RCRA 2008: 1 week to the abstract submission
RCRA 2008
rcra08 at dis.uniroma1.it
Mo Aug 25 15:07:31 CEST 2008
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The RCRA group (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) of the
AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence)
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~rcra
organises the
15th RCRA international workshop:
Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving problems
with combinatorial explosion
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~rcra08
rcra08 at dis.uniroma1.it
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This workshop follows the series of the RCRA (Knowledge Representation
and Automated Reasoning) annual meeting, held since 1994. The success
of the previous events shows that RCRA is becoming a major forum for
exchanging ideas and proposing experimentation methodologies for
algorithms in artificial intelligence.
*** Workshop post-proceedings will be published in the Elsevier ***
*** Journal of Algorithms in Logic, Informatics and Cognition. ***
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DATES
Two days in December 2008, co-located with ICLP 2008 (9-13 December
2008)
(exact dates to be announced)
VENUE
Udine, Italy
AIMS AND SCOPE
Many problems in Artificial Intelligence show an exponential explosion
of the search space. Although stemming from different research areas in
AI, such problems are often addressed with algorithms that have a common
goal: the effective exploration of huge state spaces. Many algorithms
developed in one research area are applicable to other problems, or can
be hybridised with techniques in other areas. Artificial Intelligence
tools often exploit or hybridise techniques developed by other research
communities, such as Operations Research.
In recent years, research in AI has more and more focussed on
experimental evaluation of algorithms, the development of suitable
methodologies for experimentation and analysis, the study of languages
and the implementation of systems for the definition and solution of
problems.
Scope of the workshop is fostering the cross-fertilisation of ideas
stemming from different areas, proposing benchmarks for new challenging
problems, comparing models and algorithms from an experimental
viewpoint, and, in general, comparing different approaches with respect
to efficiency, problem modelling, and ease of development.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
o knowledge representation
o automated reasoning
o planning
o scheduling
o agents and distributed systems
o machine learning
o model checking
o boolean satisfiability (SAT)
o constraint programming
o constraint satisfaction
o quantified boolean formulae and quantified constraints
o modal logics
o logic programming
o disjunctive logic programming
o temporal reasoning
o combinatorial optimization
Contributions are solicited about (the list is not exhaustive):
* Experimental evaluation of algorithms
* Definition and construction of benchmarks
* Experimentation methodologies
* Metaheuristics
* Algorithm hybridisation
* Static analysis of combinatorial problems
* Languages and systems for definition and solution of problems
* Comparisons between systems and algorithms
* Application experiences
Publications showing negative results are welcome, provided that the
approach was original and very promising in principle, the
experimentation was well-conducted, the results obtained were
unforeseeable and gave important hints in the comprehension of the
target problem, helping other researchers to avoid unsuccessful paths.
Although the spirit of the workshop is informal, a second formal
stage is expected, with a second round of reviews for the selection of
extended versions of the papers to appear in a special issue of the
Elsevier Journal of Algorithms in Logic, Informatics and Cognition.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
* Marco Gavanelli, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy
* Toni Mancini, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Gilles Audemard, Université d'Artois, France
Matteo Baldoni, Università di Torino, Italy
Francesco Buccafurri, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria,Italy
Francesco Calimeri, Università della Calabria, Italy
Stefania Costantini, Università dell'Aquila, Italy
Luca Di Gaspero, Università di Udine, Italy
Khalil Djelloul, Université d'Orléans, France
Marco Gavanelli, Università di Ferrara, Italy
Daniel Le Berre, Université d'Artois, France
Ines Lynce, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal
Toni Mancini, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Marco Maratea, Università di Genova, Italy
Joao Marquez-Silva, University of Southampton, UK
Pedro Meseguer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
Nicola Policella, European Space Agency, Germany
Steve Prestwich, Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Ireland
Luca Pulina, Università di Genova, Italy
Francesco Ricca, Università della Calabria, Italy
Fabrizio Riguzzi, Università di Ferrara,Italy
Daniel Singer, Université de Metz, France
Kostas Stathis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Kostas Stergiou, University of the Aegean, Greece
Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA
Richard Wallace, Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Ireland
HOST ORGANIZATION
Università di Udine, Italy
LOCAL COMMITTEE
Luca Di Gaspero, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Stefano Benedettini, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Sara Ceschia, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Andrea Schaerf, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit either original papers, or papers that
appear on conference proceedings.
At the time of submission, authors are requested to clearly specify
whether their submission is original or already published.
All submissions must be in PDF format, do not exceed 10 pages, and
should be written in Latex, using the standard Article style, 11pt.
Papers should be submitted electronically via email to
rcra08 at dis.uniroma1.it
All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the
program committee.
Papers accepted at the workshop will be electronically published on the
workshop web site.
SELECTION FOR THE POST-PROCEEDINGS
Few weeks after the workshop, authors of accepted papers will have the
opportunity to participate in the selection for the post-proceedings by
submitting an extended version of their work.
Workshop post-proceedings will appear in a special issue of the
Elsevier Journal of Algorithms in Logic, Informatics and Cognition.
All candidate articles must be original: they cannot have already
been published in journals, and must contain significant additional
material with respect to any previous version already published in
formal conference proceedings.
Such papers will go through a second formal selection process, and
will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. The selection process will
be kept very short, and at most one re-submission stage will be allowed
(cf. important dates). Hence, authors are invited to work on their paper
mainly before the workshop date.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Abstract submission deadline: 1 September 2008
* Papers submission deadline: 15 September 2008
* Notification of acceptance/reject: 25 October 2008
* Final version due: 15 November 2008
* Workshop: Around 9-13 December 2008
SELECTION FOR POST-PROCEEDINGS
(special issue of Elsevier J. of Algorithms in Logic, Informatics and
Cognition)
* Extended papers submission deadline: 15 January 2009
* Notification of reviews of the 1st round: 28 February 2009
* Re-submission deadline
(for papers not accepted with minor rev.): 15 April 2009
* Final notification of acceptance: 1 May 2009
* Final version due: 15 May 2009
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