RCRA 2012: preliminary call for papers

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    The RCRA group (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) of the
           AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence)
                              http://rcra.aixia.it

                                organises the

                             19th RCRA workshop:
               Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving
               problems with combinatorial explosion  (RCRA 2012)

                       in association with AI*IA 2012

                        Rome, Italy, 14-16 June 2012

    RCRA group web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/
    Workshop web site:   http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2012
    e-mail:              rcra2012 at gmail.com

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    This event follows the series of the RCRA (Knowledge Representation
    and Automated Reasoning) annual meetings, 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.

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The workshop will take place in Rome, Italy from 14 to 16 June 2012, in
association with AI*IA 2012. RCRA 2012 will be held just after KR 2012 (http://kr.org/KR2012),
DL 2012 (http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~dl2012), NMR 2012 (http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/NMR12)
and CILC 2012 (http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~cilc2012), all in Rome.


As in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), authors of
papers orally presented at the workshop will have the opportunity to participate
to the selection of a special issue that will appear on an international journal.


HISTORY OF THE WORKSHOP SERIES
  RCRA 2011 in association with IJCAI 2011, Barcelona, Spain - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2011
  RCRA 2010 in association with CPAIOR 2010, Bologna, Italy - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2010
  RCRA 2009 in association with AI*IA 2009, Reggio Emilia, Italy - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2009
  Previous editions: http://rcra.aixia.it/workshops


IMPORTANT DATES
  * Abstract submission:				31 March 2012
  * Submissions to the RCRA workshop:	 5 April 2012
  * Notification of acceptance/reject:		 5 May 2012
  * Final version due:				31 May 2012
  * RCRA workshop:					14-16 June 2012


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:
  * Experimental evaluation of algorithms for
       o knowledge representation
       o automated reasoning
       o planning
       o scheduling
       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
  * 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


WORKSHOP CHAIRS
    * Toni Mancini, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
    * Angelo Oddi, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy


WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE
    * To be announced soon


HOST ORGANIZATION
       Sapienza University, Rome
       Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale "A. Ruberti" 
       (formerly, DIS: Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica) 

	   Via Ludovico Ariosto 25, 00185 Rome, Italy.


SUBMISSIONS
  Authors are invited to submit either original papers, or papers that appear on
  conference proceedings.

  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.

  At the time of submission, authors are requested to clearly specify whether their
  submission is original or already published.

  Workshop submissions must be in PDF format, do not exceed 15 pages, and should be
  written in LaTeX, using the RCRA 2012 style available on the workshop web site.
  
  RCRA 2012 will use EasyChair for the submission of contributions. Details will
  be available on the web-site soon.

  Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the
  program committee.


SELECTION FOR THE POST-PROCEEDINGS
  Few weeks after the workshop, authors of papers orally presented at the
  workshop will have the opportunity to participate to the selection for the
  post-proceedings by submitting an extended version of their work.

  As in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), workshop
  post-proceedings will appear in a special issue of an international
  journal, provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected.

  All candidate articles must be original: they cannot have already been published
  in journals, and must contain significant additional material with respect to any
  formal publication.

  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. 
  Hence, authors are invited to work on their paper mainly before the
  workshop date.