[PlanetKR] Final Call for Papers: KR 2008

[Mary-Anne Williams]

Hi Tommie.

I posted it, let me know if it doesn't come through.

Hooroo,
M-A



On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Mary-Anne Williams <Mary-Anne at it.uts.edu.au>
wrote:

>
>
>                          FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: KR 2008
>                               Eleventh International Conference on
>                Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
>
>                        Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008
>
>                        Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08
>
>                    The single registration fee includes attendance
>                               to most events for all conferences
>
>                                    http://www.kr.org/KR2008/
>
> Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting
> field of human endeavour. 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.
>
> Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines are
> an integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic Web
> technologies, the design of software agents and Bio-Informatics
> technologies, in particular, provide significant challenges for KR&R.
>
> We intend KR2008 to be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, issues, and
> results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices
> of KR&R systems. We encourage papers presenting substantial new results in
> the principles of KR&R systems that clearly contribute to the formal
> foundations or show the applicability of the results to implemented or
> implementable systems. We also encourage ``reports from the field" of
> building knowledge bases, applications, experiments, developments, and
> tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field
> by the authors, to ensure appropriate
> reviewing, and should include a section on evaluation.
>
> Papers must be submitted in AAAI style (pdf only)
>
>                      <http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php>
>
> Paper length is 7 pages maximum including title, author information and
> references. Authors may add to the paper an optional, clearly marked
> Appendix containing technical material (such as proofs, evaluation results
> etc.) supporting claims made in the paper. The Appendix must not exceed 2
> additional pages in AAAI style. The evaluation of the submission will be
> based on the quality of the paper. The optional Appendix will be used in
> case reviewers are in doubt about claimed results.
>
> Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system
>
>                 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008
>
> Conference proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. Final versions of
> papers will be considerably longer than the submissions: for each accepted
> paper 11 pages in AAAI
> style  will be allocated in the proceedings.
>
> Topics of interest include:
>
> - Exception tolerant and inconsistency-tolerant reasoning, Paraconsistent
> logics
> - Nonmonotonic logics, Default logics, Conditional logics, Argumentation
> - Temporal and spatial reasoning
> - Causal reasoning, Abduction, Model-based diagnosis
> - Reasoning about action and change, Action languages, Situation
> calculus, Dynamic logic
> - Reasoning, planning, or decision making under uncertainty
> - Representations of vagueness, Many-valued and fuzzy logics
> - Graphical representations for belief and preference
> - Reasoning about belief and knowledge, Epistemic and doxastic logics,
> - Multiagent logics of belief and knowledge
> - Logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming
> - Computational aspects of knowledge representation
> - Concept formation, Similarity-based reasoning
> - Belief revision and update, Belief merging, Information fusion
> - Description logics, Ontologies
> - Qualitative reasoning, Reasoning about physical systems
> - Decision theory, Preference modelling and representation, Reasoning
> about preference
> - KR & Autonomous Agents: Intelligent Agents, Cognitive Robotics
> - KR & Multiagent Systems: Negotiation, Group decision making,
> - Cooperation, Interaction, KR & game theory
> - Natural language processing, Summarization, Categorization
> - KR and machine learning, Inductive logic programming,
>   Knowledge discovery and acquisition
> - WWW querying languages, Information retrieval and web mining, Website
> selection and configuration
> - Philosophical foundations and psychological evidence
>
> KR Workshops:
> Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop
> KROW 2008 @ KR 2008
> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html
>
> Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
> KRAMAS 2008 @ KR 2008
> http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html
>
> Doctoral Consortium
> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html
>
> Conference Chairs:
> General Chair: Patrick Doherty
> PC Chairs: Gerhard Brewka, Jerome Lang
> Local Chair: Maurice Pagnucco
> Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carsten Lutz
> Publicity Chair: Thomas Meyer
>
> Important Dates:
> Submission of title and abstract: April 3, 2008
> Paper submission deadline: April 7, 2008
> Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2008
> Camera-ready papers due: June 16, 2008
> KR-2008 Conference:  September, 16-19, 2008
>
>
>
>
> --
> ------
> Professor Mary-Anne Williams
> Innovation and Technology Research Laboratory
> University of Technology, Sydney
> NSW 2007 Australia
> http://innovation.it.uts.edu.au/Mary-Anne




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Professor Mary-Anne Williams
Innovation and Technology Research Laboratory
University of Technology, Sydney
NSW 2007 Australia
http://innovation.it.uts.edu.au/Mary-Anne
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