JOURNAL TRACK
We are delighted to introduce a Journal Track whose accepted papers will be published in the Machine Learning Journal Special Issue on Inductive Logic Programming – ILP 2017 and 2018: together with new submissions, we also welcome the best papers submitted at ILP 2017.
The journal track has three cutoff dates:
17th November 201729th December 20175th February 2018Extended: 12th February 2018
Papers for the special issue are solicited in all areas of learning in logic, multi-relational data mining, statistical relational learning, learning in other (non-propositional) logic-based knowledge representation frameworks, exploring intersections to ILP and other machine learning approaches.
The papers can address topics including, but not limited to:
- Theoretical aspects of ILP: logical-foundations of learning, computational/statistical learning theory, specialisation and generalisation, probabilistic logic-based learning, ILP and structured data, ILP and constraint programming.
- Learning in different representations and languages: logic programming, first-order logic, description logic and ontologies, higher-order logic, probabilistic logic languages.
- ILP algorithms and systems: learning with (semi-)structured data, (semi-)supervised and unsupervised relational learning, relational reinforcement learning, predicate invention, propositionalization approaches, multi-instance learning, learning in the presence of uncertainty, meta-level learning.
- Applications of ILP: art, bioinformatics, systems biology, games, medical informatics, robotics, natural language processing, web-mining, software engineering, modelling and adaptation of control systems, socio-technical systems.
Paper Submission
Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by other journals.
All papers will be reviewed following standard reviewing procedures for the Machine Learning Journal.
Papers must be prepared in accordance with the Journal guidelines: http://www.springer.com/10994
Manuscripts must be submitted to: http://MACH.edmgr.com
An article is submitted to this special issue by choosing “S.I. : ILP 2017-2018” as the article type. Articles should preferably be no longer than 20 pages, and submissions exceeding this length will not be given priority during reviews and will be under review for a longer period.
Important Dates
Submission deadlines: 17th November 2017, 29th December 2017 and 5th February 2018.
If a submission is not accepted in time for this special issue, it will be published as a regular MLJ paper.
Special Issue Guest Editors
Elena Bellodi, University of Ferrara
Nicolas Lachiche, University of Strasbourg
Fabrizio Riguzzi, University of Ferrara
Christel Vrain, University of Orléans
Riccardo Zese, University of Ferrara