News and Events: Conferences

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CfP topical collection of Synthese on Hyperintensional Formal Epistemology

Deadline: Friday 1 December 2023

This Topical Collection is devoted to hyperintensionalism in formal epistemology, aiming to collect and bring into contact both contributions developing particular formal hyperintensional theories of epistemic phenomena (broadly construed) as well as more general, foundational discussions of the reasons for, and against, adopting a hyperintensional approach. Appropriate Topics for Submission include, among others: arguments for and against hyperintensionalism in formal epistemology, hyperintensional theories of belief revision, belief, credence, knowledge, and other epistemic notions, the methodology of formal epistemology, the role of model-building and idealization in formal epistemology, applications of hyperintensional methods in philosophy and beyond (computer science, AI).

The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers to submit their papers for presentation. Submission deadline is 1 December, 2023.

For more information, see https://link.springer.com/collections/ieaaafadbe or contact Stephan Krämer at .

4 - 6 June 2024, 16th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM 2024), Moffett Field, California/US

Date: 4 - 6 June 2024
Location: Moffett Field, California/US
Deadline: Friday 1 December 2023

The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry requires advanced technologies to address their specification, design, verification, validation, and certification processes. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, other government agencies, academia, and industry, with the goal of identifying challenges and providing solutions towards achieving assurance for such critical systems. The focus of this symposium is on formal techniques for software and system assurance for applications in space, aviation, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems.

This year’s symposium extends the focus to safety assurance of machine learning enabled autonomous systems, formal methods for digital transformation, and accessibility for new industries. There will be a tool demonstration session at the conference, where tool developers get to showcase their tools interactively with the attendee.

There are two categories of submissions: Regular Papers (15 pages including references), describing fully developed work and complete results, and Short Papers (6 pages including references), in one of the categories below:
- Tool papers describing novel and publicly available tools
- Case studies detailing applications of formal methods
- New emerging ideas in the topics of interest

All papers should be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. NFM24 will be a hybrid conference. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to present their work in person at the conference.

8 - 11 April 2024, 13th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2024), Sheffield, UK

Date & Time: 8 - 11 April 2024, 18:00
Location: Sheffield, UK
Deadline: Friday 1 December 2023

The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and discussing theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. The goal is to bring together researchers with an interest in this subject, share research experiences, promote collaboration and identify new issues and directions for future research.

Invited Speakers:
* Georg Gottlob, University of Oxford
* Phokion Kolaitis, University of California Santa Cruz and IBM Research
* Andrei Popescu, University of Sheffield
* Uli Sattler, University of Manchester

FoIKS 2024 solicits original contributions (as well as extensions of previously published contributions) dealing with any foundational aspect of information and knowledge systems. This includes submissions that apply ideas, theories or methods from specific disciplines to information and knowledge systems. Examples of such disciplines are discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, information theory, (parameterized) complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, statistics, and optimisation, among, of course, many others.

For more information, see https://foiks2024.github.io/ or contact .

6 - 8 December 2023, Workshop on Contradictory Logics, Bochum, Germany

Date: 6 - 8 December 2023
Location: Bochum, Germany
Deadline: Friday 1 September 2023

The first workshop ever on non-trivial negation inconsistent logics is going to be held at Ruhr University Bochum, December 6-8, 2023.

6 - 8 December 2023, Workshop on Contradictory Logics, Bochum, Germany

Date: 6 - 8 December 2023
Location: Bochum, Germany
Deadline: Friday 1 September 2023

The first workshop ever on non-trivial negation inconsistent logics is going to be held at Ruhr University Bochum, December 6-8, 2023.

6 - 8 December 2023, Workshop on Contradictory Logics, Bochum, Germany

Date: 6 - 8 December 2023
Location: Bochum, Germany
Deadline: Friday 1 September 2023

The first workshop ever on non-trivial negation inconsistent logics is going to be held at Ruhr University Bochum, December 6-8, 2023.

8 December 2023, Annual VvL Joint Seminar

Date & Time: Friday 8 December 2023, 14:30-17:30
Location: The Sweelinckzaal (Room 0.05), Drift 21, Utrecht

Utrecht University will organize the second edition of the annual seminar of the Dutch Association for Logic (VvL). The event is inspired by the departmental logic seminars that are organized at each university, and aims to unify the universities for a collaborative seminar. Besides hosting a main speaker, the seminar will also be the location of the award ceremony of the VvL MSc Thesis Prize winners, who will give a short presentation of their thesis.

Main Speaker: Natasha Alechina.
MSc Thesis Prize winners: Rodrigo Almeida (supervisors: Nick Bezhanishvili and Tommaso Moraschini), Søren Brinck Knudstorp (supervisors: Johan van Benthem and Nick Bezhanishvili), Raoul Koudijs (supervisor: Balder ten Cate).

14 - 16 December 2023, 19th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (AISC 2023): “Values and Cognition", Genoa, Italy

Date: 14 - 16 December 2023
Location: Genoa, Italy
Deadline: Friday 1 September 2023

The 19th AISC Conference will focus on the relationship between values and cognition, a topic that defines a heterogenous set of problems that cuts across the various souls of cognitive science, in a truly interdisciplinary perspective. What role do values play within cognitive science research? What ethical and social repercussions do the most recent discoveries in AI, neuroscience, cognitive and comparative psychology have? What cognitive processes are involved in aesthetic and moral judgements? How is evaluative language processed? To properly address such questions, a variety of viewpoints, coming from AI, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology are needed. We welcome presentations on the state of the art and on ongoing research, as well as presentations on perspectives that encourage interdisciplinary dialogue among the various subdisciplines of cognitive science.

Confirmed speakers - Fabrizio Calzavarini, Università di Torino (winner of the AISC Young Researcher Prize 2022) - Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC, CNR, Roma - Ute Schmid, Universitaet Bamberg - Murray Smith, Kent University - Simone Sulpizio, Università di Milano-Bicocca - Pascale Willemsen, Universitaet Zurich.

For more information, see https://aisc2023.unige.it or contact .

CfP topical collection of Global Philosophy on "Mathematical neutrality in science, technology, & society"

Deadline: Friday 15 December 2023

Mathematics is usually regarded as a discipline which admits no grey areas in most situations: answers are either correct or incorrect; there is a universal, objective, correct answer. Similarly, it is usually considered that mathematics is the universal language of the world, one that describes it "as it is". On the other hand, ethical, moral and political questions are usually not "correct" or "incorrect", they are complicated and full of grey areas. This makes it extremely tempting to see the sciences and mathematics as a good way to settle disputes concerning issues like justice or equity. Recent scholarship warns about the increasing use of mathematical techniques in order to prescribe policies and produce knowledge under a veil of neutrality, and argues that we should carefully evaluate the consequences of these techniques in science and society.

This Topical Collection aims at contributing to this literature. Topics include but are not limited to: - The moral responsibility of pure and applied mathematicians - Value-ladenness of mathematics - Algorithmic governance - The mathematization of science: how (not) to use mathematics, and ethical/epistemic consequences - Statistics in science and society: how (not) to use statistics, and ethical/epistemic consequences - Ethical concerns about mathematics education.

For more information, see https://link.springer.com/collections/agbbgbbdej or contact José Antonio Pérez-Escobar at , or Deniz Sarikaya Deniz Sarikaya at .

14 - 16 December 2023, 19th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (AISC 2023): “Values and Cognition", Genoa, Italy

Date: 14 - 16 December 2023
Location: Genoa, Italy
Deadline: Friday 1 September 2023

The 19th AISC Conference will focus on the relationship between values and cognition, a topic that defines a heterogenous set of problems that cuts across the various souls of cognitive science, in a truly interdisciplinary perspective. What role do values play within cognitive science research? What ethical and social repercussions do the most recent discoveries in AI, neuroscience, cognitive and comparative psychology have? What cognitive processes are involved in aesthetic and moral judgements? How is evaluative language processed? To properly address such questions, a variety of viewpoints, coming from AI, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology are needed. We welcome presentations on the state of the art and on ongoing research, as well as presentations on perspectives that encourage interdisciplinary dialogue among the various subdisciplines of cognitive science.

Confirmed speakers - Fabrizio Calzavarini, Università di Torino (winner of the AISC Young Researcher Prize 2022) - Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC, CNR, Roma - Ute Schmid, Universitaet Bamberg - Murray Smith, Kent University - Simone Sulpizio, Università di Milano-Bicocca - Pascale Willemsen, Universitaet Zurich.

For more information, see https://aisc2023.unige.it or contact .

14 - 16 December 2023, 19th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (AISC 2023): “Values and Cognition", Genoa, Italy

Date: 14 - 16 December 2023
Location: Genoa, Italy
Deadline: Friday 1 September 2023

The 19th AISC Conference will focus on the relationship between values and cognition, a topic that defines a heterogenous set of problems that cuts across the various souls of cognitive science, in a truly interdisciplinary perspective. What role do values play within cognitive science research? What ethical and social repercussions do the most recent discoveries in AI, neuroscience, cognitive and comparative psychology have? What cognitive processes are involved in aesthetic and moral judgements? How is evaluative language processed? To properly address such questions, a variety of viewpoints, coming from AI, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology are needed. We welcome presentations on the state of the art and on ongoing research, as well as presentations on perspectives that encourage interdisciplinary dialogue among the various subdisciplines of cognitive science.

Confirmed speakers - Fabrizio Calzavarini, Università di Torino (winner of the AISC Young Researcher Prize 2022) - Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC, CNR, Roma - Ute Schmid, Universitaet Bamberg - Murray Smith, Kent University - Simone Sulpizio, Università di Milano-Bicocca - Pascale Willemsen, Universitaet Zurich.

For more information, see https://aisc2023.unige.it or contact .

Special Issue I of Kuenstliche Intelligenz on Non-Classical Reasoning for Contemporary AI Applications

Deadline: Monday 18 December 2023

This special issue aims at providing an overview of recent work in automation of expressive non-classical logics, AI-related applications thereof, and discussions of perspectives in explicit symbolic knowledge representation and reasoning in contemporary AI applications. Technical contributions (of up to 20 pages), abstracts (4 pages), e.g., on doctoral theses or habilitations, system descriptions (4-6 pages), project reports (4-6 pages), or discussion articles (4-8 pages), are welcome. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.

The full CfP can be found at https://www.springer.com/journal/13218/updates/25263164 (but please ignore the old deadline). If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me ().

The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers to submit their papers for presentation. Submission deadline is 18 December, 2023.

18 - 20 December 2023, 36th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2023), Maastricht, the Netherlands

Date: 18 - 20 December 2023
Location: Maastricht, the Netherlands
Deadline: Friday 8 September 2023

For more than 30 years, the JURIX conference has provided an international forum for research on the intersection of Law, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Systems, under the auspices of the JURIX Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems.

The purpose of the JURIX conference series is to foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, students, dedicated to exploring recent advancements, challenges, and opportunities of technologies applied to legal and para-legal activities.

For more information, see https://jurix23.maastrichtlawtech.eu/ or contact Program Chair at , or the Organizing Chairs at .

18 - 20 December 2023, 36th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2023), Maastricht, the Netherlands

Date: 18 - 20 December 2023
Location: Maastricht, the Netherlands
Deadline: Friday 8 September 2023

For more than 30 years, the JURIX conference has provided an international forum for research on the intersection of Law, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Systems, under the auspices of the JURIX Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems.

The purpose of the JURIX conference series is to foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, students, dedicated to exploring recent advancements, challenges, and opportunities of technologies applied to legal and para-legal activities.

For more information, see https://jurix23.maastrichtlawtech.eu/ or contact Program Chair at , or the Organizing Chairs at .
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19 December 2023, RDT Keywords Project: ‘Responsibility’

Date & Time: Tuesday 19 December 2023, 15:00-18:00
Location: Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis
Target audience: Researchers
Costs: Free
Deadline: Monday 18 December 2023

What do we mean by 'responsibility' in the digital age? How do disciplines differ in their understanding of responsibility? Where do they meet?

We are excited to invite you to our second edition of the Responsible Digital Transformations Keywords Project, with focus on 'responsibility'. Marjolein Lanzing, Jelle Zuidema and Somendra Narayan will share their views on responsibility with us, and we invite you to join a lively interdisciplinary discussion.

18 - 20 December 2023, 36th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2023), Maastricht, the Netherlands

Date: 18 - 20 December 2023
Location: Maastricht, the Netherlands
Deadline: Friday 8 September 2023

For more than 30 years, the JURIX conference has provided an international forum for research on the intersection of Law, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Systems, under the auspices of the JURIX Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems.

The purpose of the JURIX conference series is to foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, students, dedicated to exploring recent advancements, challenges, and opportunities of technologies applied to legal and para-legal activities.

For more information, see https://jurix23.maastrichtlawtech.eu/ or contact Program Chair at , or the Organizing Chairs at .

24 - 26 February 2024, ICAART 2024 Special Session on Large Language Models & Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence (LLMaNLPinAI 2024), Rome, Italy

Date & Time: 24 - 26 February 2024, 23:59
Location: Rome, Italy
Target audience: Computational Linguistics, Logic, Computer Science, AI
Deadline: Thursday 21 December 2023

Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Increased power of hardware and software allows collection of large language sources, which require Natural Language Processing (NLP). Large language models (LLM) are important for information processing. LLM and NLP are interrelated and significant in AI.
This ICAART 2024 Special Session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote computational systems of intelligent language processing and related models of information, language, reasoning, etc.

Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system. After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. We expect a post-conference, post-proceedings Special Issue with extended publications based on selected papers presented at NLPinAI at ICAART 2021--2023 and LLMaNLPinAI24.

For more information, see https://icaart.scitevents.org/LLMaNLPinAI.aspx or contact ICAART Secretariat at .

11 - 15 March 2024, Seventeenth International Conference on Computability, Complexity and Randomness (CCR2024), Nagoya, Japan

Date: 11 - 15 March 2024
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Deadline: Friday 22 December 2023

CCR 2024 is the 17th edition of the International Conference on Computability, Complexity and Randomness, a series of conferences devoted generally to the mathematics of computation and complexity but that tends to primarily focus on algorithmic randomness/algorithmic information theory and its impact on mathematics.

Topic: Algorithmic randomness, Computability theory, Kolmogorov complexity, Computational complexity and Reverse mathematics and logic.

Authors are invited to submit an abstract in PDF format of typically about 1 or 2 pages via Easychair. No full papers will be required for this conference. After the deadline for submissions has expired, submissions may still be accepted for reviewing at the discretion of the PC chairs.

For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/ccr2024/.
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25 - 26 May 2024, International Workshop on Logic and Philosophy: “Agency and Intentionality: Collective and Individual”

Date & Time: 25 - 26 May 2024, 10:00-17:00
Location: Tsinghua University, Beijing
Target audience: Scholars and students interested in the interaction of logic and philosophy
Costs: free
Deadline: Sunday 31 December 2023

The theme of the workshop is "Agency and intentionality: collective and individual". Collective intentionality and collective agency, and closely related topics such as common knowledge, team reasoning, public announcement and other forms of group communication, are among the key issues that are being studied right now in a variety of frameworks.

Some of these frameworks are parsimonious extensions of frameworks for individual agency and individual intentionality, whereas others employ a more extended conceptual and ontological apparatus. And some of the analyses are primarily analytical and conceptual, while others are logical and formal. The main goal of the workshop is to bring these together to exchange results and discuss different views.

Invited speakers: Branden Fitelson (Northeastern University), Marc Slors (Radboud University Nijmegen), Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam) and Deborah Tollefsen (The University of Memphis).

The call for papers welcomes contributions on topics within the theme, such as:
-intention, agency, decision-making
-responsibility and norms
-forms of identity
-individuals in social networks
-group dynamics
Contributed papers on other topics in the area of logic and philosophy are welcome as well.

Scholars who want to contribute should send an abstract of approximately 1200 words (not including references) to: . The abstract should be properly anonymised, so include a separate page with name, affiliation, and contact details. All submissions will be reviewed by an independent program committee.

The possibility to publish selected papers in a special journal issue (of, e.g., Topoi or Philosophies) is actively being explored.

For more information, see http://tsinghualogic.net/JRC/3rdilpw/ or contact Yiyan Wang at .