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[@Home2021] Call for Participation (DSPL · OPL · SSPL)
by Mauricio Matamoros 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

Online version: https://athome.robocup.org/2021-cfp-all/ *Call for Participation* RoboCup@Home Virtual 2021 (DSPL · OPL · SSPL) June 22 – June 28, 2021 (Online) https://2021.robocup.org// <https://2021.robocup.org/> https://athome.robocup.org/ https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions (RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup Junior). The RoboCup@Home Virtual competition aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots’ abilities and performance in a virtual home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Navigation and Mapping in virtual environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviors, Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration. This page describes the preregistration and qualification procedure for RoboCup@Home 2021. Important dates: Feb. 10, 2021 Publication of the Call for Participation Feb. 28, 2021 Deadline for submission of qualification material and preregistration. (Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website). Mar. 14, 2021 Qualification announcement April 24, 2021 Robot model reception The qualification procedure consists of three simple steps: Step 1) Qualification Material Submission (mandatory) The team ***MUST*** send an email to the Organizing Committee ( oc(a)robocupathome.org) to participate in the qualification process for the RoboCup@Home 2021 event. Please fill in the following information: Team Name: League: [ DSPL | OPL | SSPL ] Country: Affiliation: Team Leader Name: Contact information (E-mail): Rank in local tournaments: Link to a team video: Link to a team web site devoted to their efforts: Team Description Paper (TDP) attached to the email based on the official template (new teams only). *OR* Hereby team [Team Name] countersigns its qualification for RoboCup@Home 2021 (qualified teams only). The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2021-Qualification] (YourTeamName) Considerations: - Only one platform can be specified per team. - Only one team leader can be specified per team. - Only one team video url can be specified per team. - Only one contact email can be specified per team. - All the publications and software to be evaluated for qualification ***MUST*** be in the team’s website. - The email must be encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1 character set. *IMPORTANT:* Teams qualified for the 2020 RoboCup@Home do *NOT* need to resubmit their TDPs. ***** Deadline: Sunday, February 28, 2021 23:59 GMT ****** Step 2) Participation confirmation Teams qualified do not require to confirm attendance. Step 3) Robot Model Submission (Open Platform League): Qualified teams ***MUST*** send the robot model to be used during the competition via email to the Organizing Committee (oc(a)robocupathome.org). Please follow the template below: Team Name: League: [ DSPL | OPL | SSPL ] Country: Affiliation: Virtual robot model attached to the email based on the official simulator. The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2021-RModel] (YourTeamName) The Technical Committee will inspect the robot models to verify they are compatible with the simulator and that all sensing and actuation is performed at component level and not bypassed by reading the variables of simulator such as position, pixel collision, etcetera. *IMPORTANT:* OPL teams may opt to use the official robot models of any of the Standard Platform League. In these cases, instead of attaching the robot models, the email must state which model will be used by the team. ***** Deadline: Sunday, April 25, 2021 23:59 GMT ****** Instructions for the Qualification Material Instructions for the Team Video: In order to proof a running virtual robot model, each team has to provide a qualification video. As a minimum requirement for qualification, the video must show the robot(s) successfully solving a task involving the following abilities: robust full-stack navigation (navigation, self localization, online mapping and collision avoidance), object manipulation, and object recognition. Is strongly advised to show a test of any of the RoboCup@Home RuleBooks from 2009 on. *Remarks:* - The shown task execution must look continuous, smooth, and robust. - When speeding-up video, the speed factor must be indicated. - The language spoken and shown in the video must be English. When using any other languages, translations must be included. - We strongly suggest upload videos to Youtube. - Videos sent will be uploaded/displayed in the league’s youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkdCpT0xrFMMt-_N8wSVew/playlists” <http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkdCpT0xrFMMt-_N8wSVew/playlists> - *Standard Platforms Only:* Teams are encouraged to use the standard robot in their Team Video. *Copyright note:*When sending videos for qualification, teams implicitly grant permission to RoboCup @Home and the RoboCup Federation to copy, modify, distribute, upload, publish, and use the multimedia material to promote the event and the league at convenience. Instructions for the TDP The TDP is an 6-pages long scientific paper, detailing information on the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, while including also the following: - TDP - Group’s research focus and interests. - Innovative technology and scientific contribution - Please specify when your research is being used by other teams or research groups - Please specify when you are using software from other teams - Brief, general description of the system when solving a [domestic] task (portability to the real world) - The impact of your research must be clearly visible - Maximum length is *6 pages* (including figures and citations) - TDP length is *****6 pages***** (submissions over this hard limit will be discarded). For the TDP, please use the Springer LNAI format <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> used in the RoboCup Symposium submissions and limit yourself to 6 pages without altering margins or spacing (including references). You may download a template for the TDP from here <https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/TDPTemplate>. *Remark: *The language for the TDP, its graphics, tables, images, and all additional content must be English. Content in other languages must be translated. *Copyright note:*All TDPs sent for qualification may be made publicly available in the RoboCup @Home Wiki for further reference. On submitting, teams implicitly grant permission to RoboCup @Home and the RoboCup Federation to copy, distribute, upload, publish, and use the manuscript to promote the event and the league at convenience. ***** Exceeding the number of pages will automatically void your application *****. Instructions for the Web site While the TDP goes into detail about the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, the website should be designed for a broader audience, including: - Photos of the virtual and/or real robot(s) - Videos of the virtual and/or real robot(s) - Description of the approaches and information on scientific achievements - Relevant publications (last 5 years, preferably available to download) - Link to repositories with software for the community - Team members - Previous participation in RoboCup - Participation and rankings in local RoboCup tournaments *Remark: *No IP addresses will be accepted as website. *Remark: *Only documented active software repositories are considered as contributions to the league. It must be clear and straightforward to other teams how to use your software. Qualification materials will be judged by the following criteria: - Team description paper (clarity, scientific contributions, re-usability by the league, applicability in real world) - Performance in local tournaments and previous competitions. - Qualification Video (number of demonstrated abilities, integration, difficulty of the task, portability to the real world) - Website (multimedia, publications from last 5 years, downloadable content, open-source software and other contributions) - Relevant Scientific contribution/publications (downloadable papers and open-source software) - Novelty of approach (what you do is new for @Home) We encourage teams to produce self-explicative videos for a general audience where complex tasks are solved. For Team Description Papers focus on the scientific contribution and avoid brief descriptions of the overall system. With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team online, The 2021 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees

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Call for Papers: Special Session on KR & Robotics (KR2021)
by Thanh Dinh 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

CALL FOR PAPERS **Special Session on Knowledge Representation and Robotics** at the 18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2021) November 6-12, 2021, Hanoi, Vietnam https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de/ ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submission of title and abstract: March 24, 2021 Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2021 Author response period: May 24-26, 2021 Notification: June 15, 2021 Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2021 Conference dates: November 6-12, 2021 ------------------ Much progress has been made in robotics through the introduction of machine learning, often leading to autonomous systems that are effective but opaque with inexplicable behaviours. Many applications, however, require robots to explicitly capture knowledge and reason with it in order to achieve high-level cognitive skills. This special session is devoted to exploring the intersection of Knowledge Representation and Robotics. Papers are solicited in all areas of this intersection. In particular, we welcome papers that extend knowledge representation techniques to cope with the challenges posed by interacting with the physical world, such as: - dealing with uncertain, incomplete or contradictory information; - reasoning with time, space and perceptions; - grounding representations in the physical world; - combining discrete and continuous representations; - reasoning with bounded computational resources; - trustworthy and accountable robot behaviours; and - social intelligence for robots in human-centric environments. Robots are the archetypical integrated cognitive systems. Thus, we also welcome papers that address the integration of knowledge representation into whole robotic systems, such as: - integrating knowledge representation and machine learning; - integrating symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches; - integrating reasoning about actions and control; or - cognitive robot architectures. Finally, we welcome papers that show concrete examples where real robotic systems benefit from knowledge representation, for instance in: - sensor interpretation and understanding; - human-robot interaction; - multi-robot planning and coordination; or - dealing with errors and unexpected situations. ------------------ Information for Authors ------------------ The Special Session on KR & Robotics will allow contributions of both regular papers (9 pages) and short papers (4 pages), excluding references, prepared and submitted according to the instructions on the KR2021 website. The special session emphasizes KR & Robotics, and welcomes contributions that extend the state of the art at the intersection of KR & Robotics. Therefore, KR-only or Robotics-only submissions will not be accepted for evaluation in this special session. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed by PC members who are active in KR & Robotics. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, including criteria such as originality, soundness, relevance, significance, quality of presentation, and understanding of the state of the art. ------------------ Remote Participation Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic ------------------ We understand that the global public health situation may make it difficult or impossible for some, if not all, participants to travel to Hanoi. For this reason, we commit to allowing authors of accepted papers to present virtually and will work hard to enable the best possible experience for all conference participants. ------------------ Chairs ------------------ Alessandro Saffiotti (University of Orebro, Sweden) Mary-Anne Williams (University of New South Wales, Australia) ------------------

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Call for Papers: Special Session on KR & Machine Learning (KR2021)
by Thanh Dinh 07 Feb '21

07 Feb '21

Call for Papers **Special Session on Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning** at the 18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2021) November 6-12, 2021, Hanoi, Vietnam https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submission of title and abstract: March 24, 2021 Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2021 Author response period: May 24-26, 2021 Notification: June 15, 2021 Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2021 Conference dates: November 6-12, 2021 ----------- Description ----------- Over the last two decades, Machine Learning (ML) has made incredible progress and become very effective at solving specific tasks while being robust across many experimental learning applications. Deep learning, statistical (relational) learning, reinforcement learning and logic-based and/or probabilistic learning are among the many ML approaches that are witnessing such advancements. On the other hand, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) has continued to be at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research providing solutions for explicit declarative representation of knowledge and knowledge-based inference, which have theoretical and practical relevance in many aspects of AI as well as in new emerging fields outside AI. The synergy between these two areas of AI has the potential to lead to new advancements on the foundations of AI that offer novel insights into open fundamental challenges including, but not limited to, learning symbolic generalisations from raw (multi-modal) data, using knowledge to facilitate data-efficient learning, supporting interpretability of learned outcomes, federated multi-agent learning and decision making. This year, for the second time, KR2021 will host a special session on "Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning". This special session aims at providing researchers and industrial practitioners with a dedicated forum for presentation and discussion of new ideas, research experience and emerging results on topics related to computational learning and symbolic knowledge representation and reasoning. This special session provides the opportunity for fostering meaningful connections between researchers from these two main areas of AI and, at the same time, offering the possibility to learn about progress made on these topics, share their own views and learn about approaches that could lead to effective cross-fertilisation among research in ML and KR and new innovative solutions to key AI research challenges. ---------------------- Expected contributions ---------------------- The Special Session on KR and ML at KR2021 invites submissions of papers across KR and ML on advancements in one of these areas for the purpose of addressing open research challenges in the other, integration of computational learning and knowledge representation and reasoning, and the application of combined KR and ML approaches to solve real-world problems, including case studies and benchmarks. We welcome papers on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: -- Learning ontologies and knowledge graphs -- Learning action theories -- Learning common-sense knowledge -- Learning spatial and temporal theories -- Learning preference models -- Learning causal models -- Learning tractable probabilistic models -- Probabilistic reasoning and learning -- Graphical models for knowledge representation and reasoning -- Reasoning and learning over knowledge graphs -- Logic-based learning algorithms -- Neural-symbolic learning -- Interplay between logic & neural and other learning paradigms (e.g., logics for reasoning about neural networks, embedding of logical reasoning in neural paradigms) -- Statistical relational learning -- Multi-agent learning -- Machine learning for efficient knowledge inference -- Symbolic reinforcement learning -- Learning symbolic abstractions from unstructured data -- Machine-learning-driven reasoning algorithms -- Explainable AI -- Transfer learning -- Multi-agent learning -- Expressive power of learning representations -- Knowledge-driven natural language understanding and dialogue -- Knowledge-driven decision making -- Knowledge-driven intelligent systems for internet of things and cybersecurity -- Application of knowledge-driven ML to question answering and story understanding -- Application of knowledge-driven ML to Robotics --------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria --------------------------------------------- The special session emphasizes KR and ML, and welcomes contributions that extend the state of the art at the intersection of KR and ML. Therefore, KR-only or ML-only submissions will not be accepted for evaluation in this special session. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed by PC members who are active in KR and ML. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, including criteria such as originality, soundness, relevance, significance, quality of presentation, and understanding of the state of the art. In this special session, the selection process of the highest quality papers will apply the following criteria: * Importance and novelty of using knowledge representation and reasoning to advance machine learning, or novelty of using machine learning solutions to advance knowledge representation and reasoning. * Applicability of the proposed solutions in real-world. * Reusability of datasets, case studies and benchmarks for systems and/or application papers. * Proved theoretical or empirically demonstrated practical advancement of the proposed solution with respect to baseline pure KR or ML approaches. Details on formatting and submission can be found on the KR21 website. -------------------------------------------------- Remote Participation Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic -------------------------------------------------- We understand that the global public health situation may make it difficult or impossible for some, if not all, participants to travel to Hanoi. For this reason, we commit to allowing authors of accepted papers to present virtually and will work hard to enable the best possible experience for all conference participants. ------ Chairs ------ Vaishak Belle (University of Edinburgh, UK) Luc De Raedt (KU Leuven, Belgium)

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Call for Papers - 9th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2021)
by Iman Awaad 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

[apologies for multiple copies] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** 9th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob‚ 2021) https://icaps21.icaps-conference.org/workshops/PlanRob/ International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling ICAPS 2021  Guangzhou, China  June 7-8, 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics and Objectives ********************* AI Planning & Scheduling (P&S) methods are key to enabling intelligent robots to perform autonomous, flexible, and interactive behaviors. Researchers in the P&S community have continued to develop approaches and produce planners, representations, as well as heuristics that robotics researchers can make use of. However, there remain numerous challenges complicating the uptake, use and successful integration of P&S technology in robotics, many of which have been addressed by robotics researchers with novel solutions. Strong collaboration and synergy between researchers in both communities is vital to the continued growth of the fields in a way that provide mutual benefits to the two communities. To foster this, the PlanRob workshop aims to provide a stable, long-term forum (having been held annually at ICAPS since 2013) where researchers from both the P&S and Robotics communities can openly discuss relevant issues, research and development progress, future directions and open challenges related to P&S when applied to Robotics. In addition to the usual paper submissions, the workshop’s format naturally lends itself to preliminary results, position papers as well as to work focused on challenges in using and integrating planners in robotics systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: - real-world planning applications for autonomous and intelligent robots; - optimizing behavior in large scale automated or semi-automated systems; - integrated planning and execution in robotic architectures; - planning domain representations for robotics applications; - P&S methods for optimization and adaptation in robotics; - mission, path, and motion planning for robots; - planning and coordination methods for multi-robot teams; - mixed-initiative planning and sliding autonomy for robotic systems; - human-aware planning and execution in human-robot interaction; - adversarial action planning in competitive robotic domains; - formal methods for robot planning and control; - challenges and solutions in using P&S technology in robotics; - open problems for P&S in robotics, - benchmark planning domains for robots. Important Dates **************** Paper submission: March 7, 2021 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2021 Camera-ready version due: May 1, 2021 Workshop Date: June 7-8, 2021 The reference time-zone for all deadlines is UTC-12: Your submissions will be on time so long as there is still some place in the world where the deadline has not yet passed. Submissions *********** There are two types of submissions: short position papers and regular papers. Position papers are a maximum of four pages long while regular papers may be up to ten pages long. Papers may have an additional page containing references. Regular papers may be scheduled with more time in the final program. A poster session may be considered to provide a further presentation opportunity. The guidelines for formatting are the same as is used for ICAPS 2021 papers (typeset in the AAAI style as described at: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php), but with the AAAI copyright removed. The papers must be submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=planrob2021). Please note that papers under review (e.g. which have been submitted to IJCAI-2021) are also welcome, however, in order to avoid potential conflicts, these manuscripts should be prepared as anonymous submissions for a double blind reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop’s website. The organizers are investigating the availability of journal editors in order to invite a selection of accepted papers from the workshop to a special issue or post-proceedings volume. Organizers ********** Iman Awaad, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany iman.awaad(a)h-brs.de Alberto Finzi, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy alberto.finzi(a)unina.it AndreA Orlandini  Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Italy andrea.orlandini(a)istc.cnr.it The ICAPS PlanRob Workshop is partially supported by TAILOR "Foundations of Trustworthy AI - Integrating Reasoning, Learning and Optimization", a project funded by the European Commissione (EU H2020 ICT-48 G.A. 952215). -- Iman Awaad Researcher, Autonomous Systems Group Assistant director & Study advisor, Master's Programme in Autonomous Systems Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it) Friedrich Hirzebruch-Allee 5, 53115 Bonn, Germany www.b-it-center.de Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences | Department of Computer Science Grantham Allee 20, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany Phone +49 (0) 2241 865-295 iman.awaad(a)h-brs.de mas-group.inf.h-brs.de www.facebook.com/AutonomousSystemsProgram

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RoboCup@Home 2021 Edition
by Maxime St-Pierre 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

Dear RoboCup@Home Community, After discussion with the RoboCup Federation and the Executive Committee, this year RoboCup@Home (2021) will be held in a simulated environment. All teams that were qualified last year (2020), will be automatically qualified for this year's competition (2021). The Technical Committee is currently writing a special version of the Rulebook to accommodate this new requirement. The discussion for these new change is going to happen on the discussions tab on the RoboCup@Home Rulebook GitHub Repository ( https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook/discussions). I highly suggest that everyone follow the development and contribute to the discussion since they will impact your team. If you have any suggestions or comments please submit them on the Rulebook GitHub repository. We will send out more information as they become available. Maxime St-Pierre OC Chair RoboCup@Home

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Call for Papers: Special Session on KR & Machine Learning (KR2021)
by Thanh Dinh 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

CALL FOR PAPERS **Special Session on Knowledge Representation and Robotics** at the 18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2021) November 6-12, 2021, Hanoi, Vietnam https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de/ ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submission of title and abstract: March 24, 2021 Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2021 Author response period: May 24-26, 2021 Notification: June 15, 2021 Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2021 Conference dates: November 6-12, 2021 ------------------ Much progress has been made in robotics through the introduction of machine learning, often leading to autonomous systems that are effective but opaque with inexplicable behaviours. Many applications, however, require robots to explicitly capture knowledge and reason with it in order to achieve high-level cognitive skills. This special session is devoted to exploring the intersection of Knowledge Representation and Robotics. Papers are solicited in all areas of this intersection. In particular, we welcome papers that extend knowledge representation techniques to cope with the challenges posed by interacting with the physical world, such as: - dealing with uncertain, incomplete or contradictory information; - reasoning with time, space and perceptions; - grounding representations in the physical world; - combining discrete and continuous representations; - reasoning with bounded computational resources; - trustworthy and accountable robot behaviours; and - social intelligence for robots in human-centric environments. Robots are the archetypical integrated cognitive systems. Thus, we also welcome papers that address the integration of knowledge representation into whole robotic systems, such as: - integrating knowledge representation and machine learning; - integrating symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches; - integrating reasoning about actions and control; or - cognitive robot architectures. Finally, we welcome papers that show concrete examples where real robotic systems benefit from knowledge representation, for instance in: - sensor interpretation and understanding; - human-robot interaction; - multi-robot planning and coordination; or - dealing with errors and unexpected situations. ------------------ Information for Authors ------------------ The Special Session on KR & Robotics will allow contributions of both regular papers (9 pages) and short papers (4 pages), excluding references, prepared and submitted according to Authors Guidelines for KR2021. The special session emphasizes KR & Robotics, and welcomes contributions that extend the state of the art at the intersection of KR & Robotics. Therefore, KR-only or Robotics-only submissions will not be accepted for evaluation in this special session. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed by PC members who are active in KR & Robotics. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, including criteria such as originality, soundness, relevance, significance, quality of presentation, and understanding of the state of the art. ------------------ Chairs ------------------ Alessandro Saffiotti (University of Orebro, Sweden) Mary-Anne Williams (University of New South Wales, Australia) ------------------

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[CFP] AI LA Life Summit 2020
by Ross Mead 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

Call for Participation: AI LA Life Summit 2020 *********************************************************************** AI LA Life Summit 2020 October 13-15, 2020 (Virtual) https://lifesummit.la *********************************************************************** *** REGISTRATION *** https://hopin.to/events/life-summit-2020 * $5 student tickets * $25 industry tickets *** OVERVIEW *** Whether you are science-focused or science-curious, AI LA’s three-day summit will inspire and interconnect you through scientific storytelling. Learn from academic and industry researchers at the core of today’s innovations, especially if you are interested in pursuing a career at the intersection of biotechnology and healthcare. The Life Summit is a forum for coming together as a community, a platform for exchanging ideas, and a catalyst for the scientists of the next generation. *** SCHEDULE *** (All times in Pacific Time, UTC-7) DAY 1: REFLECT (Tue, Oct 13) * 8:00am - Keynote by Claire Bonaci, Microsoft Sr. Director, US Health & Life Sciences * 8:15am - Hackers without Borders * 9:15am - The Global Pivot * 10:15am - Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Delivery of Behavioral Health * 11:00am - Networking * 12:00pm - Break * 4:00pm - Keynote by Amanda Daflos , Chief Innovation Officer of City of Los Angeles * 4:15pm - LA's COVID-19 Response * 5:15pm - Equity in Telehealth * 6:00pm - Health Systems Stressed * 7:00pm - Networking DAY 2: RECENTER (Wed, Oct 14) * 8:00am - Keynote by George Tolomiczenko, Director of Medical Innovations at UC Irvine * 8:15am - Temporal Scene Understanding in Robot-assisted Surgery Using Deep Learning * 8:30am - Deep learning-enabled cellular image analysis at scale * 8:45am - Physics-Guided Deep Learning for COVID-19 Forecasting * 9:00am - Using Reinforcement Learning to Imitate Drug Discovery Experts and Accelerate Discovery * 9:15am - Better Storytelling Through Data: Lessons from the Frontlines and Backends of a Pandemic * 10:00am - Investor Roundtable * 11:00am - Networking * 12:00pm - Break * 4:00pm - Welcome * 4:15pm - AI Applications in Ophthalmology * 4:30pm - The Entrepreneurial Scientist * 5:15pm - AI Talk (UCLA) * 5:30pm - AI Talk (USC) * 5:45pm - Developing tools for collaborating around 3D+ biomedical imaging data * 6:00pm - AI in Healthcare * 7:00pm - Networking DAY 3: REIMAGINE (Thu, Oct 15) * 8:00am - Keynote by Stephanie Hsieh, Executive Director at Biocom LA * 8:15am - Reimagining Cancer Treatment * 9:15am - Reimagining R&D in Labs * 10:00am - Quantified Self & AI * 11:00am - Networking * 12:00pm - Break * 4:00pm - Keynote by Vivienne Ming, Professional Mad Scientist * 4:15pm - The Future of Synthetic Biology * 5:15pm - Living Robots * 6:05pm - Sustainable Living Systems * 7:00pm - Networking *** CONTACT *** For more information, contact the AI LA Executive Board: * Todd Terrazas, AI LA (todd(a)joinai.la) * Dr. Ross Mead, Semio (ross(a)semio.ai) *** ABOUT *** AI LA is a Los Angeles-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to catalyze innovation through education, conversation, and collaboration. Since 2016, we have facilitated community events related to AI and its applications to education, environmental sustainability, healthcare, life sciences, the ethical and fair use of technology, and more! Learn more at https://joinai.la! -- -- Ross Mead, PhD Founder and CEO ross(a)semio.ai +1 (618) 696-2600 <https://semio.ai>

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ISIC 2021 in Hybrid mode with Scopus Proceedings
by SARIKA JAIN 04 Oct '20

04 Oct '20

Dear Colleague, Hope and pray that you stay safe in this COVID-19 situation. International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC-2021) <https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/isic/> *Conference Dates: *Feb 25-27, 2021 Hard Deadline: *[October 10, 2020]* ISIC 2021 will allow remote participation and the organizing committee has started working toward putting together the technical infrastructure for both types of presentations (Face-to-face and remote). We understand that some workplaces are forfeiting the travel allowance, but need not worry as we make the remote participation available via online platforms. The registration amount for remote participation will be decreased by 30% in every category. You are hereby invited to submit full-length papers as the deadline of October 10, 2020, is approaching. The topics majorly include "Artificial Intelligence", "Machine Learning", and "Semantic Computing", but not limited to these. ISIC 2021 accepts submissions of all the three types - the comprehensive overview of the topic, - the review/survey of the topic, or - the research results/findings. *Star features of the conference:*Though it is its first edition, ISIC 2021 has attracted already - 4 top-shot researchers as advisory - 6 keynotes/invited talks - 2 tutorials - 11 special sessions with 31 chairs - Springer to publish the ISIC 2021 proceedings in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series, which is indexed in major indices - 11 special issues in journals (indexed in major indices) from 8 publishers for extended papers of ISIC 2021 - 21 members being chairs in main conference organization (coming from all around the world) - 200 Program Committee Members from various countries all around the world - high geographic diversity with members from 40 different countries - high gender diversity with 32% women The conference aims to establish itself as one of the best venues to publish the research findings with a publishing possibility in journals with major indices. Publication: Conference proceedings will be published by **CCIS Springer (Scopus Indexed) and available online. Few selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit the extended work in *Scopus / Web of Science (WoS) <https://nitkkr-ac-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15AS1o6TPo8z6KbT…>* indexed journals. *Submission link: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isic2021 <https://nitkkr-ac-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15AS1o6TPo8z6KbT…> . *Important Dates:* Last date of Paper Submission: *[October 10, 2020]* Notification of acceptance: *[November 10, 2020]* Camera-ready submission of accepted papers: *[December 10, 2020]* If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me at < jasarika(a)nitkkr.ac.in> Best Regards *On behalf of the Conference Committee* Dr. Sarika Jain Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Applications National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India https://sites.google.com/view/nitkkrsarikajain/home <https://nitkkr-ac-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15AS1o6TPo8z6KbT…> ######################################## Consider contributing to the International Semantic Intelligence Conference ISIC2021 <https://nitkkr-ac-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15AS1o6TPo8z6KbT…> Delhi India Feb 25-27, 2021

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Elsevier Book Chapter
by SARIKA JAIN 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

Dear Colleague, This is a call for book chapter proposals for the book *"Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Global Epidemics*" to be published by *Elsevier.* Deadline for submitting the Extended Summary: Sep 30, 2020 The individual chapters should provide a comprehensive overview of the chosen topic covering advances in the area and should be tutorial in nature and presentation, to appeal to a broad range of readers who may NOT be researchers on the topic. Hence, they shouldn't be like a research paper. You are hereby invited to submit first, a 2-3 page extended summary including (a) an abstract, (b) an outline / TOC / list of headings and sub-headings along with a summary of each heading, (c) short biographies of the authors, and (d) a statement why you are experts for the proposed chapter. Following a review of your summary, we'll offer our feedback and suggestions for improvement and better synergy with the rest of the chapters and cohesive coverage. *Chapter Submission Link*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aige2021 *Structure of the Book:* The book is planned to have 11-12 chapters divided into two sections. Part I consists of 3 chapters providing a holistic overview of global epidemics, a motivation for the book and challenges. Part II consists of emerging technologies that help fight against epidemics. Part II has 6 chapters as listed below. This makes 9 chapters. The rest 2-3 chapters are to be added dynamically based on the availability of authors (These chapters may be on The Use of Social Media for Tracking Public Behavior, Does AI help in Genome Sequencing, AI-assisted Testing, Computational Drug Repurposing, or any other trending and suitable topic in line with the title and the theme of the book). *Part I: Controlling Epidemics: A Perspective* This part provides an overview and study of Global Epidemic situations. It starts with assessing the countries' readiness for coping with epidemics, goes through the challenges in battling with epidemic, and then closes with a survey of existing approaches, techniques and tools available or developed by academicians or industry professionals for controlling the epidemics. 1 Setting the Scene (A Chapter by the Editors) This chapter provides an overview and summary of the complete book as a whole. It acts as glue between the chapters written by different authors and brings in synergy to all the chapters in both the parts of the book. In effect, it sets the scene for the reader and acts as an introductory and a must read before proceeding for the further chapters. 2 An Overview of Global Epidemics and the Challenges Faced (a) Assessing Countries' Readiness for Coping with Epidemics: There is a need of retrospective evaluation of each country's readiness for coping with epidemics. An automated data collection followed by evaluation will help in knowing if the human kind is well-equipped to deal with it. (b) A Study related to Ebola, Corona viruses, Zika, influenza, Dengue, Chikungunya, Malaria like infectious diseases will be presented in this chapter. A discussion on the most fatal pandemics recorded in the history (like the Plague, Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19) and their economic consequences. What is common in these? All these have jumped to humans after being originated in animals somehow. (c) Challenges in Battling with Epidemics (d) ... 3 A Survey of Existing Approaches and Tools to fight against epidemic and the lessons learnt (a) Survey of tools/techniques/methodologies/software already available at the time of writing of this book to predict/detect/recommend actions during an epidemic situation. (b) Lessons learnt by every epidemic that has struck this world (including COVID-19) *Part II: Emerging Technologies Fight Against Epidemics* Having gone through the background of controlling global epidemic situation, this part of the book covers the emerging techniques to fight against epidemic. At the time of writing this book, COVID-19 pandemic was caused by coronavirus and was widespread with deadly results. The case study of COVID-19 has been presented to better exploit the study presented in each chapter. 4 AI Technologies specialized to the need in the fight against epidemic All current technologies under the umbrella of AI or surrounding AI should be covered like Data Science, Big Data, Machine Learning, Semantic Technologies, Data Analytics, cyber security. 5 Does AI help in Forecasting? This chapter will speak about WHO statistics on pathogens. AI can help predicting everything about spillovers, hence allowing the governments to plan ahead. AI can predict what, when, why, and where of the epidemic. We define AI and discuss the various machine learning models to predict the same. Case Study of Covid-19 for Predictions will be presented. 6 AI and Detection / Improved Diagnosis In case of outbreak of a disease; after detection, we need to publicize the threat. AI makes possible quick detection in order to enable possible vaccination and treatment; and alerts for the public. Diagnosis and Monitoring of cases is of paramount importance. Case Study of Covid-19 for Early Detection will be presented. 7 Generating Recommendations A global, AI-enabled data system can provide advices and issue warnings in real time. Help manage socio-economic impacts. 8 Role of AI in Contact Tracing The architecture of so called "Corona apps" and their backends is described in this chapter. The role of AI is clarified for these approaches and also other aspects like privacy and security. Furthermore, other approaches to contact tracing are introduced in this chapter. 9 Situation Awareness In any disaster, it is essential that the citizens get the correct information and organizations get the correct data. This chapter describes AI approaches to detect fake news or scams. 10-12 Open Topics dynamically picked by the authors Any other trending and suitable topic in line with the title and the theme of the book can be incorporated. Editors: - Le Gruenwald, The University of Oklahoma, USA, ggruenwald(a)ou.edu - Sarika Jain, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India, jasarika(a)nitkkr.ac.in. - Sven Groppe, University of Lübeck, Germany, groppe(a)ifis.uni-luebeck.de *Deadlines:* Extended Summary: Sep 30, 2020 Notification of Proposal Approval: Oct 20, 2020 Full Chapter Submission: Jan 10, 2020 Best Regards Dr. Sarika Jain Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Applications National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India https://sites.google.com/view/nitkkrsarikajain/ ######################################## Consider contributing to the International Semantic Intelligence Conference ISIC2021 <https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/isic/> Delhi India Feb 25-27, 2021

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LAST Call for Participation - The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020
by Marco Simões 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

Sorry for any duplication.=============The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020 Competition *10 – 14 November 2020 – ONLINE* http://www.cbrobotica.org *e-mail: organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org <organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org>* The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020 Competition will be held online, 10-14 November 2020. *General Chair*: João Alberto Fabro (fabro(a)utfpr.edu.br) *Important Dates: - Pre-registration and TDP submission: September 28- Regular Registration: November 3- Late Registration: November 14**Leagues* The rules and particularities of each category are defined by their chairs. Contact them for any questions. The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020 Competition leagues are as follows: *RoboCup Soccer Simulation 2D* Chair: Haroldo Dornelas (gm.haroldo(a)gmail.com) *RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D* Chair: Adailton Cerqueira Jr. (adailton.junior(a)gmail.com) *RoboCup Brazil Open Flying Robot Trial League* Chair: Tiago Nascimento (tiagopn(a)ci.ufpb.br) *RoboCup Small Size Soccer (F180)* Chair: Rafael Guedes Lang (rglang(a)hotmail.com) *RoboCup Soccer Humanoid League / Standard Platform League (SPL)* Chair: Danilo Hernani Perico (danilo.perico(a)gmail.com) *RoboCup@Home* Chair: Plinio Thomaz Aquino Junior (plinio.aquino(a)fei.edu.br) *RoboCupJunior* General Chair: Andrique F. Amorim (andrique(a)gmail.com) *On Stage* Chair: Rosângela Matias (rosartematias(a)gmail.com) *Soccer* Chair: Alan Teixeira de Oliveira (alan.oliveira(a)ifnmg.edu.br *Rescue Maze* Chair: Diogo Novais (diogopereira(a)ifba.edu.br) *Rescue Simulation (CO-SPACE)* Chair: Tiago Hártur de Oliveira Feu (tiago.hartur(a)gmail.com) *Participation* All teams (including RC Junior teams) are required to register following the instructions here: http://www.cbrobotica.org/index.php/inscricao-2/ *Participation Fees* - Regular Registration from October 3, 2020 until November 3, 2020 - Team (includes 1 free student): US$ 50.00 - Additional student: US$ 5.00 - Additional professor: US$ 10.00 - Late Registration from November 4, 2020 until November 14, 2020 - Additional student: US$ 10.00 - Additional professor: US$ 20.00 In the Late Registration phase, only professors and students from teams already registered and paid until November 3 can make new registrations. For more information please visit our official website at http://www.cbrobotica.org For inquiries please contact us via the following email addresses: *General Enquiries/ Registration: organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org <organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org>* -- Marco Antonio Costa Simões Nucleo de Arquitetura de Computadores e Sistemas Operacionais - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra - Campus I Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Mestre em Ciência da Computação - UFPE

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