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<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> <B><I> </I></B></FONT><B><I><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> </FONT></I></B><I></I> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> </FONT><B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">KR2004 CALL FOR PAPERS</FONT></B></SPAN>
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<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> </FONT><B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Ninth International Conference on the </FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning</FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> June 2 - 5, 2004</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> Whistler, Canada</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> </FONT><B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Submission Deadline: November 26, 2003</FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> Sponsored by KR Inc, IBM, SFU and UTS</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">human endeavor. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines are an </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic Web technologies </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">and the design of software agents, in particular, provide significant challenges </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">for KR&R. </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">We intend KR2004 to be a forum for the exchange of news, issues, and results among </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. We </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">encourage papers presenting substantial new results in the principles of KR&R </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">systems that clearly contribute to the formal foundations or show the applicability </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">of the results to implemented and implementable systems. We also encourage "reports </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">from the field'' of applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">appropriate reviewing, and must include a section on evaluation.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">KR2004 will collocate with the International Conference on Advanced Planning and </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Scheduling (ICAPS-2004), with one day in common. We strongly encourage papers </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">which would be of interest to both communities.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Topics of interest include: </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> o </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">knowledge modeling and management</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> o </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">reasoning techniques for incomplete & uncertain knowledge</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> o </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">implemented KR systems</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> o </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">KR in software engineering and planning</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> o </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">KR in robotics and intelligent agents</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> </FONT> </SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> o </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">the Semantic Web</FONT></SPAN>
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<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Important Dates</FONT></B> </SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> Electronic Submission Deadline: November 26, 2003</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> Notification of acceptance: January 14, 2004</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> Camera-ready papers due: March 3, 2004</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> KR2004 Conference: June 2 -5, 2004</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Paper Submission</FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">The Program Committee will review extended abstracts rather than complete papers. </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Submissions must be at most twelve (12) pages, excluding the bibliography, with </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">a maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of 75 characters per line </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">(corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt). If you have a separate title </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">page containing at most the title, author information, keywords and abstract, </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">this will not be counted in the twelve page limit. Over length submissions will </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">be rejected without review. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">substantially longer full papers for the conference proceedings. Authors must </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">submit an online title page and an electronic version of their paper in pdf format </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">only. The electronic process will be made available on the KR2004 website closer </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">to the submission date. Papers not in pdf format will be rejected without review. </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Invited Speakers</FONT></B> </SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> Keynote Speakers </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> Patrick Doherty, University of Linkoping, Sweden</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> Itzhak Gilboa, Tel-Aviv University, Israel</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research, USA</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> "Great Moments in Knowledge Representation" Series</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> John McCarthy, Stanford University</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> William Woods, Sun Microsystems</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Conference Chair</FONT></B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">: Mary-Anne Williams </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> University of Technology, Sydney, Australia</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Program Chairs</FONT></B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">: Didier Dubois, Univ. Paul Sabatier, France </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> Christopher Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Local Arrangements</FONT></B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">: Jim Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Workshops Coordination Chair</FONT></B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">: Sheila McIlraith, Stanford University, USA </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Treasurer</FONT></B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">: Alankar Karol, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Program Committee</FONT></B></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">William Andersen, Ontology Works, USA<BR>
Franz Baader, University of Dresden, Germany<BR>
Germany Philippe Balbiani, IRIT, France<BR>
Salem Benferhat, University of Artois, France<BR>
Brandon Bennett, University of Leeds, UK<BR>
Ronen Brafman, University of Tel-Aviv, Israel<BR>
Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany<BR>
Marco Cadoli, Universita of Roma, Italy<BR>
Vinay Chaudhri, SRI, USA<BR>
Tony Cohn, Leeds, UK<BR>
Marie-Odile Cordier, Rennes, France<BR>
Adnan Darwiche, UCLA, USA<BR>
Ernest Davis, New York University, USA<BR>
John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney<BR>
Rina Dechter, UCLA, USA<BR>
Jon Doyle, North Carolina State Univ., USA<BR>
Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Tech, Austria<BR>
Peter Eklund, University of Queensland, Australia<BR>
Thomas Ellman, Vassar College, USA<BR>
Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA<BR>
Tim Finin, University of Maryland, USA<BR>
Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK<BR>
Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR, Italy<BR>
Hector Geffner, University of Pomeu Fabra, Spain<BR>
Enrico Giunchiglia, Universita di Genova, Italy<BR>
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK<BR>
Lluis Godo, IIIIA-CSIC Barcelona, Spain<BR>
Asunci¢n G¢mez-P‚rez, Univ. Poli. de Madrid, Spain<BR>
Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR, Italy<BR>
Pat Hayes, University of West Florida, USA<BR>
Andreas Herzig, IRIT, France<BR>
Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK<BR>
Anthony Hunter, University College London, USA<BR>
Henry Kautz, University of Washington, USA<BR>
Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Univ. of Hagen, Germany<BR>
Jerome Lang, IRIT, France<BR>
Fritz Lehmann, Ontology Consulting Corp, USA<BR>
Hector Levesque, University of Toronto, Canada </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Paolo Liberatore, University of Rome, Italy<BR>
Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA<BR>
Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong Univ. Sci. & Tech, China<BR>
Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Rome, Italy<BR>
Pierre Marquis, Univ. Lens, France<BR>
John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, NL<BR>
Guy Mineau, Universite Laval, Canada<BR>
Leora Morgenstern, IBM Research, USA<BR>
Erik Mueller, IBM Research, USA<BR>
Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College, UK<BR>
Daniele Nardi, University of Rome, Italy<BR>
Bernhard Nebel, University of Freiburg, Germany<BR>
Ilkka Niemela, Tech. Univ. Helsinki, Finland<BR>
Lin Padgham, RMIT, Australia<BR>
Pavlos Peppas, AIT, Greece<BR>
Ramon Pino-Perez, Univ. LA, Venezuela<BR>
David Poole, University of BC, Canada<BR>
David Randell, Imperial College London, UK</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Debbie Richards, Macquarie University, Australia<BR>
Marie Christine Rousset, Univ. Paris-Sud, France<BR>
Guus Schreiber, Free University Amsterdam, NL<BR>
Colleen Seifert, University of Michigan, USA<BR>
Bart Selman, Cornell University, USA<BR>
Stuart C. Shapiro, SUNY Buffalo, USA<BR>
Helena Sofia-Pinto, IST Lisboa, Portugal<BR>
Liz Sonenberg, University of Melbourne, Australia<BR>
Rudi Studer, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany<BR>
Michael Thielscher, Univ. Dresden, Germany<BR>
Rich Thomason, University of Michigan, USA<BR>
Pietro Torasso, University of Torino, Italy<BR>
Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA<BR>
Laure Vieu, ISTC-CNR, Italy<BR>
Toby Walsh, University of York, UK<BR>
Michael Whitbrock, Cycorp, USA<BR>
Brian Williams, MIT, USA<BR>
Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK<BR>
Mike Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, UK </FONT></SPAN>
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<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Professor Mary-Anne Williams</FONT><B></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Innovation and Technology Research Laboratory</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Faculty of Information Technology</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">University of Technology, Sydney</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">NSW 2007 Australia</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://research.it.uts.edu.au/magic/Mary-Anne"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">http://research.it.uts.edu.au/magic/Mary-Anne</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
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