Wednesday, June 4, 2025

[DMANET] NCMA 2025 - Call for Informal Presentations

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NCMA 2025 - Call for Informal Presentations

15th International Workshop on Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications

July 21-22, 2025, Loughborough, UK

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/compsci/events/ncma-2025/

NCMA workshop series website: https://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/NCMA/

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Many non-classical models of automata and grammar-like structures are the natural objects of theoretical computer science. They are studied from different points of view in various areas, both as theoretical concepts and as formal models for applications. The aim of the workshops on Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications is to provide an opportunity for researchers who work on different aspects of non-classical models of automata and grammars to exchange and develop novel ideas.

In order to emphasize the workshop character of NCMA 2025, we now invite for informal presentations in addition to full papers.


PRINCIPAL TOPICS

Typical topics for the NCMA workshops include (but are not limited) to:

- Formal models inspired by linguistics, bio-computing, text processing,
document engineering, self-assembly, etc.,
- Bio-inspired models of automata and generative devices,
- Cellular automata,
- Forgetting automata and restarting automata,
- Automata with additional resources,
- Regulated rewriting/automata,
- Networks of automata or generative devices,
- Models of cooperation and communication,
- Quantum automata,
- Automata in the framework of membrane computing,
- Complexity aspects for formal systems.

Other related topics, in particular, contributions dealing with questions on classical automata and generative devices are also welcome.


TALK DETAIL SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to give informal presentations on recent results (unpublished, or published in other venues) or ongoing work.

Submitted descriptions of the presentations, encompassing the title and the abstract of the talk, must not exceed 2 pages (in EPTCS LaTeX-style - available at https://info.eptcs.org/). Submissions should be sent to the email address NCMA2025@lboro.ac.uk with subject "NCMA 2025 - Informal Presentation" and with the talk title and author names in the body of the message.


IMPORTANT DATES

- Informal presentation submission deadline: June 20, 2025 (23:59 AoE)
- Informal presentation notification: June 27, 2025
- Workshop: July 21-22, 2025


VENUE

The 15th edition of NCMA will take place in Loughborough, UK, July 21-22,
2025, co-located with DCFS 2025
(https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/compsci/events/dcfs-2025/). It is
organized and hosted by the Department of Computer Science at Loughborough
University. More information can be found on the website:
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/compsci/events/ncma-2025/.


INVITED SPEAKERS

- Laure Daviaud (Norwich, UK)
- Ian McQuillan (Saskatoon (SK), Canada)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Marcella Anselmo (Salerno, Italy)
- Sabine Broda (Porto, Portugal)
- Cezar Campeanu (Charlottetpwn (PEI), Canada)
- Joel Day (Loughborough, UK)
- Frank Drewes (Umea, Sweden)
- Zsolt Gazdag (Szeged, Hungary)
- Bruno Guillon (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
- Zbyněk Křivka (Brno, Czech Republic)
- Carlo Mereghetti (Milano, Italy)
- Nelma Moreira (Porto, Portugal) (co-chair)
- Frantisek Mraz (Prague, Czechia)
- Benedek Nagy (Famagusta, North Cyprus)
- Luca Prigioniero (Loughborough, UK) (co-chair)
- Juraj Sebej (Kosice, Slovakia)
- Stefan Siemer (Göttingen, Germany)
- Hellis Tamm (Taillin, Estonia)
- Matthias Wendlandt (Gießen, Germany)


CONTACT

e-mail: NCMA2025@lboro.ac.uk
website: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/compsci/events/ncma-2025/


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[DMANET] [BigHPC] Submission deadline extended to June 15th, 2025

*Submission deadline extended to June 15th, 2025*

Following the success of the past editions, BigHPC is back!

When: 9-11 September 2025
Where: Colocated with ITADATA2025 @ Turin, Italy
Website: https://www.itadata.it/2025/bighpc2025

Important dates
Submissions due (extended): June 15th, 2025 June 1st, 2025
Author notification: July 20th, 2025
Camera-ready due: August 3rd, 2025

Topics
Contributions are welcome from academia and industry, presenting research results on all theoretical and practical aspects standing at the intersection of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and big data, as well as focusing on quantum computing paradigms.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
HPC architectures and systems for big data
Parallel and distributed algorithms for big data processing
HPC-enabled data analytics
High-performance data storage and retrieval systems
Performance modeling and evaluation of HPC systems for big data
HPC in machine learning and artificial intelligence
HPC for scientific computing and simulations
HPC in the cloud for big data processing
Energy-efficient and green HPC for big data
Hybrid classical-quantum computing: integration, benchmarking, and HPC-based emulation
Quantum algorithms for machine learning, optimization, and generative models
Quantum natural language processing and AI applications
Compilation, gate synthesis, and error correction in quantum systems
Post-quantum cryptography and security in the quantum era
BigHPC25 accepts two different submission types for review, including:
Original research papers (min 6 pages, max 10 pages). This type of contribution should not have been published elsewhere and should not currently be under consideration for another journal, conference, or workshop. Original research papers will be published in the CEUR proceedings.
Extended abstracts (min 2 pages, max 5 pages). This type of contribution may present work in progress or contributions that have already been published or are in preparation for publication.
Manuscripts must be submitted to the BigHPC track using the ITADATA submission site https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ITADATA2025.

As last year, we are working to provide a journal special issue. Authors of the best original research papers—whether full papers or innovative extended abstracts—will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for evaluation. The details will be announced soon.

The BigHPC25 Chairs
Alessia Antelmi, University of Turin
Massimo Cafaro, Università del Salento
Italo Epicoco, Università del Salento
Marco Pulimeno, Università del Salento

Steering Committee
Patrizio Dazzi (Chair), University of Pisa
Marco Aldinucci, University of Turin
Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples
William Fornaciari, Politecnico di Milano
Marco Lapegna, University of Naples
Raffaele Montella, University of Naples "Parthenope"
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria

Program Committee (Tentative)
Claudio Ardagna, University of Milan
Robert Birke, University of Turin
Antonio Bucchiarone, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Emanuele Carlini, ISTI-CNR
Alessandro Celestini, IAC-CNR
Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna "Alma Mater Studiorum"
Angelo Ciaramella, University of Naples "Parthenope"
Claudio Cicconetti, IIT-CNR
Iacopo Colonnelli, University of Turin
Massimo Coppola, ISTI-CNR
Biagio Cosenza, University of Salerno
Daniele D'Agostino, University of Genova
Pasqua D'Ambra, IAC-CNR
Marco Danelutto, University of Pisa
Daniele De Vinco, University of Salerno
Diana Di Luccio, University of Naples "Parthenope"
Maria Fazio, University of Messina
Sandro Luigi Fiore, University of Trento
Adriano Garcia-Marquez, University of Turin
Roberto Giorgi, University of Siena
Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples "Federico II"
Flavio Lombardi, IAC-CNR
Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR
Doriana Medic, University of Turin
Valeria Mele, University of Naples "Federico II"
Gabriele Mencagli, University of Pisa
Matteo Mordacchini, IIT-CNR
Mirko Polato, University of Turin
Salvatore Orlando, University Cà Foscari of Venezia
Diego Romano, ICAR-CNR
Carmine Spagnuolo, University of Salerno
Massimo Torquati, University of Pisa
Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria
Massimo Villari, University of Messina
Paolo Viviani, LINKS Foundation

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Associate Professor of Parallel Algorithms and Data Mining/Machine Learning

Department of Engineering for Innovation
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Tuesday, June 3, 2025

[DMANET] Nerode Prize 2025: Call for Nominations (Extended Deadline)

The deadline has been extended to Sunday, June 15.


Nerode Prize 2025 -- Call for Nominations
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The EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize for outstanding papers in the area of
multivariate algorithmics is presented annually, with the presentation
taking place at IPEC (International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact
Computation). The Prize is named in honor of Anil Nerode in recognition
of his major contributions to mathematical logic, theory of automata,
computability, and complexity theory.

IPEC 2025 will take place as part of ALGO 2025 on 17–19 September 2025 at
University of Warsaw in Warsaw, Poland.

The prize was awarded for the first time in 2013.

Award Committee
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The winning paper(s) is selected by a committee of three members. This year's
committee consists of:

* Sang-il Oum, chair (IBS, sangil@ibs.re.kr)
* Russell Impagliazzo (UC San Diego, rimpagliazzo@ucsd.edu)
* Michał Pilipczuk (Univ. of Warsaw, mp.pilipczuk@uw.edu.pl)

Extended Deadline for Nominations: Sunday, 15 June, 2025, anywhere on Earth

Decision, expected: 30 June, 2025.

The Award Committee is solely responsible for the selection of the winner
of the award which may be shared by more than one paper or series of papers.
The Award Committee reserves the right to declare no winner at all.

Eligibility
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The Nerode Prize is given to a
research paper or series of research papers by a single author or
by a team of authors published in a recognized refereed journal.
The research work nominated for the award should be in the area of
multivariate algorithms and complexity meant in a broad sense,
which encompasses, but is not restricted to, those areas covered by IPEC.
The Award Committee has the ultimate authority to decide on the eligibility
of a nomination. Papers authored by a member of the Award Committee are not
eligible for nomination.

Note that the past restrictions that required a certain number of years
before/after the publication of the nominated papers have been removed.

Nominations
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Nominations may be made by any member of the scientific community including
the members of the Award Committee. A nomination should contain a brief summary
of the technical content of each nominated paper and a brief explanation of
its significance. Nominations are done by an email to the Award Committee Chair
with copies to the members of the committee. The Subject line of the
nomination e-mail should contain the phrase "Nerode Prize Nomination".
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[DMANET] Call for Papers: TopoInVis Workshop 2025

Submit your abstracts to TopoInVis by June 14, 2025, papers due June 30, 2025.

Contact: topoinvis@ieee.org


IEEE VIS Workshop on Topological Data Analysis and Visualization (TopoInVis 2025)

Co-located with IEEE VIS 2025 - Vienna, Austria, 2-7 November


Call for Contributions

Topological methods have become an established framework for the extraction and analysis of structural patterns in complex data. It has been successfully applied in a variety of application fields, including quantum chemistry, astrophysics, fluid dynamics, combustion, material sciences, biology, and data science. In particular, the genericity, efficiency, and robustness of topological methods have made them particularly well suited for the multi-scale, interactive analysis and visualization of the underlying structural information of data.


Despite their rising mainstream popularity, topological methods still face a number of challenges, including, for instance, efficient computational methods for large-scale time-varying data, the characterization of noise and uncertainty, or the support of emerging data types, such as ensemble data or high-dimensional point clouds.


The IEEE VIS Workshop on Topological Data Analysis and Visualization aims to be an inclusive forum for the fast dissemination of the latest results in theory, algorithms, and applications of topological methods for the interactive and visual analysis of data. This workshop is open to members of the visualization community interested in topological methods and to experts in topological methods from other communities willing to experiment with interactive and visual applications.


The workshop welcomes submissions of both full-length papers and posters. The accepted papers will be presented during the workshop, and the accepted posters will be presented at the main poster event at VIS and give a lightning talk during the workshop.


Scope

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

* Topological methods for the analysis and visualization of all types of data, including but not limited to:
* Graph data
* Scalar, vector, tensor, multi-field data
* Time-series data
* High dimensional point cloud data
* Ensemble data
* Data with uncertainty
* Topological methods for data science (dimensionality reduction, clustering, etc.)
* Topological methods and machine learning
* Computational methods for topological data analysis and visualization
* Software systems for topological data analysis and visualization
* Visual analytic frameworks relying on topological methods
* Applications of topological data analysis and visualization


Submission

We welcome contributions as regular papers in the IEEE VGTC format (up to 9 pages of content, plus up to 2 pages of references).

Paper submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international program committee, including experts in topological methods for scientific data, information visualization, visual analytics, computational geometry, computational topology, and machine learning.

Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.


Poster contributions should adhere to the IEEE VIS Guidelines. While VIS has no specific formatting requirements, posters can be no larger than size A0 (841 x 1189 mm / 33.1 x 46.8 inches) and must be in a portrait orientation. The accepted posters will be presented at the main poster event at VIS.


Important Dates

* June 14, 2025: abstract deadline for full papers

* June 30, 2025: submission deadline for full papers

* July 31, 2025: author notification

* August 31, 2025: submission deadline for posters, lightning talks

* November 2-7, 2025: IEEE VIS

All deadlines are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.


Instructions for submission and further details will appear soon on the workshop website: https://topoinvis.org/


Organizing Committee

Workshop Chairs

* Divya Banesh, Los Alamos National Laboratory
* Federico Iuricich, Clemson University

Paper Chairs

* Tobias Günther, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
* Yue Zhang, Oregon State University

Communications Chair

* Lin Yan, Iowa State University
* Raghavendra Sridharamurthy, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
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[DMANET] STOC TheoryFest 2025 Online Poster Session - Call for Posters

Dear Colleagues,

As part of the STOC 2025 program, *we will be hosting an online poster
session from 18:00-19:00 local time on Monday, June 23, on the platform
Gather.Town*. Our hope is that people who cannot come in person to attend
STOC can still join in the festivities for a while, either as presenters or
participants.

*Anyone with a paper accepted to either STOC 2025 or FOCS 2024 is invited
to present a poster on this work.* Aside from being a single page, static
PDF, there are no restrictions on the poster format. During the session,
presenters will "stand" by their virtual poster and answer questions from
participants. Any author may present at the poster session, whether or not
they are the live speaker and/or are attending STOC in person.

We ask that you register *no later than Thursday, June 12*. Further details
on the poster session and the submission form are on the STOC website here:
https://acm-stoc.org/stoc2025/call-for-posters.html

We warmly welcome *all remote attendees* interested in the poster session,
regardless of whether they have a paper at either of the conferences.
However, the posters will only feature papers from STOC 2025 and FOCS 2024.
A link to the Gather.town arena will be shared on the webpage closer to the
event.

Thanks, and hope to see many of you (both online and in-person) in June!

On behalf of the organisers,
Ian Mertz and Ninad Rajgopal

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[DMANET] Postdoc position on Graph Algorithms at Inria Rennes in France

I am seeking excellent candidates for a postdoctoral position in the
WIDE Distributed Algorithms team at INRIA/IRISA in Rennes, France.
Funding will be provided by Inria project DisEvo: Distributed Algorithms
on Evolving Data, which focuses on the design and analysis of
distributed algorithm for dynamic graph models. The position is
available immediately, and the initial length of the offer is 1.5 years.
Candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or a related
area before the starting date of the position. Knowledge of French is
not required.

Candidate profile:
*   PhD Degree in Computer Science (or a related area).
*   Specialization in Graph Algorithms (online, approximation,
randomized, or distributed algorithms).
*   Demonstrated capacity to conduct research at the international level.

Candidates should submit, via email, a CV, a research statement, and
names/emails of two academic references to George Giakkoupis at
george.giakkoupis@inria.fr

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[DMANET] CFP - 1st International Workshop on Logic, Statistical and Neural AI (LoStaN 2025)

# 1st International Workshop on Logic, Statistical and Neural AI (LoStaN
2025)

Updates here: <https://lostan-workshop.github.io/2025/>

## Workshop at [JELIA 2025](https://viam.science.tsu.ge/jelia2025/)

Organized by:

- [Elena Umili](mailto:umili@diag.uniroma1.it), Sapienza University of
Rome, Italy
- [Federico Sabbatini](mailto:f.sabbatini1@campus.uniurb.it), University of
Urbino, Italy
- [Giovanni Ciatto](mailto:giovanni.ciatto@unibo.it), University of
Bologna, Italy
- [Matteo Magnini](mailto:matteo.magnini@unibo.it), University of Bologna,
Italy
- [Yves Lesperance](lesperan@yorku.ca), York University, Canada

## Aim

The LoStaN workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners
interested in bridging the gap between two traditionally distinct paradigms
in Artificial Intelligence:
**symbolic reasoning** based on **logical knowledge**,
and **data-driven** approaches grounded in **statistics** and (deep)
**machine learning**.

During its history, AI has seen tremendous progress from both ends of this
spectrum.
Symbolic methods offer interpretability, generalizability, and the ability
to incorporate structured domain knowledge,
while neural and statistical techniques excel in learning from vast amounts
of data, dealing with uncertainty,
and scaling to complex tasks.
However, unifying these paradigms remains a grand challenge.
The workshop aims to foster a research community that sees logical
reasoning and statistical learning not as competing paradigms,
but as complementary facets of intelligent behavior, and their integration
not only as a technical challenge but rather as a transformative
opportunity.

LoStaN provides a forum for discussing foundational questions, novel
methodologies, and practical applications that seek to integrate logical
and statistical AI,
with the aim to energize this interdisciplinary space, promote
collaboration between research communities, and inspire innovative
solutions to AI.

## Important Dates

- Paper submission deadline: July 11th, 2025, AoE

- Author Notification: July 25th, 2025, AoE

- Workshop Date: __TBD__, in any case between September 1st and 5th, 2025,
__GET__
* main conference dates: <https://viam.science.tsu.ge/jelia2025/dates>

- Camera-ready Submission: __TBD__, in any case _after the workshop_, and
only for authors who are willing to publish their paper in post-preceedings.


## Submission site

Authors are invited to submit original papers in PDF format to ___[link to
OpenReview to be defined]___.

Further information will be available on the [CFP page](
https://lostan-workshop.github.io/2025/cfp) soon.

## Submission Types

We invite the following types of contribution:

1. __Full__ or __short__ papers about approaches involving logic,
statistical and neural models, and their combination/integration.
Full papers should be limited to __14 pages__, while short papers should be
limited to __7 pages__ _(excluding references)_.

2. __Position papers__ concerning the application of logic, statistical and
neural models in specific fields.
Position papers should be limited to __7 pages__ _(excluding references)_.

3. __Survey papers__, concerning any of the above. Survey papers should be
limited to __14 pages__ _(excluding references)_.

4. __Extended abstracts__, providing an overview of recently published
papers regarding the workshop topics. Extended abstract should be limited
to __3 pages__ _(excluding references)_.

## Relevant topics

We welcome contributions on theoretical foundations, practical
applications, and interdisciplinary approaches combining symbolic,
statistical, and neural methods in AI.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Integration of logic and statistics into machine learning models

- Explainable AI (XAI) and interpretable machine learning via symbolic
methods

- Symbolic knoweldge extraction and injection from/into machine learning
models

- Neuro-symbolig approaches to AI

- Statistical relational learning and probabilistic logic

- Learning symbolic representations from data

- Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) and relational learning

- Causal reasoning and logic-based causal discovery

- Neuro-symbolic integration and hybrid AI systems

- Fairness, accountability, and transparency in hybrid AI systems

- Logic and learning for multi-agent systems

- Human-centric AI: reasoning, learning, and interaction

- Deep learning and knowledge extraction

- Formal methods for the verification of neural networks

- Benchmarking and evaluation of hybrid AI systems

- Applications in robotics, natural language understanding, bioinformatics,
etc.

- Toolkits and platforms for integrating logic, statistics, and neural
networks

## Submission Guidelines


- Submissions should be in [__CEUR Workshop Proceedings__ style](
https://it.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw
);

- Submissions must be exported in __PDF format__;

- _Camera-ready_ versions shall include the LaTeX __source files__;

- Submissions are *not* anonymous __(single-blind)__.

## Reviewing Format

Each submission will undergo a traditional single-blind review process.
This phase applies to all papers, regardless of type, and will determine
the final acceptance or rejection decision.

Accepted contributions are presented at the workshop, and authors may
collect further comments and insights.

After that, authors who are willing to publish their contribution to the
workshop proceedings will be requested to produce a final version of the
paper,
addressing the reviewers' suggestions and possibly integrating comments and
insights from the workshop.

All papers will undergo the standard assessment in which reviewers will be
asked to consider the submission focusing on its:
- __scope__: is the paper on-topic w.r.t. the workshop's track or theme?
- __significance__: is the idea proposed in the paper meaningful for the
LoStaN community? Are the results relevant?
- __soundness__: is the approach proposed in the paper correct and robust?
Are experiments (if any) well-designed?
- __clarity__: is the paper clear and well organized? Is the discussion
complete?
- __contextualization__: is relevant background and related literature
being adequately referenced?
- __novelty__: is the contribution novel either from a conceptual or
technical perspective?

Furthermore, the reviews will take into account the specific
characteristics of the submitted contributions
(see submission types above)
to obtain their final decision.

## Proceedings

The workshop will publish its own proceedings onto Scopus-indexed
repositories, such as [CEUR-WS](https://ceur-ws.org/).

> __Important note:__ Accepted papers will be included in the workshop
proceedings __only if__ the authors explicitly agree to do so.
In this way, works which are not mature enough for publication, as well as
works which have already been published elsewhere can be presented and
discussed at the workshop.

## 📖 Special Issue

A selection of the best papers presented at the workshop will be invited to
submit an extended version to a special issue in a journal (TBD).
We are negotiating with several journals, and we will update this CfP as
soon as we have more information.

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[DMANET] [Deadline Extended] IEEE Intelligent Metaverse Conference (iMETA 2025), Dubrovnik, Croatia [Hybrid Conference]

*The 3rd IEEE International Conference on **Intelligent Metaverse
Technologies & Applications **(iMETA 2025)*

*14-17 October 2025 | Dubrovnik, Croatia*

*https://imeta-conference.org/ *

*Hybrid Conference*

*Sponsored by IEEE Croatia Section*

The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies &
Applications (iMETA) is to bring together leading researchers, academics,
and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive
metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for
various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote
speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research
field.

Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees
to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives
that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident
that iMETA conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark
collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its
potential to change the world as we know it.

The metaverse is a complex system that requires careful planning, design,
and implementation to function correctly. The iMETA conference will delve
into several key areas related to communication, computing, and systems
within the metaverse. Communication is a fundamental aspect of the
metaverse, allowing users to interact with one another, share information,
and collaborate on tasks. Computing is also essential for the metaverse
advancements and to function effectively. Topics such as distributed
computing, cloud computing, and edge computing are to be revisited within
the metaverse realm.

Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with a
comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system
requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions,
and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with
leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends
in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for
networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the
metaverse community.

List of Tracks:

· Track 1: Large Language Models (LLMs) in the Metaverse

· Track 2: Native AI for Metaverse Technologies

· Track 3: Security and Privacy

· Track 4: Networking and Communications

· Track 5: Systems and Computing

· Track 6: Multimedia and Computer Vision

· Track 7: Immersive Technologies and Services

· Track 8: Storage and Processing

*Publication*

IEEE is a technical sponsor of iMETA 2025. All accepted papers in iMETA
2025 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to *IEEEXplore,
DBLP and Scopus* for inclusion.

*Important Dates:*

· Papers Submission: *June 15, 2025*

· Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2025

· Registration Due: August 15, 2025

· Camera-ready paper due: August 15, 2025

· Workshop/Tutorial Proposal Submission: June 15, 2025

· Workshop/Tutorial Proposal Acceptance: July 1, 2025

*Submission Guidelines:*

Manuscripts must be original, not previously published, or under review by
another conference or journal. Submissions should adhere to the IEEE
Conference Proceedings Format, using a double-column layout, 10-point font,
and letter-sized paper. Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format and
should not exceed 6 pages for the review process. Accepted papers may
extend to a maximum of 8 pages for the camera-ready version, subject to an
overlength page fee. Submission Link:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2025

*Organizing Committee*

*Steering Committee*

· Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

· Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy

· Ian F. Akyildiz, Truva Inc., USA

· Merouane Debbah, TII, UAE

· Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

· Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia

· Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA

· Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE

*General Co-chairs*

· Adriana Lipovac, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia

· Yulei Wu, University of Bristol, UK

*Program Co-chairs*

· Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE

· Elif Bozkaya, National Defence University Turkish Naval Academy,
Turkey

· Marwan Omar, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA


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[DMANET] [JAIR Special Track - 6th CFP - deadline extension: September 30, 2025] Integration of Logical Constraints in Deep Learning

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Special Track on Integration of Logical Constraints in Deep Learning
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Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
Deadline extension: September 30, 2025
Info: https://www.jair.org/index.php/jair/SpecialTrack-LogicDL
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Track Editors:
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Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, U.K.
Eleonora Giunchiglia, Imperial College London, U.K.
Bettina Könighofer, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Luca Pasa, University of Padova, Italy
Matteo Zavatteri, University of Padova, Italy
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Overview:

Over the last few years, the integration of logical constraints in Deep Learning models has gained significant attention from research communities for its potential to enhance the interpretability, robustness, safety, and generalization capabilities of these models. This integration opens the possibility of incorporating prior knowledge, handling incomplete data, and combining symbolic and subsymbolic reasoning. Moreover, the use of logical constraints improves generalization, formal verification, and ethical decision-making. The versatility of logical constraint integration spans diverse domains, presenting both research challenges and opportunities. In recent times, there has been a growing trend in incorporating logical constraints into deep learning models, especially in safety-critical applications. Looking ahead, challenges in this field extend to the development of Machine Learning models that not only incorporate logical constraints but also provide robust assurances. This involves ensuring that AI systems adhere to specific (temporal) logical or ethical constraints, offering a level of guarantees in their behavior.

Thus, this special track seeks submissions on the integration of logical constraints into deep learning approaches. We are particularly interested in the following broad content areas.

- Formal verification of neural networks is an active area of research that has been proposing methods, tools, specification languages (e.g., VNNLIB), and annual competitions (e.g., VNN-COMP) devoted to verify that a neural network satisfies a certain property typically given in (a fragment) of first order logic.

- Synthesis aims at synthesizing neural networks that are compliant with some given constraint. Approaches to achieve this aim range from modifying the loss function in the training phase (i.e., soft constraint injection) to exploit counterexample guided inductive synthesis (CEGIS).

- Monitoring: Logical constraints can be used to mitigate and/or neutralize constraint violations of machine learning systems when formal verification and synthesis are not possible. Shielding techniques intervene by changing the output of the network when a constraint is being violated. Runtime monitoring can be used to anticipate failures of AI systems without modifying them.

- Explainability: Automated learning of formulae and logical constraints from past executions of the system provides natural explanations for neural network predictions and poses another avenue for future research. Formulae and constraints offer a high degree of explainability since they carry a precise syntax and semantics, and thus they can be "read" by humans more easily than other explainability methods.

This special track aims to explore and showcase recent advancements in the integration of logical constraints within deep learning models, spanning the spectrum of verification, synthesis, monitoring and explainability, by considering exact and approximate solutions, online and offline approaches. The focus will also extend to encompass innovative approaches that address the challenges associated with handling logical constraints in neural networks.

Submissions:

This special track seeks contributions that delve into various aspects of logic constraint integration in deep learning, including, but not limited to:

- Learning with logical constraints
- Enhancing neural network expressiveness for logical constraints
- Formal verification (certification) of neural networks
- Automated synthesis of certified neural networks, or of AI systems with neural nets
- Decision making: Strategy/policy synthesis for AI systems with neural networks
- Runtime monitoring of AI systems
- Learning of (temporal) logic formulae for explainable and interpretable AI
- Scalability challenges in neural networks with logical constraints
- Real-world applications of neural networks with logical constraints
- Enhancing model explainability via logical constraints
- Design of neural networks under temporal logical requirements

Pertinent review papers of exceptional quality may also be considered.
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[DMANET] [Deadline Extended] CFP: LCN Special Track on Large Language Models and Networking (LLMNet)

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CFP: LCN Special Track on Large Language Models and Networking (LLMNet)

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE (EXTENDED): June 15, 2025 (AoE)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 1st LCN Special Track on on Large Language Models and Networking (LLMNet 2025)
in conjunction with the
50th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2025)
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Sydney, Australia, 14 – 16 October 2025
Website - https://llmnet.nss-research.io


## Scope and Topics

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI (GenAI) have rapidly advanced in language modelling and related tasks, with their applications now expanding into various other domains. In networking, LLMs and their variants have the potential to address key challenges such as traffic management and classification, configuration management, network migration, and scheduling. However, their full potential in networking remains largely underexplored. This special track aims to foster research in this emerging area and bring together the international networking research community working on LLM-driven solutions.

## Topics

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* LLM Applications in Network Operations
* LLMs for traffic prediction and management
* LLM-driven anomaly and fault detection in networks
* LLMs for Network Security and Privacy
* LLMs for detecting malware in network traffic
* LLMs in Networked System Optimization
* LLM-guided routing and congestion control
* Machine-to-machine LLM
* Network configuration and optimization through Large GenAI models
* Benchmarking reasoning and planning capabilities for Networks
* Network configuration and optimization through Large GenAI models
* Large GenAI models for resource allocation and quality of service optimization
* Large GenAI models for network fault diagnosis and troubleshooting
* LLMs for network performance prediction
* LLMs for network protocol design
* Scheduling and load balancing with LLMs
* QoS/QoE prediction and optimization using LLMs
* Natural Language Interfaces for Network Management
* Using LLMs to generate network configurations from natural language
* Troubleshooting and diagnostics through conversational interfaces
* LLMs in Mobile and Wireless Networking
* Adaptive LLMs for edge and mobile scenarios
* LLMs for device mobility prediction and handover optimization
* Federated learning with LLMs in wireless networks
* LLMs and Network Data Analytics
* Summarization of network incidents and logs via LLMs
* Automated documentation and change logs using LLMs
* Efficient fine-tuning and inference of LLMs in network environments
* Deployment of LLMs at the edge, in routers, or programmable switches
* LLMs for Emerging Network Architectures
* Use of LLMs in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
* LLMs for programmable networks and intent-based networking
* LLM Applications in 6G, IoT, and space-terrestrial integrated networks
* Datasets and benchmarks for evaluating LLMs in networking
* Explainability and interpretability of LLMs in networking tasks
* Human-in-the-loop evaluation frameworks
* Multi-modal models for networking (e.g., combining text, telemetry, and packet traces)
* Ethical considerations, fairness, and bias in LLM-driven network operations
* LLMs for cybersecurity education and training in networked environments

## Submission guidelines
* via EDAS: https://lcn2025-llmn.edas.info/
* Paper submissions may be up to six (6) pages (excl. references)
* in two-column IEEE style
* Detailed instructions can be found on the LCN webpage.

## Important dates
* Paper Registration (Extended): Jun 15, 2025
* Paper Submission Deadline (Extended): Jun 15, 2025
* Paper Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2025
* Camera-ready Papers Due: August 1, 2025

## Special Track Organizers
* Suranga Seneviratne - The University of Sydney
* Madhusanka Liyanage - University College Dublin


## Technical Program Chair
* Chamara Kattadige – RMIT University
* Engin Zeydan – Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
* Minzhao Lyu – The University of New South Wales
* Muhammad Ikram – Macquarie University
* Shen Wang – University College of Dublin
* Surangika Ranathunga – Massey University
* Thilina Weerasinghe – University of Ruhuna
* Gustavo Batista – The University of New South Wales
* Michell Boerger – Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems
* Ying Li – North China University of Technology
* Hooman Alavizadeh – La Trobe University
* Thien Huynh-The - Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education
* Samuel Marchal - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
* Viet Quoc Pham - Trinity College Dublin
* Long Cheng - North China Electric Power University

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[DMANET] =?Windows-1252?Q?[CFP]_Submission_Deadline:_July_15, _2025_=96_The_3rd_Int?= ernational Workshop on TwinNetApp in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 | Taipei, Taiwan

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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Third International Workshop on Data Driven and AI-Enabled Digital Twin Networks and Applications (TwinNetApp) in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 | Taipei, Taiwan
Workshop Website: https://globecom25-twinnetapp.bcrg.uk/
Conference Website: https://globecom2025.ieee-globecom.org/

The next generation of technologies is envisioned to connect the physical and digital worlds. In this regard, Digital Twins (DT) is an emerging technology that has taken the world by storm due to its multiple benefits and deployment in interdisciplinary applications ranging from real-time remote monitoring to healthcare, industrial control systems and predictive maintenance in aerospace. DT connects the physical and digital worlds by building an accurate virtual replica of system objects in real-time. Real-time network monitoring, performance testing, optimization, and fast simulation are some examples that exploit DT advantages in the communication domain and beyond. DT delivers a new generation platform to analyze and test complex systems that is not currently available in traditional simulations and evaluations. Therefore, the use of DT is required in communication systems. Further, DT can deliver seamless analysis, monitoring, and predictions between digital and virtual counterparts of real-world systems, when it is used together with next-generation mobile communications (5G/6G), Virtual Reality (VR), Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Transfer Learning (TL), 3D models, Augmented Reality (AR), distributed computing and intelligent health applications. The workshop will invite authors to submit papers presenting new research on all aspects of DT networks, systems and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Data-driven and IoT-based DT networks for real-time communication systems
• Real-time communication protocols for DT networks
• DT-enabled health applications
• Wireless communications for cyber-physical DT applications
• Security and privacy concepts in DT
• Trustworthy AI enabled DT applications
• DT-assisted AI applications for smart cities
• Communications protocols for enabling DT deployment in real-world applications
• AI applications of DT systems
• DT in Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing
• DT for enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC), and Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) applications
• DT for resource management and network optimization
• Connected networking systems for environmental sensing
• DT for precision agriculture, smart city and industry 4.0 applications
• Real-world DT simulations, prototypes, and testbed demonstrations


General Chairs
• Berk Canberk, Edinburgh Napier University, UK (B.Canberk@napier.ac.uk)
• Octavia Dobre, Memorial University, Canada (odobre@mun.ca) (IEEE Fellow)
• Marco Di Renzo, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CentraleSupélec, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systémes, France (marco.di-renzo@universite-paris-saclay.fr) (IEEE Fellow)

Industrial Chair
• Gökhan Yurdakul, GM of BTS Group (yurdakulg@btsgrp.com)

Important Dates
• Paper Submission Deadline: 15 July 2025
• Paper Acceptance Notification: 1 September 2025
• Camera Ready: 1 October 2025

Submission
The page length limit for all initial submissions for review is SIX (6) printed pages (10-point font) and must be written in English. Initial submissions longer than SIX (6) pages will be rejected without review.
Submission Link: https://edas.info/N33200

Best Paper Award
The workshop will feature a Best Paper Award with a cash prize of 800 Dollars, sponsored by BTS Labs (https://btslabs.ai/).

Sincerely,
Yagmur
PhD Student, Edinburgh Napier University


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[DMANET] Joint CP/SAT Doctoral Programme

CfP: Joint CP/SAT Doctoral Programme (DP)
https://satcpdp25.github.io/

Call for Submission:

The Joint CP/SAT Doctoral Programme (DP) is open to all research students, including past participants, who are conducting research related to constraint programming and satisfiability. The goal is to provide an informal environment for networking, presenting and discussing ongoing work, and receiving feedback from both fellow research students and experts in the field. Participation requires a paper submission to the DP, reviewing other submissions to the DP and attendance in person.
The DP is a two-day event (10-11 August 2025). The exact schedule of the DP is yet to be confirmed, but the currently planned structure of its content is outlined as follows. More information will be available in the near future.

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Presentations and Poster Session: Each student is expected to give a presentation of their work, followed by a short Q&A session. Students with an accepted paper at the CP or SAT conference will give a shorter lightning talk, designed to pique the interest of the audience for their full presentation. Additionally, all students are required to create an A0 poster to be presented during the programme. The primary goal of the poster session is to encourage research and to promote the students' work to potential future collaborators.
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Review Training: As part of the Doctoral Program, each participant will be assigned to review a submitted paper. The aim is to improve their reviewing skills by analyzing the work of their peers and receiving feedback from experienced researchers. The ultimate goal is to promote a positive reviewing culture, which is often disregarded in the field of computer science.
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Invited Talks: Two mid-career/senior researchers will give invited talks to the DP participants. One of the talks will help students plan their career paths, while the other will focus on specific technical skills that are important to acquire for scientific research in the area of CP and SAT.
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Mentoring: We plan to pair each participant with a mentor from the community, who is either a professor or a post-doctoral researcher attending the main conferences. The mentor will discuss the student's work and provide constructive feedback. This is intended to promote networking opportunities for the Ph.D. students.
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Social Dinner: If sufficient financial support is obtained, a free dinner will be organized for DP participants on one of the evenings of the doctoral program. The dinner will be open to all students, invited speakers and chairs of the doctoral program.

Important Dates:

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June 8, 2025: Submission deadline
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June 15, 2025: Deadline for financial support requests
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June 22, 2025: Review deadline
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June 25, 2025: Notification of acceptance and financial support
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July 18, 2025: Camera Ready paper

Paper Submission
To participate, students must submit a short paper. Papers must be primarily the work of the student and can be work in progress, completed work or recently published work. Students whose work has been accepted at CP 2025 or SAT 2025 can submit a two-page extended abstract summarising the key findings. Otherwise, students must submit an original paper of up to 8 pages describing completed or ongoing research or a summary of their research/PhD topic. Submissions can include up to one additional page of references.
The submission form must clearly specify the student as the first author and list all advisors and co-authors. Papers must follow the <https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/5#author> LIPIcs guidelines<https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/5#author> of the main conferences, be in PDF format and not include author information in the text or metadata. All papers will go through a double-blind reviewing process, meaning that authors and reviewers are mutually anonymous. For this reason, submitted papers should not contain author names, affiliations, or links to identifying websites. As the DP aims to develop academic maturity of young CP and SAT researchers, all reasonable submissions will be accepted.
All abstracts and papers should be submitted online through EasyChair by selecting "New Submission" at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=satcpdp25. (If you are submitting an abstract only, please still submit a PDF containing the title, authors and abstract.)
Accepted papers will be made available online but not published in formal printed proceedings. This allows the submitted work to be reused and/or extended for submission to other conferences and journals.
Financial Support

Participants of the doctoral program may apply for financial support that is granted on a case-by-case basis depending on the needs of the young researcher.
To apply, please send an e-mail to the DP chairs <satcpdp25@gmail.com> (with your advisor in CC) including the following information:

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Name and Affiliation
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Short summary and motivation of the request (max. 1 page)
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Letter of recommendation from the advisor (max. 1 page)

Please also indicate in the e-mail whether the student has benefited from similar financial support in the past.


Diversity and Inclusion

The participants of the DP are encouraged to participate in the diversity and inclusion surveys organised by the conference.

Contact
Questions about the DP may be addressed to:
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[DMANET] [Scheduling seminar] Thomas Lidbetter (Rutgers University) | June 4 | Min sum ordering problems with applications to scheduling

Dear scheduling researcher,

We are delighted to announce the talk given by Thomas Lidbetter (Rutgers
University).
The title is "Min sum ordering problems with applications to
scheduling". The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, June 4 at
13:00 UTC.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/97914930603?pwd=6nVlX7rd8Izi32aF3kLIm00Wd1qbEa.1
Meeting ID: 979 1493 0603
Passcode: 477966

You can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as
well:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A

The abstract follows.
We consider a large family of problems in which an ordering (or, more
precisely, a chain of subsets) of a finite set must be chosen to
minimize some weighted sum of costs. This family includes variations of
min sum set cover, several scheduling and search problems, and problems
in Boolean function evaluation. We define a problem, called the min sum
ordering problem (MSOP), which generalizes all these problems using a
cost and a weight function defined on subsets of a finite set. By making
certain assumptions on the structure of the cost and weight functions,
we derive general approximation results that can be applied to several
problems. This talk will be based on two joint works with Robbert
Fokkink, László Végh, Felix Happach and Lisa Hellerstein.

The next talk in our series will be in September.
For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/

With kind regards

Zdenek Hanzalek, Michael Pinedo and Guohua Wan

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Zdenek Hanzalek
Industrial Informatics Department,
Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics,
Czech Technical University in Prague,
Jugoslavskych partyzanu 1580/3, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
https://rtime.ciirc.cvut.cz/~hanzalek/

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[DMANET] CALL FOR PAPERS: International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC 2025)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC 2025)

October 06-08, 2025, Universitaet zu Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
Paper Submission: June 30, 2025

Web: http://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/isic
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** Call for Full Length paper **

** Topics **

We are interested in all issues concerning Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Semantic Web such as the following:
* Agentic Artificial Intelligence (Agentic AI)
* Generative AI
* Applications, Opportunities, Challenges
* Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
* Computational Linguistics
* Computational Paradigms and Computational Intelligence
* Contributions of Semantic Web Technologies (SWT) to the Society
* Cyber-Physical Systems
* Data Analytics
* Distributed and Mobile Systems
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Intelligent Computing and Applications, Case Studies and Tools
* Knowledge Extraction and Ontology Learning from the Web
* Knowledge representation and Engineering
* Large Language Models (LLMs)
* Large Scale and Complex Information Management
* Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Global Epidemics
* Machine to Machine Communications and Interoperability
* Mapping Knowledge bases
* Multimodal and Multilingual Access
* Multimodal and Multilingual Approach to Computing
* Ontology-based Data Access
* Reasoning and Intelligent Processing (Semantic Search Paradigms, Semantic Web Mining, Semantic Sentiment Analysis, Semantic Web Services, Visualization, Query Answering, Semantic Information Access)
* Security Issues in Semantic Web
* Semantic Web Engineering
* Social Networks
* Any other related topic...

** Submission Guidelines **

Every paper will be assessed by reviewed by at least three program committee members. The contributions should be related to any one of the three disciplines namely Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or Semantics for Data and the Web; or their intersection.
* Submissions must be in English with the following page length (pages of around 400 words each):
* Full papers (12-16 pages including references)
* Short papers (6-8 pages including references)

* Submitted papers must follow the guidelines and templates provided by Springer:
* Springer LNEE Guidelines and Templates: https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings

* All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
* The references should include all published literature relevant to the paper.
* The review process will be Single-Blind review.
* Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=isic-2025


** Call for Workshop/Special Session Proposals **


The International Semantic Intelligence Conference 2025 (ISIC 2025) invites proposals for workshops/special sessions on the emerging topics related to the general theme of the conference. The acceptance of the proposal will be subject to the link, its specific theme is able to have with the conference major theme, i.e., Semantic Intelligence. New as well as established workshops/special sessions are welcome to send their proposals.

The proposals should be in a pdf file of maximum two pages long and to be submitted via email to fatmanas@pau.edu.tr (mailto:fatmanas@pau.edu.tr), cc to general chairs (jasarika@nitkkr.ac.in (mailto:jasarika@nitkkr.ac.in), groppe@ifis.uni-luebeck.de (mailto:groppe@ifis.uni-luebeck.de)). The proposals must include the following:
* Workshop/special session title.
* Chairs with their affiliations and contact information.
* A description of the workshop's/special session's topic and its goals specifically mentioning the connection of the proposal to the conference theme.
* The scope of the topic chosen as an answer to why do you think it can attract researchers in the field.
* A very brief statement on diversity commitment for the submissions.
* Plans for publicity.
* Potential (or accepted) program committee members.
* Information about the most recent previous editions of the workshop/special session (if any), like the affiliated event, date, venue, and the number of submitted and accepted papers.
* Plans for disseminating the results of the workshop/special session.

Guidelines specifically for the Workshops:
* The workshop chairs may structure workshops as they see fit, possibly including one keynote or/and invited talk, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress papers, peer-reviewed papers, doctoral consortiums, demonstrations, programming challenges, tutorials or some combination; the proposed workshop format is to be submitted along with the proposal.
* The workshops can propose to have their own proceedings with some publisher.
* The workshops should tell, if they have any plans for seeking sponsorship.

Once accepted, the workshop/special session will be responsible for
* inviting papers with titles focused on the theme of the workshop/special session.
* publicizing workshop/special-session in the relevant communities.
* for setting up an easy chair account for the submission of papers in the same manner as it is for the main conference.
* creating and maintaining the workshop/special-session website.
* for quality control over the papers in their sessions, for enforcing deadlines and for submitting all materials by the deadlines.
* creating the Program Committee and getting the submitted papers reviewed by at least three reviewers of repute. The final decision of acceptance/rejection of papers and publication in the proceedings lie with the conference committee.
* scheduling the workshop program timeline. For the special sessions, the deadlines will be same as for the main conference.

Further,
* The logistics (facilities like rooms and hardware, catering like coffee breaks and lunches, and registration) of the workshops/special sessions will be handled by the ISIC 2025 local chairs.
* Workshop/special session paper registration fees are the same as regular conference fees. All registered participants are entitled to attend all keynotes, sessions, workshops, panels, tutorials and social events. The workshop/special session papers are also candidates for best paper awards.
Should you have any queries regarding your Workshop/Special Session proposal, please contact the Workshops/Special Sessions chair at fatmanas@pau.edu.tr (mailto:fatmanas@pau.edu.tr). We look forward to seeing you at the Conference!

** Call for Technical Program Committee **

Researchers and practitioners from all over the world, from academia, industry, and the government are invited to participate in the conference and share their perspectives, experiences, and vision by joining the Technical Program Committee. Kindly email your interest to the general chairs, in case you are interested.

** Chairs **

General Chairs:
- Sarika Jain, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India
- Sven Groppe, University of Luebeck, Germany

Advisory Committee:
- Maria-Esther Vidal, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany
- Veljko Milutinovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
- Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, IBM Research AI Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
- Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Organizing Chairs:
- Akasha-Leonie Kessel, Universitaet zu Luebeck, Germany
- Thomas Sievers, Universitaet zu Luebeck, Germany

Program Committee Chairs:
- Valentina Janev, The Mihajlo Pupin Institute, Belgrade, Serbia
- Jinghua Groppe, Universitaet zu Luebeck, Germany

Workshops and Special Sessions Chairs:
- Fatmana Senturk, Pamukkale University, Turkey

Proceedings Chairs:
- Valter Uotila, University of Helsinki & Aalto University, Finland

Publicity Chairs:
- Thomas Sievers, Universitaet zu Luebeck, Germany
- Yang Lu, Loughborough University, UK

Website Chairs:
- Akasha-Leonie Kessel, Universitaet zu Luebeck, Germany


** Program Committee **

- Aadil Lawaye, Department of Computer Science, BGSB University, J&K, India
- Ahmed Elngar, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Beni-Suef University, Egypt
- Aleksei Rozhnov, Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences (ICS RAS), Russia
- Archana Patel, National Forensic Sciences University, India
- Dana Rad, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
- Dr. Shilpa Laddha, Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad, India
- Gagandeep Singh Narula, GGSIPU, India
- Iurii Prokopchuk, Institute of Technical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
- Jon Stammers, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Kai Wussow, SAP SE, Germany
- Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma, USA
- Mohammad Atikur Rahman, San Francisco Bay University, USA
- Neama Abdulaziz Dahan, Sana'a University, Yemen
- Neetu Sardana, JIIT, India
- Prajoy Podder, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh
- Priti Jagwani, Ram Lal Anand College, India
- Ramakrishna Ramadugu, Finastra, India
- Sachin Gengaje, WIT, Solapur, India
- Sanjay Misra, Institute For Energy Technology, Nigeria
- Shridevi S, VIT, India
- Suparna Biswas, West Bengal University of Technology, India
- Tameem Ahmad, Aligarh Muslim University, India
- Thomas Sievers, University of Luebeck, Germany
- Vinay Gautam, Chitkara University, India


** Important Dates **

Workshop Proposals: June 30, 2025
Workshop Proposals Notifications: July 05, 2025
Full length Papers: June 30, 2025
Paper notifications: Aug 15, 2025
Workshop Papers Submission: Aug 15, 2025
End of Early Registration for main conference: Sep 20, 2025
Camera-ready submissions for all events: Sep 30, 2025
End of Standard Registration for all events: Sep 30, 2025
Main Conference: Oct 06-08, 2025


** Submission **

We describe manuscript preparation and submission procedure at http://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/isic/calls


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[DMANET] PhD in the Business School of University College Dublin

*PhD project details:*

Supermarkets are among the major contributors to food waste, particularly
those operating through extensive networks of retailers across wide
geographic areas. To combat this, many supermarkets implement a variety of
food waste prevention strategies, such as discount promotions, donations,
and recycling. However, these methods require a coordinated and holistic
management approach to be effective. While employing diverse strategies can
significantly reduce food waste, the increasing variety of methods adds
complexity to the resulting optimization problems.

This PhD project aims to address the operational and optimization
challenges involved in managing food waste reduction strategies within
supermarket retailers. Its ultimate goal is to develop models that optimize
the implementation of existing food waste prevention methods, thereby
contributing to both the reduction of food waste and the broader goal of
eliminating hunger.

*Expected qualifications:*

Applications are welcome from those with a master's degree in either
operations research, industrial engineering, management science,
mathematics, computer science, or similar fields. Candidates with a keen
interest in multi-objective optimization, simulation and dynamic
programming are particularly encouraged to apply. Experience with
commercial optimization solvers (e.g., Cplex, Gurobi) is also a plus.

*Funding eligibility:* EU and non-EU students *holding a master's degree*
are equally eligible.


*Funding amount:* This position comes with a waiver for PhD tuition fees.
The stipend for this position is €22,000 per annum, with additional funds
available for research costs.

*Expected starting date*: At the earliest opportunity.

*Required documents and their submission:* Required application documents
include a CV, a cover letter and two (preferably academic) reference
letters. Interested candidates can submit their application by forwarding
the required documents to istenc.tarhan@ucd.ie.

*Closing date: *Considerations of applications will continue on an ongoing
basis until the position is filled.

For further details please contact: Dr. Istenc Tarhan (istenc.tarhan@ucd.ie
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[DMANET] M-PREF 2025 - Extended Deadline

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M-PREF 2025: 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE
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16th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling

October 25 or 26, 2025, Bologna, Italy
in conjunction with ECAI 2025

https://mpref2025.mpref.org

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Extended submission deadline: June 17, 2025
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TOPICS

The workshop on Advances in Preference Handling addresses all
computational aspects of preference handling. This includes methods
for the elicitation, learning, modeling, representation, aggregation,
and management of preferences and for reasoning about preferences. The
workshop studies the usage of preferences in computational tasks from
decision making, database querying, web search, personalized human-
computer interaction, personalized recommender systems, e-commerce,
multi-agent systems, game theory, social choice, combinatorial
optimization, planning and robotics, automated problem solving,
perception and natural language understanding and other computational
tasks involving choices. The workshop seeks to improve the overall
understanding of and best methodologies for preferences in order to
realize their benefits in the multiplicity of tasks for which they are
used. Another important goal is to provide cross-fertilization between
the numerous sub-fields that work with preferences.

- Preference handling in artificial intelligence
- Preference handling in database systems
- Preference handling in multi-agent systems
- Applications of preferences
- Preference elicitation and learning
- Preference representation and modeling
- Properties and semantics of preferences
- Practical preferences

FORMAT

The program will consist of presentations of peer-reviewed papers,
panel discussions about future challenges, and an invited talk.

SUBMISSION

We invite interested researchers to submit papers on any computational
aspect of preference handling.

The purpose of workshop presentations is to get early feedback on new
ideas and to stimulate discussions between researchers interested in
preference handling. As such, there will be no formal proceedings, but
we may post accepted papers on the workshop website for the benefit of
the workshop participants if the authors agree to this and the paper
has not already been published.

**Original submissions**: Submissions about unpublished ideas will be
reviewed by a double-blind process (so, should be anonymous). Papers
should be formatted according to the ECAI formatting instructions and
not exceed 7 pages (plus 1 extra page for references). Supplementary
material such as a technical appendix or code and data is not
required, but can be provided.

**Multiple submissions**: Authors who are seeking a broader forum for
already published work and who are interested in giving a presentation
to the workshop's audience may submit their work non-anonymously while
indicating where this work has been published. We will only accept
work which has been published in the last calendar year (e.g., AAAI
2025, IJCAI 2025, and any conference held after June 2024).

FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS

https://ecai2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ecai-template.zip

SUBMISSION WEBSITE

https://chairingtool.com/conferences/MPREFH25/main-track

IMPORTANT DATES

- Submission deadline: June 17, 2025 (instead of June 1, 2025)
- Author notification: July 15, 2025 (instead of July 1, 2025)
- Camera-ready: July 29, 2025 (instead of July 15, 2025)
- M-PREF Workshop: October 25 or 26, 2025.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Ulrich Junker, France
Khaled Belahcène, Université Paris-Saclay, France
Nimrod Talmon, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

CONTACT EMAIL

inquiries@mpref2025.mpref.org

WORKSHOP URL

https://mpref2025.mpref.org

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[DMANET] Deakin University Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

Dear colleagues,

The Deakin University Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship scheme is now open. Applications close at 23:55 on 10 August 2025 (AEST).

For information on the fellowships and how to apply visit https://www.deakin.edu.au/research/support-for-researchers/project-funding/deakin-university-funding/duprf/frequently-asked-questions

Best regards,

Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio
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[DMANET] IEEE BCCA 2025: The 7th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Dubrovnik, Croatia [Hybrid Conference] [Special Track]

*The 7th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications
(BCCA 2025)*

14-17 October 2025 | Dubrovnik, Croatia

*Hybrid Conference*

*https://bcca-conference.org/* <https://bcca-conference.org/>

*Sponsored by IEEE Croatia Section*

Blockchain is a revolutionary technology in decentralized systems that
enables secure decentralized transaction processing while ensuring data
privacy and authenticity. It plays a significant role in several areas,
such as the Internet of Things, supply-chain management, manufacturing,
cyber-physical systems, healthcare systems, etc. Unlike centralized
transaction processing solutions, blockchain uses a distributed ledger
mechanism to record data transactions on multiple devices; this will
prevent data breaches, identity theft, and a plethora of cyber-related
attacks, leading to sustainability in data privacy and security. This
conference aims to attract the work of both researchers and practitioners
in the area of cyber-security to share and exchange their experiences and
research studies in both academia and industry in the field of blockchain.

Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all
major areas, which include, but are not limited to:

- Track 01: Large Language Models (LLMs) and Blockchain
- Track 02: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Track 03: IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems
- Track 04: Big Data and Analytics
- Track 05: Security and Privacy on the Blockchain
- Track 06: Metaverse and Digital Twin
- Track 07: IoT Network Security
- Track 08: Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks
and Services
- Track 09: Quantum Computing and Blockchain

*Publication*

*IEEE is a technical sponsor of BCCA 2025*. All accepted papers in BCCA
2025 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore,
dblp and Scopus for inclusion.

*Special Track **Important dates*

- Papers due: *June 30, 2025 *
- Acceptance notification: July 30, 2025
- Camera-ready paper due: August 30, 2025

*Special track Submission Guidelines:*

There are three categories of submission (Overlength charges will be
applied!):

- *Short papers: (5-6 pages).*
- *Systemization of Knowledge (SoK): (10-15 pages) SoK papers
evaluate, systematize, cluster, classify, and contextualize existing
knowledge (Focused Surveys)*
- *Poster papers: (2 pages)*

*Submission Link: *https://edas.info/N33458

*Organizing Committee*
*Honorary Chair*

- Vlatko Lipovac, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia
- Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

*General Chair*

- Adriana Lipovac, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia

*Program Co-Chairs*

- Safa Otoum, Zayed University, UAE
- Müge Özçevik , Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
- Dusan Ramljak, Penn State Great Valley, USA

--Regards,

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[DMANET] School on Symbolic and Statistical Methods for Reasoning and Processing Formal Expressions

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School on Symbolic and Statistical Methods for Reasoning and Processing
Formal Expressions
Kutaisi International University, Kutaisi, Georgia
July 7th-11th 2025 (https://europroofnet.github.io/Kutaisi25/)
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The School on Symbolic and Statistical Methods for Reasoning and Processing
Formal Expressions aims to equip participants with advanced techniques for
formal reasoning and expression processing. Covering topics such as access
control policies, symbolic knowledge extraction, automated protocol
analysis, and quantitative constraint solving, the program bridges symbolic
and statistical approaches. It explores the integration of regular
languages in deep learning and the use of runtime verification with SMT
solving, providing both theoretical foundations and practical applications.
Through interdisciplinary learning, the school fosters research and
innovation in formal methods and AI.

Specification and Analysis of Access Control, Obligation and Privacy
Policies via the Category-Based MetaModel (Maribel Fernandez)

Symbolic Knowledge Extraction and Injection: Theory and Methods (Giovanni
Ciatto)

Integration of Regular Languages in Deep Learning for Sequential Domains
(Elena Umili)

Automated Reasoning in Maude for Protocol Analysis (Santiago Escobar)

Symbolic techniques for solving quantitative constraints (Temur Kutsia)

Runtime Verification as contiguous formula progression and SMT solving
(Martin Leucker)

Towards GPU-accelerated automated reasoning (Martin Berger)

Registration:

The registration fee is 150 EUR.
To register, please write to besik.dundua@kiu.edu.ge

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Sunday, June 1, 2025

[DMANET] [CfP] * Deadline Extended * FAPER 2025 workshop @ ICIAP 2025

4th International Workshop on Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition

                            *F A P E R*  2025

                   Rome, Italy, September 15 or 16, 2025
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in conjunction with the 23st International Conference on Image Analysis
and Processing (ICIAP 2025)

https://sites.google.com/view/faper2025
*submission deadline*: June 13, 2025 *extended*


*Aim & Scope*

Cultural heritage, especially fine arts, plays an invaluable role in our
societies' cultural, historical, and economic growth. Fine arts are
primarily developed for aesthetic purposes and are mainly expressed
through painting, sculpture, and architecture. In recent years, thanks
to technological improvements and drastic cost reductions, a large-scale
digitization effort has been made, which has led to the increasing
availability of large digitized fine art collections. This availability,
coupled with recent advances in computer vision, has disclosed new
opportunities, especially for researchers in this field, to assist the
art community with automatic tools to analyze and better understand fine
arts. Among other benefits, a deeper understanding of fine arts has the
potential to make them more accessible to a broader population, both in
terms of fruition and creation, thus supporting the spread of culture.

Following the success of the previous three editions, the workshop aims
to provide an international forum for those wishing to present
advancements in state-of-the-art, innovative research, ongoing projects,
and academic and industrial reports on applying visual pattern
extraction and recognition for a better understanding and fruition of
fine arts. The workshop solicits contributions from computer vision and
pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and image processing.

FAPER is promoted by the IAPR Technical Committee 19 (Computer Vision
for Cultural Heritage Applications
(https://www.cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IAPR-TC19/).

*Topics* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Computer vision and multimedia data processing for fine arts
- Creative AI
- 3D reconstruction of historical artifacts
- Point cloud segmentation and classification for cultural heritage
- Content-based retrieval in the art domain
- Smart interactive experiences in cultural sites
- Visual question answering and artwork captioning
- Art history and computer vision
- Projects, products, or prototypes for cultural heritage restoration,
preservation, and fruition


*Submission guidelines*

All submissions must be made electronically via EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=faper2025).

Authors are required to prepare their papers following the Springer
guidelines. The manuscript must not exceed 12 pages, including
references. Submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process
and will be evaluated based on originality, significance, clarity,
soundness, relevance, and technical quality.

Upon acceptance, at least one author must register for the event, attend
the workshop, and present the paper orally.


*Important Dates*

- Workshop submission deadline: June 13, 2025 *extended*
- Author notification: July 4, 2025
- Camera-ready submission: July 10, 2025
- Registration: TBA
- Workshop date: September 15 or 16, 2025


*Organizing committee*

Gennaro Vessio (University of Bari, Italy)
Giovanna Castellano (University of Bari, Italy)
Fabio Bellavia (University of Palermo, Italy)
Sinem Aslan (University of Milan, Italy)
Raffaele Scaringi (University of Bari, Italy)
Nicola Fanelli (University of Bari, Italy)


*Venue*

The ICIAP 2025 main conference and workshops will be held at Sapienza
University of Rome. See https://sites.google.com/view/iciap25 for more
information


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  Contacts: gennaro.vessio@uniba.it


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[DMANET] Tenure-track and Postdoc positions at Wrocław Tech

The Faculty of Pure and Applied Mathematics at Wrocław University of
Science and Technology is one of Poland's leading centers for mathematical
research. Its new Department of Analysis and Stochastic Processes invites
applications for academic positions in the broadly understood areas of
probability and mathematical analysis:
One tenure-track position (four-year contract with the possibility of
permanent employment, ref. no. AD2/K96/05/2025);
Three postdoc positions (two-year contracts, ref. no. AD3/K96/05/2025,
AD4/K96/05/2025, AD5/K96/05/2025).
The expected start date is October 1, 2025.

Responsibilities:
— Conducting scientific research in mathematics;
— Teaching undergraduate or graduate courses in Polish or English;
— Participating in the organizational work of the Department, Faculty, and
University.

Qualifications:
— A doctoral degree in mathematics;
— A strong research record;
— Teaching experience;
— Very good command of English.

The list of required documents and details on the application procedure can
be found at:
— https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/348368 (tenure track);
— https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/348369 (postdocs).

See also https://ofertypracy.pwr.edu.pl/for-teachers (more job postings).

Informal inquiries are welcome---please contact us at k96jobs@pwr.edu.pl.

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