Connectionists: Call for Participation: NeSy'16, the 11th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning

[Tarek R. Besold]

== 11th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NEURAL-SYMBOLIC LEARNING AND REASONING (NeSy’16) ==

Location: New York City, USA
Date: July 16 & 17, 2016
Website: http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/ <http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/>

---------------
NeSy’16 is part of HLAI 2016, the Joint Multi-Conference on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence (http://www.hlai2016.org <http://www.hlai2016.org/>)
---------------



== REGISTRATION  ==

Registration is handled via the Online Store of the City University London and is possible at a price of 125,- GBP (approx. US$180).

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.

Please go to http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/ <http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/> in order to register for NeSy’16.



== KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ==

Leon Bottou                       (Facebook AI Research, U.S.A.)
Gary Marcus                      (New York University & Geometric Intelligence Inc., U.S.A.)



== INVITED SPEAKERS ==

Andrea Passerini               (University of Trento, Italy)
Thomas Trappenberg        (Dalhousie University, Canada)



== WORKSHOP TOPIC ==

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;
·                Neural Learning theory.
·                Integration of logic and probabilities, e.g., in neural networks, but also more generally;
·                Structured learning and relational learning in neural networks;
·                Logical reasoning carried out by neural networks;
·                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;
·                Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, natural language processing, semantic web, software engineering, fault diagnosis, bioinformatics, visual intelligence, etc.



== Workshop Organisers ==

Tarek R. Besold		(Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Whitney Tabor		(University of Connecticut, U.S.A.)
Luciano Serafini		(Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Luis Lamb			(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

== Programme Committee ==

Antoine Bordes		(Facebook AI Research, U.S.A.)
Artur d’Avila Garcez	(City University London, UK)
James Davidson		(Google Inc., U.S.A.)
Robert Frank			(Yale University, U.S.A.)
Ross Gayler 			(Melbourne, Australia)
Ramanathan Guha		(Google Inc., U.S.A.)
Steffen Hölldobler		(TU Dresden, Germany)
Thomas Icard			(Stanford University, U.S.A.)
Kristian Kersting		(TU Dortmund, Germany)
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger	(Universität Osnabrück, Germany)
Simon Levy			(Washington and Lee University, U.S.A.)
Stephen Muggleton		(Imperial College London, UK)
Isaac Noble			(Google Inc., U.S.A.)
Andrea Passerini		(University of Trento, Italy)
Christopher Potts		(Stanford University, U.S.A.)
Daniel L. Silver		(Acadia University, Canada)
Ron Sun				(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A.)
Jakub Szymanik		(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Serge Thill			(University of Skovde, Sweden)
Michael Witbrock		(Cycorp & Lucid.ai, U.S.A.)
Frank van der Velde	(University of Twente, The Netherlands)



== ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ==

General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to TarekRichard.Besold at unibz.it <mailto:TarekRichard.Besold at unibz.it>.
For additional information, please see the workshop website at http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/ <http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy16/>.
For additional information on HLAI 2016 in general, please see the general website at http://www.hlai2016.org <http://www.hlai2016.org/> or the HLAI 2016 Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/hlaiconference/ <http://www.facebook.com/hlaiconference/>.
The neural-symbolic integration mailing list will be used for announcements and discussions.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/pipermail/connectionists/attachments/20160701/07973bb0/attachment.html>