SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES OF
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING
(KR'98)
Preliminary Call for Papers
TRENTO, ITALY, JUNE 2-5, 1998
(With workshops and coordinated events May 30 - June 1)
World Wide Web: http://www.kr.org/kr/kr98/
Autoresponder: ·········@kr.org
Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by inference algorithms
provide an important foundation for much work in Artificial Intelligence,
from natural language dialogue systems to expert systems. We intend KR'98 to
be a place for the exchange of news, issues, and results among the community
of researchers in the principles and practices of knowledge representation
and reasoning (KR&R) systems.
We encourage papers that present substantial new results in the principles
of KR&R systems while clearly showing the applicability of those results to
implemented or implementable AI systems. We also encourage "reports from
the field" of applications, experiments, developments, and tests. The
following topics are meant to be suggestive of the scope of the conference.
* Representational Formalisms * Implemented KR&R Systems
o Representations of o Reports
+ Belief o Updates
+ Intention o Comparisons
+ Time o Evaluations
+ Space * Significant Applications
+ Action o Planning
+ Events o Robotics
o Nonmonotonic Logics o Diagnosis
o Description Logics o Natural Language
* Reasoning Techniques o Multi-Agent
o Deduction Environments
o Induction o Knowledge Bases
o Abduction * Implications for/of
o Reasoning under Uncertainty o Machine Learning
o Parallel and Distributed o Decision Theory
o Implementations o Databases
o Efficiency Measures and o Software Engineering
Complexity
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
The Program Committee will review extended abstracts rather than complete
papers. Submissions must be at most twelve (12) pages, excluding the title
page and the bibliography, with a maximum of 38 lines per page and an
average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style,
12pt). Overlength submissions will be rejected without review. All abstracts
must be submitted on 8 1/2 by 11 inch or A4 paper, and printed or typed in
12-point font (10 characters per inch on a typewriter). Dot matrix printout,
FAX, or electronic submission will not be accepted. Each submission should
include the names and complete addresses (including email, when possible) of
all authors. Correspondence will be sent to the first author, unless
otherwise indicated. Also, authors should indicate under the title which of
the topic areas listed above best describes their paper (if none is
appropriate, please give a set of keywords that best describe the topic of
the paper). Submitted papers must be unpublished and substantively different
from papers currently under review. Details of exactly where to submit
papers will be given in the full call for papers to be issued later in 1997.
Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit substantially longer
full papers for the conference proceedings. Final camera-ready copies of the
full papers will be due Wednesday March 17 1998. Final papers will be
allowed at most twelve (12) double-column pages in the conference
proceedings (corresponding to approximately 28 article-style LaTeX pages; a
style file is provided by the publisher).
SCHEDULE
Monday December 1, 1997 Extended abstracts due
Monday February 2, 1998 Results to authors
Wednesday March 17, 1998 Final papers due
Saturday-Monday May 30 - June 1, 1998 Workshops
Monday evening, June 1, 1998 Opening reception
Tuesday - Friday June 2-5, 1998 KR'98
WORKSHOPS AND COORDINATED EVENTS
It is anticipated that a number of workshops and adjoining meetings will be
held in conjunction with KR'98. Anyone interested in organising such a
meeting should contact the workshops coordination chair as soon as possible.
Currently, it is known that the following will be held in conjunction with
KR'98:
International Description Logics Workshop (DL'98)
May 30 - June 1, 1998 (tentative date)
Contact person: Enrico Franconi (········@irst.itc.it).
Nonmonotonic Reasoning workshop (NMR)
May 30 - June 1, 1998 (tentative date)
Contact person: Gerhard Brewka (······@informatik.uni-leipzig.de),
chairs: Gerhard Brewka and Ilkka Niemelae, honorary chair: Ray Reiter.
IFIP Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Natural Language Processing
May 31 - June 1, 1998 (tentative date)
Contact person: David Etherington (·····@cirl.uoregon.edu).
Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
June 6 - June 8, 1998 (tentative date)
Contact person: Nicola Guarino (·······@ladseb.pd.cnr.it).
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
CONFERENCE CHAIR PROGRAM CHAIRS
Stuart C. Shapiro Anthony G. Cohn
State University of New York University of Leeds, UK
at Buffalo, USA ···@scs.leeds.ac.uk
·······@cs.buffalo.edu
Lenhart Schubert
University of Rochester, USA
········@cs.rochester.edu
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS WORKSHOPS COORDINATION
Fausto Giunchiglia (chair), Lin Padgham (chair)
Morena Carli, Luciano Serafini RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
IRST-ITC, Trento, Italy ·····@cs.rmit.edu.au
··········@irst.itc.it
Paolo Traverso (local organisation)
IRST-ITC, Trento, Italy
····@irst.itc.it
PUBLICITY CHAIR TREASURER
Enrico Franconi Francesco Donini
IRST-ITC, Trento, Italy University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
········@irst.itc.it ······@assi.dis.uniroma1.it