- Hcitaly - ISTI

by Andrew Zayine

Dear All, We're thrilled to announce the schedule of the first and second series of DFIR Stream. "DFIR Stream 0x1" is happening on 29th February 2024, with the pioneer of the software #forensics field. More information & registration details @ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0x1 "DFIR Stream 0x2" is happening on the 1st of March 2024 with pioneers from the #IoT #security field. More information & registration details @ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0x2 - Note that this event is online only. Hence, You must register to receive a link to connect. Due to limited availability, we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible to ensure your participation in the webinar topic of your interest. - For Students, A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered upon request, indicating the number of hours of the seminar (please make sure that you add the correct name in the registration form). This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university. - This event is brought to you by CFTIRC (Cyber Forensics & Threat Investigations Research Community). To get more news about our events, please join our low-traffic announcement group @ https://groups.google.com/g/acfti Thank you in advance for your consideration, We look forward to your participation in the upcoming webinars and the impact they will have on our community. ________________________________________________________ Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators https://www.acfti.org Twitter: @acfti

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REMINDER: First Workshop on "INI-DH: Innovative Interfaces in Digital Healthcare"

by Andrea Antonio CANTONE

****Call for papers**** First Workshop on "*INI-DH: Innovative Interfaces in Digital Healthcare Workshop*" https://sites.google.com/view/ini-dh/home To be held as part of AVI2024 https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/home 17th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces Arenzano (Genoa), Italy June 3rd -7th 2024 ****Important Dates**** Workshop submissions due: March 15, 2024 Results announced: Aprile 15, 2024 Camera ready: April 28, 2024 ****Submission webpage**** https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=inidh2024 ****Topic**** In an era defined by digital transformation, the intersection of technology and healthcare is reshaping the landscape of medical practice and patient experience. The “INI-DH: Innovative Interfaces in Digital Healthcare Workshop” is at the forefront of this revolutionary evolution, addressing the key role of visual interfaces in healthcare. The workshop aims to bring together innovators, healthcare professionals, designers, and researchers to explore the multiple applications of visual interfaces in digital healthcare. INI-DH delves into designing, developing, and implementing cutting-edge visual interfaces, including intuitive apps, augmented reality tools, and virtual healthcare experiences. The use of user interfaces will be explored with the help of artificial intelligence for creating content, touch screens, voice assistants, chatbots, intelligent assistants, wearables, and viewers for real, augmented, and mixed reality, which support health, health behavior, and well-being. Participants will gain valuable insights into how those interfaces can improve patient care, enhance diagnostics, and streamline healthcare workflows. The selected papers for this workshop are invited to submit to* Special Issue* on Future Internet: *Innovations in Digital Health: Advanced Interfaces Shaping Future Healthcare Experience* https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/6QU02HUU6N Through engaging sessions, attendees will learn about the latest technological advancements, successful case studies, and emerging trends in the digital healthcare space. They will also be able to connect with experts and colleagues, encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing. Key topics to be explored in the workshop include visual interfaces for remote patient monitoring, telemedicine consultations, medical data visualization, and the integration of emerging technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality. Ethical considerations and the importance of user-centered design in healthcare applications will also be addressed. --------------- Organizers *Andrea Antonio Cantone *(University of Salerno, Italy) *Paola Barra *(University of Naples Parthenope, Italy) *Teresa Onorati *(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

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[ACM IUI 2024] Online Registration until 7th March

by Wanling Cai

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email * * Online version: https://iui.acm.org/2024/registration.html ACM IUI 2024 – Online Registration until 7th March 29th International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2024) Greenville, South Carolina, USA, March 18-21, 2024 https://iui.acm.org/2024/ https://iui.acm.org/2024/index.html ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) 2024 is the 29th annual premiere venue, where researchers and practitioners will meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Ideal IUI submissions should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence and discuss both computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies, techniques, and systems. The theme for this year will be Resilience, covering a wide variety of topics, such as COVID-19 recovery, organizational cyber resilience, economic growth and stability, climate change recovery, intelligent user interface resilience, and similar. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. Thanks for your interest in IUI 2024! Please read the information link below carefully regarding costs and deadlines. * Registration information: https://iui.acm.org/2024/registration.html - Early Registration until Feb 12, 2024 (passed) - Standard Registration until Mar 7, 2024 - Onsite Registration after Mar 7, 2024 * Registration Link: https://web.cvent.com/event/9865c85a-e052-4e7e-9947-cf19114283eb/summary Registration for the IUI 2024 full conference includes access to all sessions and workshops. Payment and registration is being handled through a 3rd party provider. If you have questions, please email the registration chair at registration2024(a)iui.acm.org<mailto:registration2024@iui.acm.org>.

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The 12th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services and Engineering (IEEE Mobile Cloud 2024): First Call for Papers

by Announce

*** First Call for Papers *** IEEE Mobile Cloud 2024 The 12th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services and Engineering July 15-18, 2024 | Shanghai, China https://ieeemobilecloud.com IEEE Mobile Cloud is a pioneering IEEE sponsored international conference devoted to the research in mobile, edge, and cloud computing. It covers all aspects of mobile, edge, and cloud computing from architectures, techniques, tools and methodologies to applications. This year's conference is scheduled to take place in Shanghai, China, from 15-18 July 2024. IEEE Mobile Cloud 2024 is part of the IEEE International Congress On Intelligent And Service- Oriented Systems Engineering offering a broad spectrum of international events, sharing renowned keynotes and fostering exchange among researchers and practitioners (see common homepage for all colocated events, https://ieee-cisose-congress.org). The fusion of mobile communications, computing, and intelligence is catalysing the emergence of innovative systems and applications that facilitate intelligent resource provisioning, process extensive data from mobile sensors and interconnected hardware platforms, and bolster the Internet of Things (IoT) through robust edge and cloud-based backend infrastructure. The pivotal role of current and forthcoming communication technologies, machine learning implementation, and mobile cloud infrastructures as facilitators for this convergence cannot be understated. These mobile intelligent applications are poised to revolutionise various facets of daily life, encompassing domains such as transportation, e-commerce, healthcare, smart homes, smart cities, social interaction, and more. Mobile intelligence serves as an inclusive platform for both academic and industrial researchers to share their latest research insights, experimental findings, and the latest advancements in industry technologies related to mobile systems, machine learning, edge and cloud computing, services, and engineering. Leveraging the synergy of mobile communications, machine intelligence, edge computing, and edge/cloud infrastructures, the future of Mobile Intelligence Systems is envisioned to provide a multitude of critical and personalised services across diverse application domains, ranging from education, transportation, to public health, safety, and security. Submissions will be evaluated on the criteria of originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and accuracy. TOPICS OF INTEREST They include but not limited to: Theory, Modelling, and Methodologies • Mobile cloud computing models, architectures, infrastructures, and platforms • Mobile intelligence theories, concepts, algorithms, and methodologies • Mobile cloud data management • Mobile cloud tools, middleware, and data centres • Mobile intelligence as a service • Mobile networking, protocols, and technologies • Quality of service (QoS) • Mobile intelligence security and privacy Applications and Industry Practice • Mobile intelligence for autonomous driving systems, V2X, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), telematics • Mobile intelligence for robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) • Mobile intelligence for sensor networks, Industrial IoT, industrial 4.0, and industry 5.0 • Mobile intelligence for future wireless technologies, 5G/6G, WiFi, Satellite, etc. • Mobile intelligence for aviation, airports, and railway • Mobile intelligence for Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) • Mobile intelligence for computer vision and video analytics • Mobile intelligence for surveillance and disaster management • Mobile intelligence for healthcare • Mobile intelligence for the metaverse • Mobile intelligence for smart city • Mobile intelligence for satellite • Mobile intelligence for mission-critical systems • Mobile intelligence for community services and social networking • Mobile intelligence computing for sustainable development PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers must be written in English. All papers must be prepared in the IEEE double column proceedings format. Please see the following link for details: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html . All accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Explore digital library with EI-index. Selected papers will be recommended to SCI-index journals as special issue papers. The paper length should be up to 8 pages for regular conference papers and 6 pages for work-in-progress papers. Submitted papers should contain original work and not being submitted elsewhere. Each paper must be presented by an author at the conference. Presentations via teleconference are not permitted. Permissions to have the paper presented by a qualified substitute presented may be granted by the TCP Chairs under extraordinary circumstances, upon written request. Submissions should be made via Easy Chair using the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imc24 . IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract submission: March 31st, 2024 (AoE) • Paper submission: April 7th, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2024 • Final manuscript submission: May 22nd, 2024 • Author registration: May 22nd, 2024 • Conference: July 15th-18th, 2024 COMMITTEES General Chairs • Hiroyuki Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan • Yan Bai, University of Washington Tacoma, USA Program Chairs • Lan Zhang, Clemson University, USA • Sun Yao, The University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK • Tomoki Watanabe, Kanagawa Institute Technology, Japan • Fan Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Publicity Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee • Ouri Wolfson, University of illinois • Felix Beierle, University of Würzburg • Thomas Richter, Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences • Dan Grigoras, University College Cork • Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza • Iulian Sandu Popa, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin & INRIA Saclay-Ile-de-France • Haiping Xu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth • Prasad Calyam, University of Missouri • Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara • Fabio Costa, Federal University of Goias • Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology • Lei Huang, Prairie View A&M University • Chunsheng Zhu, Southern University of Science and Technology • Xuyun Zhang, Macquarie University • Jia Zhao, Changchun Institute of Technology • Richard Han, University of Colorado Boulder CISOSE General Chairs • Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA • Iraklis Varlamis, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece CISOSE Steering Committee • Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA • Guido Wirtz, University of Bamberg, Germany • Huaimin Wang, NUDT, China • Jie Xu, University of Leeds, UK • Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, USA • Axel Kupper, TU Berlin, Germany • Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK • Longbin Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia • Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA • Sato Hiroyuki, University of Tokyo, Japan

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CAiSE'24 Forum: Final Call for Papers and Tool Demonstrations

by Announce

*** CAiSE'24 Forum: Final Call for Papers and Tool Demonstrations *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 4th March, 2024 AoE ***) The CAiSE Forum is a space within the CAiSE conference to present and discuss the new exciting ideas and tools related to Information Systems Engineering. The Forum intends to serve as an interactive platform, encourage potential authors to present emerging topics and controversial positions, and demonstrate innovative systems, tools, and applications. The Forum sessions at the CAiSE conference will facilitate the interaction, discussion, and exchange of ideas among presenters and participants. Contributions to the CAiSE'24 Forum are welcome to address any of the CAiSE'24 conference topics and, particularly, this year's theme—Information Systems in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. We invite two types of submissions: • Visionary papers present innovative research projects, which are still at a relatively early stage and do not necessarily include a full-scale validation. Visionary papers will be presented as posters in the Forum. • Demo papers describe innovative tools and prototypes that implement the results of research efforts. The tools and prototypes will be presented as demos in the Forum, accompanied by a poster. Both visionary papers and demo papers must not exceed 8 pages in LNCS format. See authors' guidelines at the Springer site: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . Papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference management system available at Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=caise2024) and select the Forum option. The submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATIONS Accepted papers will be published by Springer in a CAISE Forum proceedings volume within the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7911). Authors should consult Springer's authors guidelines and use their LaTeX or Word proceedings templates for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. It is expected that at least one of the authors attends CAiSE'24, presents the poster/delivers the demo, and interacts with the Forum participants. We also envision a short oral presentation for all papers to attract participants to the posters. IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission Deadline: 4th March, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 1st April, 2024 • Camera-ready Deadline: 8th April, 2024 • Author Registration Deadline: 8th April, 2024 FORUM CHAIRS • Shareeful Islam, Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom • Arnon Sturm, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel FORUM COMMITTEE • Steven Alter, University of San Francisco • Abel Armas Cervantes, The University of Melbourne • Giuseppe Berio, Université de Bretagne Sud and IRISA UMR 6074 • Drazen Brdjanin, University of Banja Luka • Corentin Burnay, University of Namur • Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano • Suphamit Chittayasothorn, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang • Maya Daneva, University of Twente • Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster • Johannes De Smedt, KU Leuven • Marne de Vries, University of Pretoria • Michael Fellmann, University of Rostock • Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology • Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg • Janis Grabis, Riga Technical University • Sergio Guerreiro, INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico • Martin Henkel, Stockholm University • Jennifer Horkoff, Chalmers University of Technology • Shareeful Islam, Anglia Ruskin University • Janis Kampars, RTU • Evangelia Kavakli, University of the Aegean • Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University • Janne J. Korhonen, Aalto University • Elena Kornyshova, CNAM • Agnes Koschmider, University of Bayreuth • Chung Lawrence, University of Texas at Dallas • Henrik Leopold, Kühne Logistics University • Tong Li, Beijing University of Technology • Beatriz Marín, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia • Andrea Marrella, Sapienza University of Rome • Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu • Jose Ignacio Panach Navarrete, Universitat de València • Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia • Francisca Pérez, Universidad San Jorge • Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano • Manuel Resinas, University of Seville • Genaina Rodrigues, University of Brasilia • Ben Roelens , Open Universiteit, Ghent University • Mattia Salnitri, Politecnico di Milano • Stefan Strecker, University of Hagen • Arnon Sturm, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev • Irene Vanderfeesten, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Yves Wautelet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Hans Weigand, Tilburg University • Manuel Wimmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz • Anna Zamansky, University of Haifa

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One-year research assistant position at the University of Bologna - Digital Twin and Sustainability

by Catia Prandi

Dear Colleagues, Applications are invited for a one-year research assistant position (assegno di ricerca) at the University of Bologna (Italy), within the Computer Science and Engineering department. This position is funded by the Emilia-Romagna region, as part of the “PR FESR 21-27 Azione 1.1.2 – Bando per progetti di ricerca industriale strategica rivolti agli ambiti prioritari della Strategia di Specializzazione Intelligente” programme. The research position will delve into various topics within the Human-Computer Interaction field, including citizen science, gamification and game thinking, and data visualization. The focus will be on the context of “Digital Twin and Sustainability”. The proof of concept will be deployed in the natural park along the Po Delta in Emilia Romagna (“Parco del Delta del Po”, Emilia Romagna). The ideal applicant should have an MSc in Computer Science or related areas (a PhD degree is not mandatory), with a solid background in Human-computer interaction, and mobile and web programming. Application Deadline: 18th March 2024 For application instructions, please visit: https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/assegni-ricerca?id_bando=67439 If you know of suitable candidates who may be a good fit for this position, kindly share this call with them. Please feel free to contact me (catia.prandi2(a)unibo.it) for any further information. Best, Catia _________________________________________ Catia Prandi, PhD. Senior Assistant professor (RTD B), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2024): Last Call for Tutorial Proposals

by Announce

*** Last Call for Tutorial Proposals *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 28th February, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE'24 invites proposals for tutorials on advanced topics in the field of Information Systems Engineering. Tutorials should aim at offering new insights, knowledge, and skills to professionals, educators, researchers, and students seeking to gain a better understanding either about methods of broad interest in the field, or emergent paradigms that are ripe for practical adoption or that require further research to reach maturity. Proposals emphasizing the special theme of the CAISE'24 conference “Information Systems in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” are encouraged, but proposals on other new or long-standing topics in information systems engineering are also welcome. Tutorials should be focused on principles, concepts, and methods. Commercial or sales-oriented presentations are not allowed and will not be accepted. Tutorials are intended to provide a pedagogic introduction to or overview of a topic of relevance. Potential presenters should keep in mind that there may be a heterogeneous audience, including novice graduate students, experienced practitioners, and specialized researchers. Tutorial speakers should be prepared to cope with this diversity in the audience. Tutorials will be 90 minutes long and organized in parallel with the technical sessions of the main conference and participants of the conference will have free access to all of them. Potential proposers are free to contact the tutorial chairs via e-mail to validate their idea prior to the submission. SELECTION CRITERIA The tutorial chairs will review each proposal and select a subset of them based on the following criteria: 1. relevance to the field of IS engineering; 2. anticipated appeal to the conference audience; 3. timeliness and importance for the conference audience; 4. past experience and qualifications of the instructor(s). The tutorial chairs will also consider the complementarity of the proposal w.r.t. the conference program and other tutorial proposals. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Tutorial proposals should be submitted to Easy Chair using the conference submission site (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024) and then selecting the “CAiSE 2024 Tutorials” track. The proposal (length up to 1500 words) should cover the following points: • Title • Presenters and affiliation • Goal: The overall goal of the tutorial. • Scope: Intended audience, level (basic or advanced), and prerequisites. • Topic relevance and novelty: Specifically indicate the relevance to the scope of CAiSE, the relevance to practice, the novel aspects that would make this tutorial beneficiary and appealing to CAiSE participants. • Structure of contents: Here you should provide a structured overview of your planned tutorial, organized into numbered sections and subsections. For each subsection, you should sketch its contents in a few sentences or bullet points. • References: Provide references to papers, books, etc. that your tutorial builds on. Please specify previous venues at which similar tutorials have been presented by you and indicate the difference between the proposed tutorial and previous ones. CAiSE usually does not accept tutorials that have been presented in other venues. • Sample Slides: Include at least 5 sample slides of the presentation you plan to give if your tutorial is accepted. Select slides that are typical of your presentation style. These slides have to be submitted in a separate PDF file. Services provided to tutorialists • A 2-page tutorial abstract will be published in the CAiSE LNCS proceedings • Tutorials will benefit from the local organizational infrastructure (registration, badges, refreshments, beamers, screens, etc.). • Advertisement of the tutorial on CAISE 2024 homepage and mailings. • The conference fee will be waived for tutorial presenters (one fee per tutorial). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of Tutorial Proposals: 28th February, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 15th March, 2024 • Camera-ready Abstracts: 5th April, 2024 • Tutorial Presenters Registration Deadline: 8th April, 2024 TUTORIAL CHAIRS • Adela del Rio Ortega, University of Seville, Spain (adeladelrio(a)us.es) • Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, The Netherlands (t.princesales(a)utwente.nl) Other Committee Members https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/committees/

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[CFP] NLDB 2024 - The 29th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems - Submissions Open [CFP]

by Federico Torrielli

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://nldb2024.di.unito.it/submissions/ =============== *SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN* AT https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2024 =============== NLDB 2024 The 29th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems 25-27 June 2024, University of Turin, Italy. Website: https://nldb2024.di.unito.it/ Submission deadline: 22 March, 2024 About NLDB The 29th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems will be held at the University of Turin, Italy, and will be a face to face event. Since 1995, the NLDB conference brings together researchers, industry practitioners, and potential users interested in various applications of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The term "Information Systems" has to be considered in the broader sense of Information and Communication Systems, including Big Data, Linked Data and Social Networks. The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has itself recently experienced several exciting developments. In research, these developments have been reflected in the emergence of Large Language Models and the importance of aspects such as transparency, bias and fairness, Large Multimodal Models and the connection of the NLP field with Computer Vision, chatbots and dialogue-based pipelines. Regarding applications, NLP systems have evolved to the point that they now offer real-life, tangible benefits to enterprises. Many of these NLP systems are now considered a de-facto offering in business intelligence suites, such as algorithms for recommender systems and opinion mining/sentiment analysis. Language models developed by the open-source community have become widespread and commonly used. Businesses are now readily adopting these technologies, thanks to the efforts of the open-source community. For example, fine-tuning a language model on a company’s own dataset is now easy and convenient, using modules created by thousands of academic researchers and industry experts. It is against this backdrop of recent innovations in NLP and its applications in information systems that the 29th edition of the NLDB conference takes place. We welcome research and industrial contributions, describing novel, previously unpublished works on NLP and its applications across a plethora of topics as described in the Call for Papers. Call for Papers: NLDB 2024 invites authors to submit papers on unpublished research that addresses theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP, as well as survey and discussion papers. This year's edition of NLDB continues with the Industry Track to foster fruitful interaction between the industry and the research community. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Large Language Models: training, applications, transfer learning, interpretability of large language models. * Multimodal Models: Integration of text with other modalities like images, video, and audio; multimodal representation learning; applications of multimodal models. * AI Safety and ethics: Safe and ethical use of Generative AI and NLP; avoiding and mitigating biases in NLP models and systems; explainability and transparency in AI. * Natural Language Interfaces and Interaction: design and implementation of Natural Language Interfaces, user studies with human participants on Conversational User Interfaces, chatbots and LLM-based chatbots and their interaction with users. * Social Media and Web Analytics: Opinion mining/sentiment analysis, irony/sarcasm detection; detection of fake reviews and deceptive language; detection of harmful information: fake news and hate speech; sexism and misogyny; detection of mental health disorders; identification of stereotypes and social biases; robust NLP methods for sparse, ill-formed texts; recommendation systems. * Deep Learning and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Deep learning architectures, word embeddings, transparency, interpretability, fairness, debiasing, ethics. * Argumentation Mining and Applications: Automatic detection of argumentation components and relationships; creation of resource (e.g. annotated corpora, treebanks and parsers); Integration of NLP techniques with formal, abstract argumentation structures; Argumentation Mining from legal texts and scientific articles. * Question Answering (QA): Natural language interfaces to databases, QA using web data, multi-lingual QA, non-factoid QA(how/why/opinion questions, lists), geographical QA, QA corpora and training sets, QA over linked data (QALD). * Corpus Analysis: multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-modal corpora; machine translation, text analysis, text classification and clustering; language identification; plagiarism detection; information extraction: named entity, extraction of events, terms and semantic relationships. * Semantic Web, Open Linked Data, and Ontologies: Ontology learning and alignment, ontology population, ontology evaluation, querying ontologies and linked data, semantic tagging and classification, ontology-driven NLP, ontology-driven systems integration. * Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling: Analysis of natural language descriptions, NLP in requirement engineering, terminological ontologies, consistency checking, metadata creation and harvesting. * Natural Language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive computing, embedded, robotic and mobile applications; conversational agents; NLP techniques for Internet of Things (IoT); NLP techniques for ambient intelligence * Big Data and Business Intelligence: Identity detection, semantic data cleaning, summarisation, reporting, and data to text. Important Dates: Full paper submission: 22 March, 2024 Paper notification: 19 April, 2024 Camera-ready deadline: 26 April, 2024 Conference: 25-27 June 2024 Submission Guidelines: Authors should follow the LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) and submit their manuscripts in pdf via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2024) Papers can be submitted to either the main conference or the industry track. Submissions can be full papers (up to 15 pages including references and appendices), short papers (up to 11 pages including references and appendices) or papers for a poster presentation or system demonstration (6 pages including references). The program committee may decide to accept some full papers as short papers or poster papers. All questions about submissions should be emailed to federico.torrielli(a)unito.it (Web & Publicity Chair) General Chairs: Luigi Di Caro, University of Turin Farid Meziane, University of Derby Amon Rapp, University of Turin Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University

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Reminder: AVI 2024 - Call for Posters and Demos

by Fabiana Vernero

** **** Apologies for cross-posting *** This is just a gentle reminder that there is still time to contribute to AVI 2024 with a poster or demo submission (deadline: Friday, March 8, 2024 - 23:59, AoE). You can find more details in the call below. **** * CfP AVI 2024 Advanced Visual Interfaces - Call for Posters and Demos ACM in-cooperation Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces ================================================= 3-7 June 2024 Genoa, Italy https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it <https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/> ================================================= IMPORTANT DATES Posters and Demo papers: * Friday, March 8, 2024 (23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) Since 1992, AVI has been a biennial appointment for a vast international community of experts with a broad range of backgrounds. Throughout three decades, the Conference has attracted leading researchers of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from all over the world, offering a forum to present and disseminate new technological results, paradigms, and visions for HCI and user interfaces. Because of advanced technology and new possibilities for user interaction, AVI has broadened the topics it covers, still keeping its primary focus on the conception, design, implementation, and evaluation of novel visual interfaces. AVI 2024 is under the patronage of University of Genoa, Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, Italy and is held in-cooperation with ACM, SIGCHI, SIGMM, SIGWEB. Ilaria Torre (AVI 2024 Program Chair) AVI 2024 General Chairs .Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa For information or requests, please contact avi2024(a)easychair.org <mailto:avi2024@easychair.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces and Interaction Computer Supported Cooperative Work Embodied Conversational Interfaces Full-body Interaction and Nonverbal Behavior Human-AI Interaction Information Visualization Intelligent Interfaces Engineering of Visual Interfaces and Interaction Interaction Design Tools Building Interactions: Hardware, Materials, and Fabrication Interaction for the environment and environmental awareness Interface Metaphors Interfaces for Automotive Interfaces for Big Data Interfaces for e-Commerce and e-Branding Interfaces for e-Culture and e-Tourism Interfaces for End-User Development Interfaces for entertainment Interfaces for Recommender Systems Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation Interfaces and Interactions for Persuasion and Behaviour Change Interfaces and Interactions for Inclusion, Accessibility and Aging Interfaces and interactions for usable security Interfaces for Children Interfaces for well-being and flourishing Interfaces for Learning, Education, and Families Mobile Interaction Motion-based Interaction Multimodal Interfaces (Multi)Sensory Interfaces (Multi)Touch Interaction Search Interfaces Shape-Changing Devices Sonification User Interfaces for the Internet of Things Usability and Accessibility Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics Technical demonstrations developed in context of artistic/cultural activities (e.g., elements of museum exhibits or dance performances) POSTER PAPERS The AVI 2024 Poster Track provides researchers and practitioners with the opportunity of presenting contributions which are work-in-progressand obtaining precious feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Poster submissions must be up to 2 pages (with one additional page for references), not anonymized. DEMO PAPERS The demo track is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive visual interfaces. We are looking for implementations of novel and exciting concepts or systems related to the main topics of AVI. We are especially keen to welcome innovative demonstrations from industry and startups that are closely aligned with the conference core themes. We encourage the emergent innovators interested to demonstrate their solutions even at an early stage of development to submit the papers to this call. Demo papers must be up to 2 pages (with one additional page for references), not anonymized. Demo submissions need to be complemented by a document that describes technical requirements (the template can be downloaded from the website <https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/calls/posters-demos>). Please notice that: * The committee reserves the right to reject proposals whose hardware and/or space requirements cannot be met by organizers (if you have any doubt please contact the demo chairs <mailto:avi2024demos@easychair.org>before submitting the paper). The organizers cannot provide any specific equipment (e.g., sound or lighting systems). * In no case does a demonstration involve any remuneration from conference organizers. SUBMISSION FORMAT All the papers mentioned above, i.e., posters and demos, require online submission. Authors must format submissions according to the ACM SIGCONF template. Please find the templates below: * Latex for Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machiner… <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machiner…> * Word Template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> Papers must be submitted online on EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024> PROCEEDINGS Since 1994, accepted long and short research papers are included in the Proceedings published by ACM Press and available in the ACM Digital Library. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register to AVI 2024 by the early registration deadline for authors, pay the registration fee and present the paper at the Conference. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2024 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa Program Chair Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa Long Papers Chairs Giuseppe Desolda, University of Bari Michail Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Short Papers Chairs Elisabetta Bevacqua, National Engineering School of Brest Maurizio Mancini, Sapienza University of Rome Workshop & Tutorial Chairs Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Poster Chairs Masood Masoodian, Aalto University Giovanna Varni, University of Trento Demo Chairs Radoslaw Niewiadomski, University of Genoa Fabiana Vernero, University of Turin Doctoral Consortium Chair Fabio Paternò, CNR ISTI Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno Publicity Chairs Beatrice Biancardi, LINEACT CESI Federica Delprino, University of Genoa Proceedings Chairs Eleonora Ceccaldi, University of Genoa Cigdem Beyan, University of Trento Web Chair Paola Barra, University of Naples Parthenope AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Paolo Buono University of Bari, Italy Tiziana Catarci Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Maria Francesca Costabile University of Bari, Italy Maristella Matera Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Massimo Mecella Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Kent Norman University of Maryland, USA Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @avi2024conference (https://www.facebook.com/avi2024conference/ <https://www.facebook.com/avi2024conference/>) @avi2024conference (https://www.instagram.com/avi2024conference/ <https://www.instagram.com/avi2024conference/>) @avi2024conf (https://twitter.com/avi2024conf <https://twitter.com/avi2024conf>) @avi2024conferencehttps://www.linkedin.com/company/avi2024conference/ <https://www.linkedin.com/company/avi2024conference/>) *

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[Call for Paper] Workshop Robots for Humans (R4H) @AVI 2024

by Marco Manca

* Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested, thanks * ############################################################# CALL FOR PAPERS 1st International Workshop Robots for Humans (R4H) Co-located within the 17th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI2024) Arenzano (Genoa), Italy June 3rd or 4th 2024 Workshop website: https://r4h-workshop.github.io/ ############################################################# AIMS AND SCOPE The "Robots for Humans" (R4H) workshop bridges the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) communities. With this workshop, we want to bring together these communities by highlighting the commonalities of the two, stressing their differences, and encouraging the contamination of their methods and results. We aim to do so by recognising that human beings can be the bridge between these two communities and the main objective for a human-centred design approach. With these reflections in mind, our workshop invites HCI and HRI researchers to develop proposals for theoretical, technical and design ideas that highlight thoughts on empowerment and the new challenges posed by the design of robots. We ask researchers to propose both perspectives: the utopian, which imagines ideal scenarios, and the dystopian, which explores potential challenges, reflecting on the role of artefact design and interaction in shaping these visions. Join us to explore the intricate bond between humans and robots for thoughtful HRI advancements. ############################################################# TOPICS Topics included in the workshop, but not limited to, are the following: HCI theories and methods and novel approaches applied to HRI, Cognitive Architectures for HRI. Concept papers on the role of technology and robots in empowering or challenging human well-being. Empirical studies for human empowerment with technology (e.g., SAR, Health care, educational context). Participatory design approaches for HRI applications (e.g., user-centred design for computer and robotic applications, human-centred, and interaction-based design) Research methods and challenges for different contexts (e.g., assistive and education) in the HRI field. Interaction with virtual or physical embodied agents, human factors and human-in-the-loop in HRI, group dynamics in HRI. Design relationship between humans and robots (multi-modal communication, robot personalities, gender robotics, empathy). Diversity, power dynamics, gender, racism, social stereotypes and vulnerable targets of users in HRI. Trust, acceptance and explainability in HRI; personalisation and end-user development of robot applications. Ethical issues (e.g. privacy, misuse and abusive interactions), social risks and fairness in HRI. ############################################################# ORGANISATION AND DURATION We plan to conduct a half-day workshop including the following activities: Welcome and opening (10 min.). Keynote speaker: Dr Giulia Perugia (confirmed) (30 min.) and Q&A (10 min.). Papers/Poster presentations (1.15 min.). Coffee Break (15 min). Focus groups (60 min.) moderated by Dr Carlo Mazzola. Closing remarks (15 min.). The workshop is planned to be in-person. Participants will propose discussion topics for a focus group session in the workshop's second part. Led by moderators, subgroups will facilitate idea exchange in designing HRI applications. Participants will then identify the most significant topics for the workshop at the session's conclusion. AVI workshops are scheduled for either the 3rd or 4th of June, 2024. Please check back the workshop website soon for the exact dates and scheduling information. ############################################################# SUBMISSION AND EVALUATION CRITERIA Workshop participants are invited to submit a position papers (max 6 pages excluding references) The accepted papers will be published in the workshop’s proceedings on CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/), indexed by Scopus. All submissions should be submitted by mail to r4hworkshop(a)gmail.com in PDF format using the “CEUR Template”: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is also available at: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt All submissions will be subjected to a thorough peer-review process, focusing on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. The workshop will use a double-blind review process, with three members of the program committee reviewing each submitted paper. Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the workshop. Selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of a relevant human-robot interaction journal. ############################################################# IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: 27 March Notification of Acceptance: 23 April Camera Ready: 03 May 2024 Registration deadline: 10 May 2024 ############################################################# WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Francesca Cocchella, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy) Omar Eldardeer, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy) Marco Manca, Institute of Information Science and Technologies "Alessandro Faedo" (ISTI) - National Research Council of Italy (CNR) (Italy) Marco Matarese, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy) Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bolzano (Italy) Eleonora Zedda, Institute of Information Science and Technologies "Alessandro Faedo" (ISTI) - National Research Council of Italy (CNR) (Italy) -- facebook <https://www.facebook.com/CNRsocialFB> twitter <https://twitter.com/CNRsocial_> instagram <https://www.instagram.com/cnrsocial/> linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/283032> Marco Manca CNR, ISTITUTO DI SCIENZA E TECNOLOGIE DELL'INFORMAZIONE HIIS-Lab - https://hiis.isti.cnr.it Tel. 0503153127 marco.manca(a)isti.cnr.it Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1, 56124 – Pisa *www.cnr.it* <http://www.cnr.it/> Devolvi il 5×1000 al CNR CF 80054330586 -- Questa email è stata esaminata alla ricerca di virus dal software antivirus AVG. www.avg.com

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