[DL] RCRA 2016 Call for papers - deadline approaching

[Andrea Formisano]

[APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS]

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     The RCRA group (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) of the
            AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence)

                                 organizes the

                              23rd RCRA workshop:
                Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving
                problems with combinatorial explosion  (RCRA 2016)

                workshop of the 15th International Conference of the
                  Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
                         http://www.aixia2016.unige.it/
                     Genova, November 28 - December 1, 2016


     RCRA group web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/
     Workshop web site:   http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2016
     e-mail:              rcra2016[AT]easychair[DOT]org

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     This event follows the series of the RCRA (Knowledge Representation
     and Automated Reasoning) annual meetings, held since 1994.
     The success of the previous events shows that RCRA is becoming a major
     forum for exchanging ideas and proposing experimentation methodologies
     for algorithms in Artificial Intelligence.

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IMPORTANT DATES

   Paper submission deadline: September 8th, 2016
   Notification of acceptance: October 10th, 2016
   Early registration: October 15th, 2016
   Final version of accepted original papers:  October 31st, 2016
   Workshop day: November 28th, 2016



AIMS AND SCOPE
   Many problems in Artificial Intelligence show an exponential explosion of
   the search space.  Although stemming from different research areas in AI,
   such problems are often addressed with algorithms that have a common goal:
   the effective exploration of huge state spaces.  Many algorithms developed
   in one research area are applicable to other problems, or can be hybridized
   with techniques in other areas. Artificial Intelligence tools often exploit
   or hybridize techniques developed by other research communities, such as
   Operations Research.
   In recent years, research in Artificial Intelligence has more and
   more focused on experimental evaluation of algorithms, the
   development of suitable methodologies for experimentation and
   analysis, the study of languages and the implementation of systems
   for the definition and solution of problems.

   Scope of the workshop is fostering the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming
   from different areas, proposing benchmarks for new challenging problems,
   comparing models and algorithms from an experimental viewpoint, and, in
   general, comparing different approaches with respect to efficiency, problem
   modeling, and ease of development.

   Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
   * Experimental evaluation of algorithms for
        o knowledge representation
        o automated reasoning
        o planning
        o scheduling
        o machine learning
        o model checking
        o boolean satisfiability (SAT)
        o constraint programming
        o argumentation
        o temporal reasoning
        o combinatorial optimization
        o quantified boolean formulae and quantified constraints
        o modal logics
        o logic programming
        o answer set programming
        o ontological reasoning
   * Definition and construction of benchmarks
   * Experimentation methodologies
   * Metaheuristics
   * Algorithm hybridization
   * Static analysis of combinatorial problems
   * Languages and systems for definition and solution of problems
   * Comparisons between systems and algorithms
   * Application experiences (visualization, graphics, security, transports,...)


WORKSHOP CHAIRS
       Stefano Bistarelli    University of Perugia, Italy
       Andrea Formisano      University of Perugia, Italy
       Marco Maratea         University of Genova, Italy


WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE
       Mario Alviano         University of Calabria
       Roman Bartak          Charles University in Prague
       Stefano Bistarelli    University of Perugia
       Pedro Cabalar         University of Corunna
       Federico Chesani      University of Bologna
       Stefania Costantini   University of L'Aquila
       Alessandro Dal Palu`  University of Parma
       Luca Di Gaspero       University of Udine
       Carmine Dodaro        University of Calabria
       Esra Erdem            Sabanci University
       Wolfgang Faber        University of Huddersfield
       Jorge Fandinno        University of Corunna
       Andrea Formisano      University of Perugia
       Martin Gebser         University of Potsdam
       Yuliya Lierler        University of Nebraska at Omaha
       Toni Mancini          Sapienza University Rome
       Marco Maratea         University of Genova
       Joao Marques-Silva    University of Lisbon
       Angelo Oddi           ISTC-CNR
       Gian Luca Pozzato     University of Torino
       Luca Pulina           University of Sassari
       Francesco Scarcello   University of Calabria
       Claudia Schulz        Imperial College London
       Peter Schueller       Marmara University
       Ivan Serina           University of Brescia
       Tran Cao Son          New Mexico State University
       Mirek Truszczynski    University of Kentucky
       Mauro Vallati         University of Huddersfield
       Richard Wallace       University College Cork
       Johannes P. Wallner   University of Helsinki
       Neng-Fa Zhou          CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center


HOST ORGANIZATION
   University of Genova, Italy


SUBMISSIONS
   Authors are invited to submit either original (full or short) papers, or
   papers that appear on conference proceedings.

   Publications showing negative results are welcome, provided that the
   approach was original and very promising in principle, the experimentation
   was well-conducted, the results obtained were unforeseeable and gave
   important hints in the comprehension of the target problem, helping other
   researchers to avoid unsuccessful paths.

   The authors are requested to clearly specify whether their submission is
   original or already published. A footnote in the first page would suffice.

   Workshop submissions must be in PDF format, do not exceed 15 (for full
   papers) or 8 (for short papers) pages, and should be written in LaTeX,
   using the LNCS style.

   RCRA 2016 uses EasyChair for the submission of contributions.

   Contributions must be submitted through this page:

                https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcra2016

   All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the
   program committee.



CONTACT
   In case of need, the workshop co-chairs can be contacted by sending
   an email to:
                rcra2016[AT]easychair[DOT]org


PROCEEDINGS
   Accepted original papers will be published online, as an issue of
   the CEUR-WS workshop proceeding series, AI*IA sub-series.

   Moreover, as in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications),
   we are considering the possibility of having workshop post-proceedings
   appearing in a special issue of an international journal, provided that
   a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected.


HISTORY OF THE RECENT WORKSHOP SERIES
   * RCRA 2015 as a workshop of AI*IA 2015, Ferrara, Italy
     http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2015
     Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special
     issue of Fundamenta Informaticae
   * RCRA 2014 as a workshop of SAT 2014, IJCAR 2014 and ICLP 2014,
     Vienna, Austria - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2014
     Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special
     issue of AI Communications
   * RCRA 2013, Rome, Italy - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2013
     Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special
     issue of JETAI
   * Previous editions: http://rcra.aixia.it/workshops


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The RCRA-2016 Chairs
Stefano Bistarelli
Andrea Formisano
Marco Maratea