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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">== 11th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NEURAL-SYMBOLIC LEARNING AND REASONING (NeSy’16) ==</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Location: New York City, USA</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Date: July 16 & 17, 2016</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #000000" class="">Website: <a href="http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">---------------</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">NeSy’16 is part of HLAI 2016, the Joint Multi-Conference on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence (<a href="http://www.hlai2016.org/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">http://www.hlai2016.org</span></a>)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">---------------</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">== REGISTRATION IS OPEN ==</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Registration is handled via the Online Store of the City University London. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Early-bird registration is open until Juni 25, 2016, at a price of 75,- GBP (approx. US$110). Late registration from June 26, 2016, is possible at a price of 125,- GBP (approx. US$180).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Registration for NeSy’16 covers the participation in the workshop itself and the indicated keynote lectures, as well as an entrance ticket to the general HLAI 2016 reception and poster session on the evening of July 17, 2016.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Please go to <a href="http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/</span></a> in order to register for NeSy’16.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">== KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ==</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Leon Bottou (Facebook AI Research, U.S.A.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Gary Marcus (New York University & Geometric Intelligence Inc., U.S.A.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">== CALL FOR PAPERS ==</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">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.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">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:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">· The representation of symbolic knowledge by connectionist systems;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">· Neural Learning theory.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">· Integration of logic and probabilities, e.g., in neural networks, but also more generally;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">· Structured learning and relational learning in neural networks;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">· Logical reasoning carried out by neural networks;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">· Integrated neural-symbolic learning approaches;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">· Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">· Integrated neural-symbolic reasoning;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">· Neural-symbolic cognitive models;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">· Biologically-inspired neural-symbolic integration;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">· Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, natural language processing, semantic web, software engineering, fault diagnosis, bioinformatics, visual intelligence, etc.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">== Submission ==</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">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.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Papers must be submitted through EasyChair (please see <a href="http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/</span></a> for details).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">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.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">== Presentation ==</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">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.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">== Publication ==</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings within the <a href="http://ceur-ws.org/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">CEUR-WS.org</span></a> 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).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">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.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">== Important Dates ==</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Deadline for paper submission: May 25, 2016</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: June 15, 2016</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Deadline for abstract submission: June 20, 2016</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection: June 24, 2016</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Camera-ready paper due: July 1, 2016</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Workshop day: July 16 & 17, 2016</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">HLAI 2016 conference: July16-19, 2016</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">== Workshop Organisers ==</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Tarek R. Besold<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Whitney Tabor<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(University of Connecticut, U.S.A.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Luciano Serafini<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Luis Lamb<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">== Programme Committee ==</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Antoine Bordes<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Facebook AI Research, U.S.A.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Artur d’Avila Garcez<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(City University London, UK)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">James Davidson<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Google Inc., U.S.A.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Robert Frank<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Yale University, U.S.A.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Ross Gayler <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Melbourne, Australia)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Ramanathan Guha<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Google Inc., U.S.A.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Steffen Hölldobler<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(TU Dresden, Germany)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Thomas Icard<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Stanford University, U.S.A.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Kristian Kersting<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(TU Dortmund, Germany)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Kai-Uwe Kühnberger<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Universität Osnabrück, Germany)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Simon Levy<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Washington and Lee University, U.S.A.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Stephen Muggleton<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Imperial College London, UK)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Isaac Noble<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Google Inc., U.S.A.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Andrea Passerini<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(University of Trento, Italy)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Christopher Potts<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Stanford University, U.S.A.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Daniel L. Silver<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Acadia University, Canada)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Ron Sun<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Jakub Szymanik<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Serge Thill<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(University of Skovde, Sweden)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Michael Witbrock<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Cycorp & Lucid.ai, U.S.A.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Frank van der Velde<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(University of Twente, The Netherlands)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">== ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ==</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to <a href="mailto:TarekRichard.Besold@unibz.it" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">TarekRichard.Besold@unibz.it</span></a>.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">For additional information, please see the workshop website at <a href="http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/</span></a>.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">For additional information on HLAI 2016 in general, please see the general website at <a href="http://www.hlai2016.org/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">http://www.hlai2016.org</span></a> or the HLAI 2016 Facebook page at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/hlaiconference/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">http://www.facebook.com/hlaiconference/</span></a>.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The neural-symbolic integration mailing list will be used for announcements and discussions.</span></div></body></html>