CFP: address@hidden 2011

[Paulo Moura]

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                      First Call for Papers

  EPIA 2011 - 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence

     Thematic Track: COLA - COmputational Logic with Applications

                          October 10-13

                 Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

                    http://epia2011.appia.pt/

== Overview ==

  The development  of sophisticated intelligent  systems requires more
  and more  sound and appropriate foundations and  tools, resulting in
  new   problems   and   challenges   for  the   computational   logic
  practitioners.  Computational logic has  been widely used in complex
  applications  in important  areas such  as the  Deductive Databases,
  Natural Language Processing and  Program Analysis, and more recently
  on the Semantic Web and  related Web Tools. These novel applications
  have exposed the limits of existing approaches, showing the need for
  research on better  languages and more sophisticated implementations
  of reasoning systems.   The COLA thematic track of  EPIA 2011 covers
  the  broad area of  Computational Logic  and its  applications, with
  special   interest   on   topics   related  with   new   formalisms,
  environments, languages, tools,  and applications.  A non-exhaustive
  list of topics follows:

- Logic based knowledge representation and applications
- Declarative semantics of rule languages and applications
- Program Analysis, Program Transformation, Validation and
  Verification, Debugging, Profiling
- Implementation of reasoning systems, in particular logic programming,
  contextual logic programming, and tabling systems
- Abductive and Inductive Logic Programming
- Ontologies, Description Logics and integration with reasoning systems
- Reasoning with incomplete and uncertain information, including
  non-monotonic reasoning as well as probabilistic and fuzzy logic
  programming formalisms
- Reasoning on the Semantic Web
- Applications: Deductive Databases, Data Integration,
  Natural Language, Semantic Web, and Web Tools

== Important Dates ==

   Deadline for paper submission: May 10, 2011
   Notification of paper acceptance: June 10, 2011
   Camera-ready papers: July 1, 2011
   Conference dates: October 10-13, 2011
  
== Submission Guidelines ==

  All  papers should  be submitted  through the  conference management
  website at:

     http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2011

  Papers should  not exceed fifteen (15)  pages in length  and must be
  formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must
  be submitted  in PDF (Adobe's  Portable Document Format)  format and
  will  not be accepted  in any  other format.  Papers that  exceed 15
  pages  or do  not follow  the  LNCS guidelines  risk being  rejected
  automatically  without  a  review.   At  least one  author  of  each
  accepted paper  must register for the  conference.  More information
  about the  Springer's Lecture Notes  in Computer Science  (LNCS) are
  available on the Springer LNCS Web site

     http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

  The best  papers (the  exact number is  decided by the  EPIA Chairs)
  will appear  in the  proceedings published by  Springer in  the LNAI
  series. The remaining  accepted papers will be  published in a venue
  TBA.

== Organizing Committee ==

  Paulo Moura, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
  Vitor Nogueira, Universidade de Évora, Portugal
 
== Program Committee ==

  Angelika Kimmig, K. University of Leuven, Belgium
  Axel Pollers, National University of Ireland, Ireland
  Bart Demoen, K. University of Leuven, Belgium
  Daniel Diaz, University of Paris 1, France
  David Warren, University of Stony Brook, USA
  Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA
  Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
  Joachim Schimpf, Monash University, Australia
  João Leite, CENTRIA and Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
  José Alferes, CENTRIA and Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
  Paulo Gomes, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
  Peter Robinson, University of Queensland, Australia
  Roberto Bagnara, University of Parma, Italy
  Salvador Abreu, Universidade de Évora, Portugal
  Vítor Costa, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

== Contact Information ==

  address@hidden


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Paulo Jorge Lopes de Moura, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dep. of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior
6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal

Office 3.18  Ext. 3276
Phone: +351 275319891 Fax: +351 275319899
Email: <mailto:address@hidden>

Home page: <http://www.di.ubi.pt/~pmoura>
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