/------------------------------------------------------------------/ CALL FOR PAPERS 9th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence JELIA'04 Lisbon, Portugal, September 27-30 http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jelia2004 Submission deadline: May 9th (abstracts due May 6th) /------------------------------------------------------------------/ INTRODUCTION Logics have, for many years, laid claim to providing a formal basis for the study and development of applications and systems in Artificial Intelligence. With the depth and maturity of formalisms, methodologies and logic-based systems today, this claim is stronger than ever. The European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (or Journées Européennes sur la Logique en Intelligence Artificielle - JELIA) began back in 1988, as a workshop, in response to the need for a European forum for the discussion of emerging work in this field. Since then, JELIA has been organised biennially, with English as official language, and with proceedings published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Previous meetings took place in Roscoff, France (1988), Amsterdam, Netherlands (1990), Berlin, Germany (1992), York, U.K. (1994), Évora, Portugal (1996), Dagstuhl, Germany (1998), Málaga, Spain (2000) and Cosenza, Italy (2002). The increasing interest in this forum, its international level with growing participation from researchers outside Europe, and the overall technical quality, has turned JELIA into a major biennial forum for the discussion of logic-based approaches to artificial intelligence. AIM AND SCOPE The aim of the 9th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, JELIA'04, is to bring together active researchers interested in all aspects concerning the use of logics in artificial intelligence to discuss current research, results, problems and applications of both a theoretical and practical nature. JELIA strives to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas among researchers from various disciplines, among researchers from academia and industry, and between theoreticians and practitioners. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in all areas related to the use of Logics in AI. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: -Abductive and inductive reasoning -Applications of logic-based systems -Automated reasoning and theorem proving -Computational complexity and expressiveness in AI -Description logics -Foundations of logic programming and knowledge-based systems -Hybrid reasoning systems -Knowledge representation and reasoning -Logic based AI systems -Logic based applications to the Semantic Web -Logic based planning and diagnosis -Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning -Logics and multi-agent systems -Logics in machine learning -Modal, temporal, spacial and hybrid logics -Non-classical logics -Nonmonotonic reasoning, belief revision and updates -Reasoning about actions, causal reasoning and causation -Uncertain and probabilistic reasoning SUBMISSIONS Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed 13 pages including figures, references, etc. Please refer to the conference web pages for further instructions concerning the submission procedures. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: May 6th, 2004 Paper Submission: May 9th, 2004 Notification: June 21st, 2004 Camera Ready Copy: July 5th, 2004 PROCEEDINGS Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series. It is also foreseen the publication of a special issue of a journal collecting extended versions of selected papers presented at the conference. SYSTEM PRESENTATIONS There will be a special session devoted to the presentation of implemented systems. Please refer to the conference web pages for further information. CONFERENCE OFFICIALS Conference Chair: João Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Program Chair: José Júlio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal PROGRAM COMMITTEE -José Júlio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal -Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany -Salem Benferhat, Université d'Artois, France -Alexander Bochman, Holon Academic Institute of Technology, Israel -Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany -Walter Carnielli, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil -Luis Fariñas del Cerro, Université Paul Sabatier, France -James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada -Jürgen Dix, TU Clausthal, Germany -Roy Dyckhoff, University of St Andrews, UK -Thomas Eiter, TU Wien, Austria -Patrice Enjalbert, Université de Caen, France -Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK -Ulrich Furbach, University Koblenz-Landau, Germany -Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA -Sergio Greco, Università della Calabria, Italy -João Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal -Maurizio Lenzerini, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy -Nicola Leone, Università della Calabria, Italy -Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA -Maarten Marx, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands -John-Jules Meyer, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands -Bernhard Nebel, Universität Freiburg, Germany -Ilkka Niemelä, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland -Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, Universidad de Málaga, Spain -David Pearce, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain -Luís Moniz Pereira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal -Henry Prakken, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands -Luc de Raedt, Universität Freiburg, Germany -Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan -Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, UK -Terrance Swift, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA -Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA -Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK -Toby Walsh, University College Cork, Ireland -Mary-Anne Williams, The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia -Michael Zakharyaschev, King's College, UK CONTACT Send your questions and comments to jelia04@di.fct.unl.pt