13-16 July 2011
Barcelona, Spain
--------------------------------------------------------------- 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/