News and Events: Conferences

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7 - 9 April 2021, 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART), Online (Seville, Spain)

Date: 7 - 9 April 2021
Location: Online (Seville, Spain)
Deadline: Sunday 1 November 2020

The 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) will be held online in Seville, Spain, on 7-9 April 2021, as part of the evo* event.

The main goal of EvoMUSART is to bring together researchers who are using Artificial Intelligence techniques (e.g. Artificial Neural Network, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm, Cellular Automata, Alife) for artistic tasks such as Visual Art, Music, Architecture, Video, Digital Games, Poetry, or Design. The conference gives researchers in the field the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.

We welcome submissions which use Artificial Intelligence techniques in the generation, analysis and interpretation of Art, Music, Design, Architecture and other artistic fields. Submissions must be at most 16 pages long, in Springer LNCS format. Each submission must be anonymised for a double-blind review process. The deadline for submission is 1 November 2020. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters at the event and included in the EvoMUSART proceedings published by Springer Verlag in a dedicated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

For more information, see http://www.evostar.org/2021/evomusart/.

26 October - 2 November 2020, International Conferences on Logic and Artificial Intelligence at Zhejiang University (ZJULogAI): Explainable AI, Virtual

Date: 26 October - 2 November 2020
Location: Virtual

ZJULogAI 2020 (CLAR, AWPL, and GCAI) will take place as a three-day online event using Zoom on October 26 (Day 1), October 30 (Day 2), and November 2 (Day 3), 2020.

With their special focus theme on Explainable AI, the conferences:
 - CLAR2020 (Conference on Logic and Argumentation)
 - AWPL2020 (Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic)
 - GCAI2020 (Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
intend to promote the interplay between logical approaches and machine learning-based approaches in order to make AI more transparent and accountable.

For more information, see http://www.xixilogic.org/zjulogai/.

26 October - 2 November 2020, International Conferences on Logic and Artificial Intelligence at Zhejiang University (ZJULogAI): Explainable AI, Virtual

Date: 26 October - 2 November 2020
Location: Virtual

ZJULogAI 2020 (CLAR, AWPL, and GCAI) will take place as a three-day online event using Zoom on October 26 (Day 1), October 30 (Day 2), and November 2 (Day 3), 2020.

With their special focus theme on Explainable AI, the conferences:
 - CLAR2020 (Conference on Logic and Argumentation)
 - AWPL2020 (Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic)
 - GCAI2020 (Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
intend to promote the interplay between logical approaches and machine learning-based approaches in order to make AI more transparent and accountable.

For more information, see http://www.xixilogic.org/zjulogai/.

2 - 3 November 2020, The Fifteenth International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2020), Virtual

Date: 2 - 3 November 2020
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Monday 10 August 2020

Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate.

This International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI 2020 campaign. 3. To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging, techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings.

For more information, see http://om2020.ontologymatching.org/.

2 - 3 November 2020, The Fifteenth International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2020), Virtual

Date: 2 - 3 November 2020
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Monday 10 August 2020

Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate.

This International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI 2020 campaign. 3. To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging, techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings.

For more information, see http://om2020.ontologymatching.org/.

3 - 4 November 2020, XI Workshop on Program Semantics, Specification and Verification (PSSV-2020): Theory and Applications, Virtual

Date: 3 - 4 November 2020
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Monday 19 October 2020

Invited Speakers: Natasha Alechina, Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Samvel K. Shoukourian and Ilya Sergey. In addition there will be one invited industrial talk from Leading Research Center for Blockchain Technology of Innopolis University, which will be presented by Leonid Merkin, and a panel discussion on (experimental and industrial) contemporary programming languages.

For more information, see https://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2020.

3 - 4 November 2020, XI Workshop on Program Semantics, Specification and Verification (PSSV-2020): Theory and Applications, Virtual

Date: 3 - 4 November 2020
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Monday 19 October 2020

Invited Speakers: Natasha Alechina, Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Samvel K. Shoukourian and Ilya Sergey. In addition there will be one invited industrial talk from Leading Research Center for Blockchain Technology of Innopolis University, which will be presented by Leonid Merkin, and a panel discussion on (experimental and industrial) contemporary programming languages.

For more information, see https://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2020.

5 - 6 November 2020, Workshop "Science without Numbers, 40 Years Later", Virtual

Date: 5 - 6 November 2020
Location: Virtual

This workshop aims to provide an opportunity to discuss Field's program in light of recent developments in philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of physics, philosophy of logic, and metaphysics. Speakers include: Mark Colyvan, Mary Leng, Vera Flocke, Stephen Yablo, and Eddy Keming Chen. Hartry Field will also participate.

For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/swn40years.

5 - 6 November 2020, Workshop "Science without Numbers, 40 Years Later", Virtual

Date: 5 - 6 November 2020
Location: Virtual

This workshop aims to provide an opportunity to discuss Field's program in light of recent developments in philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of physics, philosophy of logic, and metaphysics. Speakers include: Mark Colyvan, Mary Leng, Vera Flocke, Stephen Yablo, and Eddy Keming Chen. Hartry Field will also participate.

For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/swn40years.

CfP special issue of "Social Choice and Welfare" on deliberation & aggregation

Deadline: Sunday 15 November 2020

Social Choice and Welfare (SCW) mainly publishes high-quality papers studying models of welfare economics and collective choice. Conceptual or philosophical papers that are of exceptional quality and close to the core topics of the journal will also be considered for this special issue.

The goal of this special issue is to put together a number of original articles that further our understanding of how, and when, deliberation and aggregation can be conjoined in order to arrive at better processes of collective attitude formation. The overarching question is how deliberation can be better geared towards aggregation, and how to enrich current models of belief and preference aggregation to make them more amenable to the results of deliberation.

For more information, see https://www.springer.com/journal/355/updates/17940930 or contact Mikaël Cozic at , or Olivier Roy at .

15 - 17 November 2020, Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 17 (LENLS17), Virtual

Date: 15 - 17 November 2020
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Saturday 12 September 2020

LENLS is an annual international workshop on formal syntax, semantics and pragmatics. It will be held online as one of the workshops of the JSAI International Symposia on AI (JSAI-isAI2020) sponsored by the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI).

Invited Speakers: Patrick Elliott (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Yohei Oseki (University of Tokyo).

15 - 17 November 2020, Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 17 (LENLS17), Virtual

Date: 15 - 17 November 2020
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Saturday 12 September 2020

LENLS is an annual international workshop on formal syntax, semantics and pragmatics. It will be held online as one of the workshops of the JSAI International Symposia on AI (JSAI-isAI2020) sponsored by the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI).

Invited Speakers: Patrick Elliott (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Yohei Oseki (University of Tokyo).

16 - 17 November 2020, Formal Philosophy 2020, Moscow, Russia

Date & Time: 16 - 17 November 2020, 10:00-20:00
Location: Moscow, Russia
Costs: free
Deadline: Tuesday 10 March 2020

"Formal Philosophy 2020" is the 3rd annual international conference, organized by the International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy in National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. Formal Philosophy-2020 will be dedicated to various topics in the field of formal epistemology, formal ontology, formal ethics, philosophy of logic, an epistemology of logic and other branches of formal and mathematical philosophy.

"Formal Philosophy 2020" is postponed until November 2020.

15 - 17 November 2020, Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 17 (LENLS17), Virtual

Date: 15 - 17 November 2020
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Saturday 12 September 2020

LENLS is an annual international workshop on formal syntax, semantics and pragmatics. It will be held online as one of the workshops of the JSAI International Symposia on AI (JSAI-isAI2020) sponsored by the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI).

Invited Speakers: Patrick Elliott (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Yohei Oseki (University of Tokyo).

16 - 17 November 2020, Formal Philosophy 2020, Moscow, Russia

Date & Time: 16 - 17 November 2020, 10:00-20:00
Location: Moscow, Russia
Costs: free
Deadline: Tuesday 10 March 2020

"Formal Philosophy 2020" is the 3rd annual international conference, organized by the International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy in National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. Formal Philosophy-2020 will be dedicated to various topics in the field of formal epistemology, formal ontology, formal ethics, philosophy of logic, an epistemology of logic and other branches of formal and mathematical philosophy.

"Formal Philosophy 2020" is postponed until November 2020.

19 November 2020, LMS Computer Science Colloquium "Algorithms, Complexity, & Logic", virtual

Date: Thursday 19 November 2020

The LMS Computer Science Colloquium is an annual day of themed talks on a topical issue at the interface of mathematics and computer science, organised by the LMS Computer Science Committee. The event is aimed at PhD students and post-docs, although others are welcome to attend.

The next colloquium will be held on Thursday 19th November 2020, 10am-4pm, and will be held online. The theme will be 'Algorithms, Complexity and Logic'. The speakers will be as follows:
- Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London) - Kitty Meeks (Glasgow) - Anupam Das (Birmingham) - Igor Carboni Oliveira (Warwick)

For more information, see https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/virtual-lms-csc/ or contact Katherine Wright at .

19 - 20 November 2020, 24th SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2020), Virtual conference

Date: 19 - 20 November 2020
Location: Virtual conference
Deadline: Friday 17 July 2020

CoNLL is a yearly conference organized by SIGNLL (ACL's Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning). This year, CoNLL will be colocated with EMNLP 2020, and like EMNLP will be a fully virtual conference. In this edition, we explicitly invite submissions that focus on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics, rather than on work driven by particular engineering applications.

For more information, see https://www.conll.org or contact Raquel Fernández at .

19 - 20 November 2020, 24th SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2020), Virtual conference

Date: 19 - 20 November 2020
Location: Virtual conference
Deadline: Friday 17 July 2020

CoNLL is a yearly conference organized by SIGNLL (ACL's Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning). This year, CoNLL will be colocated with EMNLP 2020, and like EMNLP will be a fully virtual conference. In this edition, we explicitly invite submissions that focus on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics, rather than on work driven by particular engineering applications.

For more information, see https://www.conll.org or contact Raquel Fernández at .

4 - 6 February 2021, ICAART Session "Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence" (NLPinAI 2021), Online

Date: 4 - 6 February 2021
Location: Online
Deadline: Thursday 26 November 2020

Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Furthermore, agents (humans or computational systems) are information conveyors, interpreters, or participate as components of informational content. Generally, language processing depends on agents' knowledge, reasoning, perspectives, and interactions.

The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote computational systems of intelligent natural language processing and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.

We invite contributions relevant to the following topics. All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings bookm and be made available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.

For more information, see http://www.icaart.org/NLPinAI.aspx?y=2021 or contact Roussanka Loukanova at .

26 - 28 November 2020, 31st Novembertagung on the History & Philosophy of Mathematics: Axiomatics: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives, Online

Date: 26 - 28 November 2020
Location: Online
Deadline: Wednesday 1 July 2020

The Novembertagungis an international graduate conference on the history and philosophy of mathematics and neighbouring fields. It aims to provide an opportunity for graduate students at all levels to present and discuss their research in an informal and safe environment. It also allows young researchers to share experiences, get advice and establish new contacts.

On the theme: While Euclid (c. 3rd century BC) is usually celebrated as the beginning of axiomatic science, many features that are nowadays taken to be essential to axiomatics appear to be alien to ancient mathematics. A major contemporary change in the view on axiomatics was initiated by the adoption of the set-theoretic axiomatic framework as a foundation of mathematics in the first half of the 20thcentury. Proof theory and model theory subsequently developed as independent research fields and had a wide impact on philosophical thought.On the other hand, some philosophers also argue that the axiomatic view on mathematics may be harmful in that it omits fundamental aspects of mathematical practice and idealizes mathematical reasoning in an unfaithful way.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the conference takes place online.

24 - 28 May 2021, Thirteenth NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM 2021), Virtual

Date: 24 - 28 May 2021
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Friday 27 November 2020

The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require advanced techniques that address these systems' specification, design, verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry. NFM's goals are to identify challenges and to provide solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems.

New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for both spacecraft and ground systems. The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, including their theory, current capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems during all stages of the software life-cycle.

Due to the COVID-19, the organizers have decided to hold NFM 2021 virtually only, rather than in person.

We encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches that bring together formal methods and techniques from other domains such as probabilistic reasoning, machine learning, control theory, robotics, and quantum computing among others.

There are two categories of submissions:
1. Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (maximum 15 pages);
2. Short papers on tools, experience reports, or work in progress with preliminary results (maximum 6 pages).
All papers must be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere.

26 - 28 November 2020, 31st Novembertagung on the History & Philosophy of Mathematics: Axiomatics: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives, Online

Date: 26 - 28 November 2020
Location: Online
Deadline: Wednesday 1 July 2020

The Novembertagungis an international graduate conference on the history and philosophy of mathematics and neighbouring fields. It aims to provide an opportunity for graduate students at all levels to present and discuss their research in an informal and safe environment. It also allows young researchers to share experiences, get advice and establish new contacts.

On the theme: While Euclid (c. 3rd century BC) is usually celebrated as the beginning of axiomatic science, many features that are nowadays taken to be essential to axiomatics appear to be alien to ancient mathematics. A major contemporary change in the view on axiomatics was initiated by the adoption of the set-theoretic axiomatic framework as a foundation of mathematics in the first half of the 20thcentury. Proof theory and model theory subsequently developed as independent research fields and had a wide impact on philosophical thought.On the other hand, some philosophers also argue that the axiomatic view on mathematics may be harmful in that it omits fundamental aspects of mathematical practice and idealizes mathematical reasoning in an unfaithful way.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the conference takes place online.

26 - 28 November 2020, 31st Novembertagung on the History & Philosophy of Mathematics: Axiomatics: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives, Online

Date: 26 - 28 November 2020
Location: Online
Deadline: Wednesday 1 July 2020

The Novembertagungis an international graduate conference on the history and philosophy of mathematics and neighbouring fields. It aims to provide an opportunity for graduate students at all levels to present and discuss their research in an informal and safe environment. It also allows young researchers to share experiences, get advice and establish new contacts.

On the theme: While Euclid (c. 3rd century BC) is usually celebrated as the beginning of axiomatic science, many features that are nowadays taken to be essential to axiomatics appear to be alien to ancient mathematics. A major contemporary change in the view on axiomatics was initiated by the adoption of the set-theoretic axiomatic framework as a foundation of mathematics in the first half of the 20thcentury. Proof theory and model theory subsequently developed as independent research fields and had a wide impact on philosophical thought.On the other hand, some philosophers also argue that the axiomatic view on mathematics may be harmful in that it omits fundamental aspects of mathematical practice and idealizes mathematical reasoning in an unfaithful way.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the conference takes place online.

CfP special issue of South American Journal of Logic on "The Heterodox in Logic" (dedicated to Francisco Miro Quesada Cantuarias)

Deadline: Monday 30 November 2020

José Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias (1918-2019) was the most important Peruvian philosopher of logic and mathematics. He was mainly concerned with constructing a theory of reason adequate for understanding the most important logical and mathematical discoveries of his time: Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and heterodox logics —named coined by him.

He also coined the name paraconsistent logic, which designates those logical systems for which the principles of contradiction and explosion do not hold generally. He has also been a pioneer in the fields of deontic logic and logic of law.

This special issue of the South American Journal of Logic will consist of works based on his legacy. We welcome both papers that concern directly FMQC's works and original papers that simply address the same research topics.

For more information, see https://spel.org.pe/sajl-2021/ or contact .

30 November - 4 December 2020, 13th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC 2020), Virtual

Date: 30 November - 4 December 2020
Location: Virtual

The aim of the colloquium is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to present research results, and exchange experience, ideas, and solutions for their problems in theoretical aspects of computing. ICTAC also aims to promote research cooperation between developing and industrial countries.

The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: - Languages and automata - Semantics of programming languages - Logic in computer science - Lambda calculus, type theory and category theory - Domain-specific languages - Theories of concurrency and mobility - Theories of distributed, grid and cloud computing - Models of objects and components - Coordination models Models of software architectures - Timed, hybrid, embedded and cyber-physical systems - Static analysis - Software verification - Software testing - Program generation and transformation - Model checking and automated theorem proving - Interactive theorem proving - Verified software, formalized programming theory

The ICTAC 2020 conference will be organised *virtually* by live presentations using Zoom.

For more information, see https://ictac2020.github.io/.