[PlanetKR] AMAI Special Issue on Commonsense Reasoning for the Semantic Web

[Mary-Anne Williams]

 *Journal of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI)*

*Special Issue on Commonsense Reasoning for the Semantic Web*
(
https://logic.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/wiki/AMAI_special_issue_on_commmonsense_reasoning_in_the_semantic_web
)
Editor-in-Chief: Martin Charles Golumbic (University of Haifa, Israel)

*Guest Editors*

Frank van Harmelen, Vrije University Amsterdam (Frank.van.Harmelen at cs.vu.nl)
Andreas Herzig, IRIT-CNRS (herzig at irit.fr)
Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe (hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Guilin Qi, University of Karlsruhe (gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de)

*Descriptions*
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Semantic Web Technologies provide concepts, architectures, and tools for
interconnected vocabularies and applications. One of the declared goals of
Semantic Web research is to enable intelligent software agents to reason
about information and knowledge which is pervaded on the Web. To achieve
this goal, a challenging and important problem is to represent commonsense
knowledge on the Web and to reason with it. Indeed, commonsense reasoning is
a central part of human behaviour, and how to endow computers with common
sense capabilities is one of the major long-term goals of Artificial
Intelligence research and is therefore also relevant to the realization of
the ambitious Semantic Web vision. At the same time, the forthcoming
Semantic Web constitutes an ideal application scenario for formal logic and
traditional commonsense reasoning approaches. In recent years, there is a
substantially increasing interest in applying theoretical approaches of
commonsense reasoning to deal with practical application problems in the
Semantic Web. It is indeed widely accepted that extensions of commonsense
reasoning to the Semantic Web will have to be provided in the near future.
In this special issue we intend to publish articles discussing commonsense
reasoning aspects on the Web. Submissions describing original and solid
theoretical contributions to commonsense reasoning with application to the
Semantic web are especially encouraged.

*Topics of Interest*
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We encourage original and high quality work on all topics related to
commonsense reasoning for the Semantic Web. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:

-reasoning about change and dynamics of ontologies, including ontology
integration, ontology evolution, revision and update of ontologies in the
Semantic Web
-nonmonotonic extensions of ontology languages, including circumscriptive,
default,  defeasible logic, diagnosis, and autoepistemic approaches
-temporal and spatial extensions of ontology languages
-planning and action in the Semantic Web and Semantic Web services
-combining modal logics and description logics
-commonsense knowledge acquisition from the (Semantic) Web
-integration of logic programming and description logics
-abductive reasoning in the Semantic Web
-extensions of ontology languages to enable uncertainty reasoning, including
fuzzy, probabilistic and possibilistic approaches
-contextualized, distributed, and modular ontology languages
-non-standard reasoning in description logics, such as computing least
common subsumer and matching.
-paraconsistent extension of ontology languages
-computational models of argumentation in the Semantic Web
-approximate reasoning and compilation in description logics
-scalability issues
-other mathematical tools for using commonsense reasoning on the Semantic
Web

*Important Dates*
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Submission Deadline (extended): April 04, 2009
Acceptance Deadline: June 31, 2009
Revised Version Deadline: August 31, 2009
Final Decision: November 30, 2009
Final Paper: December 30, 2009
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Submission Procedure*
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Manuscripts must follow the AMAI guidelines for submission and have to be
accompanied by abstracts. Details regarding the submission format and
on-line submission site can be found at
http://www.editorialmanager.com/amai/. All manuscripts should be submitted
through that online system. All manuscripts must be of high quality and are
subject to peer review performed by three reviewers. The refereeing will be
at the same level as in any of the major journal publications in the area.

*Editorial Board*
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Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, Greece
Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Patrick Doherty, University of Linkoping, Sweden
Thomas Eiter, TU Wien, Austria
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford, UK
Thomas Meyer, Meraka Institute, South Africa
Boris Motik : Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK
Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Universität Mannheim, Germany
Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Renata Wassermann, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Mary-Anne Williams, the University of Technology, Australia

Main contact: Guilin Qi

Best regards,

Frank van Harmelen
Andreas Herzig
Pascal Hitzler
Guilin Qi
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