[CFP] ILP 2018 - * Extended deadline * Conference Track and Awards

So Mai 20 13:47:30 CEST 2018

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ILP 2018 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 features two tracks: a journal track and a conference track.

While the journal track is now closed, the conference track is open
for submissions.

* NOTE: The deadline for the submission of papers of
categories 1 and 2 has been extended.
The new deadline is: 2nd June 2018 *

CONFERENCE TRACK
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We solicit four types of submissions:

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 in
CEUR proceedings.

3. Work in progress 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 works 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.

Submissions will be managed via Springer OCS at the following link:
https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/ILP2018.
When submitting, please choose among  the 4 paper categories:
(1) LONG, (2) SHORT, (3) WORK IN PROGRESS and (4) ALREADY
PUBLISHED.
Reviewers will be asked whether papers submitted in category 1 should
be published, if accepted, in Springer LNAI or CEUR Proceedings.

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

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 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/work in progress
must register for the conference, and present his work.

Awards

The conference has established several awards for the best papers:
* the Best Paper Award will be chosen among the regular papers
  submitted at the conference and the papers accepted in the journal
  track. The award is worth 1,000 EUR
  kindly provided by Springer;
* two Best Student Paper Awards, one for regular papers and one for
  up-and-coming papers. In this case, the first author must be a
  student at the time of paper submission. The awards are worth
  750 USD each, kindly provided by the Machine Learning Journal.
  To qualify for this award, the authors must check the option
  “Enlist for the Student Paper Award” when submitting their paper.

Important Dates:
* Papers of category 1 and 2 submission:             2nd June 2018 (EXTENDED)
* Papers of category 1 and 2 notification:              3rd July  2018
* Work in progress submissions and already
  published papers submission:                            18th July  2018
* Work in progress submissions and already
  published papers notification:                             23rd July  2018

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

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