[DL] Call for participation: KI 2015

[Simone Paolo Ponzetto]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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KI 2015 - The 38th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Dresden, September 21-25, 2015
http://ki2015.computational-logic.org

KI 2015's Early Bird Registration ends in a few weeks on July 29! The conference will feature an exciting technical programme, which further involves three top-notch keynote speakers, nine co-located workshops, the doctoral consortium, and competitions of humanoid robot football teams. The local organisers have prepared a social program to match this exhilarating schedule, including tours of Dresden's famous Green Vault and a dinner at Schloss Eckberg with its breathtaking view of the Elbe valley.

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Registration - http://ki2015.computational-logic.org/registration.php
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Early Bird Registration deadline: July 29.

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Keynotes - http://ki2015.computational-logic.org/keynotes.php
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Ross D. King
Francesca Rossi
Molham Aref

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Main Programme - http://ki2015.computational-logic.org/schedule.php
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The main programme includes plenary sessions on:

* Agent-based and multiagent systems
* AI applications and innovations
* Cognitive modeling
* Commonsense reasoning
* Computer vision
* Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization
* Evolutionary computation
* Game playing and interactive entertainment
* Information retrieval, integration, and extraction
* Knowledge acquisition and ontologies
* Knowledge representation and reasoning
* Machine learning and data mining
* Multidisciplinary AI
* Natural language processing
* Planning and scheduling
* Robotics - Uncertainty in AI
* Web and information systems

The list of accepted papers is available online:
http://ki2015.computational-logic.org/papers.php

Conference registration includes all sessions and workshops, as well as conference dinner and Green Vault visit.

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Workshops - http://ki2015.computational-logic.org/workshops.php
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9 associated workshops will take place on September 21-22. Attendance at workshops is included as part of the conference registration. 

* AI challenges for soccer-playing humanoid robots
* 8th Workshop on Emotion and Computing - current research and future impact
* 5th Workshop on Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief (DKB-2015) and 4th Workshop KI & Kognition (KIK-2015)
* 1st Workshop on High-Level Declarative Stream Processing (Hidest ‘15)
* Workshop on Neural-Cognitive Integration (NCI @ KI 2015)
* 29. Workshop Planen/ Scheduling und Konfigurieren/ Entwerfen (PuK 2015)
* Privacy and Inference (PrInf)
* Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning: Computational Complexity and Algorithms
* 29th Workshop on (Constraint) Logic Programming (WLP 2015)

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Collocated events (with separate registration and fees)
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ICCL Summer School 'Reasoning'
September 13 - 26, 2015
https://ddll.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/SummerSchool2015

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Organisation - http://ki2015.computational-logic.org/organisation.php
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General Chair: Steffen Hölldobler (TU Dresden)
Program Chairs: Sebastian Rudolph and Markus Krötzsch (TU Dresden)
Workshop Chair: Anni-Yasmin Turhan (TU Dresden)
Doctoral Consortium Chair: Rafael Peñaloza-Nyssen (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
External Program Chair: Riccardo Rosati (Sapienza University of Rome)
Sponsorship Chair: Saartje Brockmans (Volz Innovation GmbH)
Publicity Chair: Simone Paolo Ponzetto (University of Mannheim)
Local Organization: Norbert Manthey and Peter Steinke (TU Dresden)

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We thank all our sponsors for their support. Special thanks are due to:

Arago GmbH, https://arago.co/ (Platinum Sponsor)
STI Innsbruck, http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/ (Gold Sponsor)

We look forward to seeing you in Dresden!