[CFP] ILP 2018 - Conference and Journal Track

[Riccardo Zese]

Apologize for multiple posting.

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ILP 2018 Joint Call for Papers
The 28th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming

September 2nd - 4th, Ferrara, Italy
http://ilp2018.unife.it/

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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 will feature two tracks: a conference track and a journal track.

CONFERENCE TRACK
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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 on
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.

More information about submission process will be published soon.

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: 22nd July  2018
* Work in progress abstracts and already
  published papers notification:    27th July  2018

The deadline on each of these dates is midnight, Central European Time.

Additional information about the submission guidelines is available at
http://ilp2018.unife.it/call-for-papers/conference-track.

JOURNAL TRACK
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We are delighted to introduce a Journal Track whose accepted papers
will be published in the Machine Learning Journal Special Issue on
Inductive Logic Programming - ILP 2017 and 2018, collecting the best
papers coming from ILP 2017 and ILP 2018.

Submission:
Given the special nature of the journal track, only papers that
satisfy the quality criteria of journal papers and at the same time
lend themselves to conference talks will be considered.

The journal track allows continuous submissions from October 2017 to
the beginning of February 2018. Papers will be processed and sent out
for review after each cutoff date. The last cutoff date is:

* 5th February 2018

The deadline on each of these dates is midnight, Central European Time.

Papers rejected at this track are welcome to the conference track.

Additional information about the submission guidelines is available at
http://ilp2018.unife.it/call-for-papers/journal-track.

CO-LOCATED EVENTS
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* 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
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Fabrizio Riguzzi, University of Ferrara, Italy

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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Elena Bellodi, University of Ferrara, Italy
Riccardo Zese, University of Ferrara, Italy

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Riccardo Zese, PhD
DE - Dipartimento di Ingegneria
Università di Ferrara
Via Saragat 1, I-44122,  Ferrara,  Italy
Tel. +39 0532974827