PLP 2015 - Second Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming

PLP-2015: The Second Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming
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A workshop of the 2015 International Conference on Logic Programming
31 August 2015
Cork, Ireland
http://stoics.org.uk/plp/plp2015/
Deadline for submissions: 10 June 2015
Overview
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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 ran 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. PLP reasoning often requires the
evaluation of large number of possible states before any answers can be produced
thus braking the sequential search model of traditional logic programs.
While PLP has already contributed a number of formalisms, systems and well
understood and established results in: parameter estimation, tabling, marginal
probabilities and Bayesian learning, many questions remain open in this
exciting, expanding field in the intersection of AI, machine learning and
statistics.
This workshop provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, presentation of
results and preliminary work, in the following areas
* probabilistic logic programming formalisms
* parameter estimation
* statistical inference
* implementations
* structure learning
* reasoning with uncertainty
* constraint store approaches
* stochastic and randomised algorithms
* probabilistic knowledge representation and reasoning
* constraints in statistical inference
* applications, such as
* * bioinformatics
* * semantic web
* * robotics
* probabilistic graphical models
* Bayesian learning
* tabling for learning and stochastic inference
* MCMC
* stochastic search
* labelled logic programs
* integration of statistical software
The above list should be interpreted broadly and is by no means exhaustive.
Purpose
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After a successful first edition of this workshop at ICLP 2014 in Vienna, the
second edition hopes to continue to foster collaboration between between the
ICLP and PLP communities. We hope that both (a) more LP researchers will become
interested in inference and learning with PLP and (b) PLP researchers will get
important feedback on their work from logic programmers.
Submissions
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Submissions will be managed via EasyChair. Contributions should be prepared in
the LLNCS 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. 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.
Publication
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Informal proceedings will be made available electronically to attendees. They
will also be for stored permanently in the form on CEUR Workshop Proceedings
(http://ceur-ws.org/). The proceedings will consist of clearly marked sections
corresponding to the different types of submissions accepted.
Extended versions of selected workshop papers will be published in the
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Elsevier).
Deadlines
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Papers due: Wed, 10th June 2015
Notification to authors: Fri, 10th July 2015
Camera ready version due: Fri, 24th July 2015
Workshop data: Mon, 31st August 2015
(the deadline for all dates is 23:59 BST)
Invited Speaker(s)
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To be announced
Programme Committee
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Fabrizio Riguzzi (Universita' di Ferrara, Italy) [co-chair]
Joost Vennekens (KU Leuven, Belgium) [co-chair]
Elena Bellodi (ENDIF-University of Ferrara)
Nicos Angelopoulos (Imperial College, London)
Arjen Hommersom (University of Nijmegen)
Nicola Di Mauro (Università di Bari)
Christian Theil Have (Copenhagen University)
Angelika Kimmig (KU Leuven)
Wannes Meert (KU Leuven)
Aline Paes (Institute of Computing, Universidade Federal Fluminense)
David Poole (University of British Columbia)
C. R. Ramakrishnan (University at Stony Brook)
Herbert Wiklicky (Imperial College London)
Terrance Swift (CENTRIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
James Cussens (University of York)