dmanet Digest, Vol 68, Issue 22

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Today's Topics:

1. DAM special issue: Distance Geometry and Applications
(Antonio Mucherino)
2. Call: Postdoc & MSc grants in Comp. Creativity (project
ConCreTe) (Juan Romero)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:20:47 +0200
From: Antonio Mucherino <antonio.mucherino@irisa.fr>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] DAM special issue: Distance Geometry and
Applications
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Call for Papers
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Special Issue: Distance Geometry and Applications

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Distance Geometry (DG) is an area of research that is already
consolidated, where Mathematics and Computer Science are the key areas
at its foundation. The concept of distance is essential to the human
experience and DG puts this concept as the main object in a given
geometric structure. The fundamental problem of DG is to find a set of
points in a given geometric space whose distances between some of these
points are known.

All interested researchers are invited to contribute to this special
issue. The topics of submitted papers should be related to the themes of
the Workshop on Distance Geometry and Applications, that was held in
Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, on June 24-27, 2013. Submissions of
contributions not presented at the workshop are also welcome. All
articles will be thoroughly refereed according to the high standards of
Discrete Applied Mathematics.

The full papers must be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial System
(http://ees.elsevier.com/dam). When submitting your paper, be sure to
specify that the paper is a contribution for the Special Issue, and
select the article type ?Special Issue: DGA13? so that your paper is
assigned to the guest editors. Please see the Author Instructions on the
site if you have not yet submitted a paper through this web-based system.

The deadline for submission is December 31st, 2013. All accepted papers
will be published online individually, before print publication. We are
looking forward to receiving your contribution.

The Guest Editors,

Antonio Mucherino
Rosiane de Freitas
Carlile Lavor



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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 03:40:12 +0100
From: Juan Romero <evomusart@gmail.com>
To: dmanet <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Call: Postdoc & MSc grants in Comp. Creativity
(project ConCreTe)
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[apologies for cross posting, please distribute]

We invite applications for a 3-year, full time post-doctoral research
associateship, based in University of Coimbra, Portugal, focused on
concept creation technology. The position forms part of an European
Union Framework Programme 7 grant, collaborative with 5 other academic
institutions. The project has a duration of 36 months.

As a whole, the project, ConCreTe, will investigate computational
models for the representation and production of previously unseen
concepts, and apply them in context of various forms of creativity
(e.g., design, narrative, poetry). It will also investigate
evaluation methods for creative systems, including comparison with
humans via neuroscientific approaches. The project revolves around the
central framework of a simulated cognitive architecture, making
explicit the relationship between creativity and consciousness, and
forming an environment within which different kinds of concept
generator can work in competitive parallel and be compared.

University of Coimbra will maily contribute to the workpackages on
Conceptual Representations (particularly by exploring representations
based in Regulated Activation Networks), on Concept Creation (e.g., by
exploring Conceptual Blending and Bio-inspired concept generation
mechanisms), on the development of Applications of the framework
(e.g., for Design and for Text Processing) and on the Evaluation of
Creativity.

The successful applicant will have a strong background in artificial
intelligence, and will be a competent programmer. They will be willing
to co-supervise PhD and MSc students working in themes of the project.
They will be competent communicators, both formally and informally,
and they will be prepared to collaborate with and travel to partner
institutions for extended working periods (not normally longer than 2
weeks).

We have one Post-doc and 2 MSc grants available within the 3-years FP7
project ConCreTe:

Postdoc: http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=39612
(Deadline: 31-10-2013)
MSc 1: http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=39611
(Deadline: 31-10-2013)
MSc 2: http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=39569
(Deadline: 30-10-2013)


More about ConCreTe:

https://www.cisuc.uc.pt/projects/show/172

Applications should be sent to:
machado(at)dei.uc.pt
and
amilcar(at)dei.uc.pt

Best regards,

Penousal machado


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