31 Jul - 8 Aug 2022
Haifa, Israel
CALL FOR PAPERS *** CAUSAL 2022 *** The Fourth Workshop on Causal Reasoning and Explanation in Logic Programming (CAUSAL 2022) is a workshop of ICLP 2022 to be held in Haifa, Israel, July 31 - August 8 2022. CAUSAL 2022 IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- * Paper submission: May 22nd 2022 * Notification: June 5th 2022 * Final Versions: June 20th 2022 * Workshop Date: TBD (in July 31 - August 8 2022) ------------------------ Sophisticated causal reasoning has long been prevalent in human society and continues to have an undeniable impact on the advancement of science, technology, medicine, and other significant fields. From the development of ancient tools to modern roots of causal analysis in business and industry, reasoning about causality and having the ability to explain causal mechanisms enables us to identify how an outcome of interest came to be and gives insight into how to bring about, or even prevent, similar outcomes in future scenarios. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners of logic programming with a dedicated focus on methods and trends emerging from the study of causality and explanation. We welcome the submission of papers on systems, tools, and applications of logic programming methods for causal reasoning and explanation. In particular, we encourage submissions presenting recent developments, including works in progress. The workshop will present the latest research and application developments in these areas and provide opportunities to discuss current and future research directions and relationships to other fields (e.g. Machine Learning, Diagnosis, Natural Language Processing and Understanding, Philosophy of Science). An important expected outcome of this workshop is to collect first-hand feedback from the ICLP community about the role and placement of causal reasoning and explanation in the landscape of modern computer theory as well as in the software industry. TOPICS ------ Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): * Modeling causal theories in logic programming * Formalization of types of causes: sufficient, necessary, actual, etc * Causality, temporal reasoning and action theories * Causality and counterfactual reasoning * Causality, learning and experimental design * Causality and probability * Causality and equivalence * Causality and ontology * Relating LP based causality and Causal Networks * Challenging problems and benchmark examples * Justifications and argumentation * Explanations for diagnosis and debugging * Tools, systems and applications Submissions must describe original research and be prepared using the Springer LNAI/LNCS format and should be no longer than 13 pages. https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines Please submit your paper via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=causal2022 At least one co-author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Please check the ICLP 2022 website for registration procedure and fees: https://software.imdea.org/Conferences/ICLP2022/ ORGANIZERS ---------- Emily LeBlanc, USA, ecl.drexel@gmail.com Joost Vennekens, KU Leuven, Belgium Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Spain Jorge Fandiño, University of Potsdam, Germany Marcello Balduccini, Saint Joseph's University, USA -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam