[DL] [RW 2025] First Call for Participation: 21st Reasoning Web Summer School

[Kai Sauerwald]

First Call for Participation: 21st Reasoning Web Summer School
September 25-28, 2025, Istanbul, Turkey
https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/reasoning-web
Part of Declarative AI 2025, co-located with the RuleML+RR conference

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We are happy to announce that the 21st edition of the Reasoning Web 
Summer School (RW 2025) will take place from September 25-28, 2025 in 
Istanbul, Turkey. RW 2025 is part of Declarative AI 2025, which also 
includes the 9th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning 
(RuleML+RR) and DecisionCAMP 2025, both held from September 22-24, 2025.

The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent 
advances in reasoning techniques and relevant topics related to 
ontologies, rules, logic, the semantic web, linked data, and knowledge 
graph applications. The summer school is primarily intended for 
individuals who are currently pursuing or have recently completed 
postgraduate degrees (PhD or MSc). However, the school also welcomes the 
participation of researchers at later career stages who wish to become 
acquainted with the area or deepen their understanding of recent 
developments. The RW school is a great venue for meeting like-minded 
researchers and exchanging with an engaging and approachable group of 
international lecturers!

*** Summer School Program ***

As in previous years, the summer school will feature 8 tutorials 
delivered by researchers who are experts in the area. Here are the 
confirmed speakers and topics for this year's school:


     Camille Bourgaux: Inconsistency-Tolerant Semantics Based on 
Preferred Repairs

     Esra Erdem, Aysu Bogatarkan, Muge Fidan: Human-Centered ASP 
Applications: Representation and Reasoning

     Patrick Koopmann: Explaining Reasoning Results for Description 
Logic Ontologies

     Markus Krötzsch: Modern Datalog: Concepts, Methods, Applications

     Antonella Poggi: From One-Level to Multi-Level Ontology-Based Data 
Access

     Francesco Ricca and Giuseppe Mazzotta: ASP Essentials: Modelling 
and Efficient Solving

     Luciano Serafini: Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence

     Przemyslaw Walega: Reasoning about Time in DatalogMTL


Tutorial abstracts and speaker bios can be found on the RW 2025 website: 
  https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/reasoning-web/program

*** Applications & Registration ***

To participate in RW 2025, you will need to submit a short application, 
with information on your academic and research background and motivation 
for attending the school. You can do so by filling out the following form:

https://forms.gle/e9aDLTveQCXsBmwk9

or alternatively, by sending the organizers an email with all of the 
information requested on the form.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and notifications will 
be sent within 1-2 weeks from the time of application. Successful 
applicants will receive information on how to pay the registration fee 
to confirm their spot in the school.

There is a discounted fee of 240€ (incl. VAT) for all applications 
received by May 31st. The regular fee of 300€ (incl. VAT) applies to all 
applications received on or after June 1st. The registration fee 
includes access to the lectures, lunches, and coffee breaks for the four 
days, as well as a social event.

Note that students who participate in RW 2025 are also encouraged to 
apply to the Rule ML+RR Doctoral Consortium. Students attending both 
events will not need to pay the Doctoral Consortium fee.

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If you require additional information, please get in touch with the chairs.

* Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
artale at inf.unibz.it

* Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS & University of Bordeaux, France
meghyn.bienvenu at u-bordeaux.fr