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5th Workshop in Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy09; at IJCAI-09), Pasadena CA (U.S.A.), July 2009
Fifth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
Workshop at IJCAI-09, Pasadena, California, July 2009
http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy09/
Call for Papers
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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 computation bring an opportunity to integrate
well-founded symbolic artificial intelligence with robust neural computing
machinery to help tackle some of these challenges.
Neural-symbolic systems combine the statistical nature of learning and the
logical nature of reasoning.
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;
* Neural networks and relational learning;
* Applications in robotics, semantic web, engineering, bioinformatics,
etc.
Submission
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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 6 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 IJCAI-09 format as described in th
e
IJCAI-09 submission guidelines. All submitted papers will be judged based o
n
their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness. Papers
must
be submitted directly via easychair in PDF format under
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nesy09.
Presentation
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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
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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 a special issue of a journal.
Important Dates
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Deadline for abstract submission: April 7, 2009
Deadline for paper submission: April 10, 2009
Notification of acceptance: May 8, 2009
Camera-ready paper due: May 15,
Workshop date: July 11th, 12th or 13th, 2009
IJCAI-09 main conference dates: July 11th to 17th, 2009
Admission
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The workshop is open to all members of the AI community, but the number of
attendees may be limited. In case of exceeded capacity preference will be g
iven
to participants with papers selected for presentation.
Workshop Organisers
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Artur d'Avila Garcez (City University London, UK)
Pascal Hitzler (University Karlsruhe, Germany)
Programme Committee (to be completed)
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Sebastian Bader, University of Rostock, Germany
Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy
Barbara Hammer, TU Clausthal, Germany
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece
Steffen Hlldobler, TU Dresden, Germany
Kristian Kersting, Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Sophia Antipolis, France
Kai-Uwe Khnberger, University of Osnabrck, Germany
Luis Lamb, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
James L. McClelland, Stanford University, California, U.S.A.
Anthony K. Seda, University College Cork, Ireland
Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, U.S.A.
Frank van der Velde, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Gerson Zaverucha, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Additional Information
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General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to
nesy@soi.city.ac.uk.
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PD Dr. Pascal Hitzler
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe
email: hitzler@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de fax: +49 721 608 6580
web: http://www.pascal-hitzler.de phone: +49 721 608 4751
http://www.neural-symbolic.org