News and Events: Conferences

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Early 2021, Computability, Complexity, and Randomness 2020 (CCR 2020) and its satellite Leeds Computability Days 2020 (LCD 2020), Cambridge & Leeds (UK)

Date: Postponed until 2021
Location: Cambridge & Leeds (UK)

We are pleased to announce that Computability, Complexity, and Randomness 2020 and its satellite Leeds Computability Days 2020 will take place in June and July 2020. Leeds Computability Days will be held at the University of Leeds in Leeds, UK during 24-26 June 2020. Computability, Complexity, and Randomness will be held at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK during 29 June ? 3 July 2020.

Both conferences are sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic, and so student members of the ASL may apply for travel grants to attend.

Due to the COVID-19 crisis the conferences have been postponed until 2022.

For more information, see http://www.computability.org/LCD2020/.

31 July - 12 August 2022, 19th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KR 2022), Haifa, Israel & Virtual

Date: 31 July - 12 August 2022
Location: Haifa, Israel & Virtual
Deadline: Wednesday 2 February 2022

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) is a well-established and lively field of research. In KR a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. This assumption, that much of what an agent deals with is knowledge-based, is common in many modern intelligent systems. Consequently, KR has contributed to the theory and practice of various areas in AI, including automated planning and natural language understanding, and to fields beyond AI, including databases, verification, software engineering, and robotics. In recent years, KR has contributed also to new and emerging fields, including the semantic web, computational biology, cyber security, and the development of software agents.

The KR conference series is the leading forum for timely in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the representation and computational management of knowledge. The KR2022 program will also feature workshops and tutorials, solicited by means of an open call, as well as a doctoral consortium. In addition to the main conference track, KR2022 will host the following tracks and sessions: - Applications and Systems Track - Recently Published Research Track - Special Session on KR and Machine Learning - Special Session on KR and Robotics. KR 2022 will be held as part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2022) in Haifa, Israel, from July 31 to August 12, 2022. The KR-affiliated FLoC tutorials and workshops will take place directly before KR, on July 31-August 1. All events that are part of FLoC are currently planned to take place physically, but people can participate remotely in cases where travel is impossible.

We solicit papers presenting novel results on the principles of KR that clearly contribute to the formal foundations of relevant problems or show the applicability of results to implemented or implementable systems. We also welcome papers from other areas that show clear use of, or contributions to, the principles or practice of KR. We also encourage "reports from the field" of applications, experiments, developments, and tests.

All submissions must be written in English and formatted using the style files provided on the KR'22 website. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, through the EasyChair conference system. For the main conference track and additional tracks/sessions (except for the Recently Published Research track), we invite Full papers of up to 9 pages (including abstract, figures, and appendices (if any), but excluding references and acknowledgements) and Short papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references and acknowledgements). Both full and short papers must describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. These restrictions do not apply to previously accepted workshop papers with a limited audience and/or without archival proceedings, and to papers uploaded at public repositories (e.g., arXiv).

The Recently Published Research track, workshops, tutorials, special sessions and the doctoral consortium have different submission guidelines and different submission and notification dates, which are or will be listed on the conference website.

For more information, see https://kr2022.cs.tu-dortmund.de/ or contact Stefan Borgwardt at , or Maria Vanina Martinez at .

Early 2021, Computability, Complexity, and Randomness 2020 (CCR 2020) and its satellite Leeds Computability Days 2020 (LCD 2020), Cambridge & Leeds (UK)

Date: Postponed until 2021
Location: Cambridge & Leeds (UK)

We are pleased to announce that Computability, Complexity, and Randomness 2020 and its satellite Leeds Computability Days 2020 will take place in June and July 2020. Leeds Computability Days will be held at the University of Leeds in Leeds, UK during 24-26 June 2020. Computability, Complexity, and Randomness will be held at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK during 29 June ? 3 July 2020.

Both conferences are sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic, and so student members of the ASL may apply for travel grants to attend.

Due to the COVID-19 crisis the conferences have been postponed until 2022.

For more information, see http://www.computability.org/LCD2020/.

18 - 20 July 2022, Trends in Logic XXII, Cagliari, Italy

Date: 18 - 20 July 2022
Location: Cagliari, Italy
Deadline: Friday 4 February 2022

The 22nd Trends in Logic workshop, entitled "Strong & Weak Kleene Logics", will take place at the University of Cagliari (Cagliari, Italy) from 18–20 July 2022. It is organized by the ALOPHIS research group of the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology and Philosophy.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on various facets of logics related to the strong and weak Kleene systems, be they algebraic, proof-theoretic, or philosophical. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format, with in-person as well as online sessions. The workshop will be followed by another event on neighbouring topics, the second installment of Workshop on Relating Logics from July 22--23.

Submissions of extended abstracts (up to 2 pages, not counting the bibliography). ae solicited. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Proof theory and algebraic semantics, for Strong Kleene logic, The Logic of Paradox, Bochvar's logic, and Paraconsistent Weak Kleene logic.
  • Kleene lattices and their expansions (e.g., MV-algebras)
  • Płonka sums and regular varieties
  • Left & right variable inclusion logics
  • Non-Tarskian relatives of Kleene logics
  • Philosophical applications
  • CS applications

Full versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of Studia Logica after an open call for papers.

4 - 6 February 2022, ICAART Special Session on "Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence" (NLPinAI 2022), Online

Date & Time: 4 - 6 February 2022, 23:59
Location: Online
Deadline: Friday 26 November 2021

Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Furthermore, agents (humans or computational systems) are information conveyors, interpreters, or participate as components of informational content. Generally, language processing depends on agents' knowledge, reasoning, perspectives, and interactions.

The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote computational systems of intelligent natural language processing and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.

For more information, see here or at https://icaart.scitevents.org/NLPinAI.aspx?y=2022 or contact Roussanka Loukanova at .

4 - 6 February 2022, ICAART Special Session on "Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence" (NLPinAI 2022), Online

Date & Time: 4 - 6 February 2022, 23:59
Location: Online
Deadline: Friday 26 November 2021

Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Furthermore, agents (humans or computational systems) are information conveyors, interpreters, or participate as components of informational content. Generally, language processing depends on agents' knowledge, reasoning, perspectives, and interactions.

The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote computational systems of intelligent natural language processing and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.

For more information, see here or at https://icaart.scitevents.org/NLPinAI.aspx?y=2022 or contact Roussanka Loukanova at .

4 - 6 February 2022, ICAART Special Session on "Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence" (NLPinAI 2022), Online

Date & Time: 4 - 6 February 2022, 23:59
Location: Online
Deadline: Friday 26 November 2021

Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Furthermore, agents (humans or computational systems) are information conveyors, interpreters, or participate as components of informational content. Generally, language processing depends on agents' knowledge, reasoning, perspectives, and interactions.

The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote computational systems of intelligent natural language processing and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.

For more information, see here or at https://icaart.scitevents.org/NLPinAI.aspx?y=2022 or contact Roussanka Loukanova at .

2 - 5 August 2022, Seventh International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2022), Haifa, Israel

Date: 2 - 5 August 2022
Location: Haifa, Israel
Deadline: Tuesday 8 February 2022

FSCD covers all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction from theoretical foundations to applications. Building on two communities, RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications), FSCD embraces their core topics and broadens their scope to closely related areas in logics, models of computation, semantics and verification in new challenging areas.

Submissions must be formatted using the LIPIcs style files. Submissions can be made in two categories. Regular research papers are limited to 15 pages, excluding references and appendices. They must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. System descriptions are limited to 15 pages, excluding references. They must present new software tools, or significantly new versions of such tools, in which FSCD topics play an important role. An archive of the code with instructions on how to install and run the tool must be submitted. In addition, a webpage where the system can be experimented with should be provided.

The suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission is:
1. Calculi
2. Methods in Computation and Deduction
3. Semantics
4. Algorithmic Analysis and Transformations of Formal Systems
5. Tools and Applications
6. Semantics and Verification in new challenging areas

For more information, see https://fscd2022.github.io/.

7 - 12 August 2022, The 11th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2022), Haifa, Israel

Date: 7 - 12 August 2022
Location: Haifa, Israel
Deadline: Friday 11 February 2022

IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all topics in automated reasoning. It is the merger of leading events in automated reasoning: CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems), ITP (International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving) and TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods). IJCAR 2022 will be part of the Eighth Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2022).

IJCAR 2022 invites submissions related to all aspects of automated or interactive reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: Regular papers describing solid new research results (up to 16 pages), and .System description papers describing implementations of systems, reporting on novel features and experiments with implemented systems (up to 7 pages). Both types of papers must be formatted using the Springer LNCS styles and submitted in PDF via EasyChair.

For more information, see https://floc2022.org/workshops/ or contact .

24 - 26 October 2022, Workshop "Connections between Epistemic Logic and Topology" (CELT2022), Amsterdam, the Netherlands / Online

Date: 24 - 26 October 2022
Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands / Online
Deadline: Monday 14 February 2022

The link between epistemic logic and topology has its roots, on the one hand, in the topological semantics of modal logic, and on the other hand, in the intimate relations between topology and concurrency, and between topology and distributed computing. Recent years have witnessed an explosion of new work in this area, from the development of more expressive logics capable of capturing fine topological structure, to the leveraging of topological tools to represent concepts such as observations, questions, and dependence relations, and encoding deep connections with distributed computing. The richness of this area has spawned a thriving, interdisciplinary research program with applications in learning theory, network epistemology, public and private communication, inquisitive semantics, philosophy of science, and knowledge representation in distributed computing, among others.

This workshop aims at bringing together scholars working on various ways of connecting logic and topology to showcase a variety of recent developments and applications in the area, and to foster new research collaborations.

We invite submissions for presentations. To apply, please submit an extended abstract of up to 3 pages (excluding bibliography) in PDF format. Abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=celt2022.

Abstract submission deadline: February 14th, 2022.

14 - 19 February 2022, CSL 2022: Computer Science Logic, Göttingen (Germany) & Virtual

Date: 14 - 19 February 2022
Location: Göttingen (Germany) & Virtual
Deadline: Monday 5 July 2021

Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science.

CSL'22 will be held on February 14 - 19, 2022, in Göttingen, Germany. Currently, we expect that the conference will be organized in a hybrid way: both with an in-presence component and an online component. Invited speakers: Annabelle McIver Macquarie (University, Sydney, Australia), Udi Boker (IDC Herzliya, Israel), Martin Escardo (University of Birmingham, UK), Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) and Karen Lange (Wellesley College, USA).

For more information, see http://csl2022.uni-goettingen.de/ or contact .

14 February 2022, Topology via Logic Reading Group

Date & Time: Monday 14 February 2022, 17:00

The Topology via Logic reading group was established by the MoL students to introduce topology and its many applications in logic, epistemology, and computer science. Topology via Logic by Steven Vickers explores these applications by constructing topology on the basis of geometric logic, locales, and lattices. Join us as we go through Topology via Logic by Steven Vickers.

Our Announcements Board: https://discord.gg/MRAJ6vMs
And WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/G61XHn8D7nIImRue1tV7Ul

For more information, contact Amittai Aharoni at .

CfP special issue of Semantic Web journal on "The role of ontologies & knowledge in XAI"

Deadline: Tuesday 15 February 2022

Explainable AI (XAI) has been identified as a key factor for developing trustworthy AI systems. The reasons for equipping intelligent systems with explanation capabilities are not limited to user rights and acceptance. Explainability is also needed for designers and developers to enhance system robustness and enable diagnostics to prevent bias, unfairness, and discrimination, as well as to increase trust by all users in why and how decisions are made. XAI focuses on developing new approaches for explanations of black-box models by achieving good explainability without sacrificing system performance. This special issue will feature contributions dedicated to the role played by knowledge bases, ontologies, and knowledge graphs in XAI, in particular with regard to building trustworthy and explainable decision support systems.

We welcome four main types of submissions: (i) full research papers, (ii) reports on tools and systems, (iii) application reports, and (iv) survey articles. The description of the submission types is posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors#types. While there is no upper limit, paper length must be justified by content. All manuscripts will be reviewed based on the SWJ open and transparent review policy and will be made available online during the review process.

14 - 19 February 2022, CSL 2022: Computer Science Logic, Göttingen (Germany) & Virtual

Date: 14 - 19 February 2022
Location: Göttingen (Germany) & Virtual
Deadline: Monday 5 July 2021

Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science.

CSL'22 will be held on February 14 - 19, 2022, in Göttingen, Germany. Currently, we expect that the conference will be organized in a hybrid way: both with an in-presence component and an online component. Invited speakers: Annabelle McIver Macquarie (University, Sydney, Australia), Udi Boker (IDC Herzliya, Israel), Martin Escardo (University of Birmingham, UK), Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) and Karen Lange (Wellesley College, USA).

For more information, see http://csl2022.uni-goettingen.de/ or contact .

14 - 19 February 2022, CSL 2022: Computer Science Logic, Göttingen (Germany) & Virtual

Date: 14 - 19 February 2022
Location: Göttingen (Germany) & Virtual
Deadline: Monday 5 July 2021

Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science.

CSL'22 will be held on February 14 - 19, 2022, in Göttingen, Germany. Currently, we expect that the conference will be organized in a hybrid way: both with an in-presence component and an online component. Invited speakers: Annabelle McIver Macquarie (University, Sydney, Australia), Udi Boker (IDC Herzliya, Israel), Martin Escardo (University of Birmingham, UK), Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) and Karen Lange (Wellesley College, USA).

For more information, see http://csl2022.uni-goettingen.de/ or contact .

14 - 19 February 2022, CSL 2022: Computer Science Logic, Göttingen (Germany) & Virtual

Date: 14 - 19 February 2022
Location: Göttingen (Germany) & Virtual
Deadline: Monday 5 July 2021

Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science.

CSL'22 will be held on February 14 - 19, 2022, in Göttingen, Germany. Currently, we expect that the conference will be organized in a hybrid way: both with an in-presence component and an online component. Invited speakers: Annabelle McIver Macquarie (University, Sydney, Australia), Udi Boker (IDC Herzliya, Israel), Martin Escardo (University of Birmingham, UK), Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) and Karen Lange (Wellesley College, USA).

For more information, see http://csl2022.uni-goettingen.de/ or contact .

20 - 23 June 2022, 12th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2022), Helsinki, Finland

Date: 20 - 23 June 2022
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Deadline: Friday 18 February 2022

The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and discussing theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. The goal is to bring together researchers with an interest in this subject, share research experiences, promote collaboration, and identify new issues and directions for future research.

The FoIKS symposia are a forum for intensive discussions. Speakers will be given sufficient time to present their ideas and results within the larger context of their research. Furthermore, participants will be asked to prepare a first response to another contribution in order to initiate discussion.

FoIKS 2022 solicits original contributions (as well as extensions of previously published contributions) dealing with any foundational aspect of information and knowledge systems. This includes submissions that apply ideas, theories or methods from specific disciplines to information and knowledge systems. Examples of such disciplines are discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, information theory, complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, statistics, and optimisation, among, of course, many others.

For long papers, the suggested number of pages is 16, and the maximum number of pages is 18. For short papers, the maximum number of pages is 10. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

For more information, see https://foiks2022.github.io or contact .

14 - 19 February 2022, CSL 2022: Computer Science Logic, Göttingen (Germany) & Virtual

Date: 14 - 19 February 2022
Location: Göttingen (Germany) & Virtual
Deadline: Monday 5 July 2021

Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science.

CSL'22 will be held on February 14 - 19, 2022, in Göttingen, Germany. Currently, we expect that the conference will be organized in a hybrid way: both with an in-presence component and an online component. Invited speakers: Annabelle McIver Macquarie (University, Sydney, Australia), Udi Boker (IDC Herzliya, Israel), Martin Escardo (University of Birmingham, UK), Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) and Karen Lange (Wellesley College, USA).

For more information, see http://csl2022.uni-goettingen.de/ or contact .

14 - 19 February 2022, CSL 2022: Computer Science Logic, Göttingen (Germany) & Virtual

Date: 14 - 19 February 2022
Location: Göttingen (Germany) & Virtual
Deadline: Monday 5 July 2021

Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science.

CSL'22 will be held on February 14 - 19, 2022, in Göttingen, Germany. Currently, we expect that the conference will be organized in a hybrid way: both with an in-presence component and an online component. Invited speakers: Annabelle McIver Macquarie (University, Sydney, Australia), Udi Boker (IDC Herzliya, Israel), Martin Escardo (University of Birmingham, UK), Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) and Karen Lange (Wellesley College, USA).

For more information, see http://csl2022.uni-goettingen.de/ or contact .

20 February 2022, 22nd International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity, Online

Date: Sunday 20 February 2022
Location: Online
Deadline: Sunday 12 December 2021

LCC meetings are aimed at the foundational interconnections between logic and computational complexity, as present, for example, in implicit computational complexity (descriptive and type-theoretic methods); deductive formalisms as they relate to complexity (e.g. ramification, weak comprehension, bounded arithmetic, linear logic and resource logics); complexity aspects of finite model theory and databases; complexity-mindful program derivation and verification; computational complexity at higher type; and proof complexity. The program will consist of invited lectures as well as contributed talks selected by the Program Committee.

For more information, see http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc/ or contact .

CfP special issue of IfCoLog Journal of Logics and Their Applications

Deadline: Monday 28 February 2022

We invite authors to submit papers for a Special Issue on "Formal and Cognitive Reasonig" to be published in the Journal of Applied Logics (IfCoLog Journal of Logics and Their Applications, College Publications). In September 2021, the 7th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning (FCR-2021) took place. In the special issue, original contributions on the basis of the best contributions presented at the workshop will be published, and we also welcome contributions from other authors.

Aims and Scope: Information for real life AI applications is usually pervaded by uncertainty and subject to change, and thus demands for non-classical reasoning approaches. At the same time, psychological findings indicate that human reasoning cannot be completely described by classical logical systems. Sources of explanations are incomplete knowledge, incorrect beliefs, or inconsistencies. A wide range of reasoning mechanism has to be considered, such as analogical or defeasible reasoning, possibly in combination with machine learning methods. The field of knowledge representation and reasoning offers a rich palette of methods for uncertain reasoning both to describe human reasoning and to model AI approaches.

For more information, see https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/ifcolog or contact Christoph Beierle at , Marco Ragni at , Frieder Stolzenburg at , or Matthias Thimm at .

4 - 6 April 2022, Philosophical roots of mathematical logic, Torino, Italy

Date: 4 - 6 April 2022
Location: Torino, Italy
Deadline: Monday 28 February 2022

The philosophical tradition of logic overlapped with the development of modern mathematical logic from the first versions of the algebra of logic in the mid nineteenth-century until inquiries into the logical foundations of mathematics from the early 1930s. This very fact strongly suggests that there might have been significant intersections between what appear now as separate disciplines, and raises the question of whether philosophical roots can be traced in the development of mathematical logic.The aim of this conference is to foster further exchanges between those who are doing scholarly research on the history of logic in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from various perspectives, including those who focus on the philosophical tradition of the nineteenth century and its developments in neo-Kantianism and phenomenology, historians of logic and of related mathematical disciplines, as well as philosophers who are interested in the epistemological issues surrounding modern mathematical logic.

The conference will take place at the University of Turin, Italy. It is planned as a hybrid event with face-to-face sessions and one online session.

We welcome abstract proposals (max 500 words) prepared for blind review. When submitting an abstract proposal, please specify in the accompanying email whether you are currently planning to attend in person or online.

For more information, see here or contact Francesca Biagioli at , Paola Cantù at , or Paolo Maffezioli at .