NeSy'06
Second International Workshop on
Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning

NeSy'05 took place at IJCAI-05, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1st of August 2005.

NeSy'07 will take place at IJCAI-07, Hyderabad, India, January 2007. Submission deadline is 22nd of September, 2006.

Accepted Papers

• Rebecca Fay, Friedhelm Schwenker, Günter Palm: Evidence Based Reasoning in Classifier Hierarchies
• Miloslaw L. Frey: Using activation spreading for ontology merging
• Andre Grüning: Position Paper: Towards a dynamic assessment of formal language complexity
• Barbara Hammer, Nicolas Neubauer: On the capacity of unsupervised recursive neural networks for symbol processing
• Heiner Markert, Günter Palm: An Approach to Language Understanding and Contextual Disambiguation in Human-Robot Interaction
• Jim Prentzas and Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis: Construction of Neurules from Training Examples: A Thorough Investigation
• Oliver Ray, Artur Garcez: Towards the integration of abduction and induction in artificial neural networks
• Athanasios Tsakonas, Georgios Dounias, Nikitas Nikitakos: Active Sonar Target Identification Using Evolutionary Neural Logic Networks

Schedule

Call for Papers (closed)

Artificial Intelligence researchers continue to face huge challenges in their quest to develop truly intelligent systems. The recent developments in the field of neural-symbolic integration bring an opportunity to integrate well-founded symbolic artificial intelligence with robust neural computing machinery to help tackle some of these challenges.

The Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning is intended to create an atmosphere of exchange of ideas, providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of the key topics related to neural-symbolic integration. Topics of interest include:

• The representation of symbolic knowledge by connectionist systems;
• Learning in neural-symbolic systems;
• Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks;
• Reasoning in neural-symbolic systems;
• Biological inspiration for neural-symbolic integration;
• Applications in robotics, semantic web, engineering, bioinformatics, etc.

Submission

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere. Submitted papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in the case of research and experience papers, and 2 pages in the case of position papers (including figures, bibliography and appendices) in ECAI format. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness. Papers must be submitted directly by email in PDF format to nesy@soi.city.ac.uk

Presentation

Selected papers will be presented during the workshop. The workshop will include extra time for audience discussion of the presentation allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented.

Publication

Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings, which will be distributed during the workshop. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their papers to the journal of logic and computation, OUP.

Important Dates New! Submission deadline extended to 22nd of April!

Deadline for submission: 22nd of April, 2006
Notification of acceptance: 15th of May, 2006
Camera-ready paper due: 22nd of May, 2006
Workshop date: 29th of August, 2006
ECAI 2006 main conference dates: 28th of August to 1st of September, 2006.

Workshop Organisers

Artur d'Avila Garcez (City University London, UK)
Pascal Hitzler (University Karlsruhe, Germany)
Guglielmo Tamburrini (Università di Napoli, Italy)

Programme Committee

Artur d'Avila Garcez (City University London, UK)
Sebastian Bader (TU Dresden, Germany)
Howard Blair (Syracuse University, USA)
Dov Gabbay (Kings College London, UK)
Marco Gori (University of Siena, Italy)
Barbara Hammer (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis (University of Patras, Greece)
Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Luis Lamb (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
John Lloyd (The Australian National University, Australia)
Vasile Palade (Oxford University, UK)
Antony K. Seda (University College Cork, Ireland)
Ron Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Guglielmo Tamburrini (Università di Napoli Feredico II, Italy)
Stefan Wermter (University of Sunderland, UK)
Gerson Zaverucha (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Invited speakers

Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy: Heat Kernel Learning Machines for Symbolic Problems (tentative title)
Stefan Wermter, University of Sunderland, UK: Hybrid Intelligent Systems and Cognitive Robotics (tentative title)

Additional Information

General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to nesy@soi.city.ac.uk.