[agents] GKR at IJCAI 2009 - Call for Papers

[Juan Antonio Rodriguez]

THE IJCAI INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GRAPH STRUCTURES FOR KNOWLEDGE 
REPRESENTATION AND REASONING

(GKR 2009, July 11-13, 2009, Pasadena, California)

http://www.lirmm.fr/~croitoru/GKR/

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

1 Workshop at a glance

New challenges, problems, and issues have emerged in the context of 
knowledge representation in Artificial Intelligence (AI), involving the 
logical manipulation of increasingly large information sets (see for 
example Semantic Web, BioInformatics and so on). Improvements in storage 
capacity and performance of computing infrastructure have also affected 
the nature of KRR systems, shifting their focus towards representational 
power and execution performance. Therefore, KRR research is faced with a 
challenge of developing knowledge representation structures optimized 
for large scale reasoning. This new generation of KRR systems includes 
graph-based knowledge representation formalisms such as Bayesian 
Networks (BNs), Semantic Networks (SNs), Conceptual Graphs (CGs), Formal 
Concept Analysis (FCA), CP-nets, GAI-nets, all of which have been 
successfully used in a number of applications. The goal of this workshop 
is to bring together the researchers involved in the development and 
application of graph-based knowledge representation formalisms and 
reasoning techniques.


2 Relevant topics

The workshop welcomes contributions that address graph-based 
representation and reasoning paradigms from a theoretical, algorithmic 
or application viewpoint. Such formalisms include but are not limited to:

* Bayesian Networks,
* Graphical Models for Preferences (CP-Nets, GAI-Nets),
* Conceptual Graphs,
* Graph-based KR Languages for the Semantic Web,
* Semantic Networks,
* Formal Concept Analysis,
* Existential Graphs,
* Euler Diagrams, etc.

Examples of application domains for using graph based knowledge 
representation and reasoning include, but are not limited to: Semantic 
Web, Bioinformatics, Multi Agent Systems, Recommender Systems etc..


3 Important dates

* March 6, 2009: Submission of contributions to workshop
* April 17, 2009: Workshop paper acceptance notification
* May 8, 2009: Deadline for final camera ready copy
* July 11-13, 2009: GKR 2009 Workshop (1 day)


4 Submission

Please send your papers by email to Madalina Croitoru: croitoru at lirmm.fr
Paper format should respect the IJCAI paper format (6 pages maximum).


5 Organisers

Organizing committee:
Madalina Croitoru, LIRMM, Univ Montpellier II, France
Christophe Gonzales, LIP6, Universite Paris 6, France
Jerome Lang, IRIT, CNRS, France
Boris Motik, Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, UK
Marie-Laure Mugnier, LIRMM, Univ Montpellier II, France


Program committee:
Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Cornelius Croitoru, Al. I. Cuza Univ., Iasi, Romania
Paul Doran, ART, CS, University of Liverpool, UK
Mathieu Daquin, KMI, Open University, UK
Srinandan Dasmahapatra, ECS, Southampton, UK
Kees van Deemter, Univ. of Aberdeen, UK
Harry Delugach, Univ. of Alabama, USA
Francisco Javier Diez, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France
John Howse, Univ of Brighton, UK
Robert Jaschke, University of Kassel, Germany
Mary Keeler, VivoMind Intelligence, Inc., USA
Uffe Kjrulff, Alborg University, Denmark
Michel Leclere, LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier II, France
Guy Mineau, Direction Genrale de la Formation Continue, Canada
Thomas Dyhre Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Alun Preece, Cardi University, UK
Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar, IIIA, Barcelona, Spain
Sebastian Rudolph, AIFB, Karlsruhe, Germany
Anne Schlicht, WIN, Mannheim, Germany
Rallou Thomopoulos, INRA, UMR IATE, Montpellier, France
Dan Tecuci, University of Texas, USA
Nic Wilson, Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Irelan