[Om-announce] KR2020 is about to start!

[Theofanis I. Aravanis]

The 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge 
Representation and Reasoning (KR2020), to be held virtually on September 
12-18, 2020, is about to start, and welcomes all researchers interested 
in KR to participate!

Virtual participants are kindly requested to send their details (i.e., 
name, email, affiliation, country, events that will be attended, and 
reasons for participation), via email to KR2020.local at gmail.com.

Information about full program, registration, as well as the list of 
papers accepted at the main conference and the Doctoral Consortium, can 
be found at the conference webpage:
https://kr2020.inf.unibz.it/

KR2020 Flyers:
http://kr2020.inf.unibz.it/downloads/KR20_CFPartic_A.png
http://kr2020.inf.unibz.it/downloads/KR20_CFPartic_B.png

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) is a well-established and 
lively field of research.  In KR, a fundamental assumption is that an 
agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, 
suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. This assumption, 
that much of what an agent deals with is knowledge-based, is common in 
many modern intelligent systems.  Consequently, KR has contributed to 
the theory and practice of various areas in AI, including automated 
planning and natural language understanding, and to fields beyond AI, 
including databases, verification, software engineering, and robotics.  
In recent years, KR has contributed also to new and emerging fields, 
including the semantic web, computational biology, cyber security, and 
the development of software agents.

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.

INVITED SPEAKERS

* Rachid Alami (LAAS-CNRS, ANITI, France)
* Thomas Eiter (Technische Universität Wien, Austria)
* Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge, UK)
* Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford, UK)
* Gary Marcus (Robust AI, USA)
* David Poole (University of British Columbia, Canada)

TRACKS and SPECIAL SESSIONS

* Applications and Systems Track
* Recent Published Research Track
* Special Session: KR and Machine Learning
* Special Session: KR and Robotics
* Special Session: Women in KR

WORKSHOPS

* Explainable Logic-Based Knowledge Representation (XLoKR 2020)
* International Workshop on Applications of AI to Forensics 
(AI2Forensics)
* KR for All Minds (KR4AMinds)
* Models of Legal Reasoning (MLR)
* Reasoning about ACtions and Events over Streams (RACES)

TUTORIALS

* Argumentative Explanations in AI, by Francesca Toni (Imperial College 
London, UK) and Antonio Rago (Imperial College London, UK)
* Cognitive Logics – Formal and Cognitive Methods for Reasoning in an 
Uncertain and Dynamic World, by Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund, 
Germany) and Marco Ragni (Universität Freiburg, Germany)
* Dynamic Epistemic Logic and Epistemic Planning, by Andreas Herzig 
(IRIT, Toulouse, France)
* Practical Uses of Existential Rules in Knowledge Representation, by 
David Carral (TU Dresden, Germany), Markus Krötzsch (TU Dresden, 
Germany), and Jacopo Urbani (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands)

CO-LOCATED EVENTS

* DL 2020 (33rd International Workshop on Description Logics)
* NMR 2020 (19th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning)

CONFERENCE CHAIRS:

General:
     Michael Thielscher (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Program:
     Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
     Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey)

Applications Track:
     Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA)
     Francesco Ricca (University of Calabria, Italy)

Recent Published Research Track:
     James Delgrande (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
     Miroslaw Truszczynski (University of Kentucky, USA)

Special Session: KR and Machine Learning:
     Alessandra Russo (Imperial College London, UK)
     Guy Van den Broeck (UCLA, USA)

Special Session: KR and Robotics:
     Michael Beetz (University of Bremen, Germany)
     Fredrik Heintz (Linkoping University, Sweden)

Special Session: Women in KR:
     Meghyn Bienvenu (University of Bordeaux, France)
     Magdalena Ortiz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Workshop and Tutorials:
     Anni-Yasmin Turhan (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
     Renata Wassermann (University of Sao Paulo, Brasil)

Doctoral Consortium:
     Vaishak Belle (University of Edinburgh, UK)
     Rafael Penaloza Nyssen (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

Local Organization:
     Pavlos Peppas (University of Patras, Greece)

Publicity:
     Theofanis Aravanis (University of Patras, Greece)
     Paolo Felli (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)

Sponsorship:
     Jean Christoph Jung (University of Bremen, Germany)
     Victor Gutierrez Basulto (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)

Virtual Conference Arrangements:
	Paolo Felli (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)