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Track 1: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/ai

Organized within the framework of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems (FedCSIS 2020)

Sofia, Bulgaria, 6-9 September, 2020
http://www.fedcsis.org/

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FOR PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINES SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS MESSAGE

Our track includes the following technical sessions:

AAIA'20 - 15th International Symposium on Advances in Artificial
Intelligence and Applications
https://fedcsis.org/2020/aaia

AAIA'20 TOPICS:

-- Decision Support
-- Machine Learning
-- Fuzzy Sets and Soft Computing
-- Rough Sets and Approximate Reasoning
-- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
-- Data Modeling and Feature Engineering
-- Data Integration and Information Fusion
-- Hybrid and Hierarchical Intelligent Systems
-- Neural Networks and Deep Learning
-- Bayesian Networks and Bayesian Reasoning
-- Case-based Reasoning and Similarity
-- Web Mining and Social Networks
-- AI in Business Intelligence and Online Analytics
-- AI in Robotics and Cyber-Physical Systems
-- AI-centered Systems and Large-Scale Applications

ASIR’20 - 9th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information
Retrieval
https://fedcsis.org/2020/asir

ASIR’20 TOPICS:

-- Data analytics.
-- Data-driven decision making.
-- Domain-specific semantic applications.
-- Evaluation methodologies for semantic search and retrieval.
-- Knowledge representation and management.
-- Models for document representation.
-- Natural language semantic processing.
-- Ontology for semantic information retrieval.
-- Ontology alignment, mapping and merging.
-- Query interfaces.
-- Searching and ranking.
-- Semantic multimedia retrieval.
-- Visualization of retrieved results.

FVRM'20 - 1st Symposium on Formal Approaches to Vagueness in Relation to
Mereology
https://fedcsis.org/2020/fvrm

FVRM'20 TOPICS:

-- Applications of Mereology and Vagueness,
-- Granular Mereo-Classifiers,
-- Mereo-ontologies: Comparison,
-- Critical Evaluation of Spatial Mereology (Mereotopology),
-- Rough Mereotopologies,
-- Rough Mereology in Engineering (Assembling, Design, etc),
-- Descriptive Proximity and Point-free applications Mereology in Robotics,
-- Intelligent Navigation/Planning,
-- Imaging, Intelligent Image Analysis,
-- Mathematical Morphology and Mereology,
-- Applications of Non-transitive Parthood and Granularity in Areas such
as Taxonomy,
-- Medical Diagnosis, and Imaging (histology, etc),
-- Mereology and Fuzzy Sets in Physics,
-- Regions as Pluralities,
-- Related Ontologies,
-- Theories of Knowledge,
-- Knowledge Consistency,
-- Applications of Knowledge Based Methods involving Mereology Related
Situation Logics,
-- Ontology,
-- Domain Science Point-Free Geometry,
-- Geometric Logic,
-- Qualitative Space,
-- Whitehead-Gerla Approach Hybrid Approaches,
-- Novel Applications,
-- RCC, and Related Topics.

LTA'20 - 5th International Workshop on Language Technologies and
Applications
https://fedcsis.org/2020/lta

LTA'20 TOPICS:

-- Computational Intelligence methods applied to language & text
processing
-- text analysis
-- language networks
-- text classification
-- language networks, resources and corpora
-- document clustering
-- various forms of text recognition
-- machine translation
-- intelligent text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) methods
-- authorship identification and verification
-- author profiling
-- plagiarism detection
-- sentiment analysis
-- NLP applications in education
-- knowledge extraction and retrieval from text and natural language
structures
-- multi-modal and natural language interfaces
-- innovative language-oriented applications and tools
-- interactions models and applications via Virtual Reality and
Augmented Reality
-- NLP for text analysis in forensic linguistics and cybersecurity

WCO'20 - 13th International Workshop on Computational Optimization
https://fedcsis.org/2020/wco

WCO'20 TOPICS:

-- combinatorial and continuous global optimization
-- unconstrained and constrained optimization
-- multiobjective and robust optimization
-- optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments
-- optimization on graphs
-- large-scale optimization, in parallel and distributed computational
environments
-- meta-heuristics for optimization, nature-inspired approaches and
any other derivative-free methods
-- exact/heuristic hybrid methods, involving natural computing
techniques and other global and local optimization methods
-- numerical and heuristic methods for modeling

FedCSIS'20 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (to be extended):

-- Christian Blum (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
(IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain)
-- George Boustras (European University, Cyprus)
-- Hans-Georg Fill (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

PAPER PUBLICATION:

Preprints will be published on USB memory sticks provided to the
FedCSIS'20 participants.

Papers presented during FedCSIS'20 will be submitted to IEEE for
inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library under a nonexclusive copyright,
thus further publication of extended papers are possible.

Moreover, proceedings published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI
numbers will be posted at FedCSIS WWW site.

IMPORTANT DATES:

-- Regular paper submission: May 15, 2020 (fixed - no extensions)
-- Position paper submission:June 9, 2020 (with option of regular paper
submission - if discussed with chairs)
-- Acceptance notification: June 30, 2020
-- Final paper submission and author registration: July 15, 2020
-- Conference dates: September 6-9, 2020

Please forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who
could be interested in it.

CHAIRS OF THE AI TRACK

Dominik Slezak & Stan Matwin