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KR 2012
13th International Conference on
Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Rome, Italy June 10-13, 2012
Co-located with DL 2012, NMR 2012, AI*IA 2012, CILC 2012, KiBP 2012
KR 2012 IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission of title and abstract: November 30, 2011
- Paper submission deadline: December 9, 2011
- Notification of acceptance: February 3, 2012
- Camera-ready papers due: March 4, 2012 (11:59 pm, California time: UTC/GMT -8)
- Conference date: June 10-14, 2012.
The reference time for all other deadlines is 23:59 UTC-12.
If you are "on time" anywhere in the world, you are "on time".
SCOPE
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a well-established and vibrant field of research. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering.
The underlying approach of explicitly representing knowledge in a tangible form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines, is a fundamental component of many modern intelligent systems. Foundational and applied research in KR&R contributes to the principles of artificial intelligence. It also contributes to the foundations of longstanding fields including automated planning, databases, and software engineering. In recent years KR&R has also derived challenges from new and emerging fields including the semantic web, computational biology, and the development of software agents.
KR2012 will be a forum for the exchange and discussion of new ideas, issues, and results on the principles and practice of KR&R. Keynote lectures will be given by distinguished researchers including Craig Boutilier, Maurizio Lenzerini, Vladimir Lifschitz, and Moshe Vardi. A 1-day tutorial program will be held on Sunday June 10. The technical program will commence on Monday June 11.
We solicit papers presenting novel results on the principles of KR&R that clearly contribute to the formal foundations of relevant problems or show the applicability of results to implemented or implementable systems. We also encourage "reports from the field" of applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and must include a section on evaluation.
Artificial Intelligence journal (AIJ), in association with KR2012, is pleased to offer fast-tracked journal publication of the results from the best papers submitted to the conference. Submissions will undergo expedited independent review by AIJ. The best paper overall will be awarded the Ray Reiter prize, sponsored by AIJ.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Argumentation
- Belief revision and update, belief merging, information fusion
- Computational aspects of knowledge representation
- Concept formation, similarity-based reasoning
- Contextual reasoning
- Description logics
- Decision making
- Explanation finding, diagnosis, causal reasoning, abduction
- Inconsistency- and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics
- KR and autonomous agents: intelligent agents, cognitive robotics, multi-agent systems
- KR and game theory
- KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition
- KR and natural language processing
- KR and the Web, Semantic Web
- Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint logic programming
- Multi- and order-sorted representations and reasoning
- Nonmonotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics
- Philosophical foundations of KR
- Ontology formalisms and models
- Preference modeling and representation, reasoning about preferences, preference-based reasoning
- Qualitative reasoning, reasoning about physical systems
- Reasoning about actions and change, action languages, situation calculus, dynamic logic
- Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics
- Spatial reasoning and temporal reasoning
- Uncertainty, representations of vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Papers must be submitted in AAAI style and PDF format. The maximum length of a submission is 9 pages including abstract, figures, and appendices (if any) but excluding references. Reviewing will be non-blind.
AAAI author instructions:
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php
AAAI author kit:
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit.zip
The conference proceedings will be published by the AAAI Press.
For complete details, see the 'Submission information' page
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
General: Gerhard Brewka (U Leipzig)Program: Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna), Sheila McIlraith (U Toronto)
Local Organization: Giuseppe De Giacomo, Marco Schaerf (U "La Sapienza", Rome)
Doctoral Consortium: Esra Erdem (Sabanci University), Frank Wolter (U Liverpool)
Publicity: Benjamin Johnston, Mary-Anne Williams (UT Sydney)