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Today's Topics:

1. SSTiC 2014: 1st announcement (GRLMC)
2. Book "Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games",
edited by Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter
Spronck, and Julian Togelius, published open access (Dagstuhl
Follow-Ups, Vol.6) (Marc Herbstritt (Dagstuhl))
3. Graphs - symposium (ICNAAM 2014) (Vojislav Petrovic)
4. Visiting PhD student positions at KTH Royal Institute of
Technology (Jakob Nordstrom)
5. Deadline extension, December 12 || ICAS 2014 || April 20 -
24, 2014 - Chamonix, France (Cristina Pascual)


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2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING

SSTiC 2014

Tarragona, Spain

July 7-11, 2014

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/

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AIM:

SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the
previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/

SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD
students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It
intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse
branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose,
renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with
the audience.

SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 5
keynote lectures and 30 six-hour courses dealing with the hottest topics in
the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will
really attract high-quality students.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites
in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there
will be several levels in the courses, reference may be made to specific
knowledge background in the description of some of them.

SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep
themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches
of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss
with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays.

REGIME:

In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole
event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be
willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.

VENUE:

SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of
Barcelona. The venue will be:

Campus Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of
Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past,
Present, & Future

Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), tba

... more will come ...

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable
Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures

Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing

Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara),
[introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software
Development, and Emerging Apps

Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed
Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud

Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and
Distributed Simulation

Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education
Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming
Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing

Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization

Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for
Test of Digital Logic Circuits

Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models

Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd
Analysis

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web

Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection
for Twitter and the Social Web

Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate]
Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and
Life

... more will come ...

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php

The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is
only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be
helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be
processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will
be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very
convenient to register prior to the event.

FEES:

As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or
most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to attend
all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline.

If seats will still be available, shortly prior to the event attending only
a few days (part-time) may be permitted, with the appropriate adjustment of
the fees.

ACCOMMODATION:

Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the
School in due time.

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SSTiC 2014
Lilica Voicu
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d?Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili




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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:09:22 +0100
From: "Marc Herbstritt (Dagstuhl)" <publishing@dagstuhl.de>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Book "Artificial and Computational Intelligence in
Games", edited by Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter
Spronck, and Julian Togelius, published open access (Dagstuhl
Follow-Ups, Vol.6)
Message-ID: <52936822.6040506@dagstuhl.de>
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= Book Announcement =

Title: Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games
Editors: Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter Spronck,
and Julian Togelius
Series: DFU (Dagstuhl Follow-Ups)
Volume: 6
Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum f?r Informatik, Dagstuhl
Publishing
Publication Date: November, 2013
ISBN: 978-3-939897-62-0

== Open Access ==

Accessible online and free of charge at
http://www.dagstuhl.de/dagpub/978-3-939897-62-0

You may also check the DBLP entry at
http://www.dblp.org/db/conf/dagstuhl/dfu6.html

== About the Book ==

Research into artificial intelligence (AI) and computational
intelligence (CI) started in the 1950s and has been growing ever since.
The main focus of the research is to provide computers with the capacity
to perform tasks that are believed to require human intelligence. The
field is in constant need of good benchmark problems. Games provide a
plethora of tough and interesting challenges for AI and CI, including
developing artificial players, computationally creative systems that
construct game content, agents that adapt to players, and systems that
analyse and learn about players from their in-game behaviour.

In May 2012, around 40 world-leading experts convened in Schloss
Dagstuhl, Germany, to discuss future research directions and important
research challenges for AI and CI in games. This book is the follow-up
volume to that seminar, which collects the distilled results of the
discussions that went on during those May days.

This book consists of 8 chapters. Each chapter is the outcome of a
particular discussion group. In editing this volume, we have chosen to
arrange the chapters so that they start with the more generic problems
and methods and proceed to more specific applications. However, the web
of interdependence between work on these topics is dense, with games for
mobile platforms relying on pathfinding, general game playing on
procedural content generation, procedural content generation on player
modelling, etc.

== Table of Contents ==

1. Search in Real-Time Video Games ? P.I. Cowling, M. Buro, M. Bida, A.
Botea, B. Bouzy, M.V. Butz, P. Hingston, H. Mun?oz-Avila, D. Nau, and M.
Sipper
2. Pathfinding in Games ? A. Botea, B. Bouzy, M. Buro, C. Bauckhage,
and D. Nau
3. Learning and Game AI ? H. Mun?oz-Avila, C. Bauckhage, M. Bida, C.B.
Congdon, and G. Kendall
4. Player Modeling ? G.N. Yannakakis, P. Spronck, D. Loiacono, and E. Andre?
5. Procedural Content Generation: Goals, Challenges and Actionable
Steps ? J. Togelius, A.J. Champandard, P.L. Lanzi, M. Mateas, A.Paiva,
M. Preuss, and K.O. Stanley
6. General Video Game Playing ? J. Levine, C.B. Congdon, M. Ebner, G.
Kendall, S.M. Lucas, R. Miikkulainen, T. Schaul, and T. Thompson
7. Towards a Video Game Description Language ? M. Ebner, J. Levine,
S.M. Lucas, T. Schaul, T. Thompson, and J. Togelius
8. Artificial and Computational Intelligence for Games on Mobile
Platforms ? C.B. Congdon, P. Hingston, and G. Kendall

See also:
* Frontmatter incl. table of contents and preface:
http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/DFU.Vol6.12191.i
* CompleteVolume-PDF (3 MB):

http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/dfu-complete/dfu-vol6-complete.pdf

== About the Dagstuhl Follow-Ups Series ==

The Dagstuhl Follow-Ups (DFU) series is a publication series which
offers a frame for the publication of peer-reviewed paper collections
based on Dagstuhl Seminars. DFU volumes are published according to the
principle of OpenAccess, i.e., they are available online and free of
charge.

See also:
* http://www.dagstuhl.de/dfu
* http://drops.dagstuhl.de/dfu

--
Dr. Marc Herbstritt
Scientific Staff | \\\/ Dagstuhl Publishing
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum f?r Informatik GmbH
http://www.dagstuhl.de/herbstritt





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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:20:24 +0100
From: "Vojislav Petrovic" <vojpet@dmi.uns.ac.rs>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Graphs - symposium (ICNAAM 2014)
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FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Symposium GRAPHS, ICNAAM 2014 (International Conference
of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2014),
22-28 September 2014, Rodos Palace Hotel, Rhodes, Greece

Organizer: Vojislav Petrovic (DMI Novi Sad)

Topics:

- scores in graphs and digraphs

- Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs and digraphs

- planar graphs

- graph factors and decompositions

- graph colorings

- extremal graphs

- graph spectra

- tournaments and hypertournaments

- graph algorithms




Email to vojpet@dmi.uns.ac.rs or vojpet@gmail.com to announce
registration.

For further information

vojpet@dmi.uns.ac.rs or vojpet@gmail.com

or visit

http://www.icnaam.org/


Vojislav Petrovic



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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 01:08:53 +0100
From: "Jakob Nordstrom" <jakobn@kth.se>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Visiting PhD student positions at KTH Royal
Institute of Technology
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The Theory Group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
(http://www.csc.kth.se/tcs/) invites applications for visiting PhD student
positions during 2014. These positions are intended for PhD students with
a strong research record who would like to spend part of their PhD program
in another research environment. The students will be hosted by Per
Austrin (http://www.csc.kth.se/~austrin/), Johan Hastad
(http://www.csc.kth.se/~johanh/), and/or Jakob Nordstrom
(http://www.csc.kth.se/~jakobn/), depending on profile and research
interests.

The default set-up would assume that the PhD students receive some kind of
basic salary/support from their home institutions, and that the Theory
Group at KTH covers any extra costs involved with the visit to Stockholm
(travel expenses, accommodation, living expenses, et cetera). Other
arrangements can also be considered. The duration of stay could be from a
couple of months up to a full term.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, but to be considered for the
early spring term it would help to contact us in December. Please send us
an e-mail at visiting-phd@csc.kth.se with a CV and a brief research
statement as attachments, and also include the names of two reference
persons whom we can contact.

Informal inquiries about the visiting PhD positions are welcome and may be
sent to visiting-phd@csc.kth.se.




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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:26:13 +0100
From: Cristina Pascual<cris.pascual.gonzalez@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Deadline extension, December 12 || ICAS 2014 ||
April 20 - 24, 2014 - Chamonix, France
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INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICAS 2014.

The submission deadline is December 12, 2013.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== ICAS 2014 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICAS 2014, The Tenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems

April 20 - 24, 2014 - Chamonix, France


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ICAS14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPICAS14.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
- ideas

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitICAS14.html
Submission deadline: December 12, 2013

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ICAS 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

SYSAT: Advances in system automation

Methods, techniques ant tools for automation features; Methodologies for automating of design systems; Industrial automation for production chains; Nonlinear optimization and automation control; Nonlinearities and system stabilization; Automation in safety systems; Structured uncertainty; Open and closed automation loops; Test systems automation; Theory on systems robustness; Fault-tolerant systems

AUTSY: Theory and Practice of Autonomous Systems

Design, implementation and deployment of autonomous systems; Frameworks and architectures for component and system autonomy; Design methodologies for autonomous systems; Composing autonomous systems; Formalisms and languages for autonomous systems; Logics and paradigms for autonomous systems; Ambient and real-time paradigms for autonomous systems; Delegation and trust in autonomous systems; Centralized and distributed autonomous systems; Collocation and interaction between autonomous and non-autonomous systems; Dependability in autonomous systems; Survivability and recovery in autonomous systems; Monitoring and control in autonomous systems; Performance and security in autonomous systems; Management of autonomous systems; Testing autonomous systems; Maintainability of autonomous systems

AWARE: Design and Deployment of Context-awareness Networks, Services and Applications

Context-aware fundamental concepts, mechanisms, and applications; Modeling context-aware systems; Specification and implementation of awareness behavioral contexts; Development and deployment of large-scale context-aware systems and subsystems; User awareness requirements and design techniques for interfaces and systems; Methodologies, metrics, tools, and experiments for specifying context-aware systems; Tools evaluations, Experiment evaluations

AUTONOMIC: Autonomic Computing: Design and Management of Self-behavioral Networks and Services

Theory, architectures, frameworks and practice of self-adaptive management mechanisms; Modeling and techniques for specifying self-ilities; Self-stabilization and dynamic stability criteria and mechanisms; Tools, languages and platforms for designing self-driven systems; Autonomic computing and GRID networking; Autonomic computing and proactive computing for autonomous systems; Practices, criteria and methods to implement, test, and evaluate industrial autonomic systems; Experiences with autonomic computing systems

CLOUD: Cloud computing and Virtualization

Hardware-as-a-service; Software-as-a-service [SaaS applicaitions]; Platform-as-service; On-demand computing models; Cloud Computing programming and application development; Scalability, discovery of services and data in Cloud computing infrastructures; Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues; Performance and QoS; Dynamic resource provisioning; Power-efficiency and Cloud computing; Load balancing; Application streaming; Cloud SLAs, business models and pricing policies; Custom platforms; Large-scale compute infrastructures; Managing applications in the clouds; Data centers; Process in the clouds; Content and service distribution in Cloud computing infrastructures; Multiple applications can run on one computer (virtualization a la VMWare); Grid computing (multiple computers can be used to run one application); Virtualization platforms; Open virtualization format; Cloud-computing vendor governance and regulatory compliance

MCMAC: Monitoring, Control, and Management of Autonomous Self-aware and Context-aware Systems

Agent-based autonomous systems; Policy-driven self-awareness mechanisms and their applicability in autonomic systems; Autonomy in GRID networking and utility computing; Studies on autonomous industrial applications, services, and their developing environment; Prototypes, experimental systems, tools for autonomous systems, GRID middleware

CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments

Theory, frameworks, mechanisms and case studies for satellite systems; Spatial/temporal constraints in satellites systems; Trajectory corrections, speed, and path accuracy in satellite systems; Mechanisms and case studies for nomadic code systems; Platforms for mobile agents and active mobile code; Performance in nomadic code systems; Case studies systems for mobile robot systems; Guidance in an a priori unknown environment; Coaching/learning techniques; Pose maintenance, and mapping; Sensing for autonomous vehicles; Planning for autonomous vehicles; Mobile networks, Ad hoc networks and self-reconfigurable networks

ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation

Control theory and specific characteristics; Types of computation theories; Tools for computation and control; Algorithms and data structures; Special algorithmic techniques; Algorithmic applications; Domain case studies; Technologies case studies for computation and control; Application-aware networking

MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SOA

Modeling techniques, tools, methodologies, languages; Model-driven architectures (MDA); Service-oriented architectures (SOA); Utility computing frameworks and fundamentals; Enabled applications through virtualization; Small-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Resource containers, physical resource multiplexing, and segmentation; Large-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Management of virtualized systems; Platforms, tools, environments, and case studies; Making virtualization real; On-demand utilities; Adaptive enterprise; Managing utility-based systems; Development environments, tools, prototypes

SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems

Novel approaches to modeling and representing context adaptability, self-adaptability, and self-manageability; Models of computation for self-management context-aware systems; Use of MDA/MDD (Model Driven Architecture / Model Driven Development) for context-aware systems; Design methods for self-adaptable context-aware systems; Applications of advanced modeling languages to context self-adaptability; Methods for managing adding context to existing systems and context-conflict free systems; Architectures and middleware models for self-adaptable context-aware systems; Models of different adaptation and self-adaptation mechanisms (component-based adaptation approach, aspect oriented approach, etc.); System stability in the presence of context inconsistency; Learning and self-adaptability of context-aware systems; Business considerations and organizational modeling of self-adaptable context-aware systems; Performance evaluation of self-adaptable context-aware systems; Scalabilit!
y of self-adaptable context-aware s
ystems

KUI: Knowledge-based user interface

Evolving intelligent user interface for WWW; User interface design in autonomic systems; Adaptive interfaces in a knowledge-based design; Knowledge-based support for the user interface design process; Built-in knowledge in adaptive user interfaces; Requirements for interface knowledge representation; Levels for knowledge-based user interface; User interface knowledge on the dynamic behavior; Support techniques for knowledge-based user interfaces; Intelligent user interface for real-time systems; Planning-based control of interface animation; Model-based user interface design; Knowledge-based user interface migration; Automated user interface requirements discovery for scientific computing; Knowledge-based user interface management systems; 3D User interface design; Task-oriented knowledge user interfaces; User-interfaces in a domestic environment; Centralised control in the home; User-interfaces for the elderly or disabled; User-interfaces for the visually, aurally, or mobil!
ity impaired; Interfacing with ambi
ent intelligence systems; Assisted living interfaces; Interfaces for security/alarm systems

AMMO: Adaptive management and mobility

QoE and adaptation in mobile environments; Content marking and management (i.e. MPEG21); Adaptive coding (H.265, FEC schemes, etc.. ); Admission control resource allocation algorithms; Monitoring and feedback systems; Link adaptation mechanisms; Cross layer approaches; Adaptation protocols (with IMS and NGNs scenarios); QoE vs NQoS mapping systems; Congestion control mechanisms; Fairness issues (fair sharing, bandwidth allocation...); Optimization/management mechanisms (MOO, fuzzy logic, machine learning, etc.)

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComICAS14.html

ICAS Advisory Chairs
Michael Bauer, The University of Western Ontario - London, Canada
Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
Michael Grottke, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Bruno Dillenseger, Orange Labs, France
Mark J. Balas, University of Wyoming - Laramie, USA
Alex Galis, University College London, UK
Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jacques Malenfant, Universit� Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Mark Perry, University of New England in Armidale, Australia
Wendy Powley, Queen's University - Kingston, Canada
Nikola Serbedzija, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
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