New deadline for ONTOLP workshop at IJCAI 2015

[Laurent GARCIA]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Ontologies and Logic Programming for Query Answering

http://ontolp.lsis.org

This international workshop is is one of the joint ontology workshops JOWO
2015 affiliated with the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI-2015, http://ijcai-15.org) and
will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July , 2015.

Workshop description

The aim of this workshop is to bridge knowledge representation and reasoning
in artificial intelligence and web of knowledge communities in order to
encourage the emergence of new solutions for reasoning with lightweight
ontologies.

- Query answering while taking ontologies into account.
- Non monotonic reasoning for inconsistency handling and exception handling
and expressing default negations in ontologies.

Concerning the first point, a challenging issue is how to adapt or extend
Answer Set Programming to represent ontological knowledge. In particular, can
(a fragment of) ASP cover lightweight ontological languages while keeping
decidability and efficiency?

Concerning the second point, a challenging issue is how to extend lightweight
ontological languages with non-monotonic features, while keeping a good
computational complexity. In particular,

- How to embed exceptions-based and inconsistency tolerant-based reasoning in
a tractable ontological language?

- How to integrate uncertainty information in lightweight ontological
languages?

- How to define merging operations where both inputs and outputs are in
lightweight ontological languages?

Topics of interest include but are not limited to

	•	Reasoning with lightweight ontologies
	•	Reasoning with tractable fragments of OWL languages
	•	Belief change & tractable Description logics
	•	Reasoning on the web of data
	•	Ontology-based data-access
	•	Ontological query answering
	•	Belief change & ASP
	•	Datalog+/- & existential rules
	•	ASP & description logics
	•	ASP & uncertainty
	•	First-order ASP
	•	Rulelog

The workshop is expected to bring together people from different
research communities that are actively pursuing this line of research.

Paper submission

The authors should submit their paper via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontolp2015

We expect submissions of both mature and preliminary works. Long papers will
not exeed 8 pages and short papers will not exceed 4 pages in pdf formatted
using the AAAI style according to the instructions at
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php

After the workshop, the authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit
an extended version for inclusion in a special issue of the Annals of
Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) journal published by Springer.

Important dates

	•	Abstract submission deadline: as soon as possible
	•	Paper submission new deadline: May 10, 2015
	•	Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2015
	•	Camera ready papers: May 30, 2015
	•	Workshop date: July 25-27 2015

Program committee

	•	Maria Teresa Alsinet Bernado (University of Lleida, Spain)
	•	Jean-François Baget (INRIA, Montpellier, France)
	•	Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, U.S.A.)
	•	Madalina Croitoru (University of Montpellier 2, France)
	•	Jim Delgrande (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Canada)
	•	Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology. Austria)
	•	Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA, Grenoble, France)
	•	Eduardo Fermé (University of Madeira, Portugal)
	•	Sergio Alejandro Gomez (Universidad Nacional del Sur Alem, Argentina)
	•	Fabio Grandi (University of Bologna, Italy)
	•	Guido Governatori (NICTA Queensland, Australia)
	•	John Horty (University of Maryland, U.S.A.)
	•	Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Dortmund , Germany)
	•	Sylvain Lagrue (University of Artois, France)
	•	Claire Lefèvre (University of Angers, France)
	•	Joao Leite (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
	•	Nicola Leone (University of Calabria, Italy)
	•	Stéphane Loiseau (University of Angers, France)
	•	Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford. U.K.)
	•	Robert E. Mercer (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
	•	Thomas Meyer (CSIR Meraka Institute, Pretoria, South of Africa)
	•	Farid Nouioua (Aix Marseille University, France)
	•	Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China)
	•	Vincent Risch (Aix Marseille University, France)
	•	Riccardo Rosati (University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy)
	•	Marie-Christine Rousset (University of Grenoble, France)
	•	Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam, Germany)
	•	Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, U.K.)
	•	Guillermo Simari (University Bahia blanca, Argentine)
	•	Igor Stéphan (University of Angers, France)
	•	Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy)
	•	Kewen Wang (Griffith University, Australia)
	•	Stefan Woltran (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
	•	Eric Würbel (University of Toulon, France)

Chairs

	◦	Odile Papini, Aix Marseille University, LSIS, France
		odile.papini at univ-amu.fr

	◦	Salem Benferhat, University of Artois, CRIL France.
		benferhat at cril.fr
		
	◦	Laurent Garcia, University of Angers, LERIA, France.
		garcia at info.univ-angers.fr

	◦	Marie-Laure Mugnier, University of Montpellier 2, LIRMM, France.
		mugnier at lirmm.fr

Contact: Odile Papini, odile.papini at univ-amu.fr


This workshop receives support from ANR (French National Research
Agency),
(http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/) ASPIQ project reference
ANR-12-BS02-0003.(http://aspiq.lsis.org/)

Related link: JOWO 2015 http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/

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