Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** ReactKnow 2014 *** International Workshop on Reactive Concepts in Knowledge Representation August 19, 2014 Collocated with the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2014) Prague, Czech Republic August 18-22, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the subdomain of Knowledge Representation (KR) has the aim to represent, integrate, and exchange knowledge in order to provide reasoning about given and potentially incomplete information. While most traditional KR formalisms are concerned with knowledge bases that do not change over time or are only subject to occasional revisions, the advent of smart devices and recent advances in Internet technology - guided by the visions of a Semantic Web and the Internet of Things - has increased the interest in online applications that are able to directly react on a possibly infinite stream of external information such as sensor or network data. While current approaches for handling continuous stream data focus on rapid data processing, they lack complex reasoning capacities. Recent endeavours try to combine KR formalisms such as answer-set programming, Semantic Web ontologies, and multi-context systems with stream processing for providing knowledge-intense stream reasoning capabilities of various application areas such as urban computing, ambient assisted living, robotics, or dynamic scheduling. The goal of making sophisticated KR techniques accessible in the reactive setting poses many scientific challenges how to deal with emerging as well as expiring data in a seamless way. The International Workshop on Reactive Concepts in Knowledge Representation (ReactKnow) aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the AI and KR community to discuss and present advances in theories, formalisms, and applications to get closer to the vision of an artificial intelligence system which may react according to changing knowledge. We solicit the submission of papers broadly centered on issues and research related to reactive concepts in KR. We welcome papers of either theoretical or practical nature including reports on applications, experiments, and work in progress. ReactKnow 2014 IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Paper submission deadline: May 30, 2014 EXTENDED * Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2014 * Camera-ready papers due: July 18, 2014 * Workshop date: August 19, 2014 TOPICS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): * Formalisms and Semantic Foundations: - Stream based and reactive extensions of established formalisms (SPARQL, ASP, Description Logics, Databases, ...) - Heterogenous Reactive Reasoning - Forgetting - Parallelism in Reactive Reasoning - Advances in Reasoning about Action - Hybrid Reactive Systems - Quantitative Methods for Reactive Reasoning - Formal Aspects of Handling Sensor Data - Reactive Multi-Agent Systems - Nonmonotonicity in Reactive Systems - Reactive Reasoning over Big Data - Time-based logics - Reactive Multi-Context Systems - Online Commonsense Reasoning - Reactive Cloud Computing - Complexity Aspects * Modelling and Systems: - Software Engineering and Modelling for Reactive Formalisms - Reactive Concepts in the Semantic Web - Implementations - Visualisations * Applications: - Applications in AI (Agents, Robotics, Dynamic Scheduling, ...) - Ambient Intelligence - Web 3.0 - Bioinformatics - Industrial Applications SUBMISSIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper format: Submitted papers must be formatted according to the camera-ready style for ECAI'14 (http://ecai2014.guarant.eu/ecai2014.tar.gz) using the LaTeX-template and submitted electronically in PDF format through easychair. Authorship is not anonymous. Papers must not exceed six (6) pages excluding references and appendices. Note that reviewers are not obliged to take the appendices into account. All submissions have to be written in English. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop to present the contribution. The submission page is available at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=reactknow2014 Papers already published at other conferences and that can be of interest for the workshop audience are welcomed to ReactKnow 2014, provided that the initial publication is mentioned in a footnote on the first page. PROCEEDINGS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are no formal proceedings for ReactKnow 2014. The accepted papers will be published as a technical report and will be made available in the CoRR Computing Research Repository. The copyright of the papers lies with the authors, and as far as ReactKnow 2014 is concerned, they are free to submit to other conferences and workshops as well. Similarly, papers already published can be submitted (but this has to be indicated in the submission). PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Gerhard Brewka (Leipzig University) * Michael Fink (TU Vienna) * Robert Kowalski (Imperial College London) * Joao Leite (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) * Alessandra Mileo (DERI) * Phillip Obermeier (Potsdam University) * Axel Polleres (WU Vienna) * Sebastian Rudolph (TU Dresden) * Torsten Schaub (Potsdam University) * Tran Cao Son (NMSU) WORKSHOP ORGANISATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefan Ellmauthaler and Joerg Puehrer (Leipzig University, Germany) Email: reactknow [at] informatik [dot] uni-leipzig [dot] de HOMEPAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://reactknow2014.uni-leipzig.de