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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>=== NeSy'17: 12th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning ===<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Date: July 17 & 18, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Venue: City, University of London, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>*** DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF LATE ABSTRACTS: June 18, 2017 ***<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>= WEBSITE =<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy17/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>= KEYNOTE SPEAKERS =<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Mauro Ferreira, Trinity College Dublin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge & Uber AI Labs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Alex Graves, Google DeepMind.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Pascal Hitzler, Wrights State University.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Chris Percy, BetBuddy Ltd.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>= INDUSTRY PANEL =<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Simo Dragicevic, CEO, BetBuddy Ltd. (moderator).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>John McNamara, Senior Inventor, IBM.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>James Davidson, Software Engineer, Google Brain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jamie Woodhouse, Managing Director and Head of Financial Services Management Consulting and Finance and Risk, Accenture.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Lonnie Hamm, Head of Data Science, Kindred Group Plc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Amir Saffari, Director of Applied AI, BenevolentAI.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>= INDUSTRY TRACK ADDED =<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>For the first time, the 2017 edition of NeSy will feature an industry track on the second day of the workshop, July 18, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The track will cover industry applications of neural-symbolic methods (including knowledge extraction from statistical data, neural-symbolic methods integrating data and knowledge for the semantic web, etc.), with the program featuring contributions from industry and academia alike. Also, there will be time to mix and mingle, exchange experiences from practitioners on both sides, and develop joint ideas and projects for the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>= REGISTRATION =<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The registration for NeSy'17 has become available from the City, University of London eStore: http://estore.city.ac.uk/product-catalogue/conference-events/school-specific-events/12th-international-workshop-on-neuralsymbolic-learning-and-reasoning-nesy17<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>= CALL FOR PAPERS =<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Artificial Intelligence researchers continue to face huge challenges in their quest to develop truly intelligent systems. The recent developments in the field of neural-symbolic integration bring an opportunity to integrate well-founded symbolic artificial intelligence with robust neural computing machinery to help tackle some of these challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning is intended to create an atmosphere of exchange of ideas, providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of the key topics related to neural-symbolic integration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- The representation of symbolic knowledge by connectionist systems;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Neural Learning theory;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Integration of logic and probabilities, e.g., in neural networks, but also more generally;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Structured learning and relational learning in neural networks;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Logical reasoning carried out by neural networks;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Integrated neural-symbolic approaches;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Integrated neural-symbolic reasoning;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Neural-symbolic cognitive models;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Biologically-inspired neural-symbolic integration;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, natural language processing, semantic web, software engineering, fault diagnosis, bioinformatics, visual intelligence, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>** Submission **<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Submitted papers must be written in English, must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (templates and sample files are available from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines), and should not exceed 10 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of research and experience papers, and 6 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of position papers or technical notes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- All submitted papers will be judged based on their relevance, originality, significance, technical quality, and organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Papers must be submitted through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nesy17.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Additionally, presentations based on extended abstracts will be considered. These shall allow to report on latest results which had not been available at the time of paper submission. Therefore, the abstract deadline is significantly closer to the workshop date. Extended abstracts may not exceed 3 pages (including references/bibliography) and should aim to give a good impression of the type of work conducted, the achieved results and their importance for the field.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>** Presentation **<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Selected papers and abstracts will be presented during the workshop. The workshop will include extra time for discussion of the presentations allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>** Publication **<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Accepted papers and abstracts will be published in official workshop proceedings within the CEUR-WS.org series. Accepted abstracts will also be included in the official workshop proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>= IMPORTANT DATES =<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Notification of full paper acceptance/rejection: June 14, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Deadline for submission of late abstracts: June 18, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection: June 25, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Camera-ready paper due: July 2, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Workshop date: July 17-18, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>= WORKSHOP ORGANISERS =<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>General Chairs: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Tarek R. Besold (University of Bremen, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Artur d'Avila Garcez (City, University of London, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Isaac Noble (Playground Global, U.S.A.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Local Chair at City, University of London: Simon Odense<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>On-Site Organisation Support: Yihan Wu (University of Minnesota, U.S.A.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>= PROGRAMME COMMITTEE =<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Raquel Alhama, University of Amsterdam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- James Davidson, Google Brain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Richard Evans, Google DeepMind<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Thomas Icard, Stanford University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, University of Osnabrueck<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Luis Lamb, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Edjard Mota, Federal University of Amazonas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Terrence C. Stewart, University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Serge Thill, University of Skoevde<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Son Tran, CSIRO Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Stefan Wermter, University of Hamburg<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>Digital Media Lab<br>Center for Computing and Communication Technologies (TZI)<br>University of Bremen<br><br>Email: Tarek.Besold@uni-bremen.de<br>Web: http://www.cat-ai.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>