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Call for Papers
16th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming
(ILP 2006)
Santiago, Spain,
August 24-27, 2006
The 16th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming
(ILP 2006) will be held in Santiago, Spain, August 24-27, 2006.
ILP 2006 follows KDD 2006 in the US and proceeds ECAI 2006 in
Italy.
The ILP conference series, which started in 1991, is the premier
international forum for learning from structured data. Originally focusing
on the induction of logic programs, it broadened its scope and attracted
a lot of attention and interest in recent years. In keeping with its
tradition, but also reflecting its broadening scope, authors are invited
to submit papers presenting original results on all aspects of learning
in logic, as well as multi-relational data mining and learning, statistical
relational learning, graph and tree mining, and learning in other
(non-propositional) logic-based knowledge representation frameworks.
Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest for submissions include:
- theoretical aspects (logical foundations, computational and/or statistical learning theory, specialization and generalization operators, etc.) of learning in logic (logic programs, constraint logic programs, Datalog, first-order logic, description logics, higher-order logic, etc.), or from relational or graph databases
- algorithmic and implementation aspects of learning in logic including the design of algorithms along with theoretical and/or empirical analysis, probabilistic and statistical approaches, distance and kernel-based methods, relational reinforcement learning, learning from multi-relational databases, scalability issues, inductive databases, link discovery, multi-instance learning, etc.,
- applications including, but not restricted to multi-relational learning from structured (e.g., labeled graphs, tree patterns) and semi-structured data (e.g., XML documents), in areas of science (bioinformatics, cheminformatics, medical informatics, etc.), natural language processing (computational linguistics, relational text and web mining etc.), engineering or the arts.
Submission Information:
Potential authors are invited to submit a short paper (max 3 pages) to the
conference. All "in area" short papers will be posted at the conference
web site and each paper will be allowed 10 minutes presentation and also a
poster at the conference. Each short paper will be reviewed by three referees
from the Programme Committee and the authors of selected papers will be
invited to submit a full paper (max 15 pages). Each full paper will be
reviewed again and the authors of selected papers will be informed if their
papers have been accepted for publication in the post-conference proceedings
or for the journal special issue. A short version of each paper selected for
the journal will appear in the conference proceedings. More details about
paper submission will be posted on the conference web site.
Important Dates:
Short paper due: 24th July 2006
Short paper notification: 4th August 2006
ILP 2006 Conference: August 24-27, 2006
Notification of selected papers: 31st August 2006
Full paper due: 30th September 2006
Full paper notification: 3rd November 2006
Camera-ready copies due: 8th December 2006
Publication of conference proceedings: Early 2007
Invited Speakers:
Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Provisional title: "Actions and causation"
John McCarthy, Stanford University, USA.
Provisional title: "Challenges for Machine Learning"
Stuart Russell, University of Berkeley, USA.
Provisional title: "BLOG and its relation to other first-order
probabilistic languages" (This talk will be presented by Brian Milch)
Bart Selman, Cornell University, USA.
Provisional title: "Integration of learning and reasoning techniques"
Ehud Shapiro, Weizmann Institute, Israel.
Provisional title: "Biological computing"
Proceedings:
As for the previous ILP conferences, the proceedings of ILP 2006 will be
published in the LNAI series of Springer-Verlag. A journal special issue with
selected papers from the conference is also planned.
Paper Awards:
This year's awards will be given to the most influential papers from the ILP
conferences in the past (e.g. 5 or 10 years ago) that are judged to have
had the most influences on the theory or practice of ILP since their original
publications. This will be decided based on the number of citations. More
details will be posted on the conference web site.
Organizing Committee:
Stephen Muggleton (Programme Chair)
Dept. of Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Email: shm@doc.ic.ac.uk
Ramon Otero (Programme Chair)
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Corunna, 15071 Coruna, Spain
Email: otero@dc.fi.udc.es
Simon Colton (Journal special issue organiser)
Dept. of Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Email: sgc@doc.ic.ac.uk
Alireza Tamaddoni-Nezhad (Conference proceedings organiser)
Dept. of Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Email: atn@doc.ic.ac.uk
Jorge Gonzalez (Local organiser)
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Corunna, 15071 Coruna, Spain
Email: jglez@dc.fi.udc.es
Miguel Varela (Local organiser)
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Corunna, 15071 Coruna, Spain
Email: mvarela@dc.fi.udc.es
Programme Committee:
H. Blockeel, Belgium R. Otero, Spain
R. Camacho, Portugal D. Page, USA
J. Cussens, UK B. Pfahringer, New Zealand
L. Dehaspe, Belgium J. Ramon, Belgium
L. De Raedt, Germany C. Rouveirol, France
S. Dzeroski, Slovenia M. Sebag, France
F. Esposito, Italy J. Shavlik, USA
P. Flach, UK T. Shoudai, Japan
T. Horvath, Germany A. Siebes, Netherlands
K. Inoue, Japan A. Srinivasan, India
A. Karwath, Germany T. Uchida, Japan
R. Khardon, USA L. Ungar, USA
J.-U. Kietz, Switzerland C. Vrain, France
R.D. King, UK S. Wrobel, Germany
S. Kramer, Germany A. Yamamoto, Japan
N. Lavrac, Slovenia M. Zaki, USA
F. Lisi, Italy G. Zaverucha, Brazil
J. Lloyd, Australia F. Zelezny, Czech Republic
D. Malerba, Italy J.-D. Zucker, France
S. Muggleton, UK