Preliminary Call for Papers 8th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence Jelia'02 Cosenza, Italy, September 23-26, 2002 http://www.unical.it/jelia/
The European Conference on Logics in AI provides a major biennial forum for the discussion of logic-oriented approaches to artificial intelligence. Following previous meetings in France (1988), The Netherlands (1990), Germany (1992), England (1994), Portugal (1996), Germany (1998) and Spain (2000) the eighth conference will be held in Cosenza, Italy, from 23 to 26 September 2002. Aim and scope The aim is to bring together active researchers interested in all aspects concerning the use of logics in artificial intelligence to discuss current research, results, and problems and applications of both a theoretical and practical nature. Moreover, Jelia strives to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas among researchers from various disciplines; among researchers from academia, industry and government; and between theoreticians and practitioners. Topics Papers are sought in areas related to the use of logics in AI including (but are not limited to) the following topics: Abduction Logics and expressiveness Active and Deductive systems Logic based planning and Diagnosis Applications of logic-based systems Logic based Expert systems Automated reasoning Logic based AI systems Belief revision and updates Logic programming Common-sense reasoning Logics in Machine Learning Computational complexity in AI Model Checking Constraint satisfaction Multi-Agent Systems Hybrid reasoning systems Nonmonotonic reasoning Inductive reasoning and data mining Ontologies Description logics Semantic Web Logic databases Theorem proving Knowledge representation Uncertain and probabilistic reasoning Submission Papers must not exceed thirteen (13) pages including title page, references and figures, and must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNAI=20 authors' instructions (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Paper submission is electronic via the conference home page http://www.unical.it/jelia/. Papers must be written in English and present original research. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present it at the conference. Publication As in the past, the proceedings of JELIA'02 will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. Furthermore, a special issue of a journal collecting extended versions of selected papers presented at the conference is planned. Invited Speakers Michael Gelfond (Texas Tech University, USA) Georg Gottlob (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Moshe Vardi (Rice University, USA) Krzysztof Apt (CWI National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer= =20 Science in the Netherlands) Tutorials (tentative list) V.S. Subrahamanian (Univ. of Maryland, USA): Logic based agents Dino Pedreschi and Fosca Giannotti (Univ. of Pisa, Italy): Logics and data= =20 mining Gerald Pfeifer (Vienna Univ. of Tech., Austria): Answer set programming Important dates Paper Submission Deadline: April 20, 2002 Notification(Accept/Reject): June 10, 2002 Final Conference Papers: June 29, 2002 Request for bursaries: July 1, 2002 Bursaries Notification: July 12, 2002 Early Registration Deadline: July 26, 2002 Conference: September 23-26, 2002 Location The conference will be held at the University of Calabria (Rende), in the area of Cosenza, Italy. Program Co-Chairs Sergio Greco and Nicola Leone (University of Calabria) Program Committee Rachel Ben-Eliyahu (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Gerhard Brewka (University of Leipzig, Germany) J=FCrgen Dix (University of Manchester, UK) Wolfgang Faber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Luis Fari=F1as del Cerro (Universite of Toulouse, France) Katsumi Inoue (Kobe University, Japan) Antonis Kakas (University of Cyprus) Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, Italy) Vladimir Lifschitz (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Fangzhen Lin (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) John-Jules Meyer (University of Utrecht, Netherland) Ilkka Niemel=E4 (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) Manuel Ojeda-Aciego (University of Malaga, Spain) David Pearce (European Commission, Belgium) Lu=EDs Moniz Pereira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Francesco Scarcello (University of Calabria, Italy) Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam, Germany) Miroslaw Truszczynski (University of Kentucky at Lexington, USA) Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester, UK) Mary-Anne Williams (University of Newcastle, Australia) Organizing Committee Sergio Flesca and Giovanbattista Ianni (Co-chairs) Francesco Calimeri Elio Masciari Tina Dell'Armi Simona Perri Filippo Furfaro Luigi Pontieri Stefania Galizia Andrea Pugliese Gianluigi Greco Andrea Tagarelli Giuseppe Ielpa Giorgio Terracina Giuseppe Manco Ester Zumpano Student award An award will be given for the best student paper, as judged by the program committee. For a paper to be eligible all the authors must be students at the submission time. The exact circumstances, including allocation of credit, should be detailed in the submission letter, SIGNED BY ALL AUTHORS. The program committee may decline to make the award or may split it among several papers. Support for participation Bursaries (funded by the Organizing Committee of Jelia'02 with its sponsors) are available to partially cover the cost of attending Jelia for students, young researchers (below 35) and participants from developing countries. Depending of availability, recipients will be eligible to receive: - partial or full coverage of conference registration fees; - partial or full coverage of hotel expenses; - travel and living expenses contributions. Please note that it is not necessary to be presenting a paper at Jelia to be eligible. However, authors presenting papers will be preferred. Applications should consist of: - A one-page statement describing why you wish to attend Jelia and how it would benefit you. - A curriculum vitae.
