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Inductive Logic Programming 2002
Call for Papers
ILP2002 is the twelfth in a series of international conferences on
Inductive Logic Programming. We are pleased to announce that ILP2002
will be co-located and coordinated with the Nineteenth International
Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2002), and with the Fifteenth
Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory (COLT 2002),
bringing together the various communities of researchers who have a
common interest in Machine Learning. ILP 2002, ICML 2002 and COLT 2002
will include an extensive joint series of invited speakers and
tutorials. The mandate of the ILP 2002 Programme Committee is to
extend the coverage of the field by including also aspects of
relational learning other than learning of concept definitions
expressed in Prolog (see a non-exclusive list of topics below).
ILP2002 seeks submission for its two tracks: one for conference papers
and one for work in progress reports.
CONFERENCE PAPER TRACK
We encourage papers that present substantial new results in
theoretical, empirical and applied research in all areas of ILP.
This includes, for example (a non-exhaustive list):
- first-order rule learning
- learning probabilistic and statistical relational models
- link discovery
- learning from relational databases
- learning in representations other than logic (e.g. learning tree
patterns, learning conceptual graphs)
- (multi)relational data mining
- ILP-specific issues in relational data mining outside model building
(sampling, evaluation, etc.)
- multi-instance learning
- change of representation and propositionalization
- relational reinforcement learning
- instance-based and kernel-based methods in ILP
- relational text and Web mining; learning from semi-structured data
(e.g. XML)
- learnability and algorithmic issues of learning from structured data
- inductive databases
- learning in higher-order logics
- logical foundations of induction
- efficient implementations
- practical applications of ILP and Relational Data Mining
All accepted conference
papers will appear in the ILP2002 proceedings, which will be published
by Springer-Verlag in the Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Series. It is hoped that a journal special issue will come out of
selected papers in this track.
WORK IN PROGRESS TRACK
Work-in-progress reports should be high in interest and potential,but
will typically contain only preliminary results and analyses. The
work-in-progress track is intended to showcase promising new
directions and allow feedback on preliminary work. Challenge and
position papers are also suitable. We especially encourage students
to submit their preliminary work. Reports accepted for this track will
be presented at the conference (probably via a poster presentation)
and will appear in a booklet distributed to participants at the
conference.
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SUBMISSION
Papers submitted to either track should be no longer than 18 pages.
Significantly shorter papers are very welcome. There will be a further
announcement on the ILP 2002 website about the mode of submission.
Submissions must be in Springer LNCS/LNAI style, or equivalent (45
lines per page, 78 characters per line). For details see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
It is the author's responsibility to ensure that the PostScript file
is printable. The submission deadlines are
listed below. All submissions will be acknowledged shortly after
receipt.
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TIMETABLE Conference Papers Work-in-Progress
Reports
Submission deadline: February 15, 2002 May 1, 2002
Notification: March 15, 2002 May 15, 2002
Camera-ready copy: April 5, 2002 May 30, 2002
Conference dates: July 9 - 12, 2002
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FURTHER INFORMATION
All enquiries should be sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ILP200 home page www.site.uottawa.ca/~stan/ilp2002
Springer LNCS/LNAI home page http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/
LNAI author instructions
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Programme Chairs:
Stan Matwin Claude Sammut
University of Ottawa University of New South Wales
Ottawa, Canada Sydney, Australia
current address:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel. +33 1 69 15 69 04 +61-2-9385-6932
fax +33 1 69 15 65 86 +61-2-9385-4936
Programme Committee:
H. Blockeel (Belgium) I. Bratko (Slovenia)* J.F. Boulicaut
(France)
J. Cussens (UK) T. Dietterich (USA) S. Dzeroski
(Slovenia)
F.Esposito (Italy) J. Furnkranz (Austria) L. Getoor (USA)*
T. Horvath (Germany) D. Jensen (USA) L. Holder (USA)
P. Flach (UK) K. Furukawa (Japan) R. Khardon (USA)
J-U.Kietz (Switzerland) S. Kramer (Germany) N. Lavrac
(Slovenia)
R. Mooney (USA) S. Muggleton (UK) D.Page (USA)
B. Pfahringer (NZ) L. De Raedt (Germany) D. Roth (USA)*
C. Rouveirol (France) L. Saitta (Italy) M. Sebag (France)
A.Srinivasan (UK) P. Tadepalli (USA) A. Yamamoto (Japan)
S. Wrobel (Germany) G. Zaverucha (Brazil) J-D. Zucker
(France)
(*) to be confirmed
