Connectionists: Call for Papers: 10th Intl. Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy'15) @ IJCAI-15

[Tarek R. Besold]

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10th International Workshop on
Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy’15)
July 25, 26, or 27, 2015
 
In conjunction with IJCAI-15
Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
Artificial Intelligence researchers continue to face huge challenges in their quest to develop truly intelligent systems. The recent developments in the field of neural-symbolic integration bring an opportunity to integrate well-founded symbolic artificial intelligence with robust neural computing machinery to help tackle some of these challenges.
 
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 neural-symbolic integration. Topics of interest include:

·     The representation of symbolic knowledge by connectionist systems;
·     Neural Learning theory.
·     Integration of logic and probabilities, e.g., in neural networks, but also more generally;
·     Structured learning and relational learning in neural networks;
·     Logical reasoning carried out by neural networks;
·     Integrated neural-symbolic learning approaches;
·     Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks;
·     Integrated neural-symbolic reasoning;
·     Neural-symbolic cognitive models;
·     Biologically-inspired neural-symbolic integration;
·     Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, natural language processing, semantic web, software engineering, fault diagnosis, bioinformatics, visual intelligence, etc.
 
Submission

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere. Submitted papers must be written in English, use the IJCAI style, 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 (please see http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy15/ for details).
 
Presentation

Selected papers will be presented during the workshop. The workshop will include extra time for audience discussion of the presentation allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented.
 
Publication

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.
 
Important Dates

Deadline for submission: April 27, 2015
Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2015
Camera-ready paper due: May 30, 2015
Workshop day: July 25, 26, or 27, 2015
IJCAI-14 main conference dates: July 28-31, 2015
 
Workshop Organisers

Tarek Besold		(Universität Osnabrück, Germany)
Thomas Icard		(Stanford University, USA)
Luis Lamb			(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Risto Miikkulainen	(The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
 
Programme Committee

Artur d’Avila Garcez		(City University London, UK)
Ross Gayler				(Melbourne, Australia)
Ramanathan V. Guha		(Google Inc., USA)
Pascal Hitzler			(Wright State University, USA)
Steffen Hölldobler		(TU Dresden, Germany)
Frank Jäkel				(Universität Osnabrück, Germany)
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger		(Universität Osnabrück, Germany)
Alan Perotti				(University of Turin, Italy)
Christopher Potts			(Stanford University, USA)
Ron Sun				(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Jakub Szymanik			(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Gerson Zaverucha		(Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
 
Keynote speaker(s)

Dan Roth			(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
 
 
Additional Information

General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to Luis Lamb at LuisLamb at acm.org.
For additional information, please see the workshop website at http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy15/
The neural-symbolic integration mailing list will be used for announcements and discussions.


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Tarek R. Besold
Institute of Cognitive Science
University of Osnabrück (Germany)
tbesold at uni-osnabrueck.de