Connectionists: Call for Papers, 9th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning

[Luis Lamb]

Call for Papers
9th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning 
(NeSy’13)
(3 or 4 Aug 2013)
http://neural-symbolic.org/NeSy13
In conjunction with IJCAI-13, Beijing, China

The Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning is intended to 
create an atmosphere of exchange of ideas, providing a forum for the 
presentation and discussion of the key topics related to the integration 
of symbolic and sub-symbolic computation, including:

Representation of symbolic knowledge by connectionist systems;
New neural-symbolic learning approaches;
Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks;
New neural-symbolic reasoning approaches;
Neural-symbolic cognitive models and agents;
Biologically-inspired neural-symbolic systems;
Knowledge-based SVMs and deep networks;
Structured learning and relational learning in connectionist systems;
Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, semantic web, 
software verification and adaptation, fault diagnosis, bioinformatics, 
visual intelligence, language processing, etc.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that 
have not been published elsewhere. Submitted papers must be written in 
English and should not exceed 6 pages in the case of research and 
experience papers, and 4 pages in the case of position papers (including 
figures, bibliography and appendices). All submitted papers will be 
judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and 
soundness. Papers must be submitted through easychair at 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nesy13.

Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings, 
which will be distributed during the workshop. Authors of the best 
papers will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their 
papers to the Journal of Logic and Computation, reasoning and learning 
corner, OUP.

Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: 20 April 2013
Notification of acceptance: 20 May 2013
Camera-ready papers due: 30 May 2013
Workshop day:  3 or 4 Aug 2013
IJCAI-13 main conference: 3 – 9 Aug 2013

Workshop Organisers
Artur d’Avila Garcez (City University London, UK)
Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA)
Luis Lamb (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Programme Committee
Howard Bowman, University of Kent, England
Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy
Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy
Barbara Hammer, TU Clausthal, Germany
Steffen Hölldobler, TU Dresden, Germany
Ekaterina Komendantskaya, University of Dundee, Scotland
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Gadi Pinkas, Center for Academic Studies, Israel
Florian Roehrbein, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, U.S.A.
Rudy Setiono, National University of Singapore
Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.
Gerson Zaverucha, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Additional Information
General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to
a.garcez at city.ac.uk