[agents] RW 2020 - Call for Applications for the 16th Reasoning Web Summer School

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The 16th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2020)
24-26 June, 2020
Virtual event (free registration)

https://2020.declarativeai.net/events/rw-summer-school

Part of "Declarative AI 2020: Rules, Reasoning, Decisions and Explanations"
(DeclarativeAI 2020, https://2020.declarativeai.net)
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The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent
advances on reasoning techniques and related issues that are of particular
interest to Semantic Web and Linked Data applications. It is primarily
intended
for postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdocs, young researchers, and
senior
researchers wishing to deepen their knowledge. In 2020, the broad theme of
the
school is:

“Declarative Artificial Intelligence”

As in the previous years, lectures in the summer school will be given by a
distinguished group of expert lecturers.

This year the school is part of Declarative AI 2020
(https://2020.declarativeai.net),
an event which is co-organised by SINTEF AS, University of Oslo, and
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, under the umbrella of the
SIRIUS Centre for Scalable Data Access. Due to the current situation
regarding the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, Declarative AI 2020 will
be held as an ONLINE event.

The school is co-located with:

- RuleML+RR: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, Virtual
29 June - 1 July, 2020
http://2020.ruleml-rr.org

- DecisionCAMP, Virtual
29 June - 1 July, 2020
https://decisioncamp2020.home.blog

The students attending the RW school are particularly encouraged to apply
to the Doctoral Consortium of RuleML+RR (deadline: 22 May, 2020).


== CONFIRMED LECTURES  ==

- Stream Reasoning: From Theory to Practice
Emanuele Della Valle (Politecnico di Milano), Riccardo Tommasini
(University of
Tartu)

- Aggregates and Generalized Atoms in Answer Set Programming
Wolfgang Faber (University of Klagenfurt)

- Knowledge Graphs: Past, Present and Future Research Directions
Aidan Hogan (University of Chile)

- Declarative Data Analysis using Limit Datalog Programs
Egor V. Kostylev (University of Oxford)

- Reasoning with Learned Knowledge
Loizos Michael (Open University of Cyprus)

- Learning Description Logic Ontologies
Ana Ozaki (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano & University of Bergen)

- Introduction to Probabilistic Ontologies
Rafael Penaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca)

- Explanation via Machine Arguing
Francesca Toni, Oana Cocarascu, Antonio Rago (Imperial College London)

- Ontology-Mediated Query Answering over Temporal Data
Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck University of London)


== APPLICATIONS ==

The number of attendees will be limited and participation will depend on
submitting an application which will undergo a reviewing process.
Applications have to be submitted by filling the following form:

https://forms.gle/bDupPJyBrse1vFgP7


== IMPORTANT DATES ==

Application deadline: 1 June, 2020
Notification: 8 June, 2020
Summer school: 24-26 June, 2020


== COMMITTEE ==

Chairs

- Marco Manna, University of Calabria, Italy
- Andreas Pieris, University of Edinburgh, UK

Scientific Advisory Board

- Leopoldo Bertossi, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Chile
- Thomas Eiter, TU Wien, Austria
- Birte Glimm, University of Ulm, Germany
- Markus Krotzsch, TU Dresden, Germany
- Yuliya Leierler, University of Nebraska Omaha, US
- Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen, Germany
- Emanuel Sallinger, University of Oxford, UK


== CONTACT ==

For further information please contact the chairs:

- Marco Manna: marco.manna at unical.it
- Andreas Pieris: apieris at inf.ed.ac.uk