Connectionists: Call for Papers: NeSy'13 workshop at IJCAI 2013

[Pascal Hitzler]

Deadline extended to: March 22, 2013


Call for Papers

9th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
(NeSy’13)

(3 or 4 Aug 2013)

http://neural-symbolic.org/NeSy13

In conjunction with IJCAI-13

Beijing, China

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;

Neural-symbolic cognitive models;

Biologically-inspired neural-symbolic integration;

Integration of logic and probabilities in deep networks;

Structured learning and relational learning in neural networks;

Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, 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 and should not exceed 6 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
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 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,
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, OUP.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: March 22, 2013 *extended*

Notification of acceptance: 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, USA)

Luis Lamb (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Programme Committee

Howard Bowman, University of Kent, England
Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy
Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy
Barbara Hammer, TU Clausthal, Germany
Steffen Hölldobler, TU Dresden, Germany
Ekaterina Komendantskaya, University of Dundee, Scotland
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Gadi Pinkas, Center for Academic Studies, Israel
Florian Roehrbein, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, U.S.A.
Rudy Setiono, National University of Singapore
Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.
Gerson Zaverucha, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 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 website at
http://www.neural-symbolic.org/

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(http://maillists.city.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/nesy) for announcements
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-- 
Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler
Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
pascal at pascal-hitzler.de   http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/
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