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DL 2011: Description Logics

13-16 July 2011
Barcelona, Spain

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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

     24th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2011)

            Barcelona, Spain, July 13th to July 16th, 2011

                       http://dl.kr.org/dl2011/

The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic
research community. It is the forum at which those interested in
description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss
ideas, share information and compare experiences. The workshop will be
held at the Edifici Imagina (Avinguda Diagonal 177, Barcelona) from
July 13th to July 16th, 2011.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: May 1, 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 5, 2011
Camera ready papers due: June 19, 2011
Workshop: July 13-16, 2011

WORKSHOP SCOPE

We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics,such as:

* foundations of description logics, including expressive power,
   decidability and complexity of reasoning, novel inference problems,
   and reasoning techniques for solving these problems;
* extensions of description logics, including, but not limited to,
   closed-world
   and nonmonotonic reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal
   and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages;
* integration of description logics with other formalisms, such as
   object-oriented representation languages, database query languages,
   constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based
   systems;
* use of description logics in applications or areas such as ontology
   engineering, ontology languages, databases, semi-structured data,
   document management, natural language, learning, planning, semantic
   web, and grid computing;
* building systems based on description logics, with special emphasis
   on optimization and implementation techniques; and
* tools that exploit description logic reasoning, such as ontology
   editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data
   integration tools.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

We invite submissions of papers in Springer LNCS style, see

http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html

to arrive no later than May 1, 2011. The length of submissions is
limited to 11 pages, including title and abstract (can be omitted if
necessary), and list of references. Papers must be submitted in PDF
format via EasyChair; see

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2011

The workshop proceedings will be made available electronically in the
CEUR Workshop Proceedings series; see

http://www.CEUR-ws.org/

Accepted submissions
will be selected for either oral or poster presentation; however, no
distinction will be made in the workshop proceedings: all accepted
papers can be 11 pages long.

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD

The best paper among the ones written solely by students (i.e. persons
not holding a PhD) will be awarded a prize of 500 euros. Authors of
such papers are requested to indicate their eligibility upon
submission at easychair.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Marcelo Arenas, Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Chile:
   "Exchanging more than Complete Data"
Gert Smolka, Saarland University:
   "Incremental decision procedures for modal logic with nominals and
    eventualities"
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Universitt Mannheim:
   "A Little Logic Goes a Long Way - Logical Reasoning in Web Data
    Integration and Ontology Learning"

REGISTRATION FEES

Regular, early (before or on June 19, 2011): 300 Euros
Regular, late (after June 19, 2011): 370 Euros
Student, early (before or on June 19, 2011): 200 Euros
Student, late (after June 19, 2011): 250 Euros

Students must provide proof of full-time status (copy of valid student
ID card or letter from their institution or program director) and
email it to dl2011@dis.uniroma1.it. The registration fee includes
lunches for the first three workshop days and one ticket for the
social dinner.

STUDENT GRANTS

A limited number of student grants are available for participation in
DL 2011. Each grant will cover the workshop registration fee and will
provide a contribution to the accommodation costs. The students who
are interested in applying for this grant must write an email to the
workshop organizers at dl2011@dis.uniroma1.it declaring their interest
in the student grant and providing (i) a proof of full-time student
status (copy of valid student ID card or letter from their institution
or program director), and (ii) a short justification confirming that
the attendance to DL 2011 could not be financed by other means such as
project funds.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

* Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Universit di Roma, Italy
   (Conference Chair)
* Sebastian Rudolph, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
   (Program co-Chair)
* Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College, London, UK
   (Program co-Chair)
* Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
   (Local Organization Chair)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Carlos Areces
Alessandro Artale
Meghyn Bienvenu
Alex Borgida
Andrea Cali
Diego Calvanese
Bernardo Cuenca Grau
Giuseppe De Giacomo
Achille Fokoue
Enrico Franconi
Birte Glimm
Rajeev Gore
Stijn Heymans
Pascal Hitzler
Ian Horrocks
Ullrich Hustadt
Yevgeny Kazakov
Boris Konev
Roman Kontchakov
Markus Krtzsch
Thomas Lukasiewicz
Carsten Lutz
Thomas Meyer
Maja Milicic
Boris Motik
Ralf Mller
Magdalena Ortiz
Jeff Z. Pan
Bijan Parsia
Peter Patel-Schneider
Riccardo Rosati
Ulrike Sattler
Stefan Schlobach
Luciano Serafini
Evren Sirin
Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans
Giorgos Stamou
Umberto Straccia
David Toman
Anni-Yasmin Turhan
Grant Weddell
Frank Wolter

RESOURCES

* Information about registration, travel information, accommodation,
   etc. is available on the DL 2011 homepage: http://dl.kr.org/dl2011/
* Enquiries about the DL 2011 workshop can be made by contacting the
   organizing committee: dl2011@easychair.org
* The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/