First Call For Participation - LuxLogAI 2018

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First Call For Participation

Luxembourg Logic for AI Summit (LuxLogAI 2018)<https://luxlogai.uni.lu>

17-26 Sep 2018, Luxembourg
https://luxlogai.uni.lu

***   The early registration deadline is on 09—August-2018   ***
  Both student and regular early registrants receive €100 off.

***   The normal registration deadline is on 01—Septemeber-2018   ***
  Registrations after the deadline are considered as late registrations.
     For regular registrants (non-students), a late fee applies.

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The Luxembourg Logic for AI Summit (LuxLogAI 2018) brings together the 2nd International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2018)<http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/>, the Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2018)<http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/rw.html>, the Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2018)<https://easychair.org/smart-program/GCAI-2018/>, DecisionCAMP 2018<https://dmcommunity.org/decisioncamp/decisioncamp-2018/>, the MIREL workshop<http://www.mirelproject.eu/> and the annual meeting of the Deduction Systems group (Deduktionstreffen 2018)<https://fg-dedsys.gi.de/dt2018.html>.

With its special focus theme on “methods and tools for responsible AI”, a core objective of LuxLogAI<https://luxlogai.uni.lu/> is to present the latest developments and progress made on the crucial question of how to make AI more transparent, responsible and accountable.

The summit will provide a forum for stimulating cooperation and cross-fertilization between the many different communities focused on the research, development and applications of Artificial Intelligence and Rule-based Systems. We invite you to join rigorous researchers and inventive practitioners in Luxembourg, a world-class location for research, development and innovation at the heart of Europe.

==Sponsors==
- Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)<https://www.fnr.lu/>
- The University of Luxembourg<https://wwwen.uni.lu/>
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)<https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt>
- Interdisciplinary Lab for Intelligent and Adaptive Systems (ILIAS)<https://wwwen.uni.lu/recherche/fstc/interdisciplinary_lab_for_intelligent_and_adaptive_systems_ilias>
- Digital Luxembourg<https://digital-luxembourg.public.lu/> (sponsor for Diversity@LuxLogAI<https://luxlogai.uni.lu/diversity-luxlogai/>)

==Keynotes & Speakers==
- Hannah Bast<https://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/bast> (Uni Freiburg)
- Pascal Fontaine<https://members.loria.fr/PFontaine/> (Uni Lorraine)
- Georg Gottlob<https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/georg.gottlob/> (Uni Oxford)
- Guido Governatori<http://www.governatori.net/> (CSIRO, Data61)
- Cynthia Kop<https://www.cs.ru.nl/%7Ecynthiakop/index_en.html> (Radboud Uni Nijmegen)
- Valeria de Paiva <http://vcvpaiva.github.io/> (Nuance Communications)<http://vcvpaiva.github.io/>
- Philipp Slusallek<https://graphics.cg.uni-saarland.de/people/slusallek.html> (Saarland Uni)
- Daniele Nardi <http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/%7Enardi/> (Uni Roma)
- Daphna Weinshall<http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/%7Edaphna/> (Hebrew Uni Jerusalem)
- Bob Kowalski<https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Erak/> (Imperial College) and Miguel Calejo<http://www.declarativa.com/people/mc/> (logicalcontracts.com)
- Fariba Sadri<https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Efs/> (Imperial College London)
- Monica Palmirani<https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/monica.palmirani/en> (Uni Bologna)
- Banquet Speaker: tba


==Multiple Events Summit==
- MIREL (MIning and REasoning with Legal texts)<http://www.mirelproject.eu/> Workshop: 17 September 2018.
- 4th Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2018)<https://easychair.org/smart-program/GCAI-2018/>: 17-19 September 2018.
- DecisionCAMP (Business Rules and Decision Management Technology)<https://dmcommunity.org/decisioncamp/decisioncamp-2018/>: 17-19 September 2018.
- AI and ART: 17-19 September 2018.
- 2nd International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2018)<http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/>: 18-21 September 2018.
- AI Public Event<https://luxlogai.uni.lu/welcome-to-luxlogai/ai-public-event/>: 19 September with Viviane Reding [(European Parliament), Toby Walsh (UNSW Sydney), Claude Adam (University of Luxembourg), Philipp Slusallek (DFKI, Saarland University)]
- Self Organizing Systems (SOS): 19 September 2018.
- Diversity@LuxLogAI<https://luxlogai.uni.lu/diversity-luxlogai/>: 20 September 2018.
- Annual meeting of the Deduction Systems group of GI e.V. (Deduktionstreffen 2018)<https://fg-dedsys.gi.de/dt2018.html>: 21 September 2018.
- Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2018)<http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/rw.html>: 22-26 September 2018.

==Open Calls==
- RuleML+RR Posters, see Call for Posters<http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/call-for-posters.html>, Extended deadline: 8 August 2018
- Deduktionstreffen 2018, see Call for Abstracts<https://fg-dedsys.gi.de/dt2018.html>, Deadline: 5 August 2018

==Registration==
Registration is open via EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=luxlogai2018> (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=luxlogai2018)
- Early registration deadline: 9 August, 2018
- Normal registration deadline: 1 September, 2018
- After normal registration deadline, a late registration fee applies (for non-students)

==Organization==
- Summit Chair (LuxLogAI):
  Leon van der Torre (U Luxembourg)
- General Chair (RuleML+RR):
  Xavier Parent (U Luxembourg)
- Program Chairs:
  Christoph  Benzmüller  (U  Luxembourg  &  FU Berlin)
  Francesco Ricca (U Calabria)
- Proceedings Chair:
  Dumitru Roman (SINTEF/U Oslo)
- Industry Track Chair:
  Silvie Spreeuwenberg (LibRT Amsterdam)
- Doctoral Consortium Chair
  Kia Teymouria (Boston University, Metropolitan College)
  Paul Fodor (Stony Brook University)
- Int’l Rule Challenge Chairs:
  Giovanni De Gasperis (U L’Aquila)
  Wolfgang Faber (Alpen-Adria-U Klagenfurt)
  Adrian Giurca (BTU Cottbus- Senftenberg)
- Reasoning Web (RW) Summer School
  Claudia d’Amato (U Bari)
  Martin Theobald (U Luxembourg)
- Publicity Chairs:
  Amal Tawakuli (U Luxembourg)
- Financial Chair
  Martin Theobald (U Luxembourg)
- Poster Chair
  Alex Steen (U Luxembourg)

==Media==
- Web: https://luxlogai.uni.lu
- Twitter: @luxlogai
- Instagram: @luxlogai
- RuleML Blog: http://blog.ruleml.org


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Schéi Gréiss | Mit Freundlichen Grüßen | Meilleures Salutations | With Kind Regards

Amal Tawakuli
Doctoral Candidate
Big Data and Data Science Research Group - ILIAS Lab - CSC Research Unit

UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG

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