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<div class="">*Call for Papers* </div>
<div class="">13th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems – FoIKS 2024</div>
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<div class="">The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and discussing theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. The goal is to bring together researchers with an interest in this subject, share research experiences,
promote collaboration and identify new issues and directions for future research.</div>
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<div class="">FoIKS 2024 solicits original contributions (as well as extensions of previously published contributions) dealing with any foundational aspect of information and knowledge systems. This includes submissions that apply ideas, theories or methods
from specific disciplines to information and knowledge systems. Examples of such disciplines are discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, information theory, (parameterized) complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, statistics, and optimisation,
among, of course, many others.</div>
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<div class="">The FoIKS symposia are a forum for intensive discussions. Speakers will be given sufficient time to present their ideas and results within the larger context of their research. Furthermore, participants will be asked to prepare a first response
to another contribution in order to initiate discussion.</div>
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<div class="">Suggested topics</div>
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<div class="">The suggested topics include, but are not limited to:</div>
<div class="">* Database Design: Formal models, dependencies and independencies</div>
<div class="">* Big Data: Models for data in the Cloud, programming languages for big data, query processing</div>
<div class="">* Dynamics of Information: Models of transactions, concurrency control, updates, consistency preservation, belief revision</div>
<div class="">* Information Fusion: Heterogeneity, views, schema dominance, multiple source information merging, reasoning under inconsistency</div>
<div class="">* Integrity and Constraint Management: Verification, validation, consistent query answering, information cleaning</div>
<div class="">* Intelligent Agents: Multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, foundations of software agents, cooperative agents, formal models of interactions, negotiations and dialogue, logical models of emotions</div>
<div class="">* Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: Machine learning, data mining, formal concept analysis and association rules, text mining, information extraction</div>
<div class="">* Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Planning: Non-monotonic formalisms, probabilistic and non-probabilistic models of uncertainty, graphical models and independence, similarity-based reasoning, preference modeling and handling, computational
models of argument, argumentation systems</div>
<div class="">* Logics in Databases and AI: Classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial and temporal logics, probability logic, fuzzy logic</div>
<div class="">* Mathematical Foundations: Discrete structures and algorithms, graphs, grammars, automata, abstract machines, finite model theory, information theory, coding theory, (parameterised) complexity theory, randomness</div>
<div class="">* Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: Identity theft, privacy, trust, intrusion detection, access control, inference control, secure Web services, secure Semantic Web, risk management</div>
<div class="">* Semi-Structured Data and XML: Data modelling, data processing, data compression, data exchange</div>
<div class="">* Social Computing: Collective intelligence and self-organizing knowledge, collaborative filtering, computational social choice, Boolean games, coalition formation, reputation systems</div>
<div class="">* The Semantic Web and Knowledge Management: Languages, ontologies, agents, adaption, intelligent algorithms, ontology-based data access</div>
<div class="">* The WWW: Models of Web databases, Web dynamics, Web services, Web transactions and negotiations, Social Networks, Web Mining</div>
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<div class="">Submission Guidelines</div>
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<div class="">For long papers, the page limit is 16 plus additional pages of references. For short papers, the maximum number of pages is 10 plus additional pages of references. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal
or conference. Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (see
<a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines" class="">
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</a> and
<a href="https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238648/data/v6" class="">
https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238648/data/v6</a>). Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Initial submissions must be in PDF format, but authors should keep in mind
that the LaTeX2e source must be submitted for the final versions of accepted papers. Submissions in alternate formats, such as Microsoft Word, cannot be accepted for either initial or final versions. The submissions will be judged for scientific quality and
for suitability as a basis for broader discussion.</div>
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<div class="">Submission is via the EasyChair link <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks24" class="">
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks24</a>.</div>
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<div class="">Publication</div>
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<div class="">The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science. After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended journal versions of their papers for a FoIKS 2024 special issue in
the journal Knowledge Engineering Review (<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/knowledge-engineering-review" class="">https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/knowledge-engineering-review</a>). Further details will be provided on the conference
website.</div>
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<div class="">Invited Speakers</div>
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<div class="">* Georg Gottlob, University of Oxford</div>
<div class="">* Phokion Kolaitis, University of California Santa Cruz and IBM Research</div>
<div class="">* Andrei Popescu, University of Sheffield</div>
<div class="">* Uli Sattler, University of Manchester</div>
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<div class="">Important Dates</div>
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<div class="">All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (AoE, "anywhere on earth").</div>
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<div class="">Submission server opens<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>01.09.2023</div>
<div class="">Abstract submission deadline (long and short papers)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>24.11.2023</div>
<div class="">Paper submission deadline (long and short papers)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>01.12.2023</div>
<div class="">Acceptance notifications<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>29.01.2024</div>
<div class="">Camera-ready versions of accepted papers due<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>08.02.2024</div>
<div class="">Early registration deadline<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>08.03.2024</div>
<div class="">Late registration deadline<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>01.04.2024</div>
<div class="">Conference<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>
8–11.04.2024</div>
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<div class="">Program Committee Chairs</div>
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<div class="">Arne Meier</div>
<div class="">Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany </div>
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<div class="">Magdalena Ortiz</div>
<div class="">TU Wien, Austria and Umeå University, Sweden </div>
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<div class="">Local Chair</div>
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<div class="">Jonni Virtema</div>
<div class="">University of Sheffield, UK</div>
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<div class="">Contact</div>
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<div class="">All questions about submissions should be emailed to <a href="mailto:foiks24@easychair.org" class="">
foiks24@easychair.org</a>.</div>
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<div>Magdalena Ortiz</div>
<div><font color="#a9a9a9" class="">(Maria Magdalena Ortiz de la Fuente)</font><br class="">
Associate Professor for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning</div>
<div>Department of Computing Science </div>
<div>Umeå University</div>
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