[Om-announce] CFP: ICLP 2019 - Application Track (short paper submission extended)

[Fioretto, Ferdinando]

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(Short paper submission deadline extended to June 30!)

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** CALL FOR PAPERS **



The 35th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2019)

Applications Track




September 20-25, 2019

Las Cruces, New Mexico (USA)

https://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/iclp2019/

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Objectives

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Logic programming (LP) has been widely adopted as a powerful declarative programming paradigm to build a variety of applications from research projects to industrial products, including bioinformatics, natural language understanding, robotics, etc. Motivated by such a wide range of applications, this year ICLP will have a special track dedicated to Applications of LP, to bring together LP researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry communities to share the recent advancement, challenge and insight for LP applications.



The goal of the Application Track is two-folded.  On the one side, it aims at providing a fresh impulse for the LP community to recast its interests towards solving practical problems and applications. On the other side, its goal is to attract representatives from the wider academia and industrial communities to discuss their challenges related to using LP in practical problems, applications and industrial products and their expectations of the development of theory and tools from LP community.





Expected contributions

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The Applications Track at ICLP 2019 invites submissions of papers on emerging and deployed applications of LP, describing all aspects of the development, deployment, and evaluation of LP systems to solve real-world problems, including interesting case studies and benchmarks, and discussing lessons learned. 



We welcome LP applications in a wide range of areas, including but not limited to: 



- industrial applications

- commonsense reasoning, knowledge representation

- declarative problem solving

- education

- bioinformatics, computational biology

- life sciences, genetics, medicine, pharmacology

- cognitive robotics, social robotics, human-robot interactions

- intelligent transportation, logistics

- computer vision, sensing, internet of things

- data analysis, machine learning

- creative computing

- digital forensics, cybersecurity, blockchain 

- economics, game theory, social choice

- software engineering, intelligent user interfaces

- multi-agent systems, argumentation, epistemic reasoning

- constraint programming, SAT, SMT 

- natural language understanding, story telling, question answering

- explanation generation, diagnosis

- spatial/temporal/probabilistic reasoning

- planning and scheduling

- databases, ontologies, knowledge bases, Semantic Web





Evaluation Criteria

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In this track, selection process of the highest quality papers will apply the following criteria:



- Significance of the real-world problem being addressed



- Importance and novelty of using logic programming technologies to solve this problem



- Evaluation and applicability of the system in real-world



- Reusability of datasets, case studies and benchmarks





Important Dates

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Abstract registration: April 27, 2019

Regular Paper submission: May 4, 2019

Notification: June 19, 2019

Short paper submission: June 30, 2019 	** EXTENDED

TPLP revision submission: July 3, 2019

TPLP and short paper final notifications: July 17, 2019

Camera-ready copy: July 31, 2017

Conference: September 20-25, 2019  





Submission Details

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All submissions must be written in English. 



-- Regular papers (14 pages in TPLP format, including references) 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. The accepted regular papers will be published in TPLP, along with the selected ICLP-TPLP papers. 



The program committee may recommend some regular papers to be published as technical communications (TCs), along with the selected ICLP-TC papers. The authors of the TCs can also elect to convert their submissions into extended abstracts (2 or 3 pages) for inclusion in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS, http://info.eptcs.org/). This should allow authors to submit a long version elsewhere.



-- Short papers (7 pages in EPTCS format, including references) can describe published research. The accepted short papers that describe original and previously unpublished work will be published as TCs, along with the selected ICLP-TC papers. The accepted short papers that describe published research will be made available at the conference webpage, with the permission of the authors.



All accepted regular papers and technical communications will be presented during the conference. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost.



Any additional questions can be directed towards the Application Track Chairs:



Andrea Formisano, Università di Perugia

andrea.formisano at unipg.it



Fangkai Yang, NVIDIA Corporation

wolfgang.yang at gmail.com







Applications Track Program Committee

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Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA)

Alex Brik (Google Inc, USA)

Francesco Calimeri (University of Calabria, Italy)

Xiaoping Chen (University of Science and Technology of China)

Federico Chesani (University of Bologna, Italy)

Martín Diéguez (ENIB, France)

Gerhard Friedrich (Alpen-Adria Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria)

Gopal Gupta (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Jianmin Ji (University of Science and Technology of China, China) 

Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Germany)

Zeynep Kiziltan (University of Bologna, Italy)

Viviana Mascardi (University of Genova, Italy)

Yunsong Meng (Houzz Inc., USA)

Francesco Ricca (University of Calabria, Italy)

Mohan Sridharan (University of Birmingham, UK)

David Warren (SUNY Stony Brook, USA)

Shiqi Zhang (SUNY Binghamton, USA)

Neng-Fa Zhou (CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, USA)