<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace">Today (Friday, April 11) is the deadline for paper registration. </font></div><div><span style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: monospace; ">Don't forget to register your paper(s)! </span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span style="font-family: monospace; ">===============================================================================</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> CALL FOR PAPERS</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> 27th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2014)</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> Vienna, Austria, July 17--20, 2014</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">===============================================================================</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">research community. It is the forum at which those interested in</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">ideas, share information and compare experiences.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">The workshop will be held at the Technical University of Vienna, from</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">July 17th to July 20th, 2014.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">This year the DL workshop is part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, a vast event </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">hosting several major logic conferences and workshops (</span><a href="http://vsl2014.at/" style="font-family: monospace; ">http://vsl2014.at/</a><span style="font-family: monospace; ">). </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">In particular, the workshop is co-located with KR 2014 and will share a joint</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">session with the International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2014). </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">IMPORTANT DATES</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">---------------</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">Paper registration deadline: April 11, 2014 </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">Paper submission deadline: April 18, 2014 </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">Acceptance notification: May 26, 2014</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">Camera ready copies: June 15, 2014</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">Workshop: July 17-20, 2014</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">WORKSHOP SCOPE</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">--------------</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics,</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">including but not limited to:</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> * Foundations of description logics:</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> decidability and complexity of reasoning, expressive power,</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> novel inference problems, inconsistency tolerance,</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> reasoning techniques, and modularity aspects</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> * Extensions of description logics:</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, defaults, epistemic</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge,</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> query languages</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> * Integration of description logics with other formalisms:</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> object-oriented representation languages, database query</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> rule-based systems</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> * Applications and use areas of description logics:</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases,</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> ontology-based data access, semi-structured data, document</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> management, natural language, learning, planning, Semantic Web,</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> and cloud computing</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> * Systems and tools around description logics:</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> reasoners, software tools for and using description logic</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> reasoning (e.g. ontology editors, database schema design, query</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> optimization, and data integration tools), implementation and</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> optimization techniques, benchmarking, evaluation, modeling</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">INVITED SPEAKERS</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">----------------</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Michael Benedikt, University of Oxford, UK</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Patrick Blackburn, University of Roskilde, Denmark</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Alon Y. Halevy, Google, USA </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">SUBMISSIONS</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">-----------</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Submissions may be either papers of up to 11 pages (excluding references)</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> or extended abstracts of at most 3 pages (excluding references) and must be </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> formatted in Springer LNCS style. There is no page limit on the list of </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> references. </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Extended abstracts are designed for authors who wish to announce results </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> that have been published elsewhere, or which the authors intend to submit </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> or have already submitted to a venue with an incompatible prior / concurrent </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> publication policy. </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* A clearly marked appendix (e.g., with additional proofs or evaluation data)</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> may optionally be appended. It will be read at the discretion of the reviewers </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> and not included in the proceedings. It does not need to be in LNCS format.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Authors submitting extended abstracts are encouraged to include such an </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> appendix, with sufficient material (e.g. copy of the already published paper </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> or technical report) to judge the scientific merit of the work described in </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> the abstract.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Submission page: </span><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2014" style="font-family: monospace; ">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2014</a><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Accepted papers and extended abstracts will be made available electronically</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (</span><a href="http://www.ceur-ws.org/" style="font-family: monospace; ">http://www.CEUR-ws.org/</a><span style="font-family: monospace; ">).</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Accepted submissions, be they full papers or extended abstracts, will be </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> selected for either oral or poster presentation at the workshop. Submissions </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> will be judged solely based upon their content, and the type of submission </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> will have no bearing on the decision between oral and poster presentation.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">ORGANIZATION</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">------------</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS & University of Paris-Sud (Program co-Chair)</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Magdalena Ortiz, Vienna University of Technology (Workshop co-Chair)</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (Program co-Chair)</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Mantas Simkus, Vienna University of Technology (Workshop co-Chair)</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">RESOURCES</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">---------</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Information about submission, registration, travel information, etc.,</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> is available on the DL 2014 homepage: </span><a href="http://dl.kr.org/dl2014" style="font-family: monospace; ">http://dl.kr.org/dl2014</a><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* Enquiries about the DL 2014 workshop can be made by contacting the</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; "> organizing committee.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">* The official Description Logic home page is at </span><a href="http://dl.kr.org/" style="font-family: monospace; ">http://dl.kr.org/</a><br style="font-family: monospace; "></body></html>