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Workshop on Causal Reasoning and Explanation in Logic
Programming<br>
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CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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*** CAUSAL 2020 ***<br>
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(September 17 or 18, 2020)<br>
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Workshop on Causal Reasoning and Explanation in Logic
Programming<br>
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CAUSAL 2020 is a workshop co-located with ICLP 2020<br>
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<p><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">CAUSAL 2020
IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">* Paper submission:
July 15th 2020<br>
* Notification: July 30th 2020<br>
* Final Versions: August 15th 2020<br>
* Workshop Date: September 17th or 18th 2020<br>
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Sophisticated causal reasoning has long been prevalent in human
society and<br>
continues to have an undeniable impact on the advancement of
science,<br>
technology, medicine, and other significant fields. From the
development of<br>
ancient tools to modern roots of causal analysis in business and
industry,<br>
reasoning about causality and having the ability to explain
causal mechanisms <br>
enables us to identify how an outcome of interest came to be and
gives <br>
insight into how to bring about, or even prevent, similar
outcomes in future <br>
scenarios.<br>
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This workshop aims to bring together researchers and
practitioners of<br>
logic programming with a dedicated focus on methods and trends
emerging from<br>
the study of causality and explanation. We welcome the
submission of papers on<br>
systems, tools, and applications of logic programming methods
for causal<br>
reasoning and explanation. In particular, we encourage
submissions presenting<br>
recent developments, including works in progress. The workshop
will present<br>
the latest research and application developments in these areas
and provide<br>
opportunities to discuss current and future research directions
and<br>
relationships to other fields (e.g. Machine Learning,
Explainable AI, Diagnosis,<br>
Natural Language Processing and Understanding, Philosophy of
Science). An important <br>
expected outcome of this workshop is to collect first-hand
feedback from the ICLP <br>
community about the role and placement of causal reasoning and
explanation in <br>
the landscape of modern computer theory as well as in the
software industry.<br>
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TOPICS<br>
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Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):<br>
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* Modeling causal theories in logic programming<br>
* Formalization of types of causes: sufficient, necessary,
actual, etc<br>
* Causality, temporal reasoning and action theories<br>
* Causality and counterfactual reasoning<br>
* Causality, learning and experimental design<br>
* Causality and probability<br>
* Causality and equivalence<br>
* Causality and ontology<br>
* Relating LP based causality and Causal Networks<br>
* Challenging problems and benchmark examples<br>
* Justifications and argumentation<br>
* Explanations for diagnosis and debugging<br>
* Tools, systems and applications<br>
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Submissions must describe original research and be prepared
using the Springer<br>
LNAI/LNCS format and should be no longer than 13 pages.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines">https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines</a><br>
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Please submit your paper via EasyChair:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=causal2020">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=causal2020</a><br>
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At least one co-author of each accepted paper must register for
and<br>
attend the workshop.<br>
<br>
Please check the ICLP 2020 website for registration procedure
and fees.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://iclp2020.unical.it/">https://iclp2020.unical.it/</a><br>
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ORGANIZERS<br>
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Emily LeBlanc, US Naval Research Lab, USA,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:emily.leblanc@nrl.navy.mil">emily.leblanc@nrl.navy.mil</a><br>
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Joost Vennekens, KU Leuven, Belgium<br>
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Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA<br>
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Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Spain<br>
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Jorge Fandiņo, University of Potsdam, Germany<br>
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Marcello Balduccini, Saint Joseph's University, USA<br>
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Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA<br>
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