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KR 2021: Principles of Knowledge Representation & Reasoning

6-12 Nov 2021
Hanoi, Vietnam

CALL FOR PAPERS

18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 
(KR2021)

November 6-12, 2021, Hanoi, Vietnam

https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) is a well-established and 
lively field of research. In KR a fundamental assumption is that an 
agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, 
suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. This assumption, 
that much of what an agent deals with is knowledge-based, is common in 
many modern intelligent systems. Consequently, KR has contributed to the 
theory and practice of various areas in AI, including automated planning 
and natural language understanding, and to fields beyond AI, including 
databases, verification, software engineering, and robotics. In recent 
years, KR has contributed also to new and emerging fields, including the 
semantic web, computational biology, cyber security, and the development 
of software agents.

The KR conference series is the leading forum for timely in-depth 
presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the 
representation and computational management of knowledge.

SCOPE

We solicit papers presenting novel results on the principles of KR that 
clearly contribute to the formal foundations of relevant problems or show 
the applicability of results to implemented or implementable systems. We 
also welcome papers from other areas that show clear use of, or 
contributions to, the principles or practice of KR.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Applications of KR

- Argumentation

- Belief revision and update, belief merging, information fusion

- Commonsense reasoning

- Computational aspects of knowledge representation

- Concept formation, similarity-based reasoning

- Contextual reasoning

- Decision making

- Description logics

- Explanation finding, diagnosis, causal reasoning, abduction

- Geometric, spatial, and temporal reasoning

- Inconsistency- and exception-tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics

- KR and autonomous agents and multi-agent systems

- KR and cognitive robotics

- KR and cyber security

- KR and education

- KR and game theory

- KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge acquisition

- KR and natural language processing and understanding

- KR and the Web, Semantic Web

- Knowledge graphs and open linked data

- Knowledge representation languages

- Logic programming, answer set programming

- Modeling and reasoning about preferences

- Multi- and order-sorted representations and reasoning

- Nonmonotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics

- Ontology formalisms and models

- Ontology-based data access, integration, and exchange

- Philosophical foundations of KR

- Qualitative reasoning, reasoning about physical systems

- Reasoning about actions and change, action languages

- Reasoning about constraints, constraint programming

- Reasoning about knowledge, beliefs, and other mental attitudes

- Uncertainty, vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics

The KR2021 program will also feature workshops and tutorials, solicited by 
means
of an open call, as well as a doctoral consortium.


TRACKS


In addition to the main conference track, KR2021 will host the following tracks
and sessions:



* Applications and Systems Track

* Recently Published Research Track

* Special Session on KR and Machine Learning

* Special Session on KR and Robotics


IMPORTANT DATES



Submission of title and abstract:     March 24, 2021

Paper submission deadline:          March 31, 2021

Author response period:         May 24-26, 2021

Notification:                 June 15, 2021

Camera-ready papers:             July 14, 2021

Conference dates:             November 6-12, 2021



The Recently Published Research track, workshops, tutorials, and the doctoral
consortium will have different submission and notification dates, which will
be announced separately.


AUTHOR GUIDELINES


All submissions must be written in English and in AAAI style. Papers must be
submitted in PDF format, through the EasyChair conference system:


https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr2021


For the main conference track and additional tracks/sessions (except for
the Recently Published Research track), we invite


- Full papers of up to 9 pages, including abstract, figures, and appendices
  (if any), but excluding references and acknowledgements.

- Short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references and acknowledgements.


Both full and short papers must describe original, previously unpublished
research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere.
These restrictions do not apply to previously accepted workshop papers with
a limited audience and/or without archival proceedings, and to papers uploaded 
at
public repositories (e.g., arXiv).



Accepted full papers and short papers will be published in the KR2021 
proceedings.



Authors may optionally submit a separate PDF containing additional 
information that substantiates the claims made in their paper, such as 
proof details, additional experimental results, further details on 
experimental design, etc. If authors wish to make such material available 
to reviewers, they should do so by submitting a file through EasyChair, 
rather than by including links or references in their paper. Please note 
that the main paper must be self contained, as the supplementary material 
will not be published.  Moreover, reviewers will have the option but not 
the obligation to consult the supplementary material.



The preceding submission guidelines apply to the main track, as well as to 
the Applications and Systems track, the KR & Machine Learning special 
session, and the KR & Robotics special session. By contrast, different 
submission guidelines apply to the Recently Published Research track, 
workshops, tutorials, and the doctoral consortium, which will be announced 
separately.



CONFERENCE CHAIRS:



General:
   Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey)


Program:
   Meghyn Bienvenu (CNRS & University of Bordeaux, France)
   Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)


Applications and Systems Track:
   Martin Gebser (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
   Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK)


Recently Published Research Track:
   Vladimir Lifschitz (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
   Pierre Marquis (Artois University & Institut Universitaire de France, 
France)


Special Session on KR & Machine Learning:
   Vaishak Belle (University of Edinburgh, UK)
   Luc de Raedt (KU Leuven, Belgium)


Special Session on KR & Robotics:
   Alessandro Saffioti (University of Örebro, Sweden)
   Mary-Anne Williams (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)


Workshop and Tutorials:
   Markus Kroetzsch (TU Dresden, Germany)
   Yongmei Liu (Sun Yat-sen University, China)


Doctoral Consortium:
   Jens Classen (Simon Fraser University)
   Magdalena Ortiz (TU Vienna, Austria)


Local Organization:
   Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza University, Italy)
   Son Tran (New Mexico State University, USA)
   Long Tran-Thanh (University of Warwick, UK)
   Thanh Van Dinh (East Asia University of Technology, Vietnam)


Virtual Conference Arrangements:
   Stefan Borgwardt (TU Dresden, Germany)
   Marco Console (Sapienza University Italy)
   Long Tran-Thanh (University of Warwick, UK)


Sponsorship:
   Kuldeep S. Meel (NUS, Singapore)
   Zeynep G. Saribatur (TU Wien, Austria)


Publicity:
   Thanh Van Dinh (East Asia University of Technology, Vietnam)
   Paolo Felli (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
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