[Om-announce] Commonsense-2017 - Call for Participation

[geoff at cs.miami.edu]

Thirteenth International Symposium on Commonsense Reasoning (Commonsense-2017):
Call for Participation

You are invited to participate in Commonsense-2017, to be held at the
University College London, November 6-8, 2017.

The biennial Commonsense Symposia series provides a forum for exploring
one of the long-term goals of Artificial Intelligence, endowing computers
with common sense. Commonsense knowledge and reasoning are relevant for
many applications of current interest, such as robot and human
collaboration, transparent machine-learning systems that can explain their
conclusions, social media and story understanding software, and dialogue
systems.

Dates

November 6-8, 2017.

Location

Commonsense-2017 will take place on the campus of University College
London:

Haldane Room
Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Map: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/haldane-room

Registration

Registration costs for this symposium are 25.00, and must be made via the
UCL online store:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/commonsense-2017/registration/

Local accommodation

Numerous hotels are within walking distance of UCL. Please see the
following suggestions, and contact hotels directly for booking:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/commonsense-2017/hotels/

Invited speakers:

Sebastian Riedel, University College London
Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London

Conference Chairs

Andrew S. Gordon, University of Southern California
Rob Miller, University College London
Gyorgy Turan, University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Szeged

Program Committee

Eyal Amir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chitta Baral, Arizona State University
Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh
Brandon Bennett, University of Leeds
Gbor Berend, University of Szeged
Nicola Bicocchi, Unversity of New Brunswick
Antonis Bikakis, University College London
Bert Bredeweg, University of Amsterdam
Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University
Cungen Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nathanael Chambers, United States Naval Academy
William Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University
Tony Cohn, University of Leeds
Ernest Davis, New York University
Gerard de Melo, Rutgers University
Valeria De Paiva, University of Birmingham
Luke Dickens, University College London
Esra Erdem, Sabanci University
Nina Gierasimczuk, Technical University of Denmark
Jonathan Gordon, USC Information Sciences Institute
Catherine Havasi, Luminoso Technologies
Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Jeff Horty, University of Maryland
Daniela Inclezan, Miami University
Naoya Inoue, Tohoku University
Benjamin Johnston, University of Technology Sydney
Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus
Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen University
Henry Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas
Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Quan Liu, University of Science and Technology of China
Loizos Michael, Open University of Cyprus
Niloofar Montazeri, University of California Riverside
Leora Morgenstern, Leidos
Charlie Ortiz, Nuance Communications
Sebastian Pado, Stuttgart University
Theodore Patkos, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
Pavlos Peppas, University of Patras
Dimitris Plexousakis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
Alan Ritter, Ohio State University
Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University
Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University
Bob Sloan, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
Michael Thielscher, University of New South Wales
Richmond Thomason, University of Michigan
Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research
Laure Vieu, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
Stefan Woltran, Technische Universitt Wien

Website: http://commonsensereasoning.org