Connectionists: [CFP] Foundations and Future of Change in Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) - Workshop @ ECAI

[Kai Sauerwald]

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   FCAI 2025 @ ECAI 2025
   Foundations and Future of Change in Artificial Intelligence

   October 25/26, Bologna, Italy
   https://fcai2025.machine-reasoning.org/

   Workshop co-located with the
   28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025)
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Changing information transversely affects nearly any task and process 
that we aim to formalize computationally. Consequently, making sense of 
how to change information is a central aspect and precursor for further 
advancements in many domains. Naturally, approaches to describe changes, 
to deal with change, and to conduct changes have been developed in very 
different areas of artificial intelligence. These approaches generally 
consider changing from different angles and highlight diverse aspects 
that sometimes complement each other. For instance, in database theory, 
much work has been devoted to transactions as the main representation of 
change and the study of how that affects the computational complexity of 
querying such databases. On the other hand, researchers in belief change 
investigated the axiomatic and semantics of different kinds of changes 
in formal theories. Recent advancements in Machine Learning pose new and 
exciting challenges in formal approaches to change, which seem 
conceptually different from classical approaches to change.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different areas of 
AI and beyond who work on change in their respective areas and see 
potential in bridging approaches or for radically advanced existing 
approaches to change to be combined with new ideas and perspectives. We 
also invite works that provide general insights on change that are 
important for multiple areas of artificial intelligence or even for 
computer science in general.


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*** List of Topics ***

The workshop welcomes contributions on every topic related to the formal 
treatment of change, the evolution of representations in artificial 
intelligence, and approaches that implement such approaches. The 
following lists potential topics (but is not limited to these):

• Position papers on the foundations and future of change
• Logics for the representations of changes or reasoning about changes
• Belief change theory
• Repair in databases and ontologies
• Database update and querying
• Dynamic complexity theory
• Approaches to the meaning and semantics of change, e.g., conditionals 
and plausibility
• Alternative meanings of change
• Theories of aspects and kinds of changes, like inconsistency, time or 
ontologies of change
• Foundations of editing, retraining or learning of subsymbolic 
representations
• Learning as a change process
• Algorithms to compute changes
• Approaches to track changes
• Philosophical aspects of change
• Updating incomplete information
• Dynamics of logic and database systems
• Evolution and versioning
• Reasoning about update programs


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*** Deadlines and Submission ***

• Paper submission: July 13, 2025
• Notification: August 3, 2025
• Workshop: October 25/26, 2025 (tentative)

There are two types of submissions:

  • Full papers. Full papers should be at most 18 pages (one column), 
excluding references and acknowledgments. Papers already published or 
accepted for publication at other conferences are also welcome, provided 
that the original publication is mentioned in a footnote on the first 
page and the submission at FCAI falls within the authors’ rights. In the 
same vein, papers under review for other conferences can be submitted 
with a similar indication on their front page.

  • Extended Abstracts. Extended abstracts should be at most 5 pages 
(one column), excluding references and acknowledgments. The abstracts 
should introduce work that has recently been published, is under review, 
or is ongoing research at an advanced stage. We highly encourage to 
attach to the submission a preprint/postprint or a technical report. 
Such extra material will be read at the discretion of the reviewers. 
Submitting already published material may require permission by the 
copyright holder.

Submission will be through the EasyChair conference system:

	https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fcai2025

The accepted papers will be made available electronically in the CEUR 
Workshop Proceedings series as informal proceedings 
(http://ceur-ws.org/). The copyright of the papers remains with the 
authors. Full papers will be indexed by dblp.org; but extended abstracts 
published on CEUR proceedings will not be indexed by dblp.org.


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*** PC Chairs ***

• Maria Vanina Martinez (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute 
(AAAI-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain)
• Nina Pardal (University of Huddersfield, UK)
• Kai Sauerwald (FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany)


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*** Further Information ***

For further information, please visit the FCAI webpage:

   https://fcai2025.machine-reasoning.org/

Please feel free to contact the organizer of FCAI 2025.

Information on the venue and registration can be obtained from the ECAI 
2025 website:

https://ecai2025.org/