KR 2010: Twelfth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Toronto, Canada, May 9-13, 2010.

Collocated with AAMAS-10, NMR-10, ICAPS-10, FOIS-10 (all in Toronto) and DL 2010 (in Waterloo, Canada)
Website: http://kr.org/KR2010/

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of human endeavour. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering.

Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines are an integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic web technologies, the design of software agents and bio-Informatics technologies, in particular, provide significant challenges for KR&R.

We intend KR2010 to be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. We encourage papers presenting substantial new results in the principles of KR&R systems that clearly contribute to the formal foundations or show the applicability of the results to implemented or implementable systems. We also encourage "reports from the field" of applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and must include a section on evaluation.

For the first time, KR will be collocated with AAMAS, and a joint technical session is planned. We thus encourage papers that are relevant to both KR&R and Multi Agent Systems.

As in KR 2008, we will run a Doctoral Consortium to introduce students to senior researchers with similar research interests. Participating students will be able to apply for grants to partly cover their travel expenses. For more information, visit Doctoral Consortium Web page.

Topics of interest include:

Exception tolerant and inconsistency-tolerant reasoning, Paraconsistent logics

Nonmonotonic logics, Default logics, Conditional logics, Argumentation

Temporal reasoning and Spatial reasoning

Causal reasoning, Abduction, Model-based diagnosis

Reasoning about actions and change, Action languages, Situation calculus, Dynamic logic

Reasoning, planning, or decision making under uncertainty

Representations of vagueness, Many-valued and fuzzy logics

Graphical representations for belief and preference

Reasoning about belief and knowledge, Epistemic and Doxastic logics, Multi-agent logics of belief and knowledge

Logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming

Computational aspects of knowledge representation

Concept formation, Similarity-based reasoning

Belief revision and update, Belief merging, Information fusion

Description logics, Ontologies

Qualitative reasoning, Reasoning about physical systems

Decision theory, Preference modeling and representation, Reasoning about preference

KR and Autonomous agents: Intelligent agents, Cognitive robotics

KR and Multi-agent systems: Negotiation, Group decision making, Cooperation, Interaction, KR and game theory

Natural language processing, Summarization, Categorization

KR and Machine learning, Inductive logic programming, Knowledge discovery and acquisition

WWW querying languages, Information retrieval and web mining, Website selection and configuration

Philosophical foundations and psychological evidence

Multi-sorted and Order-sorted representations and reasoning

KR and Semantic Web


KR 2010 Important Dates
* Submission of title and abstract: November 20, 2009
* Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2009
* Notification of acceptance: January 17, 2010
* Camera-ready papers due: February 22, 2010
* KR 2010 Conference: May 9-13, 2010

Conference Chairs
General Chair: Miroslaw Truszczynski
PC Chairs: Fangzhen Lin and Uli Sattler
Local Chair: Mikhail Soutchanski
Doctoral Consortium Chair: Yan Zhang
Publicitiy Chair: Joost Vennekens

Instructions
Papers must be submitted in AAAI style and in PDF only (the conference proceedings will be published by the AAAI Press). The maximum length of a submission is 7 pages including references, figures, and appendixes if any. A paper must be submitted on EASYCHAIR via the following URL: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr10. A paper must be first registered with a title, abstract, and author information by November 20, 2009, and the PDF file of the paper must be uploaded by November 30, 2009. The final paper acceptance notifications will be sent out by January 17. There is no author rebuttal to reviews. However, if a reviewer considers that a clarification about the paper is needed, a request for clarifications will be sent to the corresponding author by email, and the authors will have at least 72 hours to respond to such requests.