<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">== 11th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NEURAL-SYMBOLIC LEARNING AND REASONING (NeSy’16) ==</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Location: New York City, USA</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Date: July 16 & 17, 2016</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Website: <a href="http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/</span></a></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">---------------</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">NeSy’16 is part of HLAI 2016, the Joint Multi-Conference on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence (<a href="http://www.hlai2016.org/" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">http://www.hlai2016.org</span></a>)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">---------------</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">== ABSTRACT SUBMISSION ENDS ==</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">The abstract submission for NeSy’16 closes on June 20, 2016.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">== REGISTRATION IS OPEN ==</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Registration is handled via the Online Store of the City University London. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Please go to <a href="http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/</span></a> in order to register for NeSy’16.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">== KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ==</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Leon Bottou (Facebook AI Research, U.S.A.)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Gary Marcus (New York University & Geometric Intelligence Inc., U.S.A.)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">== INVITED SPEAKERS ==</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Andrea Passerini (University of Trento, Italy)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Thomas Trappenberg (Dalhousie University, Canada)</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">== CALL FOR PAPERS ==</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">· The representation of symbolic knowledge by connectionist systems;</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">· Neural Learning theory.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">· Integration of logic and probabilities, e.g., in neural networks, but also more generally;</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">· Structured learning and relational learning in neural networks;</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">· Logical reasoning carried out by neural networks;</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">· Integrated neural-symbolic learning approaches;</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">· Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks;</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">· Integrated neural-symbolic reasoning;</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">· Neural-symbolic cognitive models;</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">· Biologically-inspired neural-symbolic integration;</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">· Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, natural language processing, semantic web, software engineering, fault diagnosis, bioinformatics, visual intelligence, etc.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">== Submission ==</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Papers must be submitted through EasyChair (please see <a href="http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/</span></a> for details).</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">== Presentation ==</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">== Publication ==</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings within the <a href="http://ceur-ws.org/" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">== Important Dates ==</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Deadline for abstract submission: June 20, 2016</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection: June 24, 2016</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camera-ready paper due: July 1, 2016</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Workshop day: July 16 & 17, 2016</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">HLAI 2016 conference: July16-19, 2016</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">== Workshop Organisers ==</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Tarek R. Besold<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Whitney Tabor<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(University of Connecticut, U.S.A.)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Luciano Serafini<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Luis Lamb<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">== Programme Committee ==</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Antoine Bordes<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Facebook AI Research, U.S.A.)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Artur d’Avila Garcez<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(City University London, UK)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">James Davidson<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Google Inc., U.S.A.)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Robert Frank<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Yale University, U.S.A.)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Ross Gayler <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Melbourne, Australia)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Ramanathan Guha<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Google Inc., U.S.A.)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Steffen Hölldobler<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(TU Dresden, Germany)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Thomas Icard<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Stanford University, U.S.A.)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Kristian Kersting<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(TU Dortmund, Germany)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Kai-Uwe Kühnberger<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Universität Osnabrück, Germany)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Simon Levy<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Washington and Lee University, U.S.A.)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stephen Muggleton<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Imperial College London, UK)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Isaac Noble<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Google Inc., U.S.A.)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Andrea Passerini<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(University of Trento, Italy)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Christopher Potts<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Stanford University, U.S.A.)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daniel L. Silver<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Acadia University, Canada)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Ron Sun<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A.)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Jakub Szymanik<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Serge Thill<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(University of Skovde, Sweden)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Michael Witbrock<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Cycorp & Lucid.ai, U.S.A.)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Frank van der Velde<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(University of Twente, The Netherlands)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">== ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ==</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to <a href="mailto:TarekRichard.Besold@unibz.it" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">TarekRichard.Besold@unibz.it</span></a>.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">For additional information, please see the workshop website at <a href="http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/</span></a>.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">For additional information on HLAI 2016 in general, please see the general website at <a href="http://www.hlai2016.org/" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">http://www.hlai2016.org</span></a> or the HLAI 2016 Facebook page at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/hlaiconference/" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">http://www.facebook.com/hlaiconference/</span></a>.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The neural-symbolic integration mailing list will be used for announcements and discussions.</span></div></div></body></html>