CfP: IJCAI-05 Workshop on Neural-symbolic learning and reasoning

[Pascal Hitzler]

Call for Papers

Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy'05)
at IJCAI-05, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 31st, 2005
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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;
     * Integrated neural-symbolic learning approaches;
     * Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks;
     * Integrated neural-symbolic reasoning;
     * Biological inspiration for neural-symbolic integration;
     * Applications in robotics, semantic web, engineering,
       bioinformatics, etc.


Submission
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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 and should not exceed 8 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 
directly by email in PDF format to nesy at soi.city.ac.uk


Presentation
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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
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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 a special issue of the Journal of Applied Logic, Elsevier, to 
be published early in 2006.


Important Dates
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Deadline for submission: 4th of March, 2005
Notification of acceptance: 18th of April, 2005
Camera-ready paper due: 16th of May, 2005
Workshop day: TBA (between 30th of July and 1st of August, 2005)
IJCAI 2005 main conference dates: 30th of July to 5th of August, 2005


Workshop Organisers
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Artur d'Avila Garcez (City University London, UK)
Jeff Elman (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Pascal Hitzler (AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany)


Programme Committee
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Artur d'Avila Garcez (City University London, UK)
Howard Blair (Syracuse University, USA)
Jeff Elman (University of California San Diego, USA)
Dov Gabbay (Kings College London, UK)
Marco Gori (University of Siena, Italy)
Barbara Hammer (University of Osnabrck, Germany)
Pascal Hitzler (University Karlsruhe, Germany)
Steffen Hlldobler (TU Dresden, Germany)
Luis Lamb (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
John Lloyd (The Australian National University, Australia)
Asim Roy (Arizona State University, USA)
Antony K. Seda (University College Cork, Ireland)
Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Rudi Setiono (National University, Singapore)
Alessandro Sperduti (University of Padova, Italy)
Stefan Wermter (University of Sunderland, UK)
Gerson Zaverucha (UFRJ, Brazil)


Keynote speakers
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Steffen Hlldobler (TU Dresden, Germany)
Ron Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)


Additional Information
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General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to 
nesy at soi.city.ac.uk
Workshop website: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/phi/NeSy05/



-- 
Dr. Pascal Hitzler
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe
email: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de     phone: +49 721 608 4751
web:   www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/phi   fax: +49 721 608 6580