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Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge
Systems </a>will be taking place from 23 to 26 of March
2026 in Hanover, Germany. We are excited to announce the
invited speakers for next year’s <span
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Giuseppe De Giacomo</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (University of Oxford)</span></p></li>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Floris Geerts</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (University of Antwerp)</span></p></li>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wolfgang Nejdl</span><span
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We invite contributions from theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems.</span></p>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">** Scope **</span></p>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The suggested topics include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mathematical Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems:</span></p></li>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Discrete structures and algorithms, graphs, and formal languages.</span></p>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Database Design and Management:</span></p></li>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Formal models, (in)dependencies and models of transactions, concurrency control.</span></p>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Logics in Databases and AI:</span></p></li>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial and temporal logics, argumentation, probability logic, fuzzy logic.</span></p>
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role="presentation"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knowledge Representation and Reasoning:</span></p></li>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Logical reasoning, Non-monotonic reasoning (reasoning under inconsistency),</span></p>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reasoning under vagueness or uncertainty.</span></p>
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role="presentation"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Foundations of neuro-symbolic reasoning:</span></p></li>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Embedding methods for structured information, such as knowledge graphs, mathematical expressions, grammars, logical theories.</span></p>
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role="presentation"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Intelligent Agents:</span></p></li>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, formal models of interactions, Boolean games, coalition formation, reputation systems, epistemic reasoning.</span></p>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval:</span></p></li>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Machine learning, data mining, formal concept analysis and association rules, information extraction.</span></p>
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role="presentation"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Security in Information and Knowledge Systems:</span></p></li>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Identity theft, privacy, trust, intrusion detection, access control, inference control, secure Web services, secure Semantic Web, risk management.</span></p>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Integrity and Constraint Management:</span></p></li>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Verification, validation, consistent query answering, and information cleaning.</span></p>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knowledge graphs and semi-structured Data:</span></p></li>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Data modelling, data processing, data compression, and data exchange.</span></p>
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role="presentation"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Long papers: 16, plus additional pages for references.</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type: disc; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Short papers: 10, plus additional pages for references.</span></p></li>
</ul>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Missing proofs or details can be added as an additional appendix of up to 15 pages article style and read at the discretion of the program committee. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. 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.</span></p>
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<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission is via the EasyChair link</span><a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span
style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026</span></a><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All questions about submissions should be emailed to <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:foiks2026@easychair.org">foiks2026@easychair.org</a>.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">=============</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">** Publication **</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">=============</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The proceedings are planned to be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended journal versions of their papers for a FoIKS 2026 special issue.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">=================</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">** Important dates **</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">=================</span></p>
<br>
<ul
style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;">
<li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type: disc; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission of abstracts:</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> September 18, 2025</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type: disc; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission of paper: </span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">September 25, 2025</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type: disc; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notification:</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> December 13, 2025</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type: disc; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Final version due:</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> January 06, 2026</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type: disc; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conference:</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> March 23-26, 2026</span></p></li>
</ul>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">==============</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">** Organization **</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">==============</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* <b>PC Chairs</b> *</span></p>
<ul
style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;">
<li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type: disc; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anni-Yasmin Turhan</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (University of Paderborn, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type: disc; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jonni Virtema</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (University of Sheffield, UK)</span></p></li>
</ul>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* <b>Local Chair</b> *</span></p>
<ul
style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;">
<li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type: disc; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arne Meier</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)</span></p></li>
</ul>
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<p><font face="Arial,sans-serif"> * <b>Publicity Chair</b> *<br>
</font>
</p>
<ul>
<li> <font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>Yasir Mahmood</b>
(Universität Paderborn)</font></li>
</ul>
<p><font face="Arial,sans-serif">* <b>Local Organisers</b> *<br>
</font>
</p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Timon Barlag (Leibniz
Universität Hannover)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">
Nicolas Fröhlich (Leibniz Universität Hannover)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">
Vivian Holzapfel (Leibniz Universität Hannover)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">
Rahel Kluge (Leibniz Universität Hannover)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">
Laura Strieker (Leibniz Universität Hannover)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">
Heribert Vollmer (Leibniz Universität Hannover)</font></li>
</ul>
<p> <font face="Arial,sans-serif"><br>
* <b>Program Committee</b> *<br>
</font>
</p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Ringo Baumann (Leipzig
University)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Meghyn Bienvenu (CNRS,
University of Bordeaux)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Thomas Bolander (Technical
University of Denmark)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Stefan Borgwardt (TU Dresden)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Elena Botoeva (University of
Kent)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Willem Conradie (University of
the Witwatersrand)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Fabio Cozman (University of São
Paulo)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Thomas Eiter (TU Wien)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Flavio Ferrarotti (Software
Competence Centre Hagenberg)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Johannes K. Fichte (Linköping
University)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Valentin Goranko (Stockholm
University)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Guido Governatori (Central
Queensland University)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Marc Gyssens (Universiteit
Hasselt)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Miika Hannula (University of
Tartu)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Jelle Hellings (McMaster
University)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Andreas Herzig (CNRS, IRIT,
University of Toulouse)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Martin Homola (Comenius
University in Bratislava)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Tomi Janhunen (Tampere
University)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Matti Järvisalo (University of
Helsinki)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Gabriele Kern-Isberner
(Technische Universität Dortmund)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Sébastien Konieczny (CRIL -
CNRS, University of Artois)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Juha Kontinen (University of
Helsinki)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Mena Leemhuis (Free University
of Bozen-Bolzano)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Joao Leite (Universidade NOVA de
Lisboa)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Sebastian Link (The University
of Auckland)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Maria Vanina Martinez
(Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA - CSIC))</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Arne Meier (Leibniz Universität
Hannover)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Thomas Meyer (University of Cape
Town and CAIR)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Daniel Neider (TU Dortmund)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Magdalena Ortiz (Vienna
University of Technology)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Nina Pardal (University of
Huddersfield)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Elena Ravve (Ort Baude College)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Sebastian Rudolph (TU Dresden)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Katsuhiko Sano (Hokkaido
University)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Konstantin Schekotihin
(Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Klaus-Dieter Schewe (Zhejiang
University)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Guillermo R. Simari (Universidad
del Sur in Bahia Blanca)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Jan Van den Bussche (Hasselt
University)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Stefan Woltran (TU Wien)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Thomas Ågotnes (University of
Bergen)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Mantas Šimkus (TU Vienna)</font></li>
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