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Subject: [AISWorld] CfP: 5th International Workshop on Empirical
Methods in Conceptual Modeling (EmpER'22) - co-located with ER'22
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 01:24:12 +0000
From: Sotirios Liaskos <liaskos(a)yorku.ca>
To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org>
* At a Glance
. Submission Deadline: June 15th, 2022
. Location: Hyderabad, India (co-located with ER'22)
. Papers: Complete studies, designs, or position papers (10 LNCS pages max)
. Web site: https://emper-workshop.github.io/2022/
* Overview
Conceptual modeling has enjoyed substantial growth over the past decades
in diverse fields such as Information Systems Analysis, Software
Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Business Analysis and Business
Process Engineering. A plethora of conceptual modeling languages,
frameworks and systems have been proposed, promising to facilitate
activities such as communication, design, documentation, or
decision-making. Success in designing a conceptual modeling system is,
however, predicated on demonstrably attaining language goals through
observing their use in practical scenarios. At the same time, the way
individuals and groups produce and consume models gives raise to
cognitive, behavioral, organizational, or other phenomena, whose
systematic observation may help us better understand how models are used
in practice and how we can make them more effective.
* Aim and Topics
We aim at bringing together researchers with an interest in the
empirical investigation of conceptual modeling systems and practices. We
invite reports on finished, on-going or proposed empirical studies and
theoretical, review and experience papers about empirical research in
conceptual modeling. Examples of contributions include but are not limited:
. Complete, on-going, or planned empirical studies in Conceptual Modeling.
. Literature Reviews on empirical research in Conceptual Modeling.
. Theoretical/philosophical positions on empirical Conceptual Modeling.
. Discussions/positions on statistical and methodological issues.
. Lessons learned from past studies.
* Submissions
We solicit three types of papers:
. Full papers describing a completed study.
. Work-in-progress papers describing a planned study or study in progress.
. Position, vision, and lessons papers about the use of empirical
methods for conceptual modelling.
Papers shall be limited to 10 pages in LNCS format. The EmpER'22
accepted papers will be published within the ER Workshop proceedings, in
the Springer LNCS Series.
* Format and Duration
The workshop will consist of paper presentations with an emphasis on
discussion. Time permitting, papers presenting on-going studies will
have a discussion session led by a designated member of the program
committee.
* Location
The workshop is co-located with the 41st International Conference on
Conceptual Modeling (ER 2022), which will take place in Hyderabad, India.
* Important Dates
. Submission date: June 15th, 2022
. Workshop author notification: July 14th, 2022
. Camera-ready submission: July 27th, 2022
. Workshop dates: October 17th-20th, 2022 (exact day to be confirmed)
* Workshop Organizers
. João Araujo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
. Dominik Bork, TU Wien, Austria
. Miguel Goulão, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
. Sotirios Liaskos, York University, Canada
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Subject: [AISWorld] CfP Special Issue "Technology for Humanity” at
Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE /
WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK) - Deadline May 15th, 2022
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:59:03 +0200
From: Hanna Krasnova <krasnova(a)uni-potsdam.de>
To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org
Call for Papers: Special Issue "Technology for Humanity” at Business &
Information Systems Engineering (BISE / WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK)
The past decades have been marked by the rapid digitization of almost
every part of human life. Our work and private life, healthcare,
education, governmental institutions, and society as a whole have been
undergoing an era of rapid change driven by new forms of digital
communication, automation, new information sources, emerging digital
markets, and social networks, as well as digital practices and
workflows. With this transition that some analysts refer to as a
‘digital transformation’ and some intellectuals speculate to be a ‘2nd
Neolithic revolution’, come many ethical and value-related questions and
challenges that are of high relevance for humanity. At the core, we must
ask ourselves how we should technically and organizationally design and
organize our IT-driven world so that humans can flourish in it
(Spiekermann 2016). How can we build “Technology for Humanity” as the
IEEE standardization organization promotes in its logo?
The pressing nature of these grand challenges demands a more
comprehensive understanding of the undergoing transformation beyond the
study of standalone values. In response, policymakers have taken
numerous initiatives, for example, at the international level by
announcing seventeen sustainable development goals and at the local
level by creating large-scale publicly-financed research projects like
the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin. In a
similar vein, many BISE/IS institutes have woken up on this call by
establishing such important initiatives as the Sustainability Lab at
Vienna University of Economics and Business or by jointly collaborating
on research projects that seek to address these issues. In addition to
investigating privacy issues and personal data markets (e.g.,
Spiekermann et al. 2015; Krasnova et al. 2010; Trang et al. 2020), BISE
/IS scholars have embarked on studying the fundamental issues of human
control, autonomy, and freedom vis-à-vis technology (e.g., Spiekermann
and Pallas 2005). Among others, these research efforts have contributed
to a better understanding of potential biases inherent in AI design
(e.g., Lambrecht and Tucker 2019; Bauer et al. 2020), algorithmic work
management (e.g., Möhlmann et al. 2021), echo chambers, and filter
bubbles (e.g., Kitchens et al. 2020), health and well-being implications
of ICT use in work (e.g., Benlian 2020) and social media (e.g., Krasnova
et al. 2015; Krause et al. 2021) contexts, user perceptions in the
context of online targeted political advertising (e.g., Baum et al.
2021), among others. In doing so, the grey human entity formerly called
“user” has started to be concretized in the many distinct roles created
by new ICTs: Patients are now studied in relation to health applications
(Mueller et al. 2018), citizens as natural participants of e-government
processes (e.g., Tan et al. 2013; Nishant et al. 2019), crowd-workers in
the context of their algorithmic supervisors (e.g., Straub et al. 2015;
Cram et al. 2020), soc
ial networking users in the face of gamified platforms intentionally
designed to be addictive (e.g., Turel and Serenko 2012), life-loggers
with a view to personal data markets (e.g., Risius et al. 2020; Trang et
al. 2020), to name a few.
Against the background of these developments, we seek to elicit papers
in this area for the BISE Special Issue “Technology for Humanity”.
Submissions to this special issue are encouraged from all theoretical
and methodological perspectives. Thus, submissions can either
investigate people in their specific roles and reactions to technology,
relate to technology design or design methods to foster humanity and
sustainability, be of a conceptual nature to better grasp the
technological and economic changes we are witnessing, or review user
studies and/or technologies of interest in this research domain. Authors
must clearly outline why their contribution is new and interesting for
research and practice and how they contribute to human and social value
creation through their work.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Dignity and respect
Inequality
Freedom, liberty, transparency and autonomy
Privacy, trust, control and freedom
Friendship, social support and inclusion
Bias, fairness and transparency
Digital work, digital labor markets and the gig economy
Personal data markets
Digital society (e.g., fake news, online radicalization, cyberbullying)
Physical health and mental well-being in the context of IT use
Individual behavior and perceptions
Moral behavior
Technology mediated human judgement
Value-based system design
Privacy sensitive design, privacy by design
Attention sensitive systems
Submission Guidelines
Please submit papers by 15 May 2022 at the latest via the journal’s
online submission system (http://www.editorialmanager.com/buis/
<http://www.editorialmanager.com/buis/>). Please observe the
instructions regarding the format and size of contributions to Business
& Information Systems Engineering (BISE). Papers should adhere to the
submission general BISE author guidelines
(https://www.bise-journal.com/author_guidelines
<https://www.bise-journal.com/author_guidelines>).
All papers will be reviewed anonymously (double-blind process) by at
least two referees with regard to relevance, originality, and research
quality. In addition to the editors of the journal, including those of
this special issue, distinguished international scholars will be
involved in the review process.
Schedule
Deadline for submission: 15 May 2022 Notification of the authors, 1st
round: 1 August 2022
Completion Revision 1: 1 October 2022
Notification of the authors, 2nd round: 1 December 2022
Completion Revision 2: 15 January 2023
Online publication: ASAP
Anticipated print publication: October 2023
Editors of the Special Issue
Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff, Prof. Dr.
Institute for Information Systems & Society Vienna University of
Economics and Business (WU Vienna).
sspieker(a)wu.ac.at <mailto:sspieker@wu.ac.at>
Hanna Krasnova, Prof. Dr.
Professor for Information Systems, especially Social Media and Society
University of Potsdam
krasnova(a)uni-potsdam.de
Oliver Hinz, Prof. Dr.
Professor of Information Systems and Information Management
Goethe University Frankfurt
ohinz(a)wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de
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Subject: [WI] LPNMR 2022 - Last Call for Papers
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 16:10:05 +0200
From: cfp <cfp(a)mat.unical.it>
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[Apologies in case of multiple posting]
10 days to abstract submission!
Call for Papers
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16th International Conference on
Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning
LPNMR 2022
https://lpnmr2022.dibris.unige.it
Genova, Italy
September 5-9, 2022
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AIMS AND SCOPE
LPNMR 2022 is the sixteenth in the series of international meetings
on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR is a forum
for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, non-monotonic
reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is
to facilitate interactions between researchers and practitioners
interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming
languages and database systems, and those working in knowledge
representation and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass
theoretical and experimental studies that have led or will lead to
advances in declarative programming and knowledge representation, as
well as their use in practical applications. A Doctoral Consortium
will also be a part of the program.
LPNMR 2022 aims to bring together researchers from LPNMR core areas and
application areas of the aforementioned kind in order to share research
experiences, promote collaboration and identify directions for joint future research.
TOPICS
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished
research on all aspects of non-monotonic approaches in logic programming
and knowledge representation. We invite submissions of both long and
short papers on topics detailed below.
Conference topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Foundations of LPNMR Systems:
* Semantics of new and existing languages;
* Action languages, causality;
* Formalization of Commonsense Reasoning and understanding
its laws and nature;
* Relationships among formalisms;
* Complexity and expressive power;
* Inference algorithms and heuristics for LPNMR systems;
* Extensions of traditional LPNMR languages such as new logical
connectives or new inference capabilities;
* Updates, revision, and other operations on LPNMR systems;
* Uncertainty in LPNMR systems.
2. Implementation of LPNMR systems:
* System descriptions, comparisons, evaluations;
* Algorithms and novel techniques for efficient evaluation;
* LPNMR benchmarks.
3. Applications of LPNMR:
* Use of LPNMR in Commonsense Reasoning and other areas of KR;
* LPNMR languages and algorithms in planning, diagnosis, argumentation,
reasoning with preferences, decision making and policies;
* Applications of LPNMR languages in data integration and exchange
systems, software engineering and model checking;
* Applications of LPNMR to bioinformatics, linguistics, psychology,
and other sciences;
* Integration of LPNMR systems with other computational paradigms;
* Embedded LPNMR: Systems using LPNMR subsystems.
SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
LPNMR 2022 welcomes submissions of long papers (13 pages) or short papers
(6 pages) in the following categories:
* Technical papers
* System descriptions
* Application descriptions
The indicated number of pages includes title page, figures, tables, references
and appendix. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will
appear in the conference proceedings published in the Springer's
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. At least one
author of each accepted paper is expected to register for the conference
to present the work. Submissions must be written in English, present
original research, and be formatted according to Springer's guidelines
and technical instructions available at:
https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conferen…
Paper submission is enabled via the LPNMR 2022 Easychair site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmr2022
The two best papers of general AI interest will be invited for rapid
publication in the Artificial Intelligence Journal.
Also, the 2-5 best papers with a logic programming focus will be invited
for rapid publication in the journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming.
MULTIPLE SUBMISSION POLICY
LPNMR 2022 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is
under review or has already been published or accepted for publication in
a journal or another conference. Authors are also required not to submit
their papers elsewhere during LPNMR's review period. However, these
restrictions do not apply to previous workshops with a limited audience
and without archival proceedings.
COLOCATED WORKSHOPS
* 4th International Workshop on the Resurgence of Datalog in Academia
and Industry (DATALOG 2.0)
* 1st International Workshop on HYbrid Models for Coupling Deductive and
Inductive ReAsoning (HYDRA 2022)
* 29th RCRA workshop on Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving
problems with combinatorial explosion (RCRA 2022)
ASSOCIATED EVENTS
LPNMR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM - A mentoring event where PhD students have a
chance to present their current research, get feedback from peers and
senior researchers, and establish contacts for their future career.
FURTHER INFORMATION
WWW:https://lpnmr2022.dibris.unige.it
Email:lpnmr2022@easychair.org (submission and program)
lpnmr2022(a)dibris.unige.it (general and local matters)
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/lpnmr2022Twitter:https://twitter.com/lpnmr2022Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/lpnmr2022
IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper registration: April 23, 2022
* Paper submission: April 30, 2022
* Notification: June 10, 2022
* Final versions due: June 30, 2022
VENUE
The main conference will take place in Genova Nervi, Italy, in the Collegio Emiliani
(http://www.collegioemiliani.it/, information available only in Italian on this link),
which is a college directly situated on the sea.
Nervi is a former fishing village, now a suburb of Genoa. Nervi is 7 km
east of central Genova. Genova is the capital of Liguria, stretching along the
bay of the same name from Nervi to the east as far as Voltri to the west.
The pride of Nervi is the sea promenade, a 2 km walkway along the cliffs.
The stunning views make it one of Italy's most beautiful promenades. Nervi is also
well known for its Parchi, a park of about 22 acres (9 hectares) created from the
gardens of the Villa Grimaldi, Villa Groppallo, and Villa Serra. It has typical
Mediterranean plant species and many exotic species.
Genova's old town district (reachable by local train, by bus, as well as by boat) is
one of the largest in Europe, and hosts some remarkable artistic and architectural
treasures, including the Palazzi dei Rolli, fifty or so homes of the aristocracy entered
on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
In addition to offering a wealth of cultural attractions, Genova is a fascinating
destination for tourists, with its scenic vantage points, sea promenades, aristocratic
villas and of course the Riviera to the east and west, both easy to reach: Portovenere
and Le Cinque Terre (also UNESCO World Heritage Sites), Portofino and Camogli to the east
and Alassio, Sanremo, Bordighera to the west.
Workshops and associated events, differently from what we mentioned in the previous call,
are planned to be held in the main conference venue as well.
Of course, we will continuously monitor the pandemic situation in order to evaluate whether
the conference can be indeed held as an in-person event, or we will need to switch to a
hybrid event, if not completely on-line.
GENERAL CHAIR
Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA
Marco Maratea, University of Genova, Italy
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Jessica Zangari, University of Calabria, Italy
WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIR
Martin Gebser, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
LOCAL ORGANIZATION
Matteo Cardellini, University of Genova, Italy
Angelo Ferrando, University of Genova, Italy (Chair)
Marco Mochi, University of Genova, Italy
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Current)
Mario Alviano, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria
Chitta Baral, Arizona State University
Marcello Balduccini, Saint Joseph's University
Francesco Calimeri, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria
Marina De Vos, University of Bath
Carmine Dodaro, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria
Agostino Dovier, University of Udine
Daniele Theseider Dupré, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology
Esra Erdem, Sabanci University
Wolfgang Faber, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
Johannes K. Fichte, TU Wien
Paul Fodor, Stony Brook University
Gerhard Friedrich, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet
Sarah Alice Gaggl, TU Dresden
Martin Gebser, University of Klagenfurt
Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University
Gopal Gupta, The University of Texas at Dallas
Katsumi Inoue, NII
Tomi Janhunen, Tampere University
Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Technische Universitaet Dortmund
Matthias Knorr, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Emily Leblanc, Drexel University
Joao Leite, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Vladimir Lifschitz, The University of Texas at Austin
Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University
Francesco Ricca, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Calabria
Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London
Orkunt Sabuncu, TED University, Ankara
Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University
Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam
Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad del Sur in Bahia Blanca
Theresa Swift, NOVALINKS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Matthias Thimm, FernUniversität in Hagen
Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology
Mirek Truszczynski, Computer Science Department, University of Kentucky
Johannes P. Wallner, TU Graz
Kewen Wang, Griffith University
Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology
Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta
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Subject: [AISWorld] (Call for Papers) HICSS 56 - Minitrack SOCIAL
ROBOTS - ROBOTICS AND TOY COMPUTING
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:24:32 -0300
From: Sarajane Marques Peres <sarajane(a)usp.br>
To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org
We would like to inform the deadlines for submitting papers to HICSS-56
(2023). Particularly, researchers and (industry) professionals from Social
Robotics or Toy Computing fields are invited to send papers on their works
in such technologies to HICSS-56 (2023) - Social Robots - Robotics and Toy
Computing Minitrack.
Important dates:
April 15 - Paper submission system reopened for HICSS-56
June 15 - Papers due
August 17 - Notification of acceptance/rejection
September 4 - Deadline for authors whose papers are conditionally accepted
to submit a revised manuscript
September 22 - Deadline for authors to submit final Manuscript for
publication
October 1 - Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for
the conference
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is a huge
Hawaiian conference, with GS h5-index = 52.
Please note that "Case studies" are welcome.
Instructions for authors: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/
Minitrack: SOCIAL ROBOTS - ROBOTICS AND TOY COMPUTING MINITRACK
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/decision-analytics-and-service-science/#…
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*Dra. Sarajane Marques Peres*
Professora-Pesquisadora em Sistemas de Informação
Áreas: Inteligência Computacional, Aprendizado de Máquinas, Mineração de
Processos, Mineração de Textos, Robôs de Companhia
*Sarajane Marques Peres, Ph.D.*
Associate professor and researcher in Information Systems
Areas: Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Process Mining, Text
Mining, and Social Robots
http://each.uspnet.usp.br/processmining/
<http://each.uspnet.usp.br/sarajane/>
http://each.uspnet.usp.br/sarajane/
lattes.cnpq.br/6265936760089757
linkedin.com/in/sarajane-marques-peres/
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Subject: [WI] DL2022: Last Call for Papers
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 18:11:56 +0200
From: Júlia Pukancová <pukancova(a)fmph.uniba.sk>
Reply-To: Júlia Pukancová <pukancova(a)fmph.uniba.sk>
To: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
DL 2022 LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
35th International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 2022
August 7–10, 2022, Haifa, Israel
Website: http://dl.kr.org/dl2022
Contact: dl_workshop2022(a)easychair.org
IMPORTANT DATES
* 23 Apr 2022Paper registration & abstract
* 30 Apr 2022Paper submission
* 14 May 2022Fast-track notification (see below)
* 8 Jun 2022Notification
* 12 Jun 2022*NEW* Student’s grants application
* 20 Jun 2022Early registration
* 20 Jun 2022Camera-ready version due
* 7–10 Aug 2022DL workshop
Note: We have assured DL paper registration to be after the KR
notification date, however the schedule is now tight and *no* deadline
extension will be possible.
GENERAL INFORMATION
The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic
research community. It is the forum in which those interested in
description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss
ideas, share information and compare experiences. The 35th edition will
be held in Haifa, Israel, between August 7th and 10th 2022. It will be
co-located with a number of events as part of FLoC 2022 (including KR
& NMR 2022). For more information see:
* FLoC 2022, Federated Logic Conference: https://floc2022.org/
* KR 2022, 19th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning: https://kr2022.cs.tu-dortmund.de/
* NMR 2022, 20th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning:
https://sites.google.com/view/nmr2022/home-page
WORKSHOP SCOPE
We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics,
including, but not limited to:
Foundations of description logics:
decidability and complexity of reasoning, expressive power, novel
inference problems, inconsistency management, reasoning techniques,
modularisation, ontology extraction, abductive and inductive
reasoning
Extensions of description logics:
closed-world and non-monotonic reasoning, epistemic reasoning,
temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, query
answering, reasoning over dynamic information
Integration of description logics with other formalisms:
object-oriented representation languages, database query languages,
constraint-based programming, logic programming, rule-based systems
Applications and use areas of description logics:
ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, ontology-based
data access, semi-structured data, graph-structured data, linked
data, document management, natural language, learning, explanations,
planning, Semantic Web, cloud computing, conceptual modeling, web
services, business processes, practical experiences, case studies,
feasibility studies
Systems and tools of all kinds around description logics:
reasoners, ontology editors, ontology alignment, ontology extraction,
other support for ontology development, database schema design, query
rewriting/answering/optimization, data integration, implementation
and optimization techniques, benchmarking, evaluation, modeling
DL INVITED TALKS
Rectifying Classifiers (Joint DL/NMR Keynote)
by Pierre Marquis, CRIL-CNRS/Université d'Artois, Lens, France
Charting the Borderland – Decidability in Description Logics and Beyond
by Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Knowledge Extraction Based on Forgetting and Subontology Generation
by Renate A. Schmidt, University of Manchester, UK
FLOC EVENTS ACCESSIBLE TO DL PARTICIPANTS
* Aug 7: FLoC Keynote by Ziyad Hanna, Jasper Design Automation, Israel
* Aug 7: Future of Autonomous Driving (Panel)
featuring keynote by Amnon Shashua, Monileye & Intel
* Aug 7: FLoC Reception
* Aug 8: Walking tours
* Aug 9: FLoC Plenary Speaker: Aarti Gupta, Princeton University,
NJ, US
* Aug 9: FLoC Olympic Games
(https://www.floc2022.org/floc-olympic-games
<https://www.floc2022.org/floc-olympic-games>)
* Aug 9: FLoC Banquet
SUBMISSIONS
DL reviewing is *single-blind*, so the names of the authors will be
visible to the reviewers and should be indicated on the submitted
files. We allow anonymous submissions on request (see below).
Submissions may be of two types:
A – Regular papers of up to 11 pages (excluding references)
B – Extended abstracts of 2–4 pages (excluding references)
Both regular papers and abstracts must be formatted using the *new*
CEURART style, using the following DL-specific template that we
prepared:
* http://dl.kr.org/dl2022/papers/submissions/CEURART-DL.zip
and submitted via:
* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl_workshop2022
Submissions of type A must contain enough substance that they can be
cited in other publications and may not have appeared before. A clearly
marked appendix with additional proofs and evaluation data may be
included.
For submissions of type B, we highly encourage a clearly marked
appendix with additional proofs, evaluation data, or extended version
of your paper, which was accepted at another conference or which you
submitted or plan to submit to another conference. Abstracts of papers
accepted or under review at other venues must clearly state the
venue where the paper has been submitted alongside its status.
The appendix will be read at the discretion of the reviewers and will
not be included in the proceedings. The appendix does not need to be in
the CEURART format.
The proceedings will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online
publication. Due to a change of policy at CEUR-WS.org papers of type B
are no longer indexed by dblp.org <http://dblp.org> and the case of
an abstract of a
pre-published paper may require a permission by the copyright holder.
Accepted submissions of both types will be selected for either oral or
poster presentation at the workshop. Submissions will be judged solely
based on their content, and the type of submission will have no bearing
on the decision between oral and poster presentation.
FAST-TRACK NOTIFICATION
Authors who require a visa to travel to Israel and for this reason
would like to receive notification earlier than 8 June may request
fast-track reviewing. To do so, authors should send an email to
dl_workshop2022(a)easychair.org, including the submission number of the
paper and a statement explaining the circumstances that require
fast-track review. Authors and participants who require a visa
invitation to attend the workshop please follow the guidelines provided
at the FLoC website under https://www.floc2022.org/information.
ANONYMOUS SUBMISSION
In justified cases, if you wish your submission to be handled
anonymously (i.e., double-blind) please send an e-mail to
dl_workshop2022(a)easychair.org explaining the reasons. You will receive
instructions on how to proceed.
STUDENT SUPPORT
A limited number of grants to support students wishing to attend DL
2022
will be available. Students should apply by June 12. Detailed
information will
be available on the DL 2022 website:
https://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/dl2022/students/
COVID-19 INFORMATION
FLoC 2022 and all affiliated events including DL are planned to be held
in-person. However, due to travel restrictions imposed by various
authorities if some delegates will not be allowed to enter Israel, they
will be allowed to present virtually.
If the goal to organize FLoC 2022 in-person cannot be met due to
a worsening pandemic situation, it will be switched to a fully virtual
conference. The decision on in-person or virtual format will be made
and published by 1 May 2022.
ORGANIZATION
General Chair:
Jean Christoph Jung, University of Hildesheim
PC Co-Chairs:
Martin Homola, Comenius University in Bratislava
Marie-Laure Mugnier, University of Montpellier
Local Chair:
Ofer Arieli, The Academic College of Tel-Aviv
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Ján Kľuka, Comenius University in Bratislava
Júlia Pukancová, Comenius University in Bratislava
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Subject: [WI] 1st Call for Papers - Cognition and Ontologies: CAOS VI @
JOWO 2022, August 15-19, Jönköping, Sweden
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:54:41 +0000
From: Righetti Guendalina (Student Com18)
<Guendalina.Righetti(a)stud-inf.unibz.it>
Reply-To: Righetti Guendalina (Student Com18)
<Guendalina.Righetti(a)stud-inf.unibz.it>
To: Righetti Guendalina (Student Com18)
<Guendalina.Righetti(a)stud-inf.unibz.it>
CC: maria.m.hedblom <maria.m.hedblom(a)gmail.com>, Kutz Oliver
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*CAOS 2022 - Call for Papers*
Cognition And OntologieS
part of the 8th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2022) held August 15-19
in Jönköping, Sweden
Submission deadline: *June 3*
Website: *http://caos.inf.unibz.it*
The purpose of the workshop is to bridge the gap between the cognitive
sciences and research on formal ontologies and, thus, to create a venue
for researchers interested in interdisciplinary aspects of knowledge
representation.
More specifically, CAOS investigates key cognitive phenomena and
concepts (and the involved terminology) that can be found across
language, psychology, and reasoning, and how they can be formally and
ontologically understood and analysed. The exploration of the connection
between cognitive sciences/experimental psychology and ontologies, as
well as, more generally, symbolic AI, aims also to provide formal and
logical modelling and reasoning approaches for capturing such
connections. CAOS, thus, seeks answers to ways such formalisations and
ontological analysis can be exploited in Artificial Intelligence and
information systems, also in practical application.
We welcome submissions on topics related to the ontology of hypothesised
building blocks of cognition (such as image schemas, affordances,
categories, and related notions) and of cognitive capacities (such as
concept invention and combination, language acquisition and
categorisation), as well as system-demonstrations modelling these
capacities in application settings. We also welcome submissions
addressing the cognitive and epistemological adequacy of ontological
modelling.
*Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):*
* Ontologies of cognitive phenomena
* Cognitive foundations of ontologies and ontologies of cognitive
theories (e.g. connection with conceptual spaces, diagrammatic
representations, mental models, prototypes, image schemas, scripts etc.)
* Empirical foundations of ontologies: ontologies driven from
observations, measurements, tests, and in general from data acquired
using empirical procedures
* Logic and Cognition (challenges, possible solutions and validation
scenarios)
* Formal representation of cognitive structures / functions / processes
* Knowledge Representation and Common-Sense
* Formalisation/modelling of language, image schemas and/or affordance
* Concept invention and concept combination
* Cognitive and language development from an ontological perspective
* Metaphors and analogies (formal representation, ontological analysis)
* AI for language understanding
* Knowledge acquisition and categorisation in AI and Robotics
* Concept-based computational creativity
* Embodied cognition, image schemas, affordances for AI
* Neural networks and ontological modelling.
We welcome researchers from all career stages to participate. Besides
full research papers, work in progress (short papers) and extended
abstracts (presentation only) are also welcome since a central goal of
the workshop is the discussion of ongoing interdisciplinary work.
All research papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by
any other workshop, conference or journal. Note, that for inclusion in
the JOWO proceedings, short papers are required to be at least 5 pages long.
All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and the review process will be
managed in a collaborative and transparent manner using the EasyChair
System as part of the JOWO conference.
*Submissions*
*Submission deadline: *June 3 , 2022
*Submission link:*https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=jowo2022
<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=jowo2022>
(select the track for CAOS VI: “Cognition And OntologieS”)
*Paper formats:*
We encourage three types of contributions:
*• Full research paper: *submitted papers must have between 10 and 12
pages + an additional page for references (if necessary).
*• Short paper: *submitted papers must have between 5 and 6 pages + an
additional page for references (if necessary).
*• Abstract for presentation: *1-2 page abstracts (including references)
for presentation.
(Note that abstracts will *not *be included in the proceedings as a
research paper, but will be included in the introduction to the workshop
proceedings.)
Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format in compliance
with the new 1-column CEUR-ART Style. Word and Latex templates can be
found at:
https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-styl…
<https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-styl…>
All contributions to JOWO workshops will be published in a joint CEUR
proceedings volume, compare:
JOWO 2021: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2969/
JOWO 2020: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2708/
JOWO 2019: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2518/
JOWO 2018: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2205/ <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2205/>
*Organisation*
Guendalina Righetti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University
Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
*Program Committee*
Taisuke Akimoto, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Hadi Banaee, Örebro University
Daniel Bessler, University of Bremen
João Miguel Cunha, University of Coimbra
Roberta Ferrario, CNR
Laura Giordano, Università del Piemonte Orientale
Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Technische Universität Dortmund
Martha Lewis, University of Amsterdam
Daniele Porello, University of Genoa
Marco Schorlemmer, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA-CSIC
Tony Veale, University College Dublin
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Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: International Workshop on Ontologies for
Social Services (OSS2022) @ JOWO 2022
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:45:50 -0400
From: Daniela Rosu <drosu(a)mie.utoronto.ca>
To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org
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International Workshop on Ontologies for Social Services (OSS2022)
at Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) 2022.
The workshop will be held on 15-19 August 2022 in Jönköping University,
Jönköpin, Sweden.
https://csse.utoronto.ca/oss2022
*WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIM*
Semantic Technologies provide a formal way to represent knowledge in
ways that are interpretable by computers and a related technology stack
to store, integrate and query information semantically. The purpose of
the OSS workshop is to foster communication and strengthen
interdisciplinary work at the intersection of semantic technologies and
social services.
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
We invite researchers from the Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web,
Machine Learning, and Social Science communities to submit theoretical
contributions, novel algorithms, artefacts, and tools related to social
services. We welcome reports from Social Work practitioners on their
experiences using semantic-enabled technologies, best practices, and
insights.
For additional information, please contact oss2022committee(a)gmail.com.
*IMPORTANT DATES*
- Submissions Due: May 1st, 2022
- Notifications Due: June 15, 2022.
- Camera Ready: July 22, 2022.
- Workshop: August 15-19, 2022
*TOPICS OF INTEREST*
We welcome submissions from researchers and practitioners working at the
intersection of semantic technologies and social services, and social
service practitioners developing ontological artifacts.
- New ontologies and Semantic Data Models for Social Services
- Ontology extension for Social Services (e.g. BFO, DOLCE, SUMO, FOAF,
GoodRelations)
- Knowledge Acquisition, including ontology learning, natural language
processing, and service plan extraction and optimization.
- Knowledge Management
- Semantic Data Integration
- Knowledge-based Decision Support Systems, such as recommender systems
and information retrieval.
- Ontologies for Machine Learning
- Social service governance, including trust, cooperation, and competition.
- System Assessment and Analysis, including policy evaluation, economic
analysis, impact models, Social Return on Investment (SROI)
- Social service client outcome assessment, including risk assessment
and conflict resolution.
- Industry Applications and Case-studies, including Linked Data
Applications, Semantic Web, and Knowledge Graphs, lessons learned and
best practices.
- Social Work Theory, including ontology of Social Work paradigms,
educational material, and practice, behavior theory, cognitive theory.
- Social Prescribing, and related ontologies.
- Models of stakeholder goals, needs, roles (e.g.
belief-desires-intentions models, UNSDG Goals, service providers and
funders, socioeconomic determinants)
- Models of Social Services, including service provisioning, process
modelling, economic and funding models, sustainability, and client agency.
- Cross-disciplinary research in Social Service and related areas,
including public services, public health, government services, urban
planning, and the judicial system.
*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*
- Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in
English. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages for regular papers,
6 pages for early career and position papers, and 3 pages for posters
and demos.
- All papers must be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following
the CEUR-WS single column formatting guidelines.
- The direct template download for Latex and MS Word is available here:
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
- There is also an Overleaf Template available here:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…
- Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system.
- Papers accepted at ICBO workshops will be published in a volume of
CEUR workshop proceedings IAOA series.
Please make your submission using EasyChair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2022.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for
the workshop and present the work.
Diversity and inclusion statement. We kindly ask authors to adopt
inclusive language in their papers and presentations
(https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivewriting.html and
https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivetalks.html), and all participants
to adopt a proper code of conduct
(https://dbdni.github.io/pages/codeofconduct.html).
*ORGANISING COMMITTEE*
- Bart Gajderowicz, Centre for Social Services Engineering, University
of Toronto, Canada
- Daniela Rosu, Centre for Social Services Engineering, University of
Toronto, Canada
- Janna Hastings, Center for Behaviour Change, University College London, UK
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Subject: [AISWorld] APPS 2022 Extended Call for Papers - ACM UMAP Workshop
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:31:46 +0300
From: Argyris Constantinides <aconst12(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy>
Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS 2022) -
ACM UMAP Workshop
EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fourth International Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Privacy
and Security, in conjunction with the 30th ACM Conference on User
Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2022), held both
virtually and physically from Barcelona, Spain, July 04-07, 2022
Workshop Website: http://appsworkshop.cs.ucy.ac.cy
<http://appsworkshop.cs.ucy.ac.cy/>
Paper Submissions in EasyChair by selecting the track "Workshop-APPS":
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap22
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap22>
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: April 15, April 22, 2022 (23:59 AoE time) - Extended
Notification to authors: May 11, 2022
Camera-ready version of accepted papers: May 18, 2022
MOTIVATION & GOALS
Millions of users across different continents and countries are daily
engaged with privacy and security tasks which are indispensable in
modern information systems and services. Such tasks are commonly related
to user authentication, human interaction proofs (e.g., captcha),
privacy and security pop-up dialogs, setting privacy and security
features within online user profiles, etc. Recent privacy and security
incidents of famous online services have once more underpinned the
necessity towards further investigating and improving current approaches
and practices related to the design of efficient and effective privacy
and security. In order to achieve this objective, one possible direction
is related to providing adaptive and personalized characteristics to
privacy- and security-related user tasks, given the diversity of the
user characteristics (like cultural, cognitive, age, habits), the
technology (like standalone, mobile, mixed-virtual-augmented reality,
wearables) and interaction contexts of use (like being on the move,
social settings, spatial limitations). Hence, adaptive and personalized
privacy and security implies the ability of an interactive system or
service to support its end-users, who are engaged in privacy- and/or
security-related tasks, based on user models which describe in a
holistic way what constitutes the user’s physical, technological and
interaction context in which computation takes place.
APPS 2022 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working
on diverse topics related to understanding and improving the usability
of privacy and security software and systems, by applying user modeling,
adaptation and personalization principles.
Our special focus in 2022 will be on challenges and opportunities
related to the security and privacy of remote activities (e.g., remote
work environments, distance learning).
The workshop will address the following objectives:
- increase our understanding and knowledge on supporting usable privacy
and security interaction design through novel user modeling mechanisms
and adaptive user interfaces;
- discuss methods and techniques for understanding user attitudes and
perceptions towards privacy and security issues in various application
areas;
- identify human-centered models for the design, development and
evaluation of adaptive and personalized privacy and security systems;
- discuss methods for evaluating the impact and added value of
adaptation and personalization in privacy and security systems.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Adaptation and personalization approaches in usable privacy and security
- Effects of human factors (e.g., cognition, personality, etc.) in
privacy and security systems
- Novel user interaction concepts and user interfaces for achieving
usable security
- Cultural diversity in usable privacy and security
- Context-aware privacy and security
- Adaptive usable security in various domains (e.g., e-Learning,
e-Government, IoT, healthcare, etc.)
- Adaptive user authentication policies
- Novel approaches to the design and evaluation of usable security systems
- Privacy and security in smart patient-centric healthcare systems
- Novel approaches to the design and evaluation of usable security systems
- Lessons learned from the deployment and use of usable privacy and
security features
- Ethical considerations in adaptive and personalized privacy and security
PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION
All workshop papers must contain original, previously unpublished,
research work adhering the two publication types:
- Full research papers (8-14 pages, excl. references), proposing new
approaches, innovative methods and research findings.
- Short research papers (up to 7 pages, excl. references), presenting
works in progress, lessons learned, emerging or future research issues
and directions on topics related to APPS.
Manuscripts should be formatted according to the new workflow and
template for ACM publications
(https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow
<https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>).
Please submit your paper through the EasyChair submission system by
selecting the track "Workshop-APPS":
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap22
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap22>
Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will be available via
the ACM Digital Library.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Argyris Constantinides, Cognitive UX LTD, CY & University of Cyprus, CY
Marios Belk, Cognitive UX GmbH, DE & University of Cyprus, CY
Christos Fidas, University of Patras, GR
Juliana Bowles, University of St. Andrews, UK
Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, CY
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Subject: [AISWorld] CFP_The 24th International Conference on
Information Integration and Web Intelligence (iiWAS2022)
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:43:38 +0200
From: Hesti Sudjana <hesti.sudjana(a)jku.at>
To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
The 24th International Conference on Information Integration and Web
Intelligence
(iiWAS2022)
28-30 November 2022, Bari, Italy
http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2022/
email: iiwas2022(a)iiwas.org
Paper submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iiwas2022
"Collecting, Processing, Analysing and Storing Data/Information to
Support Human Intelligence"
*** Important Dates ***
1 June 2022: Submission due; full Papers (12 pages), Short papers, demos
& work in progress (6 pages)
5 August 2022: Acceptance Notifications
1 September 2022: Camera-Ready Papers and Authors Registration
28 - 30 November 2022: Conference Dates
*** Publication ***
ALL accepted iiWAS2022 papers will be published by Springer in their
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). LNCS volumes are indexed in
the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), part of Clarivate
Analytics’ Web of Science; Scopus; EI Engineering Index; Google Scholar;
DBLP; etc. Selected high-quality papers will be invited to be published,
after revision and extension, in special issues of international journals.
*** Scope ***
Data and information are crucial in providing evidence based decision
making in many aspect of human activities, as an individual or as a
group. The way information and communication technology are used to
collect, process, analysis and store data has always evolves. New
techniques are invented, existing techniques are improved and old
techniques are integrated to the new. Each of these provided some
challenges and opportunities to our research community in finding the
best way to meet these challenges. iiWAS provides research community
with the opportunity to share and discuss their ideas. Prior to 2020,
iiWAS has been held in Munich (2019), Yogyakarta (2018), Salzburg
(2017), Singapore (2016), Brussels (2015), Hanoi (2014), Vienna (2013),
Bali (2012), Ho Chi Minh City (2011), Paris (2010), Kuala Lumpur (2009),
and Linz (2008). Last years, iiWAS2020 and iiWAS2021 conferences were
held as virtual conference. This year, iiWAS2022 will be held in person
in Italy.
*** Submissions ***
iiWAS accepted four different types of contributions:
- Original theoretical work: The contributions are expected to show
original work that provide foundations to further progress research in
the area. Rigorous proofs and/or performance measurements are expected
for this type of contribution.
- Real life case study: The contributions are expected to show a real
life case study of an adopted concept and technology. The analysis of
the case study should provide an original insight and findings, backing
up by data collected from experiments and/or observation.
- Experimental work: The contributions are expected to show reporting of
rigorous comparative experiments of existing algorithms/systems to
provide insight to the current state of the art in a research domain.
- Lessons learnt reports: The contributions are expected to show lessons
learnt from adoption of complex technology integration or implementation.
*** Topics ***
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Web Intelligence
- Data science and Data engineering
- Cloud and Edge Computing
- Trusted, Responsible and Interpretable AI
- Big data & Data Analytics
- Cloud data management
- NoSQL databases
- Crowdsourcing
- Social networks analysis
- Sensors data management
- Data Mining
- Semantic Web and Ontology
- Search and Information Technology
- Query Language and Processing
- Advanced web technology and application
- Spatial data storage, query and processing
- Health informatics
- Education informatics
- Data Integration, Metadata Management, and Interoperability
- Distributed, parallel and cloud databases
- Social media analytics and processing
- Data modelling and analysis
- Big data processing
- Web content analysis, semantic and knowledge
- Data systems integration
- Data connectivity in internet of things
- Blockchain Technologies
- Linked Open Data
- Deep/Hidden Web
*** Submission Guidelines ***
Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF through EasyChair.
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference with proceedings. Submitted papers will be subject to
stringent peer review by at least three members of the international
program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted
papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by
Springer.
Format requirements for submissions of papers are:
- Maximum 12 pages, including the abstract (no more than 150 words), all
figures and references for Full Technical papers.
- Maximum 6 pages, including the abstract (no more than 150 words), all
figures and references for Short Position Papers.
- All submissions should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS
guidelines
(https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…)
- Submissions must be entered into the Submission System
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iiwas2022)
*** Awards ***
iiWAS2022 best paper awards and student paper awards will be conferred
on the authors at the conference.
*** Past Conferences ***
http://www.iiwas.org/conferences.htm ACM Digital library:
https://dl.acm.org/conference/iiwas DBLP:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/iiwas/
*** Program Committee co-Chairs ***
- Maria Indrawan-Santiago, Program Committee Chair, @WAS Organization
(maria(a)iiwas.org)
- Eric Pardede, Program Committee CoChair, La Trobe University,
Australia (E.Pardede(a)latrobe.edu.au)
For more inquiries about the submission and conference organisation
please contact iiwas2022(a)iiwas.org
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Hesti Sudjana
Telecooperation Departement
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Science Park 3, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria
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Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: 1st Workshop on Measuring the Quality of
Explanations in Recommender Systems @ SIGIR 2022
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:39:15 +0200
From: Oana Inel <oana.inel(a)gmail.com>
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— Apologies for cross-posting —
QUARE 2022: The 1st workshop on Measuring the Quality of Explanations in
Recommender Systems, co-located with SIGIR 2022
(https://sigir.org/sigir2022/ <https://sigir.org/sigir2022/>), July
11-15, 2022, in Madrid, Spain and Online
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/quare-2022/home
<https://sites.google.com/view/quare-2022/home> Location: Hybrid -
Madrid, Spain and Online
IMPORTANT DATES:
-----------------------------
Paper submission: 3 May 2022
Author notification: 15 May 2022
Final version deadline: 15 June 2022
Workshop date: 15 July 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS:
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Recommendations are ubiquitous in many contexts and domains due to a
continuously growing adoption of decision-support systems. Explanations
may be provided along with recommendations with the reasoning behind
suggesting a particular item. However, explanations may also
significantly affect a user's decision-making process by serving a
number of different goals, such as transparency, persuasiveness,
scrutability, among others. While there is a growing body of research
studying the effect of explanations, the relationship between their
quality and their effect has not been investigated in depth yet.
For instance, at an institutional level, organisational values may
require a different combination of explanation goals; also, within the
same organisation some combinations of goals may be more appropriate for
some use cases and less for others. Conversely, end-users of a
recommender system may be bearers of different values, and explanations
can affect them differently. Therefore, understanding whether
explanations are fit for their intended goals is key to subsequently
implementing them in a production stage.
Furthermore, the lack of established, actionable methodologies to
evaluate explanations for recommendations, as well as evaluation
datasets, hinders cross-comparison between different explainable
recommendations approaches, and is one of the issues hampering
widespread adoption of explanations in industry settings.
This workshop aims to extend existing work in the field by bringing
together and facilitating the exchange of perspectives and solutions
from industry and academia, and aims to bridge the gap between academic
design guidelines and the best practices in the industry regarding the
implementation and evaluation of explanations in recommender systems,
with respect to their goals, impact, potential biases, and
informativeness. With this workshop, we provide a platform for
discussion among scholars, practitioners, and other interested parties.
TOPICS AND THEMES:
--------------------------------
The motivation of the workshop is to promote discussion upon future
research and practice directions of evaluating explainable
recommendations, by bringing together academic and industry researchers
and practitioners in the area. We focus in particular on real-world use
cases, diverse organisational values and purposes, and different target
users. We encourage submissions that study different explanation goals
and combinations of those, how they fit various organisation values and
different use cases. Furthermore, we welcome submissions that propose
and make available for the community high-quality datasets and benchmarks.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Evaluation
Relevance of explanation goals for different use cases;
Soliciting user feedback on explanations; Implicit vs. explicit
evaluation of explanations and goals;
Reproducible and replicable evaluation methodologies;
Online vs. offline evaluations.
Personalisation
User-modelling for explanation generation;
Evaluation approaches for personalised explanations (e.g., content, style);
Evaluation approaches for context-aware explanations (e.g., place, time,
alone/group setting, exploratory/transaction mode).
Presentation
Evaluation of different explanation modalities (e.g., text, graphics,
audio, hybrid);
Evaluation of interactive explanations.
Datasets
Generation of datasets for evaluation of explanations;
Evaluation benchmarks.
Values
Evaluation of explanations in relation to organisational values;
Evaluation of explanations in relation to personal values.
SUBMISSIONS:
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We welcome three types of submissions: position or perspective papers
(up to 4 pages in length, plus unlimited pages for references): original
ideas, perspectives, research vision, and open challenges in the area of
evaluation approaches for explainable recommender systems;
featured papers (title and abstract of the paper, plus the original
paper): already published papers or papers summarizing existing
publications in leading conferences and high-impact journals that are
relevant for the topic of the workshop
demonstration papers (up to 2 pages in length, plus unlimited pages for
references): original or already published prototypes and operational
evaluation approaches in the area of explainable recommender systems.
Page limits include diagrams and appendices. Submissions should be
single-blind, written in English, and formatted according to the current
ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf
<https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official> templates are
available from the ACM Website
<https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> (use “sigconf”
proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for Word).
Submit papers electronically via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=quare22
<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=quare22>.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and
accepted papers will be published on the website of our workshop:
https://sites.google.com/view/quare-2022/home
<https://sites.google.com/view/quare-2022/home>.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for
the workshop and present the work.
ORGANISERS:
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Alessandro Piscopo, BBC Oana Inel, University of Zurich
Sanne Vrijenhoek, University of Amsterdam
Martijn Millecamp, AE NV
Krisztian Balog, Google, University of Stavanger
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