[Tccc] CFP: TIME 2012 Call for Papers

Helge Janicke heljanic
Tue Feb 21 03:35:43 EST 2012


(Apologies for duplicates)

			  TIME 2012 Call for Papers

		    Nineteenth International Symposium on
		    Temporal Representation and Reasoning

		     Leicester, UK, September 12-14, 2012

		    http://www.tech.dmu.ac.uk/STRL/time12/
				

The TIME symposium series is a well-established annual event that brings
together researchers from all areas of computer science that involve
temporal representation and reasoning. This includes, but is not limited
to, artificial intelligence, temporal databases, and the verification of
software and hardware systems. In addition to fostering
interdisciplinarity, the TIME symposia emphasize bridging the gap
between theoretical and applied research.

The conference will span three days, and will be organized as a
combination of technical paper presentations, keynote lectures, and
tutorials. In addition, TIME 2012 will feature a special track on
Temporal Representation and Reasoning in Medicine.

* IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission:     April 16
Paper Submission:        April 20
Paper Notification:      May 20
Camera Ready Copy Due:   June 24
TIME 2012 Symposium:     September 12-14

* TOPICS

The main topics of the conference are:

(1) Temporal Representation and Reasoning in AI
(2) Temporal Database Management
(3) Temporal Logic and Verification in Computer Science
(4) Special Track on Temporal Representation and Reasoning in Medicine

Temporal Representation and Reasoning in AI includes, but is not limited to:

- Temporal aspects of agent- and policy-based systems
- Spatial and temporal reasoning
- Reasoning about actions and change
- Planning and planning languages
- Ontologies of time and space-time
- Belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge
- Temporal learning and discovery
- Time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling)
- Time in human-machine interaction
- Temporal information extraction
- Time in natural language processing
- Spatio-temporal knowledge representation systems
- Spatio-temporal ontologies for the semantic web


Temporal Database Management includes, but is not limited to:

- Temporal data models and query languages
- Temporal query processing and indexing
- Temporal data mining
- Time series data management
- Stream data management
- Spatio-temporal data management, including moving objects
- Data currency and expiration
- Indeterminate and imprecise temporal data
- Temporal constraints
- Temporal aspects of workflow and ECA systems
- Real-time databases
- Time-dependent security policies
- Privacy in temporal and spatio-temporal data
- Temporal aspects of multimedia databases
- Temporal aspects of e-services and web applications
- Temporal aspects of distributed systems
- Novel applications of temporal database management
- Experiences with real applications

Temporal Logic and Verification in Computer Science includes, but is not
limited to:

- Specification and verification of systems
- Verification of web applications
- Synthesis and execution
- Model checking algorithms
- Verification of infinite-state systems
- Reasoning about transition systems
- Temporal architectures
- Temporal logics for distributed systems
- Temporal logics of knowledge
- Hybrid systems and real-time logics
- Interval temporal logics and duration calculi
- Temporal logics: expressiveness, decidability, and complexity
- Tools and practical systems
- Temporal issues in security

* SPECIAL TRACK ON TEMPORAL REPRESENTATION AND REASONING IN MEDICINE

This year, TIME has an additional special track on Temporal
Representation and Reasoning in Medicine organized by Carlo Combi.
Submissions for the special track will be primarily managed by him,
though the final decision on acceptance will be taken by the whole PC.

Representing, maintaining, querying, and reasoning about time-oriented
medical data are a major theoretical and practical research area.
Temporal representation and reasoning deals with storage and retrieval
of data that have heterogeneous temporal dimensions, with the support of
various inference tasks involving time-oriented data, such as planning
and diagnosing, and with the formal specification of temporal systems.

Temporal representation and reasoning in medicine holds a long history
and received an increasing interest over the last 30 years: indeed, it
is important to medical decision making (e.g., in clinical diagnosis and
therapy planning) and in medical data modeling and managing (e.g., for
representation of the patient's medical record).

High quality contributions for the special track are welcome in, but are
not limited to, any of the following sub-areas of research:

- Temporal reasoning and time-oriented diagnosis or therapy-planning in
medicine
- Temporal constraint representation and management in medical databases
- Querying and maintaining time-oriented medical databases
- Modeling and querying time-oriented medical data
- Acquisition, maintenance, sharing, and reuse of temporal medical knowledge
- Handling multiple and heterogeneous time-oriented clinical databases
- Design and implementation of time-oriented medical information systems
- Summarization of time-oriented medical data
- Temporal data mining in medicine
- Visualization of temporal clinical data and knowledge
- Temporal knowledge and medical ontologies
- Clinical guidelines, workflows and temporal information
- Managing multimedia temporal data

* PAPER SUBMISSION

Submissions of high quality papers describing research results are
solicited. Submitted papers should contain original, previously
unpublished content, should be written in English, and must not be
simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere.

Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for
quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will
be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings which, as
in previous years, are expected to be published by the IEEE Computer
Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS).  Acceptance of a paper
is contingent on one author presenting the paper at the symposium.

Submissions should be in PDF format (with the necessary fonts embedded).
They must be formatted according to the IEEE guide-lines described at

  ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/		     proceedings/8.5x11 -
Formatting files/

and must not exceed 8 pages; over-length submissions may be rejected
without review.

Papers are submitted electronically via EasyChair:

  http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=time12


* CONFERENCE OFFICERS

General Chair:
  Ben Moszkowski, De Montfort University, UK

Program Committee Chairs:
  Ben Moszkowski, De Montfort University, UK
  Mark Reynolds, University of Western Australia, Australia
  Paolo Terenziani, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy

Organizational Chairs:
  Antonio Cau, De Montfort University, UK
  Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK

* PROGRAM COMMITTEE includes

 Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
 Alexander Artikis, National Centre for Scientific Research
"Demokritos", Greece
 Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy
 Antonio Cau, De Montfort University, UK
 Carlo Combi, University of Verona, Italy
 Amar Das, Stanford University, USA
 Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool, UK
 Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
 Carlo Alberto Furia, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
 Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK
 Fabio Grandi, University of Bologna, Italy
 Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University, Finland
 Jose Juarez, University of Murcia, Spain
 Martin Leucker, University of Luebeck, Germany
 Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 Angelo Montanari, University of Udine, Italy
 Ben Moszkowski, De Montfort University, UK
 James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA
 Jochen Renz, Australian National University, Australia
 Peter Revesz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
 Mark Reynolds, University of Western Australia, Australia
 Lucia Sacchi, Brunel University, UK
 Martin Sachenbacher, Technical University Munich, Germany
 Cesar Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
 Yuval Shahar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
 Richard Snodgrass, University of Arizona, USA
 Paolo Terenziani, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
 Richard Trefler, University of Waterloo, Canada
 Stefan Woelfl, University of Freiburg, Germany
 Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China


* FURTHER INFORMATION

Questions related to submission, reviewing, and program:
  time12 at dmu.ac.uk

Questions related to local organization:
  time12-org at dmu.ac.uk


regards,
Helge

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