TIME 2012 - 19th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning

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Category TIME 2012

Deadline: April 20, 2012 | Date: September 12, 2012-September 14, 2012

Venue/Country: Leicester, U.K.

Updated: 2012-02-19 15:20:09 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

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

- 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:

time12dmu.ac.uk

Questions related to local organization:

time12-orgdmu.ac.uk