CfP: Second International Workshop on Logics for New-Generation Artificial Intelligence (LNGAI 2022)

[Réka Markovich]

Call for Papers

Second International Workshop on Logics for New-Generation Artificial Intelligence (LNGAI 2022)

Zhuhai, China

The Second International Workshop on Logics for New-Generation Artificial Intelligence (LNGAI 2022) will be held at the Zhuhai Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, China, 10-12 June 2022. It is associated with a national key project called “Research on Logics for New Generation Artificial Intelligence” (2021-2025), supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China. The main objectives of this project are to develop theories and techniques of non-monotonic logics and formal argumentation and apply them to causal reasoning, knowledge graph reasoning, and reasoning about norms and values, in an open, dynamic and real environment.

Along with the project, we organize annual international workshops that aim at enabling efficient communication and collaboration between members of the project as well as other researchers who are interested in the topics of this project.

Due to the uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic situations, LNGAI 2022 will be held in a HYBRID format (virtual and physical attendance both accepted), but participants from mainland China are supposed to attend on site.

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List of topics

Topics include, but are not limited to the following:

Argument mining

Answer set programming

Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems

Causation/Causal inference

Commonsense reasoning

Conditional logics

Connection between machine-learning and causal inference

Default logics

Deontic logic

Description logics

Ethical approaches

Explanation in AI and law

Formal argumentation

Graphical causal models/Bayesian networks

Human-agent explanation

Knowledge graphs

Knowledge graph embedding

Legal argumentation

Logics for ethical AI

Logics for explainable AI

Markov logic network

Nonmonotonic logics

Norms and value based reasoning

Reasoning about actions and change

Reasoning about knowledge graphs

Subgraph reasoning

Uncertain reasoning

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Submissions and publication

— TYPES —

We invite two types of submissions:

Full papers (within 10 pages excluding bibliography) describing original and unpublished work

Extended abstracts (within 4 pages excluding bibliography) of preliminary original work.

Additional support material may be included in an appendix, which may be considered or ignored by the program committee.

— FORMAT —

Submissions must be formatted according to the LaTeX specification that can be downloaded by clicking the following link.

https://xixilogic.org/lngai/download/LNGAI-latex-template.zip

Submissions not complying with these guidelines will be desk rejected.

— WHERE TO SUBMIT —

Papers in PDF format should be submitted via EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lngai2022

— ACCEPTANCE & PRESENTATION AT LNGAI 2022 —

Each submitted paper will be peer-reviewed by a panel of PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition and relevance for the conference. For each accepted paper, at least one author is expected to register and present the paper at the workshop.

— PUBLICATION —

All accepted papers will be published with College Publications, and extended versions (after peer review) will be published in a special Issue on Logics for New Generation Artificial Intelligence, ‘AI Logic’ corner, Journal of Logic and Computation.

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Important dates

Submission: 1 March

Notification: 15 April

Final version: 15 May

Workshop: 10-12 June 2022

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Invited speakers

Huajun Chen (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, CN)

Yongmei Liu (Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, CN)

Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute, Berkeley, US)

Henry Prakken (Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL)

Christian Straßer (Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, DE)

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Program committee (more under confirmation)

Michael Anderson, University of Hartford, USA

Pietro Baroni, Brescia University, Italy

Christoph Benzmüller, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Alexander Bochman, Holon Institute of Technolog, Israel

Huimin Dong, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Kun Kuang, Zhejiang University, China

Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University, China (chair)

Réka Markovich, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (chair)

John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Gabriella Pigozzi, Université Paris Dauphine, France

Tjitze Rienstra, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

Olivier Roy, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Guillermo Simari, Universidad del Sur in Bahia Blanca, Argentina

Chenwei Shi, Tsinghua University, China

Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Yì N. Wáng, Sun Yat-sen University, China (chair)

Bin Wei, Zhejiang University, China

If you have any questions please contact the PC chairs:

Beishui Liao: bais...@zju.edu.cn 

Réka Markovich: reka.ma...@uni.lu

Yì N. Wáng: y...@xixilogic.org