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CALL FOR PAPERS
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ILP 2016: The 26th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming
4th - 6th September, 2016
London, UK
http://ilp16.doc.ic.ac.uk
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The 26th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2016)
will be held in London, UK, September 4th - 6th, 2016. It will be held at the
"Warren House Conference Centre", situated next to Richmond Park (UK Nature
Reserve and the largest London Royal Park) and well connected to the centre of
London via tubes and trains.
The ILP conference series is the premier international forum for learning from
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.
Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest for submissions include:
- Theoretical aspects: logical-foundations of learning;
computational/statistical learning theory; specialisation and generalisation;
probabilistic logic-based learning; graph and tree mining.
- Representation and languages for learning: logic programming;
Datalog;first-order logic; description logic and ontologies; higher-order
logic; Answer Set Programming; probabilistic logic languages; constraint logic
programming; knowledge graphs.
- Algorithms and systems: learning with (semi-)structured data;
(semi-)supervised and unsupervised relational learning; relational
reinforcement learning; predicate invention; propositionalisation approaches;
multi-instance learning; learning in the presence of uncertainty; meta-level
learning.
- Applications of learning in: art; bioinformatics; systems biology; games;
medical informatics; robotics; natural language processing; web-mining;
software engineering; modelling and adaptation of control systems;
socio-technical systems.
In addition to the above topics, ILP 2016 is also encouraging contributions in
the areas of cognitive technologies, knowledge acquisition from big data, the
cloud and crowd sourced data, deep relational learning, as well as
contributions on the application of any of these solutions to real world
problems.
The conference will host keynote talks from both industry and academia and will
run the first International ILP Competition.
We solicit three 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 assigned a standard time
slot for presentation and will appear in the Springer LNAI post-conference
proceedings. If a long paper submission is not accepted as a long paper, it may
be accepted as a "short paper" (see next paragraph), in which case it will be
assigned a reduced time slot for presentation, and the authors may be given the
opportunity to submit a revised version that will be reviewed after the
conference for possible inclusion in the Springer LNAI post-conference
proceedings.
2) Short papers describing original work in progress, brief accounts of
original ideas without conclusive evaluation, and other relevant work of
potentially high scientific interest but not yet qualifying for the long paper
category. They will be accepted/rejected on the grounds of their relevance.
Accepted short papers will be assigned a reduced time slot for presentation.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit a long version that will
be reviewed after the conference for possible inclusion in the Springer LNAI
post-conference proceedings.
3) 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. These papers will not appear in the Springer LNAI
post-conference proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES:
* Abstract registration: 7 May 2016
* Long paper submission: 13 May 2016
* Long Paper notification: 26 June 2016
* Short Paper submission: 24 July 2016
* Short Paper notification: 28 July 2016
SUBMISSION:
Submissions of long papers and short papers 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
(http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html).
Long papers must not exceed 12 pages including references; short papers must
not exceed 6 pages not including references. Papers in category 3 should be
submitted in their original format and the authors should indicate the original
publication venue.
All Paper submissions will be electronic through the ILP 2016 Easychair site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ilp2016
The post-proceedings from the Conference will be published by LNAI Springer.
We expect there will be a special issue of the Machine Learning Journal
following the conference, which will be open for everyone. This special issue
will welcome conference submissions from all three categories, which should be
significantly revised and extended, to meet the MLJ criteria, and will be
re-reviewed by PC members.
CONFERENCE AND PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London UK
James Cussens, University of York, UK
ILP COMPETITION CHAIR:
Mark Law, Imperial College London, UK
PUBLICITY CHAIR:
Krysia Broda, Imperial College London, UK
ASSOCIATED EVENT:
3rd International Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming
