Description Logics 96 - Call for Papers
Enrico Franconi <franconi@itc.it>
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1996 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'96)
November 2-4, 1996
Boston MA, USA
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 1996 International Workshop on Description Logics continues the
tradition of international workshops devoted to discussing developments and
applications of description-oriented knowledge representation formalisms
based on logic. The Workshop will be held in Boston, 2-4th November,
immediately prior to KR'96.
The intention is for workshop format to include a lot of discussion, rather
than many paper presentations. Presentation of current work will be via
papers in the proceedings and/or in informal discussions.
SCOPE
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Subjects to be addressed include the following:
-- Foundations of Description Logics, including distinguishing features of
Description Logics with respect to other formalisms, expressive power of
Description Logics, types of reasoning, decidability and complexity results
of reasoning, and relationships with other formalisms.
-- Extensions of Description Logics, including, but not limited to, closed
world reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, queries, constraints,
temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge.
-- Integration of Description Logics with other formalisms, such as
object-oriented languages and systems, type systems, constraint-based
programming, logic programming, rule-based systems, etc.
-- Specification, design and building of representation and reasoning
systems based on Description Logics, concentrating on empirical results,
novel algorithms, and implementation techniques, with special emphasis on
their relationship with theoretical results.
-- Applications and use of both Description Logics and representation and
reasoning systems based on them, in areas such as natural language,
planning, learning, databases, software engineering, information management
systems, etc.
SUBMISSION
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Interested parties should prepare a short paper on some aspect of their
current work in Description Logics for inclusion in the proceedings (no more
than 5 LaTeX article-style pages), or a short position paper indicating
interest in description logics and the workshop.
Please prepare a version of your submission (preferably as a self-contained
LaTeX 12-point article style file) and send it to dl96@dl.kr.org by e-mail,
to arrive by July 15 1996. We will determine participation in the workshop
by September 9th based on the proceedings papers and position papers. (If
you need to know before this, in order to make travel arrangements, please
contact the committee at dl96@dl.kr.org. The reason for the late dates is to
allow submission following KR notification). Early submissions are welcome!
Revised versions of accepted proceedings papers should be prepared on the
basis of the comments of the organizers, and sent to them by October 7th
1996. The revised position papers will be electronically distributed to
participants. The proceedings consisting of revised versions of the position
papers will be produced and distributed after the workshop, and made
available to other researchers.
In addition each person should indicate a list of topics they would be
interested in seeing included in the workshop, for each of them indicating
whether it should be a long or short paper presentation, a panel, or a
general discussion, as well as an indication of how you personally would
like to participate in the workshop (e.g. panel on X, general discussion,
short/long paper presentation, etc.).
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline: July 15, 1996
Notification of acceptance: September 9, 1996
Camera ready papers due: October 7, 1996
Workshop: November 2-4, 1996
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Chair: Lin Padgham
Department of Computer Science
Royal Melbourne Insitute of Technology (RMIT) University
Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia
linpa@cs.rmit.edu.au
Enrico Franconi
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning group
Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST)
I-38050 Povo TN, Italy
franconi@irst.itc.it
Manfred Gehrke
Siemens AG
ZFE ST SN 5
Otto-Hahn-Ring 6
81730 M|nchen, Germany
Manfred.Gehrke@zfe.siemens.de
Deborah L. McGuinness
AT&T Bell Laboratories
600 Mountain Ave.
Murray Hill NJ 07974, USA
dlm@research.att.com
Peter F. Patel-Schneider
AT&T Bell Laboratories
600 Mountain Ave.
Murray Hill NJ 07974, USA
pfps@research.att.com
RESOURCES
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Enquiries about the workshop can be made by mailing to dl96@dl.kr.org.
Information regarding costs, travel information, hotels, etc. will be
distributed later. Check the web page at http://dl.kr.org/dl/dl96/ for
updates.
The official Description Logics WWW home page is at http://dl.kr.org/dl/.
Lin Padgham,
Enrico Franconi,
Manfred Gehrke,
Deborah McGuinness,
Peter Patel-Schneider