* Apologize for multiple posting * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ILP 2018 Call for Papers The 28th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming
September 2nd - 4th, Ferrara, Italy http://ilp2018.unife.it/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The ILP conference series, started in 1991, is the premier international forum for learning from structured or semi-structured relational data. Originally focusing on the induction of logic programs, over the years it has expanded its research horizon significantly and welcomes contributions to all aspects of learning in logic, multi-relational data mining, statistical relational learning, graph and tree mining, learning in other (non-propositional) logic-based knowledge representation frameworks, exploring intersections to statistical learning and other probabilistic approaches. ILP 2018 is also encouraging submissions on (combination with) other areas such as cognitive technologies, neural networks and deep relational learning, knowledge acquisition from big data and the cloud, as well as contributions on the application of any of these solutions to real world problems. ILP 2018 features two tracks: a journal track and a conference track. While the journal track is now closed, the conference track is now open for submissions. CONFERENCE TRACK -------------- We solicit four types of submissions: 1. Long papers describing original mature work containing appropriate experimental evaluation and/or representing a self-contained theoretical contribution. Accepted long paper submissions will be split in regular papers, accepted for appearing in Springer LNAI conference proceedings, and up-and-coming papers, accepted for appearing in CEUR proceedings, depending on the maturity of the submitted work. Regular papers will be assigned a long time slot for presentation, up-and-coming papers will be assigned a shorter time slot for presentation. 2. Short papers describing original work in progress presenting preliminary results, brief accounts of original ideas, and other relevant work of potentially high scientific interest but not yet qualifying for the long paper category. Accepted short papers will be assigned a reduced time slot for presentation and will be published in CEUR proceedings. 3. Work in progress abstracts describing ideas and proposals that the author(s) would like to present at the conference. Submissions will be accepted/rejected on the grounds of relevance. Accepted abstracts will be assigned a reduced time slot and will be published on the conference website but will not appear in the conference proceedings. 4. Papers relevant to the conference topics and recently published or accepted for publication by a first-class conference such as ECML-PKDD, ICML, KDD, ICDM, AAAI, IJCAI, etc. or journal such as MLJ, DMKD, JMLR etc. These will be accepted/rejected on the grounds of relevance and quality of the original publication venue. Authors of accepted papers will be assigned a reduced time slot for presentation and will not appear in the conference proceedings, however a link to the original work will be inserted in CEUR. Submissions of long papers and short papers (categories 1 and 2) must not have been published or be under review for a journal or for another conference with published proceedings. Submissions must be in Springer LNAI format, according to the Springer LNCS author instructions downloadable at http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html Already published papers should be submitted in their original format and the authors should indicate the original publication venue. Submissions will be managed via Springer OCS at the following link: https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/ILP2018. When submitting, please choose among the 4 paper categories: (1) LONG, (2) SHORT, (3) WORK IN PROGRESS and (4) ALREADY PUBLISHED. Reviewers will be asked whether papers submitted in category 1 should be published, if accepted, in Springer LNAI or CEUR Proceedings. Additional information about the submission guidelines is available at http://ilp2018.unife.it/call-for-papers/conference-track. Publication: Regular papers will be included in the conference proceedings, to be published by Springer Verlag in the "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence" (LNAI) Series. Regular papers must not exceed 15 pages including references. Up-and-coming and short papers will be included in the Late Breaking Papers proceedings, to be published by Sun SITE Central Europe CEUR Workshop proceedings. Up-and-coming papers must not exceed 15 pages including references, while short papers must not exceed 7 pages including references. Work in progress abstracts will be published on the conference website but will not be included in the conference proceedings. Given their nature of preliminary proposals, they must be of 1 to 6 pages including references. A link to already published papers will be included in the Late Breaking Papers CEUR proceedings. At least one of the authors of accepted papers/abstracts must register for the conference, and present his work. Important Dates: * Abstract registration: 16th May 2018 * All papers submission: 23rd May 2018 * All papers notification: 3rd July 2018 * Work in progress abstracts and already published papers submission: 18th July 2018 * Work in progress abstracts and already published papers notification: 23rd July 2018 The deadline on each of these dates is midnight, Central European Time. AWARDS -------------- The conference has established several awards for the best papers: * the Best Paper Award will be chosen among the regular papers submitted at the conference and the papers accepted in the journal track. The award is worth 1,000 EUR kindly provided by Springer; * two Best Student Paper Awards, one for regular papers and one for up-and-coming papers. In this case, the first author must be a student at the time of paper submission. The awards are worth 750 USD each, kindly provided by the Machine Learning Journal. To qualify for this awards, the authors must check the option "Enlist for the Student Paper Award" when submitting their paper. CO-LOCATED EVENTS -------------- * ACAI 2018 - Summer School on Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence: http://acai2018.unife.it/ * PLP 2018 - The 5th International Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming: http://stoics.org.uk/plp/plp2018/ CONFERENCE CHAIR -------------- Fabrizio Riguzzi, University of Ferrara, Italy PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS -------------- Elena Bellodi, University of Ferrara, Italy Riccardo Zese, University of Ferrara, Italy -- Riccardo Zese, PhD DE - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Università di Ferrara Via Saragat 1, I-44122, Ferrara, Italy Tel. +39 0532974827 _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
