20th International Conference on
Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, KR 2023
September 2 - September 8, 2023, Rhodes, Greece
First Call for Papers
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) is a well-established and
lively field of research within Artificial Intelligence. KR builds on
the fundamental thesis that knowledge can be represented in an explicit
declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated symbolic
reasoning engines. This enables the exploitation of knowledge that
would otherwise be implicit through semantically grounded inference
mechanisms. Consequently, KR has contributed to the theory and practice
of various areas in AI, including agents, automated planning and natural
language processing, and to fields beyond AI, including data management,
semantic web, verification, software engineering, robotics,
computational biology, and cyber security.
The KR conference series is the leading forum for timely in-depth
presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the
representation and computational management of knowledge.
KR 2023 will consist of a number of tracks and events: the Main Track,
the Applications & Systems Track, the special session on KR & ML, the
special session on KR, Robotics & Planning, the Recently Published
Research (RPR) Track, the Tutorials & Workshops, the Doctoral
Consortium, and the Diversity and Inclusion Session. Details about all
these events will be made available later (possibly in separate calls).
Contributions to the Main Track, the Applications & Systems Track, the
special session on KR & ML, and the special session on KR, Robotics &
Planning will take the form of papers that will be published in the
proceedings of KR 2023. We solicit papers presenting novel results on
the principles of KR that clearly contribute to the formal foundations
of relevant problems or show the applicability of results to implemented
or implementable systems. We also welcome papers from other areas that
show clear use of, or contributions to, the principles or practice of
KR. We also encourage "reports from the field" of applications,
experiments, developments, and tests. Further details about the
submission guidelines and the selection criteria to be considered for
the Applications & Systems Track, the special session on KR & ML, and
the special session on KR, Robotics & Planning will be given later
(possibly in separate calls).
Submission Guidelines
The Main Track, the Applications & Systems Track, as well as the special
session on KR & ML and the special session on KR, Robotics & Planning
will allow contributions of both regular papers (up to 9 pages) and
short papers (up to 4 pages), including abstract, figures, and
appendices (if any) but excluding references and acknowledgements,
prepared and submitted according to the authors guidelines provided in
the submission page.
Both full and short papers must describe original, previously
unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for
publication elsewhere. These restrictions do not apply to previously
accepted workshop papers with a limited audience and/or without archival
proceedings, or to papers uploaded at public repositories (e.g., arXiv).
Papers must be written in English and formatted using the style files
provided in the submission page. Submissions are not anonymous (i.e.,
reviewing will be single-blind) and must be submitted in PDF format,
through the EasyChair conference system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr2023
The paper title, author names, contact details, and a brief abstract
must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair conference system
by the abstract submission deadline. It will be possible to make minor
edits to the title and abstract until the full paper submission
deadline. Submissions with "placeholder" abstracts will be removed
without consideration.
Full papers must be submitted through the same site by the paper
submission deadline. The list of author names provided at submission
time is final. Authors may not be added to, or removed from, papers
following submission.
Authors may optionally submit a separate PDF containing additional
information that substantiates the claims made in their paper, such as
proof details, additional experimental results, further details on
experimental design, etc. If authors wish to make such material
available to reviewers, they should do so by submitting a file through
EasyChair, rather than by including links or references in their paper.
The main paper must be self contained, as the supplementary material
will not be published. Reviewers will have the option, but not the
obligation, to consult the supplementary material.
Selection Process
The program committee consists of PC members (reviewers) and Area Chairs
(ACs), who overview the reviewing and meta-reviewing process.
Selection criteria include the novelty and originality of ideas,
correctness, clarity, significance of results, potential impact and
quality of the presentation.
Papers violating the format (e.g., by decreasing margins or font sizes)
or describing contributions that do not significantly meet the topics of
the conference will be desk rejected by the program chairs, without any
opportunity to submit an author response. By submitting a paper,
authors acknowledge that they are aware of the possibility of receiving
a summary rejection notification.
Papers that are not desk rejected will be reviewed by a group of PC
members (PCs) and the reviewing process will be supervised by an Area
Chair (AC).
The review process will include the opportunity for authors to respond
to the reviews by pointing out factual errors in the reviews and
answering specific questions by the reviewers. Author responses should
be concise, and are not intended to create a dialogue between reviewers
and authors. Author responses will be visible to PCs and ACs.
The final decisions will be made by the program co-chairs. There will be
no appeal for the decisions made.
Accepted papers will be published in the KR 2023 proceedings. At least
one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the
conference and present the work.
Prizes for best papers (the Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize and the Marco
Cadoli Best Student Paper Prize) will be possibly awarded, and
runners-up will be possibly pointed out. Top papers from KR 2023 will be
invited to the award-winning paper tracks of Artificial Intelligence
(AIJ) and of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).
Thus, award winners will have the possibility of choosing between AIJ
and JAIR.
All submissions will be treated in strict confidence until the
publication date.
Organization
General Chair
* Gabriele Kern-Isberner | TU Dortmund, Germany
Program Chairs
* Pierre Marquis | Université d'Artois, France
* Tran Cao Son | New Mexico State University, USA
Local Arrangement Chair
* Pavlos Peppas | University of Patras, Greece
RPR Track
* Leila Amgoud | IRIT-CNRS, France
* Martin Gebser | Graz University of Technology, Austria
Applications & Systems Track
* Matti Järvisalo | University of Helsinki, Finland
* Francesco Ricca | University of Calabria, Italy
Special Session on KR & ML
* Tias Guns |KU Leuven, Belgium
* Luciano Serafini | Fondazione Bruno Kessler,Italy
Special Session on KR, Robotics & Planning
* Esra Erdem | Sabanci University, Turkey
* Shiqi Zhang | SUNY Binghamton, USA
Diversity and Inclusion Session
* Meghyn Bienvenu | LaBRI-CNRS, France
* Stefan Schlobach | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Doctoral Consortium
* Tanya Braun | University of Münster, Germany
* Nico Potyka | Imperial College London, UK
Tutorials & Workshops
* Nicolas Schwind | AIST, Japan
* Serena Villata | I3S-CNRS, France
Funding & Sponsorship
* Marcello Balduccini | Saint Joseph's University, USA
* Pedro Cabalar | Corunna University, Spain
Publicity Chairs
* Theofanis (Fanis) Aravanis | University of Patras, Greece
* Guillermo Simari | Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Web Site
* Ioannis (Yannis) Konstantoulas | University of Patras, Greece
Important Dates
* Submission of title and abstract: March 3, 2023
* Paper submission deadline: March 14, 2023
* Author response period: May 1-3, 2023
* Author notification: May 18, 2023
* Camera-ready papers: June 9, 2023
* Conference: September 2-8, 2023
Details for submission to the RPR track, the Doctoral Consortium, and
the Tutorials & Workshops will be given later, possibly in separate
calls.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Applications of KR
* Argumentation
* Belief revision and update, belief merging
* Commonsense reasoning
* Computational aspects of knowledge representation
* Concept formation, similarity-based reasoning
* Contextual reasoning
* Decision making
* Description logics
* Explanation finding, diagnosis, causal reasoning, abduction
* Geometric, spatial, and temporal reasoning
* Inconsistency- and exception-tolerant reasoning
* Knowledge acquisition
* Knowledge graphs and open linked data
* Knowledge representation languages
* KR and automated reasoning (satisfiability, QBF, model counting,
knowledge compilation)
* KR and autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
* KR and cognitive modelling
* KR and cognitive reasoning
* KR and cognitive robotics
* KR and cognitive systems
* KR and cyber security
* KR and education
* KR and game theory
* KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming,
* KR and natural language processing and understanding
* KR and the Web, Semantic Web
* Logic programming, answer set programming
* Modeling and reasoning about preferences
* Multi- and order-sorted representations and reasoning
* Non-monotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics
* Ontology-based data access, integration, and exchange
* Ontology formalisms and models
* Philosophical foundations of KR
* Qualitative reasoning, reasoning about physical systems
* Reasoning about actions and change, action languages
* Reasoning about constraints, constraint programming
* Reasoning about knowledge, beliefs, and other mental attitudes
* Uncertainty, vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics
Contact
All enquiries should be emailed to kr2023 (AT) easychair.org._______________________________________________
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