Fourth Call for Participation & Call for Travel Grant Applications
21st Reasoning Web Summer School
September 25-28, 2025, Istanbul, Turkey
https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/reasoning-web************************************************************************************************************
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://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aIIeJdHS2zash1gCMmqw2_UnFMNO7DMA7X8SyI8x3bI/editor 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 applications received by May 31st (180€, for local
participants with a Turkish affiliation). The regular fee of 300€ (incl.
VAT) applies to applications received on or after June 1st (240€, for
local participants with a Turkish affiliation). 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. Summer school participants who have a paper
accepted at the Doctoral Consortium can attend the relevant Doctoral
Consortium session without registering for the conference.
*** (NEW) Travel Grants ***
We
are happy to announce the availability of a limited number of travel
grants to help support students who wish to attend RW 2025 but lack
sufficient funding. Travel grants will consist of free registration to
the school and a contribution of up to 600€ to help cover travel
expenses (the grant amount will be transferred shortly after the
school).
To apply for a travel grant:
1) Submit an application to attend RW 2025 (see above), if you have not already done so.
2)
Send an email to the RW 2025 chairs (email addresses below) with
subject line "RW 2025 Travel Grant Application". The email should
contain a brief estimate of your expected travel costs and a letter from
your supervisor in support of your travel grant application confirming
that you are a full-time student and that your participation cannot be
financed by other means.
The deadline for submitting a travel grant application is *Tuesday, May 20*. Notifications will be sent by the end of May.
***
If you require additional information, please get in touch with the chairs.
* Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
art...@inf.unibz.it * Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS & University of Bordeaux, France
meghyn....@u-bordeaux.fr