The Twelfth International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP2002) July 9-12, Sydney, Australia Call for Papers ILP2002 is the twelfth in a series of international conferences on Inductive Logic Programming. We are pleased to announce that ILP2002 will be co-located and coordinated with the Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2002), bringing together the various communities of researchers who have a common interest in Machine Learning. ILP 2002 and ICML 2002 will include an extensive joint series of invited speakers and tutorials. The mandate of the Programme Committee is to extend the coverage of the field by including also aspects of relational learning other than learning of concept definitions expressed in Prolog (see a non-exclusive list of topics below). ILP2002 seeks submission for its two tracks: one for conference papers and one for work in progress reports. CONFERENCE PAPER TRACK We encourage papers that present substantial new results in theoretical, empirical and applied research in all areas of ILP. This includes, for example (a non-exhaustive list): - first-order rule learning - learning probabilistic and statistical relational models - link discovery - learning from relational databases - learning in representations other than logic (e.g. learning tree patterns, learning conceptual graphs) - (multi)relational data mining - ILP-specific issues in relational data mining outside model building (sampling, evaluation, etc.) - multi-instance learning - change of representation and propositionalization - relational reinforcement learning - instance-based and kernel-based methods in ILP - relational text and Web mining; learning from semi-structured data (e.g. XML) - learnability and algorithmic issues of learning from structured data - inductive databases - learning in higher-order logics - logical foundations of induction - efficient implementations - practical applications of ILP and Relational Data Mining All accepted conference papers will appear in the ILP2002 proceedings, which will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series. It is hoped that a journal special issue will come out of selected papers in this track. WORK IN PROGRESS TRACK Work-in-progress reports should be high in interest and potential, but will typically contain only preliminary results and analyses. The work-in-progress track is intended to showcase promising new directions and allow feedback on preliminary work. Challenge and position papers are also suitable. We especially encourage students to submit their preliminary work. Reports accepted for this track will be presented at the conference (probably via a poster presentation) and will appear in a booklet distributed to participants at the conference. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION Papers submitted to either track should be no longer than 18 pages. Significantly shorter papers are very welcome. There will be a further announcement on the ILP 2002 website about the mode of submission. Submissions must be in Springer LNCS/LNAI style, or equivalent (45 lines per page, 78 characters per line). For details see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html It is the author's responsibility to ensure that the PostScript file is printable. The submission deadlines are listed below. All submissions will be acknowledged shortly after receipt. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TIMETABLE Conference Papers Work-in-Progress Reports Submission deadline: February 15, 2002 May 1, 2002 Notification: March 15, 2002 May 15, 2002 Camera-ready copy: April 5, 2002 May 30, 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FURTHER INFORMATION All enquiries should be sent to: ilp2002@lri.fr ILP200 home page www.site.uottawa.ca/~stan/ilp2002 Springer LNCS/LNAI home page http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/ LNAI author instructions http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Programme Chairs: Stan Matwin Claude Sammut University of Ottawa University of New South Wales Ottawa, Canada Sydney, Australia current address: stan@lri.fr claude@cse.unsw.edu.au tel. +33 1 69 15 69 04 +61-2-9385-6932 fax +33 1 69 15 65 86 +61-2-9385-4936 Programme Committee: H. Blockeel (Belgium) I. Bratko (Slovenia)* J.F. Boulicault (France)* J. Cussens (UK) T. Dietterich (USA) S. Dzeroski (Slovenia) F.Esposito (Italy) J. Furnkranz (Austria) L. Getoor (USA)* T. Horvath (Germany) D. Jensen (USA) L. Holder (USA) P. Flach (UK) K. Furukawa (Japan) R. Khardon (USA) J-U.Kietz (Switzerland) S. Kramer (Germany) N. Lavrac (Slovenia) R. Mooney (USA) S. Muggleton (UK) D.Page (USA) B. Pfahringer (NZ) L. De Raedt (Germany) D. Roth (USA)* C. Rouveirol (France) L. Saitta (Italy) M. Sebag (France) A.Srinivasan (UK) P. Tadepalli (USA) A. Yamamoto (Japan) G. Zaverukha (Brazil) J-D. Zucker (France) (*) to be confirmed