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NeSy10: 6th Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning, Atlanta GA (U.S.A.), July 2010

Sixth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning

Workshop at AAAI-10, Atlanta, Georgia, July 2010

http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy10/


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Keynote Speakers:
Pedro Domingos (U Washington)
Dragos Margineantu (Boeing)
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Call for Presentation Abstracts

[Half-page abstracts are due by April 30th]

Artificial Intelligence researchers continue to face huge challenges in
their 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
create 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;
     * Integration of logic and probabilities in neural networks;
     * Structured learning and relational learning in neural networks;
     * Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, semantic
web, fault diagnosis, bioinformatics, etc.

Submission

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit half-page presentation
 
abstracts. They must be submitted via easychair in PDF format at 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nesy10 .

Presentation

Accepted abstracts will have to be presented during the workshop. The
workshop will include extra time for audience discussion of the
presentation allowing the group to have a better understanding of the
issues, challenges and ideas being presented.

Important Dates

Deadline for presentation abstract submission: April 30, 2010
Notification of acceptance: May 7, 2010
Workshop date: July 11 or July 12, 2010 (to be determined)
AAAI-10 main conference dates: July 11th to 15th, 2010

Admission

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 given to participants with papers selected for presentation.

Keynote Speakers

Pedro Domingos, University of Washington, U.S.A.
Dragos Margineantu, Boeing

Workshop Organisers

Artur d'Avila Garcez (City University London, UK)
Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.)
Luis Lamb (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Programme Committee

Sebastian Bader, University of Rostock, Germany
Howard Blair, Syracuse University, New York, U.S.A.
Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy
Ben Goertzel, Novamente LLC, U.S.A.
Barbara Hammer, TU Clausthal, Germany
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece
Steffen Hlldobler, TU Dresden, Germany
Henrik Jacobsson, Google
Kristian Kersting, Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Sophia Antipolis, France
Kai-Uwe Khnberger, University of Osnabrck, Germany
Florian Roehrbein, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York,
U.S.A.
Anthony K. Seda, University College Cork, Ireland
Hava Siegelmann, University of Massachusetts Amherst, U.S.A.
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

General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to Artur
d'Avila Garcez at aag@soi.city.ac.uk.


-- 
Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler
Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
pascal@pascal-hitzler.de   http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/
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