Machine Learning Journal Special Issue on INDUCTIVE LOGIC PROGRAMMING Call for Papers AIM AND SCOPE: ============== Following the 14th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming held in Porto, Portugal, the Machine Learning Journal invites authors to submit papers for the Special Issue on Inductive Logic Programming. In keeping with the original topic of Inductive Logic Programming, while reflecting also the broadening scope of the field, authors are invited to submit papers presenting original results in all aspects of learning logic programs, learning in first-order logic and in other logic-based knowledge representation frameworks. Papers on logical aspects of multi-relational learning and data mining are also welcome. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest for submissions include * theoretical aspects (logical foundations, computational/statistical learning theory, specialisation and generalisation operators, etc.) of learning in logic (logic programs, constraint logic programs, Datalog, first-order logic, description logics, higher-order logic, etc.), * algorithmic aspects of learning in logic including the design of algorithms along with theoretical and/or empirical analysis, probabilistic and statistical approaches, distance and kernel-based methods, relational reinforcement learning, etc., * logical foundations of learning and data mining from multi-relational databases, scalability issues, inductive databases, link discovery, * learning and data mining from structured (e.g., labelled graphs, tree patterns) and semi-structured data (e.g., XML documents), multi-instance learning, * efficient implementations and practical applications of multi-relational learning and data mining in bioinformatics, computational chemistry, computational linguistics, relational text and web mining, medical informatics, spatial data mining, etc. Papers emphasising new topics related to learning in logic, as well as to logical foundations of multi-relational learning and data mining are especially encouraged. All contributors to ILP 2004 are invited to submit a full paper, but the special issue is open to everyone. Each submission will be reviewed according to the standards of the Machine Learning Journal. IMPORTANT DATES: ================ Titles and short abstracts due: March 15th, 2005 Papers due: April 1st, 2005 Author notification: July 15th, 2005 Final versions of accepted papers due: September 30th, 2005 Publication: Early 2006 GUEST EDITORS: ============== Ashwin Srinivasan (IBM India Research Laboratory, New Delhi, India) Rui Camacho (University of Porto, Portugal) Ross King (University of Wales, Aberystwyth Wales, United Kingdom) PAPERS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS: ===================================================== Authors of papers that appeared previously in refereed conferences and workshops (e.g. in ILP 2004) are encouraged to submit extended versions of their papers. Such extended papers must be significantly different from the conference version, as well as accessible to the broad readership of the journal, not just to researchers in ILP. More generally, authors submitting extended versions of previously published conference/workshop papers are strongly encouraged to expand on the material that was included in the original paper, e.g., to provide more details, to give greater, more in-depth, discussion of the results and related work, to expand upon the experimental results, and to give a more thorough and scholarly treatment of the material (than was possible in a conference paper). Submissions must not have appeared in, nor be under consideration by, other journals. Authors of papers whose previous versions appeared in refereed conferences and workshops are requested to provide the previously published version of their papers, as well as to include in their submission a brief letter stating the differences between the prior published version and this MLJ Special Issue submission. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: ======================= Only electronic submissions will be accepted. 1) Submission of the abstract (until March 15th, 2005): Please send an e-mail to ashwin.srinivasan@in.ibm.com and rcamacho@fe.up.pt with the subject "MLJ special issue on ILP", Include in the body of the e-mail the title of the paper you intend to submit, the authors and the abstract. 2) Submission of the full paper (until April 1st, 2005): Instructions for submission can be found at http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-40109-70-35726603-0,00.html In the instructions to authors that you will find in the above URL do not forget to read the NOTE on special issues of the journal (you are required to say in the submitting e-mail that the paper is for a special issue on ILP). In addition to submitting the paper following the instructions given in the above URL, please submit it also to ashwin.srinivasan@in.ibm.com and rcamacho@fe.up.pt All enquiries regarding this special issue should be directed to Ashwin Srinivasan (ashwin.srinivasan@in.ibm.com) and Rui Camacho (rcamacho@fe.up.pt) _______________________________________________ cfp4ilp mailing list cfp4ilp@ilp.fe.up.pt http://ilp.fe.up.pt/mailman/listinfo/cfp4ilp