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NeSy 2008 (4th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning), Patras (Greece), July 2008

Fourth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning

Workshop at ECAI2008, Patras, Greece, July 2008

http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy08/

NeSy'05 took place at IJCAI-05
NeSy'06 took place at ECAI2006
NeSy'07 took place at IJCAI-07

Call for Papers
---------------

Artificial Intelligence researchers continue to face huge challenges in the
ir 
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 creat
e 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;
     * Learning in neural-symbolic systems;
     * Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks;
     * Reasoning in neural-symbolic systems;
     * Biological inspiration for neural-symbolic integration;
     * Neural networks and probabilities;
     * Applications in robotics, semantic web, engineering, bioinformatics,
 etc.


Submission

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that ha
ve 
not been submitted for review or published elsewhere. Submitted papers must
 be 
written in English and should not exceed 5 pages in the case of research an
d 
experience papers, and 2 pages in the case of position papers (including 
figures, bibliography and appendices) in ECAI2008 format as described in th
e 
ECAI2008 submissions and style guide 
(http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/substyles.htm). All submitted papers wi
ll 
be judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and
 
soundness. Papers must be submitted directly by email in PDF format to 
nesy@soi.city.ac.uk


Presentation

Selected papers will have to be presented during the workshop. The workshop
 
will include extra time for audience discussion of the presentation allowin
g 
the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ide
as 
being presented.


Publication

Accepted papers will be published electronically in the CEUR workshop 
proceedings (bearing an ISSN number). Hardcopies will be distributed during
 the 
workshop. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised an
d 
extended version of their papers to the Journal of Logic and Computation, O
UP.

Important Dates

Deadline for submission: May 9th, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 30th, 2008
Camera-ready paper due: June 6th, 2008
Workshop date: July 21st or 22nd, 2008
ECAI2008 main conference dates: 21st to 25th of July, 2008

Workshop Organisers

Artur d'Avila Garcez (City University London, UK)
Pascal Hitzler (University Karlsruhe, Germany)

Programme Committee (incomplete)

Sebastian Bader, TU Dresden, Germany
Howard Blair, Syracuse University, U.S.A.
Luc de Raedt, KU Leuven, Belgium
Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy
Barbara Hammer, TU Clausthal, Germany
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece
Steffen Hlldobler, TU Dresden, Germany
Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Sophia Antipolis, France
Kai-Uwe Khnberger, Osnabrck, Germany
Luis Lamb, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Roberto Prevete, University of Naples, Italy
Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Anthony K. Seda, University College Cork, Ireland
Frank van der Velde, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Gerson Zaverucha, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Keynote speakers

Kai-Uwe Khnberger, Osnabrck, Germany
<more information forthcoming>

Additional Information

General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to 
nesy@soi.city.ac.uk.