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

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/ =============== 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 Modelsand 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 We welcome research and industrial contributions, describing novel, previously unpublished works on NLP and its applications across a plethora of topics as described in the Call for Papers.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 (submission will open on 1 February, 2024) 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 programme 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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[CfP] AVI 2024 workshop 'Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems (DIGI-Teens 2024)'

by Tommaso Calo'

Call for Papers – Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems (DIGI-Teens 2024) AVI 2024 Workshop June 3-4 2024 – Arenzano (Genova), Italy More info: https://sites.google.com/view/digi-teens --- ABOUT THE WORKSHOP Recently, researchers have been examining the unforeseen issues caused by the excessive use of personal devices and online services, especially as companies increasingly employ "attention-capture" tactics like guilty-pleasure recommendations and automatic content playback. These strategies exploit users' psychological vulnerabilities, aiming to boost advertising revenue, resulting in tangible repercussions on users' perceived agency and often leading to a perceived lack of control over their technology use. These problems gave rise to a new kind of psychological "digital wellbeing," investigated in fields such as Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and psychology. Traditional strategies employed by practitioners and researchers involve the creation of Digital Self-Control Tools (DSCTs), i.e., mobile applications and browser extensions that empower users to monitor their usage patterns and implement interventions, such as timers and lock-out mechanisms, to self-regulate device usage. Yet, researchers and the users themselves are starting to warn that achieving digital wellbeing is a path of personal growth that requires education more than self-monitoring strategies. The objective of this workshop is to establish a venue for the academic and industrial communities to discuss ongoing research and ideas at the intersection of digital wellbeing and education, aiming to promote the development of strategies and tools to "teach" users – particularly children and teenagers – to use technology more meaningfully and consciously. This objective can be achieved in multiple ways, such as by creating novel DSCTs that include educational aspects, serious games, or collaborative platforms to introduce and support digital wellbeing learning at school. This workshop is part of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2024). CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We invite researchers and practitioners in interdisciplinary domains intersecting HCI, AI, psychology, design, and/or education to engage in dialog on the topics above. A key priority of our workshop will be to invite submissions from an intellectually diverse and global group of participants to further discussions on how appropriate human-centered design can contribute to digital wellbeing education. Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a position paper (2-4 pages) describing and highlighting their contributions to the workshop topics. The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - participatory and co-design of digital wellbeing systems; - tools and strategies to teach digital wellbeing at school; - strategies and tools for measuring students’ digital wellbeing; - novel DSCTs that include educational aspects; - gamification strategies for digital wellbeing; - ethical, social, and political factors. WORKSHOP STRUCTURE This half-day workshop will be interactive and informal. It will combine presentations of accepted position papers with discussions and hands-on sessions, aimed at generating ideas for future research directions. The workshop is planned to be in-person, at the conference. Virtual participation will be made possible. 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. SUBMISSIONS Submissions of position papers should be of 2-4 pages, in the ACM Primary Article Submission Templates (single column, https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). PDFs of submissions can be emailed to Alberto Monge Roffarello (one of the organizers) at alberto.monge(a)polito.it. They will be reviewed by all organizers based on relevance, originality, and overall quality. Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the workshop. Virtual participation will be made possible. All workshop participants will need to register for the workshop. Accepted and presented papers will be made available on CEUR Workshop Proceedings, if possible, while workshop results will be published on our website. Notifications will be mailed to the authors within 15 days of receipt (and no later than the date reported below). IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 31 March 2024 Notification: 19 April 2024 Camera-ready: 05 May 2024 Registration due: 10 May 2024 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Alberto Monge Roffarello, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Chiara Ceccarini, Università di Bologna, Italy Catia Prandi, Università di Bologna, Italy

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ACM UMAP 2024 - Final Call for Full and Short Papers

by Wanling Cai

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-full-and-short-papers/ =============== ACM UMAP 2024: The 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy July 1-4, 2024 ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI<https://sigchi.org/> and SIGWEB<https://www.sigweb.org/>. User Modeling Inc.<https://um.org/>, as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library<https://dl.acm.org/>. The theme of UMAP 2024 is “Collaboration and Cooperation for the Greater Good“. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that working together and synergy (such as between academia, industry, influential policy making bodies, committees and communities) can have on solving the world’s biggest problems; the focus is on investigations that capture how user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems may influence user behavior, trustful processes and whether new models are required, for building sustainable and inclusive services and solutions that can address critical challenges of our world. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. As always, contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). Important Dates - Paper Abstract Submission: January 22, 2024 (mandatory) - Paper Submission: January 29, 2024 - Notification: March 28, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: May 9, 2024 - Conference: July 1 – 4, 2024 The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth). Conference Topics We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems targeting a broad range of users and domains. Detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track will be available shortly in the extended version of the CFP on this page. ** Personalized Recommender Systems ** This track invites works from researchers and practitioners on recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects of recommendations, we welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception, decision-making, and the business value of recommender systems. ** Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web ** This track welcomes works focused on the use of knowledge representations (i.e., novel knowledge bases), graph algorithms (i.e., graph embedding techniques), and social network analysis at the service of addressing all aspects of personalization, user model building, and personal experience in online social systems. Moreover, this track invites works in adaptive hypermedia, as well as semantic and social web. ** Intelligent User Interfaces ** This track invites works exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, leveraging solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. ** Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling ** This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. ** Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy ** Researchers, developers, and practitioners have a social responsibility to account for the impact that technologies have on individuals (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and society. This track invites works related to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, beneficial to society, and accountable for their impacts. ** Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems ** This track invites submissions focused on personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design, and evaluation methods. It also welcomes work that brings attention to the user experience and designing personalized and adaptive behavior change technologies. ** Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-Robot Interaction ** This track invites works investigating new models and techniques for adapting synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to individual users. With the conversational modality so in vogue across disciplines, this track welcomes work highlighting the model and deployment of synthetic companions driven by conversational search and recommendation paradigms. ** Research Methods and Reproducibility** This track invites submissions on methodologies to evaluate personalized systems, benchmarks, and measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and techniques. Furthermore, the track looks for submissions that report new insights from reproducing existing works. ** Submission and Review Process** For UMAP 2024 we encourage two kinds of submissions (reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for each contribution), in the ACM new single-column format<https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>: * Long papers should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. The maximum length is 14 pages (excluding references, which do not count towards the limit). Each accepted long paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented in a plenary session as part of the main conference program. * Short papers typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. In particular, novel but significant proposals will be considered for acceptance to this category despite not having gone through sufficient experimental validation or lacking strong theoretical foundation. The maximum length is 7 pages (excluding references, which do not count towards the limit). Each accepted short paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented either as an oral presentation or at the poster session. UMAP uses a double-blind review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions; they should also avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors’ prior work should be in the third person. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. In addition, UMAP 2024 will introduce a new “Raise Your Voice” stage during evaluation, offering a small window to authors to optionally discuss the initial decision of their submission, enhancing the transparency and quality of the reviewing process. Additional review criteria and submission link will be available shortly on the conference website: https://www.um.org/umap2024. UMAP has a no dual submission policy, which is why full and short paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduc<https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment>t. Grants and Support To help students and early career researchers attend ACM UMAP 2024, we are able to provide several grants for participants at ACM UMAP 2024. * Category 1: Discounted Registration Rates * Category 2: Gary Marsden Travel Awards (GMTA) * Category 3: ACM UMAP 2024 Grants More information can be found in https://www.um.org/umap2024/grants-and-support/. Please refer to the website information, to learn the eligibility and application process for each category. Program Chairs * Panagiotis Germanakos, SAP SE, Germany * Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania Contact information: umap2024-program(a)um.org<mailto:umap2024-program@um.org>

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[TEI 2024] Early bird registration deadline: EXTENDED to January 28th, 2024

by Eleonora Mencarini

*Apologies for cross-posting* Dear all, The deadline for early bird registration at TEI 2024 has been extended to January 28th, 2024. To know more about the various registration fees, please visit the dedicated page on our website: https://tei.acm.org/2024/index.php/registration-2/ Best regards, TEI 2024 Publicity & Social Media Chairs, Eleonora Mencarini, Bruno Kessler Foundation Caroline Claisse, Newcastle University

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Last Reminder: abstract submission by 17 January to AVI 2024 - International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

by Maurizio Mancini

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 Long and short papers: - Abstract submission: Wednesday, January 17 2024 - Paper submission: Wednesday, January 24 2024 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: 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. Thanks to advances in 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. While rooted in Italy, AVI is an actual international conference concerning the nationality of participants, authors of papers, and program committee members. The mixture of carefully selected research contributions paired with cordial Italian hospitality creates a unique conference atmosphere, which has made AVI an internationally recognized brand. 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. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2024! 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(a)easychair.org> ----------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Visual Interfaces Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conversational Interfaces Full-body Interaction Human-AI Interaction Visual Interfaces for Human-Centered AI Systems Information Visualization Intelligent Interfaces Creative AI for advanced visual interfaces Engineering of Visual Interfaces and Interaction Interaction Design Tools Generative AI for the design and development of visual interfaces 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 i-TV Interfaces for Recommender Systems Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation Interfaces and Interactions for Inclusion, Accessibility and Aging Interfaces for Children Learning, Education, and Families Mobile Interaction Motion-based Interaction Multimodal Interfaces (Multi)Sensory Interfaces (Multi)Touch Interaction Search Interfaces Shape-Changing Devices User Interfaces for the Internet of Things Usability and Accessibility Usability and (Cyber)Security Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS We solicit high-quality original research papers in the area of advanced visual interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction in general. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel of experts. Long and Short papers are publications that address AVI 2024 topics and describe original, unpublished research. Submissions must be anonymized. The maximum length of long papers is 8 pages (with one additional page for references). The maximum length of short papers is 4 pages (with one additional page for references). SUBMISSION FORMAT All the papers 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… - Word Template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Long and short papers must be anonymized, removing information (such as authorship, acknowledgments, name of an application, or software, or project) that can suggest the authors' identity. Citation to authors' previous work should not be anonymous and should be in third person in the text, e.g., "As described by [10]" and not "As described in our previous work [10]". Papers must be submitted online on EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 Authors are required to send a 250-word abstract by the abstract deadline, one week before final submission, to speed up the paper assignment to reviewers. 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 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/) @avi2024conference (https://www.instagram.com/avi2024conference/) @avi2024conf (https://twitter.com/avi2024conf) @avi2024conference https://www.linkedin.com/company/avi2024conference/

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[CFP] Pattern Recognition Letters, Special Issue on Synthetic Images to Support Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems

by Andrea Loddo

Dear colleagues, please find enclosed the call for papers for our Special Issue Kind regards Guest Editors [apologies for multiple postings] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Synthetic Images to Support Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/pattern-recognition-letters/about/cal… <https://eu-central-1.protection.sophos.com/?d=sciencedirect.com&u=aHR0cHM6L…> DESCRIPTION OF THE ISSUE Today's health systems collect and deliver most medical data in digital format, mainly thanks to the scientific and technological advances that have led to digitization and increased generation and collection of data describing real-world applications or processes. The availability of medical data enables a large number of artificial intelligence applications, and there is growing interest in quantitative analysis of clinical images, such as Positron Emission Tomography, Computerized Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In addition, machine and deep learning models and data-driven artificial intelligence applications have proven to improve the management and decision-making to improve the discovery of new therapeutic tools, support diagnostic decisions, aid in the rehabilitation process, etc. Despite the potential of data-driven solutions, many problems prevent or delay the development of such solutions. For example, the increasing amount of available data can lead to increased effort to make a diagnosis and is even more challenging due to high inter/intra patient variability, the availability of different imaging techniques, the absence of completely standard acquisition procedures, and the need to consider data from multiple sensors and sources. Additional relevant issues are data access and the representativeness of the captured sample compared to the actual population. Access to real data may be delayed or even prevented for various reasons, such as privacy, security, and intellectual property, or the development of the necessary (quality) acquisition and preparation technology. Sample representativeness is another critical issue involving class imbalance and the representation of rare and extreme events, which is crucial for the performance of artificial intelligence models. For these reasons, researchers have recently explored the use of synthetic data (SD) with three different use cases regarding (i) data augmentation to balance data sets or supplement available data before training a model, (ii) privacy preservation to enable secure and private sharing of sensitive data; and (iii) simulation: to estimate and teach systems in situations that have not been observed in actual reality. The main goals of this special issue are to bring together diverse, new, and impactful research on synthetic data generation for biomedical imaging with a powerful impact on Computer-Aided Diagnosis systems for real-world clinical applications. TOPICS Topics of interest to this special issue include, but are not limited to: - Synthetic Images for Privacy-Preserving Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems - Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems Training with Synthetic Images - Synthetic Images for Benchmarking Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems - Medical Image Translation - Text-guided Medical Image Generation - Multimodal Medical Image Generation - Synthetic Images for Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems Domain Adaptation - Synthetic Images for Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems Domain Generalisation SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The PRL's submission system (Editorial Manager®) will be open for submissions to our Special Issue from July 1st, 2024. When submitting your manuscript please select the article type VSI: SISCAD. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal can be found on the Journal Homepage: Guide for authors - Pattern Recognition Letters - ISSN 0167-8655 | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission Period: *1-31 July 2024* - Acceptance Deadline: *9 December 2024* GUEST EDITORS Andrea Loddo, University of Cagliari (Italy) Lorenzo Putzu, University of Cagliari (Italy) Cecilia Di Ruberto, University of Cagliari (Italy) Carsten Marr, Helmholtz Center Munich German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg (Germany) Albert Comelli, Ri.MED Foundation (Italy) Alessandro Stefano, Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council of Cefalu’ (Italy) ___________ Andrea Loddo PhD | Dept. Of Mathematics and Computer Science | University of Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, Cagliari, Italy Office: +39 070 675 8503 *And after all we're only ordinary men*

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CAiSE'24: First Call for Journal First Submissions

by Announce

*** First Call for Journal First Submissions *** 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: 31st March, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE 2024 is organising journal-first sessions as part of the scientific program. The aim of these sessions is to disseminate recent important research contributions and spark discussions between authors and researchers in the CAiSE community. Authors of selected journal articles on CAiSE-related topics will be invited to present their work at the conference. SCOPE For the journal-first sessions, we solicit submissions related to articles that have been accepted for publication by a reputable journal and that meet the following criteria: • The article relates to the topics of the CAiSE conference and the recent call for papers. • The article is an original submission to the journal and not an extension of an earlier conference or workshop paper. • The article is an original research article; review articles or commentaries will not be considered. • The article was accepted for publication by a journal on or after 1 January 2023, the acceptance must have been publicly announced, the article must be available at the publisher’s website (e.g., as "articles in advance" or published on a journal’s website), and the article must be written in English. • The article has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, journal-first tracks of other conferences. FORMAT Accepted submissions will be presented as part of the CAiSE 2024 scientific programme. SUBMISION Submissions must be done electronically via Easychair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=caise2024) and include: • Title and author information of the article. • The original abstract and keywords. • DOI of the original publication or, alternatively, a link to the publication at the journal’s website. EVALUATION All submissions will be reviewed by the track chairs with the aim to accept all qualifying submissions subject to ability to accommodate them in the program. If needed, priority will be given to submissions according to their topical fit with the scope of the conference, the importance of the contribution, as well as the standing of the respective journal (including, but not limited to, the journal's impact factor and ranking results). ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTATION At least one author of each submission accepted for the journal-first track must register and attend the conference to present the work. The author needs a full registration to present the journal article. As the articles of the journal-first track have been published already, they will not be part of the CAiSE 2024 proceedings. The articles will be listed in the conference program and CAiSE 2024 participants will have access to the respective abstracts and a pointer to the original journal article. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission: 31st March, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 14th April, 2024 • Author Registration: 17th May, 2024 • Conference Dates: 3rd-7th June, 2024 JOURNAL FIRST CHAIRS • Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy • Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

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[TEI 2024] Conference program now online + early bird registration closing soon: 21st January 2024

by Eleonora Mencarini

*Apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleagues, The TEI2024 conference program is finally online! It can be consulted at https://programs.sigchi.org/tei/2024. Furthermore, we kindly remind you that the early bird registration for TEI 2024 is closing on 21st January 2024 (one week from now). For more information about the various registration fees, please visit the dedicated page on our website: https://tei.acm.org/2024/index.php/registration-2/. Best regards, TEI 2024 Publicity & Social Media Chairs, Eleonora Mencarini, Bruno Kessler Foundation Caroline Claisse, Newcastle University

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IxD&A Journal: Issue N. 58 is now available for free downloading

by mifav＠roma2.infn.it

======================================================== Apologize for unintended cross-mailing ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A [ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 | https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ] established in 2005 SCOPUS and ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index - Web of Science, Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal implements also video presentations of the published contributions. CiteScore 2022: 2.0 (Q1: Design ( /Architecture); Q2: Media Technology, Education; Q3: Human Computer Interaction) To help us to improve the reader/author experience please take part in the survey -> [ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3uZpR6sZoNqhZm4tluJFpc8U_MiIVQhN… | link ] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue N. 58 featuring the first IxD&A "stimulated paper" by Ana Bilandzic, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn on Skunkworks: The design of casual creative environments for social innovation a special issue on: Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces. guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne + Regular papers is now available for free downloading [ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-058 | https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-05 ] [ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-058 | 8 ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IxD&A implements the Gold/Diamond Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: [ https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… | https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IxD&A Journal, issue N. 58 - ToC Stimulated paper Ana Bilandzic, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn Skunkworks: The design of casual creative environments for social innovation pp. 5 – 31 Special issue on: Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces. Preface by Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne p. 33 – 38 Giacomo Nalli, Georgios Dafoulas, Ariadni Tsiakara, Bahareh Langari, Kajal Mistry, Farzad Tahmasebi Aria Hybrid Educational Environments – Using IoT to detect emotion changes during student interactions, pp. 39 – 52 Gökçe Elif Baykal, Olof Torgersson, Peter Ruijten, Eva Eriksson Teaching Design of Technologies for Collaborative Interaction in Physical-Digital Environments, pp. 53 – 71 Muhammad Usman, Aman Usmani, Mojgan Jadidi Re-envisioning Field Surveying as an Immersive Gamification Experience, pp. 72 – 89 Anders Kluge and Marlene Hasle Use of Augmented Reality to Integrate Knowledge, pp. 90 – 109 Brendon Clark and Ylva Fernaeus Playing with the elasticity of hybrid design education, pp. 110 – 131 Dimitrios Papanikolaou Connective Environments: Towards Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Models for Design of Networked, Interactive, Participatory Systems, pp. 132 – 156 Regular papers Ilhan Aslan, Dominik Neu, Daniela Neupert, Stefan Grafberger, Nico Weise, Pascal Pfeil, Maximilian Kuschewski How to Compliment a Human – Designing Affective and Well-being Promoting Conversational Things, pp. 157 – 184 Alessandro Pollini, Marinella Paciello, Giorgia Saleri, Giuseppe Corbelli Interaction Design and Experiment with Conversational Storytelling for Road Safety Culture, pp. 185 – 206 Vanessa Cesário, Mariana Ribeiro, António Coelho Design Recommendations for Improving Immersion in Role-Playing Video Games. A Focus on Storytelling and Localisation, pp. 207 – 225 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To keep updated join the IxD&A groups @: IxD&A Linkedin -> [ https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/ | link ] IxD&A Facebook -> [ https://www.facebook.com/groups/528301461963022 | link ] Enjoy the videos of the "Meeting the Authors" events @: IxD&A Youtube channel -> [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos | link ] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A [ http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1 | Privacy Policy ] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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