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Thanks for having read so far,
Michele and Dunja
10th ESWC 2013 — Semantics and Big Data May 26-30, 2013. Montpellier, France.
http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/
General Chair:
Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University, DE)
Program Chairs
Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT) Oscar Corcho (UPM, ES)
==== Call for Papers ====
ESWC is the premier European-based annual conference for researchers and practitioners in the field of semantic technologies. ESWC is the ideal venue for the discussion of the latest scientific insights and novel applications of semantic technologies.
The leading motto of the 10th edition of ESWC will be “Semantics and Big Data”. A crucial challenge that will guide the efforts of many scientific communities in the years to come is the one of making sense of large volumes of heterogeneous and complex data. Application-relevant data often has to be processed in real time and originates from diverse sources such as Linked Data, text and speech, images, videos and sensors, communities and social networks, etc. ESWC, with its focus on semantics, can offer an important contribution to global challenge.
ESWC 2013 will feature nine thematic research tracks (see below) as well as an in-use and industrial track. In line with the motto “Semantics and Big Data”, the conference will feature a special track on “Semantic Technologies for Big Data Analytics in Real Time”. In order to foster the interaction with other disciplines, this year’s edition will also feature a special track on “Cognition and Semantic Web”.
For the research and special tracks, we welcome the submission of papers describing theoretical, analytical, methodological, empirical, and application research on semantic technologies. For the In-Use and Industrial track we solicit the submission of papers describing the practical exploitation of semantic technologies in different domains and sectors.
Submitted papers should describe original work, present significant results, and provide rigorous, principled, and repeatable evaluation. We strongly encourage and appreciate the submission of papers including links to data sets and other material used for the evaluation as well as to live demos or source code for tool implementations.
Submitted papers will be judged based on originality, awareness of related work, potential impact on the Semantic Web field, technical soundness of the proposed methods, and readability. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three program committee members in addition to one track chair. This year a rebuttal phase has been introduced in order to give authors the opportunity to provide feedback to reviewers’ questions. The authors’ answers will support reviewers and track chairs in their discussion and in taking final
decisions regarding acceptance.
Important Dates (11:59pm Hawaii Time)
Abstract submission: December 5th, 2012
Full paper submission: December 12th, 2012 Authors’ rebuttals: February 11th-12th, 2013 Acceptance Notification: February 22nd, 2013 Camera ready: March 9th, 2013
Conference: May 26th-30th, 2013
Submission information
All papers and abstracts have to be submitted via the conference submission
page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2013
Each submitted paper must be associated with one of the available tracks.
Abstract submission is a strict requirement.
Papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Papers must be in English, should not exceed fifteen
(15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines.
More information about Springer’s LNCS series are available on the Springer LNCS Web site. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe’s Portable Document
Format) format and will not be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines can be rejected automatically without a review.
Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there.
All tracks and associated chairs are listed below. Additional information, track descriptions, and list of topics of interest can be found on the conference web site: http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/.
** ESWC 2013 Research Tracks **
Ontologies
Chairs
Aldo Gangemi (LIPN-Paris 13-Sorbonne Cité, FR and STLab ISTC-CNR,
IT)
Eva Blomqvist (Linköping University, SE)
Reasoning
Chairs
Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University Dayton, Ohio-USA)
Luciano Serafini (FBK, Trento, IT)
Linked Open Data
Chairs
Jun Zhao (University of Oxford, UK)
Jens Lehmann (University of Leipzig, DE)
Semantic Data Management
Chairs
María Esther Vidal (Universidad Simón Bolivar, Venezuela)
Axel Polleres (Siemens AG Österreich, AT)
Social Web and Web Science
Chairs
Marta Sabou (MODUL University Vienna, AT)
Andreas Hotho (University of Würzburg, DE)
Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Chairs
Alfio Gliozzo (IBM Watson Research Center, USA)
Malvina Nissim (University of Bologna, IT)
Machine Learning
Chairs
Claudia d’Amato (University of Bari, IT)
Dunja Mladenic (J. Stefan Institute Ljubljana, SI)
Mobile Web, Sensors and Semantic Streams Chairs
Josiane Parreira (DERI, IR)
Payam Barnaghi (University of Surrey, UK)
Services, Processes and Cloud Computing
Chairs
Terry Payne (University of Liverpool, UK)
José Luis Ambite (University of Southern California, US)
** ESWC 2013 In-use & Industrial Track **
Chairs
Sofia Angeletou (BBC, UK)
José Manuel Gómez-Pérez (iSOCO, ES)
** ESWC 2013 Special Tracks **
Semantic Web for Big Data Analytics in Real Time Chair
Sören Auer (University of Leipzig, DE)
TBA
Cognition and Semantic Web
Chairs
Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California, USA)
Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger (University of Osnabrück, DE)
For more detailed information, please visit the conference website:
http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/
There are several positions available for PhD qualified researchers at the intersection of machine learning and natural language processing at the Canberra Lab of NICTA.
Duration: Up to 3 years
Salary: $AU95-110k TRP
Closing Date: 8 October
Details: http://www.seek.com.au/Job/researchers/in/act-act/23106802
we are looking for a post-doc in the area of large scale sequential learning, to work with Dr. Jérémie Mary and myself.
The position is open in the SequeL research group, located in Lille, France (see http://sequel.lille.inria.fr/).
The duration of the contract is 1 year, starting no later than 28 Dec. 2012. Due to administrative procedures, applying is urgent.
The candidate should be eager to contribute to the state of the art of ML, either on fundamental issues, or the design of new and efficient algorithms along with their implementation to deal with today large amounts of data (say O(10^10), or more).
He/she has a passion for bringing sound, mathematically grounded ideas, into working algorithms to face this amount of data.
The topic of the work is voluntarily left rather open: it can be related to matrix and tensor factorization, gradient methods, sparsity issues, graphs, …The sequential aspect is important: the data the algorithm are supposed to process are evolving along time (imagine the graph of the web, information flowing from sensors, …). On top of that, decision may be taken based on what has been learned, turning the whole thing into a sequential decision problem. (This decision making aspect is not absolutly necessary to deal with during the post-doc: it is left as an open direction).
Please note that regarding implementations, Matlab and that sort of software are not welcome. We look forward real software developped in C/C++. Prototyping may be done in R.
For more details about the offer, and the application procedure, please visit
https://sequel.lille.inria.fr/SequeL/LargeScaleSequentialLearning
If you wish to apply, please email me and provide a detailed CV.
Free entrance to visitors
November 10, 2012, Tsukuba Science Information Center, Japan
You are invited to visit the ChaLearn gesture challenge demonstration competition using the Microsoft Kinect(TM) sensor.
The competition takes place in conjunction with ICPR on November 10, 2012. Registration is free and can be done from the webpage:
http://gesture.chalearn.org/dissemination/icpr2012
It does not require entering the challenge:
1 pm-4 pm: Talks by the presenters.
4 pm-5 pm: Review of the posters and demonstrations by the committee and the public.
Microsoft is offering prizes to the best entrant:
First prize: USD 5000,
Second prize: USD 3000,
Third prize: USD 2000.
To enter the challenge, the deadline to submit proposals in October 1st.
This event is part if the ChaLearn gesture challenge sponsored by Pascal2. There will be a free dinner invitation to Pascal2 members who attend the event where they will have an opportunity to meet with the contestants and the organizers.
Madeira, Portugal
June 5-7, 2013
http://www.ibpria.org/2013
The Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
(IbPRIA) is an international event co-organised every two years, by
the Portuguese and Spanish Associations for Pattern Recognition.
IbPRIA is a single track conference that includes tutorials, special
sessions, invited speakers as well as oral and poster presentations.
The conference is intended to act as a forum for research groups,
engineers and practitioners to present recent results, algorithmic
improvements and promising future directions in pattern recognition
and image analysis.
SCOPE
The conference is looking for new theoretical results, techniques and
main applications on any aspect of pattern recognition and image
analysis, including but not restricted to the following topics:
Pattern Recognition
Image Analysis
Computer Vision
Multimedia Systems
Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Computer Vision for Robotics and Automation
Bioinformatics
Image Coding and Processing
Shape and Texture Analysis
Information Systems
Biometric Technologies
Speech Recognition
Document Processing
Character and Text Recognition
Robotics
Remote Sensing
Industrial Applications of Pattern Recognition
Special Hardware Architectures
PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers should describe original and unpublished work on the topics of
the conference. Prospective authors should prepare a full paper,
written in english, not exceeding 8 pages and must submit it
electronically. Further information can be found on the conference
website: http://www.ibpria.org/2013Each paper will be blind-reviewed
by at least two reviewers and will be accepted based on its
originality, signficance and clarity. All accepted papers will appear
in the conference proceedings, and will be published in Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, LNCS Series. A copy of the
proceedings will be distributed to all participants at the Conference.
Moreover, the IbPRIA 2013 conference provides additional opportunities
for journal publicaction and best paper awards. Contacts are being
established with an indexed journal for a special issue. Submission
implies that at least one of the authors has to register and to
present the communication atthe conference if the paper is accepted.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers November 19, 2012
Notification of acceptance January 19, 2013
Camera-Ready February 2, 2013
For more information please visit http://www.ibpria.org/2013
The University of Edinburgh invites applications for three lectureships
(assistant professor) in Informatics. Applications are welcomed across all
areas of informatics research and we especially encourage those in the
following areas:
Computer vision, with a focus on real-time vision, vision for robotics
and real world applications.
Cyber-security, reinforcing our security-related research and connecting
to our strengths in databases, programming languages and verification.
Data management, reinforcing our world leading database group.
Computational social science and social artificial intelligence, in
which new styles of computation, statistics, quantitative social
science and economics are used to develop new forms of large scale,
population-based computation (social computing, collective intelligence,
crowdsourcing, etc) and to understand how humans interact with such systems.
Computational cognitive science, understanding the interplay between
cognition and computation via areas such as language, vision and
multi-modal processing; complex systems in cognitive science; language
and skill learning; cognitive factors in design and decision-making;
and systems for alleviating cognitive impairments.
Computational biomedicine, fundamental research in the space between
clinical and biological sciences to address problems of data quantity
and complexity that span multiple scales of biological organization.
Clinical informatics, building new foundations for the diagnosis,
treatment and care of patients through data-intensive methods and
algorithms.
Synthetic biology, developing efficient methods for designing biological
systems using computational principles and techniques.
Human computer interaction, especially as it relates to the other
areas above.
The posts are open-ended and available from February 2013
Salary Scale: £37,012 – £44,166
The School of Informatics is one of the internationally leading
research departments, covering most areas of
artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computer science.
The University of Edinburgh is consistently ranked by both the Times
Higher Education Supplement and the Guardian Education Supplement as
one of the world’s top universities.
Edinburgh is one of the most attractive and desirable living locations
in the world.
Details of the post and the application procedure can be found at:
http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3016319&go=GO
Closing date: 1 November 2012
Application Reference: 3016319
Informal enquiries about computer vision, computer graphics and robotics
positions can be made to
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar
Email: svijayak@inf.ed.ac.uk
For informal enquiries about other areas, contact the appropriate head of
institute. See:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/research/institutes
Deadline for applications: October 31st, 2012
IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow position in Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Applied to Image Analysis. The candidate will join a rapidly growing and interdisciplinary group that collaborates with a variety of laboratories across the world to develop new methods for image analysis (segmentation and detection) and the discovery of patterns in multidimensional datasets arising in imaging problems in natural and life sciences. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in image processing and analysis, in pattern recognition and machine learning and have a strong interest in bridging the gap to the medical/biological/natural sciences. The ideal candidate should have excellent programming skills and a strong mathematical background. Experience in applying such techniques in (bio) medical imaging applications (for example cardiac or brain imaging, cell imaging) will be considered a plus. A PhD in a related discipline is required. Candidates must have an excellent record of high-impact international publications and should demonstrate enthusiasm for performing applied research in an interdisciplinary Research Unit.
The Fellow will join the Research Unit PRIAn – Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (http://prian.imtlucca.it/).
IMT Lucca (http://www.imtlucca.it) is a public international Graduate School and Institute of Technology that acts as a research university with the aim of forming human capital in disciplines characterized by their high potential for concrete applications. IMT strives to reach the fusion of theoretical comprehension and practical relevance.
Appointment compensation packages will depend on the candidates and their records of accomplishment, but are competitive on an international level. Applicants must be able to teach graduate courses in English; knowledge of Italian is not required.
Interested candidates must apply by filling in the online application form at http://www.imtlucca.it/faculty/positions/junior_faculty_recruitment_program.php. They will also be asked to submit a CV, research paper (published or working) and the name and contact details of three referees.
For further information about the position, applicants can refer to the website, or can contact pdf.calls@imtlucca.it.
The deadline for applications is October 31st, 2012.
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The IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca invites applications for Junior Faculty positions within the context of “Crisis Lab” (http://axes.imtlucca.it/crisislab/), a strategic research project financed by Italian Government (Progetti di Interesse CNR) with the aim of creating an Observatory of crises and risks in domains ranging from finance, energy, markets, transport and urban systems, with interdisciplinary methodology based on the new science of Complex Networks. Please see list of positions below.
IMT Lucca (http://www.imtlucca.it) is a public international Graduate School and Institute of Technology that acts as a research university with the aim of forming human capital in disciplines characterized by their high potential for concrete applications. IMT strives to reach the fusion of theoretical comprehension and practical relevance.
Statistical Physics – Two Assistant Professor positions, Deadline October 12th; Two Post-Doctoral Fellow positions, Deadline September 28th.
http://www.imtlucca.it/faculty/positions/junior_faculty_recruitment_program.php#statistical_physics_2
We will consider highly qualified candidates with a strong theoretical background in the field to perform research activities in the context of Crisis Lab, especially for the analysis of financial, social, and economic systems, as well as for traffic and infrastructural networks. Candidates with a Ph.D. in Statistical Physics, Mathematics or Information Science are preferable, and candidates should have a strong quantitative background with an orientation towards applied research. Experience in interdisciplinary applications of Complex Network theory with particular emphasis on community detection and analysis of large data sets is ideal, in addition to knowledge of computer programming and experience in European projects.
Analytics – Two Assistant Professor Positions, Deadlines October 12th and November 30th; Two Post-Doctoral Fellow positions, Deadline September 28th.
http://www.imtlucca.it/faculty/positions/junior_faculty_recruitment_program.php#analytics_for_crisis_lab
The positions will entail conducting research in the context of in the context of complex socio-economic systems, with particular reference to the analysis of organizational networks, the microstructure and dynamics of product markets and the financial structure of firms and banks and the evolution of financial networks. Candidates need to have a Ph.D. in a related field with orientation towards applied research and should have a high degree of proficiency in the use of mathematical and statistical methods.
The second Assistant Professor position (deadline November 30th 2012) has a longer period for applications to leave the possibility open for interviews to be conducted at the AEA Annual Meeting in San Diego (USA) from January 4th to 6th 2013.
Data Visualization – One Post- Doc position, Deadline September 28th 2012
http://www.imtlucca.it/faculty/positions/junior_faculty_recruitment_program.php#data_visualization
We will consider highly qualified candidates with a strong background in Graphical Data Modeling to perform the visualization of data in the form of tables, plots, graphs and geographical maps (GIS) in the context of the Crisis Lab. Candidates should demonstrate creativity in performing expressive visualizations of large data sets. Strong background in standalone visualization tools (e.g. Tulip, Gephi), graphical programming (e.g., processing, OpenGL, R), and in web visualization programming with HTML5 and javascript (e.g. processing.js, D3.js, InfoVis) is required. Some experience in Interaction Design is a plus. A Master’s Degree or a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Graphics, Design, Physics or Mathematics is preferable.
High Performance Computing, Big Data – One Post-Doc position, Deadline September 28th 2012
http://www.imtlucca.it/faculty/positions/junior_faculty_recruitment_program.php#high_performance_computing
We will consider highly qualified candidates with a strong theoretical background in computer science, physics, statistics, information science, engineering, or mathematics to perform research in the context of Crisis Lab. A Ph.D. in Physics, Mathematics or Information Sciences is preferable.
Quantitative Finance – One Post-Doc position, Deadline September 28th 2012
The successful candidate will work specifically in Quantitative Finance, with a focus on the analysis of credit networks, the interdependency between public and private debt, shock propagation in financial networks. Research will be carried out in the context of Crisis Lab. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in economics, management science, physics, mathematics.
All candidates should have excellent knowledge of English, both written and spoken, and should demonstrate enthusiasm for performing applied research in an interdisciplinary Research Unit. Candidates must have an excellent record of high-impact international publications.
Appointment compensation packages will depend on the candidates and their records of accomplishment, but are competitive on an international level. Applicants must be able to teach graduate courses in English; knowledge of Italian is not required.
Interested candidates must apply by filling in the online application form at http://www.imtlucca.it/faculty/positions/junior_faculty_recruitment_program.php. They will also be asked to submit a CV, research paper (published or working) and the name and contact details of three referees.
For further information about the position, applicants can refer to the website, or can contact ap.calls@imtlucca.it.
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Dear Colleagues,
we are happy to announce the following NIPS workshop, for which we are gratefully acknowledging PASCAL’s financial support. If you have seen the announcement elsewhere, please note the recently extended deadline.
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
NIPS 2012 Workshop on Probabilistic Numerics December 8, 2012 at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, US http://www.probabilistic-numerics.org
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Overview:
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Traditionally, machine learning uses numerical algorithms as tools.
But many tasks in numerics can also be interpreted as learning problems.
Some examples:
* How can optimizers model the objective function, and how should they use the model to act?
* How should a quadrature method use observations of the integrand to estimate the integral, and at which points should it collect them?
* Can approximate inference techniques be applied to numerical problems?
Many such issues can be seen as special cases of decision theory, active learning, or reinforcement learning, but numerical tasks present exceptional demands on computational cost and robustness, so standard methods from these fields require modification to be useful.
We invite contribution of recent results in the development and interpretation of numerical analysis methods based on probability theory.
This includes, but is not limited to the areas of optimization, sampling, linear algebra, quadrature and the solution of differential equations.
Submission instructions are available at
http://www.probabilistic-numerics.org/Call.html
Important Dates:
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* Submission of extended abstracts: November 2, 2012
* Notification of acceptance: November 23, 2012
* Final versions of accepted papers due: December 1, 2012
* Workshop date: December 8, 2012
Invited Speakers (confirmed):
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Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
Matthias Seeger, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Mark Girolami, University College London
Organizers:
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Philipp Hennig, Max Planck Society, Tübingen Michael Osborne, University of Oxford John Cunningham, Washington University in St. Louis
Sponsor:
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We are grateful for support from the PASCAL network.
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