[agents] [CFP] GKR at IJCAI 2009 Last Call for Papers

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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/

LAST 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 using the EasyChair system as detailed on:
http://www.lirmm.fr/~croitoru/GKR/submission.html
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
 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, Aalborg University, Denmark
 Michel Leclere, LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier II, France
 Guy Mineau, Universite Laval, 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, Ireland

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Dr. Madalina Croitoru
Associate Professor University of Montpellier II
LIRMM, 161 rue ADA, F34392 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Fax: +33(0)67 41 85 00
Tel: +33(0)67 41 85 39