From Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it Sun Jun 2 12:50:44 2024 From: Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it (Kutz Oliver) Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 10:50:44 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] 2nd CfP Workshop@ECAI 2024: Data meets Applied Ontologies in Explainable AI (DAO-XAI 2024), October 19-20, 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Message-ID: *** Apologies for cross-postings *** Deadline Extension Paper submission: June 14th, 2024 Dear Colleagues, We are organizing the 4th Workshop on "Data meets Applied Ontologies in Explainable AI" (DAO-XAI 2024) to be held as part of the next ECAI 2024 conference, October 19-20, 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. All details about the workshop are at: https://sites.google.com/view/daoxai2024 The aim of this workshop is to offer an opportunity for researchers and practitioners, from both academy and industry, working in the multidisciplinary field of explainable AI (XAI for short) to identify new promising research directions on XAI and to provide a forum to disseminate and discuss the role played by ontologies in XAI. The focus is on building trustworthy and explainable human-centered AI systems, and on explaining and refining the output of large language models (LLMs), particularly in connection with ontologies. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - neuro-symbolic and explainable AI, - reasoning with explainable neural models, - representation and refinement of symbolic knowledge by artificial neural networks, - explanation formats exploiting domain knowledge, - factual and counterfactual explanations, - causal thinking, reasoning and modeling, - large language models (LLMs), ontologies and knowledge graphs for explainable AI, - LLMs prompt engineering for ontology and knowledge graph generation for explainable AI, - knowledge representation and reasoning in machine learning and deep learning for human-centric explanations, - knowledge extraction and distillation from neural and statistical learning models, - cognitive computational systems integrating machine learning and automated reasoning, - applications of ontologies for explainability and trustworthiness in finance, medical and health sciences, etc. Papers submitted to the ECAI main track and currently under review for the conference cannot be submitted to the workshop. If rejected from ECAI, authors can submit a request for their paper to be considered for the workshop by 11 July 2024 to one of the emails from the Contact Organizers. Notification on those submissions will be sent by 18 July 2024. Accepted manuscripts for the DAO-XAI 2024 workshop will be published in a CEUR-WS proceedings in the IAOA Series (Scopus indexed). Papers must be written in English and must be prepared using the CEUR-WS template. The following types of submissions are allowed: Regular papers (max. 15 pages + references ? CEUR single-column format), describing substantial/mature work. Short/Position papers (max. 9 pages + references ? CEUR single-column format), describing work in progress, a demonstration, system etc. Submissions are to be made through the Easychair website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=daoxai2024). The workshop is planned as an in-person event. Each accepted paper will get assigned either an oral presentation slot or a combined poster/spotlight presentation slot. Important Dates (all times are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth, UTC-12): Paper submission: June 14, 2024 Acceptance/rejection notification: July 15, 2024 Camera-ready paper submission: July 31, 2024 Conference dates: October 19-24, 2024 (The DAO-XAI 2024 Workshop will take place October 19-20, 2024) Organizing Committee: Roberto Confalonieri, Department of Mathematics, University of Padova, Italy Oliver Kutz, Faculty of Engineering, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Dagmar Gromann, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna, Austria Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy and Ume? 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URL: From Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it Tue Jun 4 15:22:01 2024 From: Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it (Kutz Oliver) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 13:22:01 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] Call for Workshops@AIxIA 2024: 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Bolzano, Italy, November 25-28, 2024 Message-ID: <4398F66C-3BFC-4461-8026-2061F539191F@unibz.it> *** Call for Workshop Proposals *** Submission deadline: June 11; write to aixiaworkshops at gmail.com The 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence AIxIA 2024 Bolzano, Italy, November 25-28, 2024 https://aixia2024.events.unibz.it * The AIxIA 2024 edition celebrates the 23rd year of an event born inside the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. Among other activities, the AIxIA 2024 Conference will host a series of workshops dedicated to both established specialised areas as well as current and evolving topics and which will complement the main conference program. AIxIA Working Groups, scientific and industrial research groups, and individual researchers interested in a subarea of Artificial Intelligence or in a related topic of growing importance are invited to submit proposals for workshops associated with the AIxIA 2024 conference. We particularly welcome proposals aimed at bringing together researchers from a wide range of disciplines, to exchange ideas and to allow cross-fertilization. * * Workshop proposals should be submitted in English as a single PDF file, should not be longer than 4 (four) pages, and must contain the following information: * - Workshop title and acronym - Workshop organizers (affiliation, contact details, homepage, prior experiences with workshop organization) - Motivation and scientific relevance to the conference audience - Keywords (describing the main themes of the workshop) (3-5 phrases) - Abstract (up to 200 words) - Description of the workshop (topics and goals of the workshop) (up to 800 words) - Organizational details such as: thematic panels, demo sessions, invited talks - The initial list of (potential) members of the program committee - Previous editions of the workshop series (if applicable) (URLs, conference it was co-located with, number of registrants, number of submissions, number of accepted papers, and any other relevant information) - Expected length of the workshop (in hours) - Number of expected submissions * Proposals should be submitted via email to both Workshop Chairs (SUBJECT: ?AIxIA 2024 Workshop Proposal?) to the following email address: aixiaworkshops at gmail.com * In the case of a workshop traditionally included in past AIxIA Conferences, the proposers can simply communicate to the WS chairs their intention to organize the 2024 edition of the event. The expected number of submissions is at least 5 for half-day workshops and at least 8 for full-day ones. Workshops that do not reach the suggested target might not be activated or may be merged with other events. Also, the conference chairs may decide to merge, in coordination with workshop proposers, two workshops in case their topics largely overlap. Workshop schedule: each workshop will be assigned a number of slots during the conference days. The distribution of slots will take into account the accepted papers and workshop organization. * Management of the Submission, Review, and Publishing Process * The workshop organizers will manage on their own the submission, review, and publishing process. The key dates and publication policy must be shared with the conference organization. Workshop proceedings should preferably be published in the AIxIA Series of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. The workshop Call for Papers, all other calls, and the website should clearly state that the workshop is held within the AIxIA 2024 Conference, including the URL of the conference website. As with last year's edition, organizers should choose a submission platform, such as Easychair, and handle the review process. All workshop participants (including the organizers) will have to register to AIxIA 2024. The workshops must notify acceptance of papers by October 6, to allow authors to enjoy the early registration fee. Workshops will be scheduled during the conference days (November 26-28, 2024). * Important Dates * Deadline for workshop proposals submission: June 11, 2024 Notification: June 19, 2024 * Workshops Chairs * Antonella Guzzo (University of Calabria) Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) From Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it Fri Jun 14 09:58:36 2024 From: Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it (Kutz Oliver) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:58:36 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] PhD Positions in Computer Science, Deadline July 11, KRDB Research Centre, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Message-ID: ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PhD POSITIONS in COMPUTER SCIENCE (Deadline: 11th of July, 2024) KRDB Research Centre Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/engineering/phd-computer-science/ ********************************************************************** 12 three-year PhD grants in Computer Science are offered by the Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy for its Computer Science PhD programme. Each grant amounts to 60,000 EUR (i.e., 20,000 EUR per year, net after taxes); for research visits abroad the grant increases by 50%. Additional substantial extra funding (including a personal budget of 2,500 EUR per year) is available for participation to international conferences, schools, workshops, and research visits. The language of the PhD programme is English. The deadline for applications is on 11 July 2024. All interviews for short-listed candidates will be held online. For more info, the call, and the online application, visit: https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/engineering/phd-computer-science/ (see bottom of the page, and follow both links to the general and the specific parts of the call) -------------------- KRDB Research Topics. https://krdb.eu/phd/ The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge-based Artificial Intelligence is widely recognised as one of the internationally leading research groups in Knowledge Representation in Artificial Intelligence, with a synergy between foundational and application-oriented research. The KRDB Research Centre is looking for PhD students interested in carrying out a PhD in one of the following research themes: - AI for data access and integration - Semantic technologies - Explainable and strategic AI - Neuro-symbolic AI for business-process analysis - AI for cybersecurity - Process mining on object networks - Graph-data management - Machine learning for knowledge graphs - Temporal reasoning and verification ------------------- KRDB PhD Projects. Among the various available PhD Research Projects, the KRDB Research Centre is looking for PhD students interested in the following research projects: - Project A7: Knowledge in Time - Project A8: Knowledge and Data - Project A9: Knowledge Representation - Project A10: Knowledge and Cognition - Project A11: Knowledge and Processes Research Projects are fully described here: https://www.unibz.it/assets/Documents/PhD/All-Project-Descriptions-PhD-Computer-Science.pdf ------------------- Contacts. To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre and discuss about the opportunities of this call, contact Prof. Chiara Ghidini at: Chiara.Ghidini at unibz.it More information at: https://krdb.eu/phd/ The University of Bozen-Bolzano is located in one of the most fascinating European regions, the Dolomites. This young university has already established itself as an important research institution, both in Italy and abroad. According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023, the area of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is ranked among the 6th best in Italy and the 200-250 best Computer Science area worldwide (in absolute terms).