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7 - 10 June 2021, 8th International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC-2021), Haifa, Israel and Online
The aim of the COMSOC workshop series is to bring together different communities: computer scientists interested in computational issues in social choice; people working in artificial intelligence and multiagent systems who are using ideas from social choice to organise societies of artificial software agents; logicians interested in the logic-based specification and analysis of social procedures; and last but not least people coming from social choice theory itself.
Submissions of papers describing original, under review, or recently published work on all aspects of computational social choice are invited. We welcome theoretical, empirical and experimental work on the conference topics, including, in particular, research on algorithms (exact, approximate, parameterized, online and distributed), learning, logic, and simulations in the context of social choice.
30 June - 3 July 2021, Sixth International Meeting of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (APMP 2021), Virtual
The meeting will be held as a Virtual Conference, through Zoom provided by Chapman University. Participation is free, but in order to join the meeting, please register. Keynote speakers: Laura Crosilla (University of Oslo, Norway), Andrew Granville (Universite de Montréal, Canada)), Orna Harari (Tel Aviv University, Israel) and Dirk Schlimm (McGill University, Canada).
We invite submissions on any areas connected to the philosophy of mathematical practice, both by professional philosophers of maths, and any scholar interested in reflecting on mathematical practice (its nature, its contents, its history), as well as from master and PhD students and post-doc (which are strongly encouraged to send proposals, indeed). A title and abstract (250-500 words together with 2 or 3 keywords) should be submitted before 5 March, 2021 via e-mail addressed to the chair of the Scientific Committee of the meeting: Carmen Martinez Adame, cmadame at gmail.com. Notification will be sent out by 5 May.
19 - 23 July 2021, 25th International Conference on Implementation & Application of Automata (CIAA 2021), Virtual
The CIAA conferences concern research on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures, including theoretical aspects. Automata theory is the foundation of computer science. Its applications have spread to almost all areas of computer science and many other disciplines. The purpose of these conferences is to bring together members of the academic, research and industrial community who have an interest in implementation and application of automata to demonstrate and analyze their work and to explain the problems they have been solving.
Note: Remote attendance will be possible, regardless of whether or not there will be a physical meeting.
Original papers are sought in all areas that relate to implementation and application of automata. Submissions must be written in LaTeX using the LNCS style and must not exceed 12 pages, bibliography included. Simultaneous submissions of papers to journals or any other conference with published proceedings, or submitting previously published papers is not allowed.The proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series and will be available at the conference. A "Best Paper Award," since 2014 called "Sheng Yu Award" will be presented to the author(s) of the paper judged to be the best on the basis of the referee reports.
25 - 27 June 2021, Eighteenth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2021), Beijing, China and/or Virtual
The mission of the TARK conferences is to bring together researchers from a wide variety of fields, including Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory, Decision Theory, Philosophy, Logic, Linguistics, and Cognitive Science, in order to further our understanding of interdisciplinary issues involving reasoning about rationality and knowledge. Previous conferences have been held bi-annually around the world. Topics of interest: include, but are not limited to, semantic models for knowledge, belief, awareness and uncertainty, bounded rationality and resource-bounded reasoning, commonsense epistemic reasoning, epistemic logic, epistemic game theory, knowledge and action, applications of reasoning about knowledge and other mental states, belief revision, and foundations of multi-agent systems.
Submissions: are now invited to TARK 2021. Strong preference will be given to papers whose topic is of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, and papers should be accessible to such an audience. Papers will be held to the usual high standards of research publications. Abstracts should be no longer than 10 pages. Optional technical details such as proofs may be included in an appendix.
20 - 21 March 2021, The 22nd annual Graduate Student Conference in Logic (GSCL XXII), Virtual
Hosted virtually at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The GSCL is a two-day conference organized by and for mathematical logic students in Master's and PhD programs.
1 - 3 September 2021, Third Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK2021), Zaragoza (Spain) and virtual
This conference aims at bringing together researchers from across disciplines concerned with the acquisition, curation and use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. This builds upon the success of the inaugural event held in Galway, Ireland in 2017 and the second LDK in Leipzig, Germany in 2019.
In order to allow more people to attend the Conference physically, and due to the current state in the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, we decided to postpone LDK 2021 to early September. The conference will allow remote presentations by participants who cannot attend the conference in person owing to COVID-19 travelling restrictions, but we do think that physical encounter and gossip leads to better research.
We welcome submission of relevance to the topics listed below. Submissions can be in the form of:
* Long research papers: 10-15 pages;
* Short research or position papers: 6-8 pages;
* Short scientific abstract submissions: be 4-6 pages.
* Short abstracts on new challenges and research ideas ('Crazy New Ideas'): 1-4 pages.
This year, we would like to propose a 'Crazy New Ideas' session that will be the occasion to present challenging research ideas that have not yet been fully explored, or you would like to see in ten years from now. Such ideas should be briefly presented in the form of a short abstract of one to four pages to initiate the discussions, which will also be included in the conference proceedings if permitted by the authors. This is your chance to be creative without censorship. Reviews for these abstract will focus on the potential of ideas to spark interesting discussions.
Topics include Language Data, Knowledge Graphs, Applications for Language, Data and Knowledge, and Use Cases in Language, Data and Knowledge.
20 - 21 March 2021, The 22nd annual Graduate Student Conference in Logic (GSCL XXII), Virtual
Hosted virtually at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The GSCL is a two-day conference organized by and for mathematical logic students in Master's and PhD programs.
6 - 12 November 2021, 18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2021), Hanoi, Vietnam
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) is a well-established and lively field of research. In KR a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. This assumption, that much of what an agent deals with is knowledge-based, is common in many modern intelligent systems. Consequently, KR has contributed to the theory and practice of various areas in AI, including automated planning and natural language understanding, and to fields beyond AI, including databases, verification, software engineering, and robotics. In recent years, KR has contributed also to new and emerging fields, including the semantic web, computational biology, cyber security, and the development of software agents.
The KR conference series is the leading forum for timely in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the representation and computational management of knowledge.
We solicit papers presenting novel results on the principles of KR that clearly contribute to the formal foundations of relevant problems or show the applicability of results to implemented or implementable systems. We also welcome papers from other areas that show clear use of, or contributions to, the principles or practice of KR.
In addition to the main conference track, KR2021 will host the following tracks and sessions:
- Applications and Systems Track
- Recently Published Research Track
- Special Session on KR and Machine Learning
- Special Session on KR and Robotics
The KR2021 program will also feature workshops and tutorials, solicited by means of an open call, as well as a doctoral consortium.
The Recently Published Research track, workshops, tutorials, and the doctoral consortium will have different submission and notification dates, which will be announced separately.
14 - 18 June 2021, Second NAtural LOgic meets MAchine Learning Workshop (NALOMA'21), Online, Netherlands
After the successful completion of NALOMA'20 (NAtural LOgic Meets MAchine Learning), NALOMA'21 seeks to continue the series and attract exciting contributions. NALOMA'21 is set out to address two main issues of the NLI community. First, the approaches and systems currently used to address NLI are too one-dimensional: they are either purely DL or purely symbolic but do not attempt to combine the two worlds. A second issue concerns datasets: existing NLI datasets are either complex enough but too small to be used for proper learning, or large enough but too easy to be claimed to represent human inference. The workshop aims to bridge the gap between ML/DL and symbolic/logic-based approaches to NLI, and it is perhaps the only workshop organized to do so. It will take place from June 14-June 18, 2021, during the International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2021) organized by the University of Groningen but taking place fully online due to the pandemic.
The workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) topic concerning NLI.
We invite two types of submission:
- Archival (long or short) papers should report on complete, original and unpublished research. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and appear in the ACL anthology.
- Extended abstracts may report on work in progress or work that was recently published/accepted at a different venue.
14 - 18 June 2021, First Workshop on Multimodal Semantic Representations (MMSR 2021): Beyond Language, Virtual
The demand for more sophisticated natural human-computer and human-robot interactions is rapidly increasing as users become more accustomed to conversation-like interactions with AI and NLP systems. Such interactions require not only the robust recognition and generation of expressions through multiple modalities (language, gesture, vision, action, etc.), but also the encoding of situated meaning.
This workshop intends to bring together researchers who aim to capture elements of multimodal interaction such as language, gesture, gaze, and facial expression with formal semantic representations. We provide a space for both theoretical and practical discussion of how linguistic co-modalities support, inform, and align with 'meaning' found in the linguistic signal alone. MMSR 2021 is co-located with IWCS 2021.
We solicit papers on multimodal semantic representation. Two types of submissions are solicited: long papers and short papers. Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages, excluding references. Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 4 pages, excluding references. Both types will be published in the workshop proceedings and in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version. We strongly encourage students to submit to the workshop and will consider a student session depending on the number of submissions.
26 March 2021, Joint Jahrestagung FG LogInf & Deduktionstreffen, Virtual
The annual Workshop on Logic in Computer Science (Jahrestagung) and the annual meeting Deduktionstreffen are the prime activities of the Interest Group on Logic in Computer Science (FG LogInf) and the Interest Group on Deduction Systems (FG DedSys) of the German Society of Informatics (Gesellschaft für Informatik), respectively. This year, the activities will be organized as a Joint Logic Workshop in order to foster mutual exchange and to explore potential synergies.
The Joint Logic Workshop is a meeting with an informal and friendly atmosphere, where everyone (not only the German community) interested in the relevant topics can report on their work in an accessible setting. A special focus of the workshop is on young researchers and students, who are particularly encouraged to present their ongoing research projects to a wider audience. Another goal of the meeting is to stimulate networking effects and to foster collaborative research projects.
27 March - 1 April 2021, 24th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2021), Online
ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops:
- ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
- FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
- TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
A number of satellite workshops will take place before the main conferences. TACAS '21 will also host the 10th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP).
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, ETAPS 2021 will take place virtually only.
27 March - 1 April 2021, 24th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2021), Online
ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops:
- ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
- FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
- TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
A number of satellite workshops will take place before the main conferences. TACAS '21 will also host the 10th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP).
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, ETAPS 2021 will take place virtually only.
27 March - 1 April 2021, 24th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2021), Online
ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops:
- ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
- FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
- TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
A number of satellite workshops will take place before the main conferences. TACAS '21 will also host the 10th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP).
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, ETAPS 2021 will take place virtually only.
29 - 30 March 2021, Workshop Lexical Restrictions on Grammatical Relations
In many languages grammatical relations are to some extent lexically restricted, in the sense that certain verbs or verb classes take different argument coding frames than others. While such constraints are well studied for case marking, they have also been reported for grammatical relations defining other types of constructions, including a range of voice- and valency-related constructions and some clause-combining constructions. This hybrid (on-line/on-site) workshop aims to unite scholars from different (sub)disciplines, bringing together descriptive, comparative, corpus-based, and experimental studies, as well as studies that compare linguistic data with genetic and/or socio-historical evidence. Together, we hope to further our understanding why lexical restrictions should exist, how they are processed and acquired, and why/how/where they persist in languages.
27 March - 1 April 2021, 24th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2021), Online
ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops:
- ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
- FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
- TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
A number of satellite workshops will take place before the main conferences. TACAS '21 will also host the 10th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP).
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, ETAPS 2021 will take place virtually only.
29 - 30 March 2021, Workshop Lexical Restrictions on Grammatical Relations
In many languages grammatical relations are to some extent lexically restricted, in the sense that certain verbs or verb classes take different argument coding frames than others. While such constraints are well studied for case marking, they have also been reported for grammatical relations defining other types of constructions, including a range of voice- and valency-related constructions and some clause-combining constructions. This hybrid (on-line/on-site) workshop aims to unite scholars from different (sub)disciplines, bringing together descriptive, comparative, corpus-based, and experimental studies, as well as studies that compare linguistic data with genetic and/or socio-historical evidence. Together, we hope to further our understanding why lexical restrictions should exist, how they are processed and acquired, and why/how/where they persist in languages.
6 - 10 July 2022, 13th Panhellenic Logic Symposium (PLS13), Volos (Greece)
The Panhellenic Logic Symposium is a biennial scientific event that was established in 1997. It aims to promote interaction and cross-fertilization among different areas of logic. Originally conceived as a way of bringing together the many logicians of Hellenic descent throughout the world, the PLS has evolved into an international forum for the communication of state-of-the-art advances in logic. The symposium is open to researchers worldwide who work in logic broadly conceived.
PLS13 will have a Poster and Mentoring Session.
The Scientific Committee cordially invites all researchers in the areas of the conference to submit their papers for presentation at PLS13. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): Computability Theory, History and Philosophy of Logic, Logic in Computer Science, Model Theory, Nonclassical and Modal Logics, Proof Theory and Set Theory. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee of the symposium, who will make final decisions on acceptance.
Graduate students and young researchers are invited to submit a short abstract on work in progress that may not be ready for a regular contributed talk. Those accepted will be able to present their work in poster form in a special poster session. The session will also feature a mentoring component whereby senior researchers will discuss the posters and provide feedback to student participants.
Please note that there was a previous CFP in 2021. The accepted papers of the 2021 edition, along with some video presentations, appear on the event's webpage.
27 March - 1 April 2021, 24th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2021), Online
ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops:
- ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
- FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
- TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
A number of satellite workshops will take place before the main conferences. TACAS '21 will also host the 10th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP).
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, ETAPS 2021 will take place virtually only.