PLP 2018
The 5th Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming
Saturday September 1 2018, Ferrara, Italy
The Castle of Ferrara (Castello Estense)
Overview
Probabilistic logic programming (PLP) approaches have received much attention in this century. They address the need to reason about relational domains under uncertainty arising in a variety of application domains, such as bioinformatics, the semantic web, robotics, and many more. Developments in PLP include new languages that combine logic programming with probability theory as well as algorithms that operate over programs in these formalisms.
PLP is part of a wider current interest in probabilistic programming. By promoting probabilities as explicit programming constructs, inference, parameter estimation and learning algorithms can be run over programs which represent highly structured probability spaces. Due to logic programming's strong theoretical underpinnings, PLP is one of the more disciplined areas of probabilistic programming. It builds upon and benefits from the large body of existing work in logic programming, both in semantics and implementation, but also presents new challenges to the field.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers in all aspects of probabilistic logic programming, including theoretical work, system implementations and applications. Interactions between theoretical and applied minded researchers are encouraged. The presence of this workshop at ILP is intended to encourage collaboration with researchers from the field of Inductive Logic Programming.
News
- September 21st 2018: Proceedings are online.
- August 6th 2018: Program is online.
- May 9th 2018: Registrations are open.
- March 20th 2018: Invited Speakers announced.
- March 16th 2018: Join us in the RAID2018 group to receive all the latest news immediately.
- January 17th 2018: Submission instructions and Important Dates are online.
- December 20th 2017: the Program Committee is online.
Co-located Events
The workshop is part of the Relational Artificial Intelligence Days (RAID) organized in Ferrara, which include:
- Before - ACAI 2018: Advanced Course on Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence, 27th - 31st August 2018
- After - ILP 2018: Inductive Logic Programming Conference, 2nd - 4th September 2018
Venue
The workshop will be hosted by the Department of Architecture (Tassoni Estense Palace) of the University of Ferrara, in Via della Ghiara 36, Ferrara, Italy. For more information about getting to Ferrara, please see here. For accommodation, please refer to the ILP 2018 website: http://ilp2018.unife.it/accommodation.
Program
Saturday, September 1
| Start | End | |
|---|---|---|
Registration |
9:00 | 9:15 |
Opening |
9:15 | 9:30 |
Invited Talk 1Angelika Kimmig. Programming in PLP - A Case Study |
9:30 | 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:30 | 11:00 |
Morning Session
|
11:00 | 12:30 |
Lunch Break |
12:30 | 14:00 |
Invited Talk 2Riccardo Zese. PLP: a brick to build your own starship |
14:00 | 15:00 |
Afternoon Session 1
|
15:00 | 15:45 |
Coffee Break |
15:45 | 16:15 |
Afternoon Session 2 |
16:15 | 17:00 |
Closing |
17:00 | 17:15 |
Invited Speakers
Riccardo Zese, University of Ferrara, Italy
PLP: a brick to build your own starship
When one thinks about what she/he needs to fully represent and work with the domain she/he wants to model, it is not always easy to determine which approach would be the best to use. One could have to cope with uncertainty, different closure assumptions, large amount of data. For these reasons, in the last years, the combination of different technologies has achieved an exponentially increasing attention. Many researchers have focused on the combination of (probabilistic) logic programming with other formalisms, using it as a component to build more powerful approaches, which pave the way to the management of domains that are too complex to handle with the current technologies alone. In this talk, we will take an overview of some of these proposals. Especially, we will focus on the combination of probabilistic logic programming with description logics, to combine both open and closed world assumption.
Angelika Kimmig, Cardiff University, UK
Programming in PLP - A Case Study
Important Dates
| Submission deadline: | |
| Notification of acceptance: | 6th August 2018 |
| Camera ready version due: | 16th August 2018 | Workshop: | Sat 1 September 2018 |
Submission
Submissions will be managed via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plp2018). Contributions should be prepared in the LNCS style. A mixture of papers are sought including: new results, work in progress as well as technical summaries of recent substantial contributions. Papers presenting new results should be 6-12 pages in length. Work in progress and technical summaries can be shorter (2-5 pages). The workshop proceedings will clearly indicate the type of each paper. At least one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the workshop to present the contribution.
Registration
The fee for participating in PLP 2018 is 50€ before August 15th and 70€ after. It includes coffee breaks and lunch.
Registration is managed through the RAID registration system: http://raid2018.unife.it/registration/.
Registrations are open from May 9th to September 1st 2018.
Proceedings
CEUR Workshop Proceedings are online at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2219/.
Special Issue
A Special Issue on Probabilistic Logic Programming is open in the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. We welcome submissions of (improved/extended versions of) papers that were presented at the workshop, as well as new submissions on all topics of the workshop. For more information, please see the call for papers on the IJAR website. Submission of manuscripts: before May 1st, 2019 (papers will be sent to reviewers as soon as we receive them) Publication of the special issue: January 2020 (tentative)
Program Committee
Krysia Broda (Imperial College, UK) Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark) Giuseppe Cota (University of Ferrara, Italy) Fabio Cozman (University of São Paulo, Brazil) Luke Dickens (University College London, UK) William J. Knottenbelt (Imperial College, UK) Sriraam Natarajan (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Matthias Nickles (National University of Ireland, Ireland) Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia) Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) Riccardo Zese (University of Ferrara, Italy)
Senior Committee
Nicos Angelopoulos (Sanger Institute, UK) Vitor Santos Costa (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) James Cussens (University of York, UK) Arjen Hommersom (Open University, The Netherlands) Angelika Kimmig (Cardiff University, UK) Evelina Lamma (University of Ferrara, Italy) David Poole (University of British Columbia, Canada) Luc De Raedt (KU Leuven, Belgium) Fabrizio Riguzzi (University of Ferrara, Italy) Alessandra Russo (Imperial College, UK) Joost Vennekens (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Program Chairs
Elena Bellodi (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara, Italy) Tom Schrijvers (Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Belgium)
Local Organizers
Elena Bellodi, University of Ferrara, Italy Giuseppe Cota, University of Ferrara, Italy Fabrizio Riguzzi, University of Ferrara, Italy Riccardo Zese, University of Ferrara, Italy