Connectionists: Call for Papers: 11th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy'16)

[Tarek R. Besold]

== 11th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NEURAL-SYMBOLIC LEARNING AND REASONING
(NeSy’16) ==

Location: New York City, USA
Date: July 16 & 17, 2016
Website: http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/

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NeSy’16 is part of HLAI 2016, the Joint Multi-Conference on Human-Level
Artificial Intelligence (http://www.hlai2016.org)
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== CALL FOR PAPERS ==

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, must be formatted according
to the Springer LNCS style, and should not exceed 10 pages (excluding
references/bibliography) in the case of research and experience papers,
and 6 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of position
papers or technical notes.

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/NeSy16/ for details).

Additionally, for the first time presentations based on extended abstracts
will be considered. These shall allow to report on latest results which
had not been available at the time of paper submission. Therefore, the
abstract deadline is significantly closer to the workshop date. Extended
abstracts may not exceed 2 pages (including references/bibliography) and
should aim to give a good impression of the type of work conducted, the
achieved results and their importance for the field.

== 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 within
the CEUR-WS.org series. Authors of the best papers will be invited to
submit a revised and extended version of their papers to the
newly-established corresponding track of the Journal of Artificial
Intelligence Research (JAIR).
Accepted abstracts will also be included in the official workshop
proceedings. If judged appropriate after presentation and discussion
during the workshop, full papers based on the abstracts may also be
invited to the JAIR track.

== Important Dates ==

Deadline for paper submission: May 25, 2016
Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: June 15, 2016
Deadline for abstract submission: June 20, 2016
Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection: June 24, 2016
Camera-ready paper due: July 1, 2016
Workshop day: July 16 & 17, 2016
HLAI 2016 conference: July16-19, 2016

== Workshop Organisers ==

Tarek R. Besold                    (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Whitney Tabor                      (University of Connecticut, U.S.A.)
Luciano Serafini                   (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Luis Lamb                            (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
do Sul, Brazil)

== Programme Committee ==

Antoine Bordes                  (Facebook AI Research, U.S.A.)
Artur d’Avila Garcez         (City University London, UK)
James Davidson                 (Google Inc., U.S.A.)
Ross Gayler                        (Melbourne, Australia)
Steffen Hölldobler             (TU Dresden, Germany)
Thomas Icard                     (Stanford University, U.S.A.)
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger         (Universität Osnabrück, Germany)
Simon Levy                       (Washington and Lee University, U.S.A.)
Isaac Noble                                    (Google Inc., U.S.A.)
Andrea Passerini                (University of Trento, Italy)
Christopher Potts                (Stanford University, USA)
Daniel L. Silver                  (Acadia University, Canada)
Ron Sun                             (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Jakub Szymanik                 (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Serge Thill                         (University of Skovde, Sweden)
Frank van der Velde          (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

== Keynote speaker(s) ==

Leon Bottou                       (Facebook AI Research, U.S.A.)
Gary Marcus                      (New York University & Geometric
Intelligence Inc., U.S.A.)


== Additional Information ==

General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to
TarekRichard.Besold at unibz.it.
For additional information, please see the workshop website at
http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/
The neural-symbolic integration mailing list will be used for
announcements and discussions.

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Tarek R. Besold, PhD
The KRDB Research Centre
Faculty of Computer Science
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)

E-Mail: tarekrichard.besold at unibz.it
Web: http://sites.google.com/site/tarekbesold/