Dear Colleague,
due to several requests we postpone the abstract and paper submission
deadlines for one week. The new deadline for abstracts is March 24,
full papers are due on April 3. Please note that will we have double-
blind reviewing this year (see the updated call for papers below
for details).
Looking forward to many high-quality submissions and best regards,
Stefan Kramer and Bernhard Pfahringer
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Call for Papers
15th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming
(ILP 2005)
Bonn, Germany
August 10 - 13, 2005
http://ilp2005.in.tum.de/
The 15th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming
(ILP 2005) will be held in Bonn, Germany, August 10 - 13. ILP 2005
will be co-located with ICML 2005, and will follow IJCAI 2005 in Edinburgh.
The ILP conference series, started in 1991, is the premier international
forum for learning from structured data. Originally focussing on the
induction of logic programs, it broadened its scope and attracted a lot
of attention and interest in recent years. In keeping with its tradition,
but also reflecting its broadening scope, authors are invited to submit
papers presenting original results on all aspects of learning in logic,
as well as multi-relational data mining and learning, statistical
relational learning, graph and tree mining, and learning in other (non-
propositional) logic-based knowledge representation frameworks.
Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest for submissions include:
* theoretical aspects (logical foundations, computational and/or
statistical learning theory, specialization and generalization
operators, etc.) of learning in logic (logic programs, constraint
logic programs, Datalog, first-order logic, description logics,
higher-order logic, etc.), or from relational or graph databases
* algorithmic and implementation aspects of learning in logic including
the design of algorithms along with theoretical and/or empirical
analysis, probabilistic and statistical approaches, distance and
kernel-based methods, relational reinforcement learning, learning
from multi-relational databases, scalability issues, inductive
databases, link discovery, multi-instance learning, etc.,
* applications including, but not restricted to multi-relational learning
from structured (e.g., labeled graphs, tree patterns) and semi-structured
data (e.g., XML documents), in areas of science (bioinformatics, chem-
informatics, medical informatics, etc.), natural language processing
(computational linguistics, relational text and web mining etc.),
engineering or the arts.
The co-location should provide the ICML and ILP communities with ample
opportunity for interaction. A joint ICML/ILP session is planned. We
would particularly encourage submissions on Statistical Relational
Learning as one of the possible topics of the joint session. In addition,
we strongly encourage papers reporting real-world applications of inductive
logic programming, multi-relational data mining, statistical relational
learning and graph mining. Application papers should emphasize the
challenges posed by real-world applications (not sufficiently addressed
by existing approaches) and the lessons learned, that could be transferred
to other applications.
Important Dates:
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Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of
about 200 words before submitting the paper.
Titles and short abstracts due: March 24, 2005
Papers due: April 3, 2005 (23.59 CET)
Author notification: May 2, 2005
Camera-ready copies due: May 20, 2005
Late-breaking papers due: June 24, 2005
Late-breaking notification: July 4, 2005
Late-breaking CRC due: July 15, 2005
ILP 2005 Conference: August 10 - 13, 2005
Proceedings:
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The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag
in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence subseries of LNCS. We
also plan to publish revised versions of the papers in a special issue
of the journal "Machine Learning". Those submissions will then be subject
to a separate reviewing procedure according to the standards of the
journal.
Submission Information:
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Papers must be written in English and should be between 12 and 18 pages
long in Springer's LNCS/LNAI style. The cover page should include the
paper title, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, as well
as the corresponding author's name, phone and fax numbers, a list of
keywords, and an abstract of about 200 words. Only electronic submissions
in PDF or PostScript file format will be accepted. It is the author's
responsibility to ensure that the file is printable. All submissions will
be acknowledged shortly after receipt. For more information, please visit
the LNCS Information for Authors web page at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
As in the previous year, we will have *double-blind reviewing*. Submission
will be done in two steps. In the first step authors should submit the
title of the paper, the complete list of authors, their affiliations and
the abstract. The corresponding author will receive an identification code
that must be used in the second step of the submission process. In the
second step the identification code must be used to upload the full paper.
The paper must not have any reference to the authors. Any (bibliographic)
references to the authors and their prior work should be disguised by
suitable use of third-person form, e.g. use "Prior work by [Ng98] has
shown..." instead of "As we have shown in prior work [Ng98] ..."
Simultaneous Submissions:
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No simultaneous submissions will be accepted.
Short Presentations:
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ILP 2005 will have a session of short, 5-10 minutes presentations. This
session is intended for descriptions of work in progress, student projects,
open problems and research issues, as well as new application challenges.
Papers being published elsewhere are also suitable. Papers submitted to
this session should be no longer than 6 pages and must be received by June
24, 2005. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by July 4,
2005. Papers accepted for this session will appear electronically and/or
in a technical report.
Best Student Paper Awards:
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This year, Kluwer will honour the best student papers with awards. The
awards will be based on significance and originality of contribution and
should satisfy the following criteria:
* The primary author of the paper must be either a student (or more than
one student), or must have been a student at the time the paper was
submitted. This must be indicated in the submission cover page.
* The paper must be on a topic that is clearly within the scope of the
journal "Machine Learning".
After the conference, the winner(s) will also be invited to submit an
extended version of their paper(s) for publication in a Special Issue of
the journal "Machine Learning".
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