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                             Call for Papers

      13th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming
                                (ILP 2003)
                             Szeged, Hungary
                      September 29 - October 1, 2003

                        http://www.rgai.hu/ilp2003

The 13th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming
(ILP 2003), organized by the  Department of Informatics at the
University of Szeged, will be held in  Szeged,  Hungary, September
29 - October 1, 2003. ILP 2003 will follow ECML/PKDD-2003 held in
Dubrovnik, Croatia (September 22 - 26, 2003), and will be co-located
with the Kalmar Workshop on Logic and Computer Science devoted to the
work of Laszlo Kalmar and to recent results in logic and computer
science (October 1 - 2, 2003).

The ILP conference series, started in 1991, was originally designed to
provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of
the latest research results in all areas of learning logic programs. In
keeping with this tradition, while reflecting also the broadening scope
of the field, authors are invited to submit papers presenting original
results in all aspects of learning logic programs, as well as
multi-relational learning and data mining, learning in first-order
logic and in other (non-propositional) logic-based knowledge
representation frameworks. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of
interest for submissions include

  * theoretical aspects (logical foundations, computational/statistical
    learning theory, specialization and generalization operators, etc.)
    of learning in logic (logic programs, constraint logic programs,
    Datalog, first-order logic, description logics, higher-order logic,
    etc.),

  * algorithmic aspects of learning in logic including the design of
    algorithms along with theoretical and/or empirical analysis,
    probabilistic and statistical approaches, distance and kernel-based
    methods, relational reinforcement learning, etc.,

  * learning and data mining from multi-relational databases,
    scalability issues, inductive databases, link discovery,

  * learning and data mining from structured (e.g., labeled graphs,
    tree patterns) and semi-structured data (e.g., XML documents),
    multi-instance learning,

  * efficient implementations and practical applications of
    multi-relational learning and data mining in bioinformatics,
    computational chemistry, computational linguistics, relational text
    and web mining, medical informatics, spatial data mining, etc.

Especially encouraged are papers emphasizing new topics related to
learning in logic and multi-relational data mining.


Important Dates:
================
  This year, authors are required to submit a paper title and a short
  abstract of about 200 words before submitting the paper.

     Titles and short abstracts due:  May 11, 2003
                         Papers due:  May 18, 2003
                Author notification: June 23, 2003
            Camera-ready copies due: July  9, 2003
                ILP 2003 Conference: September 30 - October 1, 2003

Proceedings:
============
  The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag
  in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence subseries of LNCS. We
  also plan to publish revised versions of selected papers in a journal
  special issue.

Submission Information:
=======================
  Papers must be written in English and should be no longer than 18
  pages in Springer's LNCS/LNAI style. The cover page should include the
  paper title, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, as
  well as the corresponding author's name, phone and fax numbers, a list
  of keywords, and an abstract of about 200 words. Only electronic
  submissions in PDF or PostScript file format will be accepted. It is
  the author's responsibility to ensure that the file is printable. All
  submissions will be acknowledged shortly after receipt. For further
  details and guidelines on paper submission please visit the ILP 2003
  website above and also http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Simultaneous Submissions:
=========================
    This year, simultaneous submissions to ECML/PKDD-2003 are allowed,
    provided this fact is clearly indicated on the submission form.
    Accepted papers will appear in the ILP 2003 conference proceedings
    only if they are withdrawn from publishing in the proceedings of
    ECML/PKDD-2003. Simultaneous submissions that are not clearly
    specified as such will be rejected.

Short Presentations:
====================
    ILP 2003 will have a session of short, 5-10 minutes presentations.
    This session is intended for descriptions of work in progress,
    student projects, open problems and research issues, as well as new
    application challenges. Papers being published elsewhere are also
    suitable. Papers submitted to this session should be no longer than
    10 pages and must be received by August 10, 2003. Authors will be
    notified of acceptance or rejection by August 25, 2003. Papers
    accepted for this session will appear electronically and/or in a
    technical report.

Program Committee:
==================

    H. Blockeel (Belgium)         S. Matwin (Canada)
    J.F. Boulicaut (France)       T. Miyahara (Japan)
    I. Bratko (Slovenia)          S. Muggleton (UK)
    J. Cussens (UK)               T. Ozaki (Japan)
    L. De Raedt (Germany)         D. Page (USA)
    S. Dzeroski (Slovenia)        D. Roth (USA)
    P. Flach (UK)                 C. Rouveirol (France)
    L. Getoor (USA)               L. Saitta (Italy)
    L. Holder (USA)               M. Sebag (France)
    K. Inoue (Japan)              A. Sharma (Australia)
    R. Khardon (USA)              A. Srinivasan (UK)
    J-U. Kietz (Switzerland)      P. Tadepalli (USA)
    S. Kramer (Germany)           G. Turan (USA, Hungary)
    N. Lavrac (Slovenia)          S. Wrobel (Germany)
    J. Lloyd (Australia)          G. Zaverucha (Brazil)
    E. Martin (Australia)         J-D. Zucker (France)


Program Chairs:
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    Tamas Horvath
    Department of Computer Science III, University of Bonn and
    Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous intelligent Systems,
    postal address:
      Fraunhofer AiS
      Schloss Birlinghoven
      D-53754 Sankt Augustin
      Germany
    Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    Phone: +49 2241 14-2686
    Fax:   +49 2241 14-2072

    Akihiro Yamamoto,
    Division of Electronics and Information Engineering and
     MemeMedia Laboratory
    Hokkaido University
    postal address:
     MemeMedia Laboratory
     N 13 W 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo
     060-8628 Japan
    Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    Phone: +81 11 706 7253
    Fax:   +81 11 706 7808

Local Chair:
============

    Tibor Gyimothy
    Research Group on Artificial Intelligence
    University of Szeged - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    postal address:
     Research Group on Artificial Intelligence
     Aradi Vertanuk tere 1.
     H-6720 Szeged
     Hungary
    Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    Phone: +36 62 544139
    Fax:   +36 62 425508


All inquiries should be sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
For further information about ILP 2003, please visit the conference
website at http://www.rgai.hu/ilp2003 .

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