Call for Papers
                         8th European Conference on
                     Logics in Artificial Intelligence
                                 Jelia'02
                    Cosenza, Italy, September 23-26, 2002
                         http://www.unical.it/jelia/
The European Conference on Logics in  AI  provides a  major  biennial  forum
for the discussion of logic-oriented approaches to artificial  intelligence.
Following  previous  meetings  in  France  (1988),  The  Netherlands (1990),
Germany (1992), England (1994), Portugal (1996),  Germany (1998)  and  Spain
(2000) the eighth conference will be held in Cosenza,  Italy,  from 23 to 26
September 2002.
Aim and scope
The aim is to bring together active researchers  interested in  all  aspects
concerning the use of logics in artificial intelligence to  discuss  current
research, results, and  problems and  applications  of  both  a  theoretical
and practical nature. Moreover, Jelia strives to foster links and facilitate
cross-fertilisation of ideas  among  researchers  from various  disciplines;
among researchers from academia, industry and government; and between
theoreticians and practitioners.
Topics
Papers are sought in areas related to the use  of  logics  in  AI  including
(but are not limited to) the following topics:
Abduction                                               Logics and 
expressiveness
Active and Deductive systems                    Logic based planning and 
Diagnosis
Applications of logic-based systems     Logic based Expert systems
Automated reasoning                             Logic based AI systems
Belief revision and updates                     Logic programming
Common-sense reasoning                          Logics in Machine Learning
Computational complexity in AI                  Model Checking
Constraint satisfaction                         Multi-Agent Systems
Hybrid reasoning systems                        Nonmonotonic reasoning
Inductive reasoning and data mining             Ontologies
Description logics                              Semantic Web
Logic databases                                 Theorem proving
Knowledge representation                        Uncertain and probabilistic 
reasoning
Submission
Papers must not exceed thirteen (13) pages including title page, references
and figures, and must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNAI 
authors'
instructions (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Paper submission is electronic via the conference home
page http://www.unical.it/jelia/.
Papers must be written in English and present original research. One author
of each accepted paper will be expected to present it at the conference.
Publication
As in the past, the proceedings of JELIA'02 will be published by Springer
in the LNCS/LNAI series.
Furthermore, a special issue of a journal collecting extended versions of
selected papers presented at the  conference is planned.
Invited Speakers
Michael Gelfond (Texas Tech University, USA)
Georg Gottlob (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Moshe Vardi (Rice University, USA)
Krzysztof Apt (CWI National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer 
Science in the Netherlands)
Tutorials
V.S. Subrahamanian (Univ. of Maryland, USA): Logic based agents
Dino Pedreschi and Fosca Giannotti (Univ. of Pisa, Italy): Logics and data 
mining
Gerald Pfeifer (Vienna Univ. of Tech., Austria): Answer set programming
Important dates
Paper Submission Deadline:              April 28, 2002-- EXTENDED DEADLINE
Notification(Accept/Reject):            June 10, 2002
Final Conference Papers:                June 29, 2002
Request for bursaries:                  July  1, 2002
Bursaries Notification:                         July 12, 2002
Early Registration Deadline:            July 26, 2002
Conference:                             September 23-26, 2002
Location
The conference will be held at the University of  Calabria (Rende),
in the area of Cosenza, Italy.
Program Co-Chairs
Sergio Greco and Nicola Leone (University of Calabria)
Program Committee
Rachel Ben-Eliyahu (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Gerhard Brewka (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Jürgen Dix (University of Manchester, UK)
Wolfgang Faber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Luis Fariñas del Cerro (Universite of Toulouse, France)
Katsumi Inoue (Kobe University, Japan)
Antonis Kakas (University of Cyprus)
Fausto Giunchiglia (University of  Trento, Italy)
Vladimir Lifschitz (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Fangzhen Lin (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
John-Jules Meyer (University of Utrecht, Netherland)
Ilkka Niemelä (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Manuel Ojeda-Aciego (University of Malaga, Spain)
David Pearce (European Commission, Belgium)
Luís Moniz Pereira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Francesco Scarcello (University of Calabria, Italy)
Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Miroslaw Truszczynski (University of Kentucky at Lexington, USA)
Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester, UK)
Mary-Anne Williams (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Organizing Committee
Sergio Flesca and Giovanbattista Ianni (Co-chairs)
Francesco Calimeri                      Elio Masciari
Tina Dell'Armi                  Simona Perri
Filippo Furfaro                 Luigi Pontieri
Stefania Galizia                        Andrea Pugliese
Gianluigi Greco                 Andrea Tagarelli
Giuseppe Ielpa                  Giorgio Terracina
Giuseppe Manco                  Ester Zumpano
Student award
An award will be given for the best student paper, as judged by the program
committee. For a paper to be eligible all the authors must be students at the
submission time. The exact circumstances, including allocation of credit,
should be detailed in the submission letter, SIGNED BY ALL AUTHORS. The 
program
committee may decline to make the award or may split it among several papers.
Support for participation
Bursaries (funded by the Organizing Committee of Jelia'02 with its sponsors)
are available to partially  cover the cost of attending Jelia for students,
young researchers (below 35) and participants from developing countries.
Depending of availability, recipients will be eligible to receive:
    -    partial or full coverage of conference registration fees;
    -    partial or full coverage of hotel expenses;
    -    travel and living expenses contributions.
Please note that it is not necessary to be presenting a paper at Jelia to be
eligible. However, authors  presenting papers will be preferred.
Applications should consist of:
    -    A one-page statement describing why you wish to attend Jelia and how
         it would benefit you.
    -    A curriculum vitae.
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Ing. Sergio Flesca
DEIS
Università della Calabria
tel: +390984494685
e-mail: flesca@deis.unical.it
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