,
* Queueing models, Markov and non-Markovian models, stochastic
concurrency models, fluid models,
network calculus, stochastic games, integration of stochastic
modeling into formal methods;
* Simulation techniques including rare event simulation and parallel and
distributed simulation;
* Fault-tolerant and dependable computing, redundancy and fault
modelling, fault injection methods;
* Traffic engineering, network planning and optimization especially for
cyber-physical networking;
* Models, methods and tools for explainable machine learning;
Applications and Case Studies
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* Computer and software architectures, cloud computing, fog and edge
computing, pervasive and ubiquitous
computing, adaptive and self-organizing systems;
* Cyber-physical networking, embedded systems, smart environments,
Internet-of-Things;
* Access, backbone and optical networks, high-speed switching,
software-defined networking, mobile and
wireless networks, sensor networks, vehicular communication,
satellite communication;
* Peer-to-peer, overlay and information-centric networks, web-based
systems, multimedia systems;
* Critical infrastructures, social networks, power-law and
scale-invariant systems, biochemical systems;
* Green IT, energy-efficient systems, future smart energy networks;
* Workflow and logistic systems, data warehousing, traffic and
transportation systems;
* Blockchains, network economics, accounting, tariffing, auctions, betting;
Special Foci of MMB 2020
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We plan to organize dedicated sessions on
* Cyber-physical networking
* Robust machine learning – from evaluation to explanation
Submission Formats
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**Full papers:** Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted
for publication elsewhere.
All papers will be thoroughly reviewed by at least three referees on the
basis of their originality and
their scientific and practical contribution to the state-of-the-art.
Papers must be written in English
and must not exceed 15 pages (LNCS style, excluding references).
**Practical experience reports and industrial papers:** Industrial
papers and practical experience
reports are much solicited. They should not exceed 8 pages (LNCS style,
excluding references).
**PhD track papers:** PhD students are encouraged to submit a paper on
recent achievements.
Reports should not exceed 8 pages (LNCS style, excluding references).
**Tool descriptions:** Special sessions will be arranged to present and
demonstrate tools relevant
to any topic covered by the Call for Papers. Tool descriptions should
not exceed five pages (LNCS
style, excluding references).
**The proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series.**
**Full papers are eligible for the MMB 2020 best paper and best student
paper awards.**
Important Dates
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Paper and Tools Submission: | November 3, 2019
Author Notification: | January 10, 2020
Final Version: | January 28, 2020
Conference: | March 16 – 18, 2020
General Chair
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- Verena Wolf (Saarland U)
Keynotes
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- Calin Belta (Boston U)
- Xiaowei Huang (U Liverpool)
- Wolfgang Kellerer (TU Munich)
Program Chair
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- Holger Hermanns (Saarland U)
Program Committee
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- Erika Ábrahám (RWTH Aachen)
- Peter Buchholz (TU Dortmund)
- Hans Daduna (U Hamburg)
- Susanna Donatelli (U Torino)
- Rüdiger Ehlers (TU Clausthal)
- Markus Fidler (U Hannover)
- Jean-Michel Fourneau (U Versailles)
- Reinhard German (U Erlangen-Nuremberg)
- Gerhard Haßlinger (Deutsche Telekom AG)
- Thorsten Herfet (Saarland U)
- Tobias Hoßfeld (U Würzburg)
- William Knottenbelt (Imperial College)
- Samuel Kounev (U Würzburg)
- Wolfram Lautenschläger (Nokia)
- Rupak Majumdar (MPI for Software Systems)
- Natalia Markovich (Russian Academy of Sci.)
- Hermann de Meer (U Passau)
- Michael Menth (U Tübingen)
- Mohammad Mousavi (U Leicester)
- Antoine Rauzy (NTNU & Ecole Cent. de Paris)
- Peter Reichl (U Vienna)
- Anne Remke (U Münster)
- Jens Schmitt (TU Kaiserslautern)
- Marielle Stoelinga (U Twente)
- Miklós Telek (TU Budapest)
- Dietmar Tutsch (U Wuppertal)
- Isabel Valera (MPI for Intelligent Systems)
- Oliver Waldhorst (HsKA Karlsruhe)
- Katinka Wolter (FU Berlin)
- Sabine Wittevrongel (U Ghent)
- Lijun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sci.)
Award Committee Chair
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- Markus Siegle (UBw Munich)
Workshop Chair
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- Udo Krieger (U Bamberg)
Local Organization
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- Felix Freiberger (Saarland U)
- Sabine Nermerich (Saarland U)
- Kristina Scherbaum (Saarland U)
- Florian Schießl (Saarland U)
[Call for Papers as pdf](https://www.mmb2020.de/cfp.pdf)
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6th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
BigDat 2020
Ancona, Italy
January 13-17, 2020
Co-organized by:
Department of Information Engineering, Marche Polytechnic University
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA)
Brussels / London
https://bigdat2020.irdta.eu/
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SCOPE:
BigDat 2020 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Major challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 2 keynote lectures and 24 four-hour and a half courses, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
ADDRESSED TO:
Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, BigDat 2020 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
STRUCTURE:
3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
VENUE:
BigDat 2020 will take place in Ancona, a city founded by Greek settlers and today one of the main ports on the Adriatic Sea. The venue will be:
Department of Information Engineering
Marche Polytechnic University
Via Brecce Bianche 12
60131 Ancona
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed)
Jie Tang (Tsinghua University), Graph Embedding and Reasoning
PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)
Sanchita Bhattacharya (University of California, San Francisco), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Immunology: Sharing, Dissemination, and Repurposing
Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [introductory] Virtual Knowledge Graphs for Data Integration
Sheelagh Carpendale (University of Calgary), [introductory] Data Visualization
Nitesh V. Chawla (University of Notre Dame), [intermediate/advanced] Learning from Imbalanced Data
Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Blockchain
Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [advanced] From Unstructured Text to TextCube: Automated Construction and Multidimensional Exploration
Xiaohua Tony Hu (Drexel University), [introductory/advanced] Data Mining and Analysis in Big Microbiome Data
Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California), [intermediate/advanced] Building Knowledge Graphs
Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences
Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University), [intermediate] Context-aware Recommender Systems
Jayanti Prasad (Embold Technologies), [introductory/intermediate] Big Code
Lior Rokach and Bracha Shapira (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems
Peter Rousseeuw (KU Leuven), [introductory] Anomaly Detection by Robust Methods
Asim Roy (Arizona State University), [intermediate] Hardware-based (GPU, FPGA based) Machine Learning – An Overview of Algorithms and Implementation Ideas and Methods
Hanan Samet (University of Maryland), [intermediate] Multidimensional, Spatial, and Metric Data Structures for Sorting in Space and Similarity Searching
Rory Smith (Monash University), [introductory/intermediate] Learning from Data, the Bayesian Way
Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big-data Algorithms That Aren't Machine Learning
Wil van der Aalst (RWTH Aachen University), [introductory/intermediate] Process Mining: A Very Different Kind of Machine Learning That Can Be Applied in Any Organization
OPEN SESSION
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david(a)irdta.eu by January 5, 2020.
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of big data in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david(a)irdta.eu by January 5, 2020.
EMPLOYER SESSION:
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in big data will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for, to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david(a)irdta.eu by January 5, 2020.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Emanuele Frontoni (Ancona, co-chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
Flavio Tonetto (Ancona, industrial chair)
Domenico Ursino (Ancona, co-chair)
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done at
https://bigdat2020.irdta.eu/registration/
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
FEES:
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
ACCOMMODATION:
Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time.
CERTIFICATE:
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
david(a)irdta.eu
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) – Brussels/London
SLSP 2019: call for posters*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*
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The 7th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2019) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. SLSP 2019 will be held in Ljubljana on October 14-16, 2019. See
https://slsp2019.irdta.eu/
Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion.
TOPICS
Presentations displaying novel work in progress on statistical models (including machine learning) for language and speech processing are encouraged. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome.
KEY DATES
Poster submission deadline: September 7, 2019
Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: September 14, 2019
SUBMISSION
Please submit a .pdf abstract through:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2019
It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words.
PRESENTATION
Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion.
PUBLICATION
Posters will not appear in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings volume of SLSP 2019. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in Computer Speech and Language (Elsevier, JCR 2018 impact factor: 1.776).
REGISTRATION
At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by September 30, 2019. The registration fare is reduced: 285 Euros. It gives the same rights all other conference participants will have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, lunches, coffee breaks). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.