Connectionists: Call for Papers: 9th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy13)

[Garcez, Artur]

Second Call for Papers
9th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy13)
3-4 Aug 2013
http://neural-symbolic.org/NeSy13
 
In conjunction with IJCAI-13
Beijing, China
 
Artificial Intelligence continues to face big challenges in its quest for adaptable intelligent systems. The 
recent developments in the field of neural-symbolic computing bring an opportunity to integrate well-
founded symbolic reasoning with robust neural computing and learning to tackle 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, including:
 
Representation of symbolic knowledge by connectionist systems;
New neural-symbolic learning approaches;
Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks;
New neural-symbolic reasoning approaches;
Neural-symbolic cognitive models and agents;
Biologically-inspired neural-symbolic systems;
Knowledge-based SVMs and deep networks;
Structured learning and relational learning in connectionist systems;
Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, semantic web, software verification and adaptation, 
fault diagnosis, bioinformatics, visual intelligence, language processing, 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 and should not exceed 6 pages in the 
case of research and experience papers, or 4 pages in the case of position papers (including figures, 
bibliography and appendices). All submitted papers will be judged based on their relevance, originality, 
significance, technical quality and organisation. Papers must be submitted through easychair at 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nesy13.
 
Presentation
Selected papers will be presented during the workshop. The workshop will include extra time for 
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, Oxford University Press.
 
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2013
Notification of result: April 19, 2013
Camera-ready papers due: May 3, 2013
Workshop day:  3 or 4 Aug 2013
IJCAI-13 main conference: Aug 3 – 9, 2013
 
Workshop Organisers:
Artur d’Avila Garcez (City University London, UK)
Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, OH, USA)
Luis Lamb (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
 
Additional Information
General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to a.garcez at city.ac.uk
For additional information, please visit the workshop series website at http://www.neural-symbolic.org/
Please join the neural-symbolic mailing list (http://maillists.city.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/nesy) for 
announcements and discussions - it's a low traffic list.

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Dr. Artur d'Avila Garcez, FBCS
Reader in Neural-Symbolic Computing
Department of Computer Science 
City University London
Email: a.garcez at city.ac.uk  
URL: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~aag
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