DL 2021: 34th International Workshop on Description Logics Bratislava, Slovakia, September 19-22, 2021 |
| Conference web page | http://dl.kr.org/dl2021 |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2021 |
| Abstract registration deadline | June 16, 2021 |
| Submission deadline | June 23, 2021 |
The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. It is the forum in which those interested in description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and compare experiences. The 34th edition will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia from September 19th to 22nd, 2021, with a possibility of virtual participation. It will be co-located with a number of events as part of Bratislava Knowledge September (BAKS 2021, see https://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/baks2021/). For more information on the DL workshop, see http://dl.kr.org/dl2021.
Important Dates
16 Jun 2021 Paper registration deadline
23 Jun 2021 Paper submission deadline
12 Jul 2021 Fast-track notification of acceptance (see below)
9 Aug 2021 Notification of acceptance
30 Aug 2021 Camera-ready version due
19-22 Sep 2021 DL workshop
List of Topics
We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, including, but not limited to:
* Foundations of description logics:
decidability and complexity of reasoning, expressive power, novel inference problems, inconsistency management, reasoning techniques, modularisation, ontology extraction, abductive and inductive reasoning
* Extensions of description logics:
closed-world and non-monotonic reasoning, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, query answering, reasoning over dynamic information
* Integration of description logics with other formalisms:
object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems
* Applications and use areas of description logics:
ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, ontology-based data access, semi-structured data, graph-structured data, linked data, document management, natural language, learning, explanations, planning, Semantic Web, cloud computing, conceptual modeling, web services, business processes, practical experiences, case studies, feasibility studies
* Systems and tools of all kinds around description logics:
reasoners, ontology editors, ontology alignment, ontology extraction, other support for ontology development, database schema design, query rewriting/answering/optimization, data integration, implementation and optimization techniques, benchmarking, evaluation, modelling
Invited Speakers
Claudia d’Amato, University of Bari, Italy
Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, City University of London, UK
Nicole Schweikardt, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Research Institute, Trento, Italy (joint with DAO-XAI)
Submission Guidelines
Submissions may be of two types:
A Regular papers of up to 11 pages (excluding references).
B Abstracts of up to 2 pages (excluding references).
Both regular papers and abstracts must be formatted using the Springer LNCS style with the correct fonts and submitted via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2021
Submissions of type A must contain enough substance that it can be cited in other publications and may not have appeared before. A clearly marked appendix with additional proofs and evaluation data may be included.
Submissions of type B may optionally include a clearly marked appendix with additional proofs, evaluation data, or extended version of your paper, which was accepted at another conference or which you submitted or plan to submit to another conference. In the latter case the abstract should specify where the paper has been accepted or is under review.
The appendix will be read at the discretion of the reviewers and will not be included in the proceedings. The appendix does not need to be in LNCS format.
Authors who require a visa to travel to Slovakia and for this reason would like to receive notification earlier than 12 July may request fast-track reviewing. To do so, authors should send an e-mail to the program committee, including the submission number of the paper and a statement explaining the circumstances that require fast-track review. Authors and participants who require a visa invitation to attend the workshop should contact the local organisers by email (homola@fmph.uniba.sk), who will have the most up-to-date information regarding the Slovakian and EU travel restrictions.
Covid Statement
The organizing committee is closely monitoring the epidemic situation both globally and locally in Slovakia. We do hope that with the increasing rate of vaccination it is likely that we will be able to hold DL 2021 as an in-person meeting. We are committed to ensure inclusivity of the event, and will allow virtual participation for any participants who cannot travel. If the further development will require this, we are also prepared to switch DL2021 to a fully virtual event. We are aiming to announce the decision on the format around the time of the notification of acceptance.
Student Grants
A limited number of student grants for participating in DL 2021 are available. The grants consist of a fixed amount that can be used to cover travel costs (in case of in-person participation only) and registration fees. Grants will be given to motivated students who are genuinely interested in attending the workshop and lack sufficient funding. Preference will be given to students who have a paper (or abstract) accepted to DL 2021.
Applications for student grants can be submitted using the following Google form: https://forms.gle/fmhUKeQMxDKuJypR6
Note that this requires a Google account. If you do not want to use a Google account, you can contact us by e-mail (homola@fmph.uniba.sk).
Application deadline: July 14, 2021
Notification: July 28, 2021
Committees
Program Committee
Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen
Franz Baader, TU Dresden
Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS, University of Bordeaux
Alex Borgida, Rutgers University
Stefan Borgwardt, TU Dresden
Arina Britz, Stellenbosch University
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano & Umeå University
David Carral, TU Dresden
Ismail Ilkan Ceylan, University of Oxford
Jieying Chen, University of Oslo
Roberto Confalonieri, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford
Cristina Feier, University of Bremen
Laura Giordano, DISIT, Università del Piemonte Orientale
Birte Glimm, Universität Ulm
Victor Gutierrez-Basulto, Cardiff University
Martin Homola, University of Bratislava
Yazmin A. Ibanez-Garcia, Cardiff University
Jean Christoph Jung, University of Hildesheim
Yevgeny Kazakov, The University of Ulm
Maria Keet, University of Cape Town
Stanislav Kikot, Birkbeck College
Boris Konev, University of Liverpool
Patrick Koopmann, TU Dresden
Egor V. Kostylev, University of Oxford
Markus Krötzsch, TU Dresden
Jakub Kuklis, University of Warsaw
Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Domenico Lembo, Sapienza University of Rome
Carsten Lutz, Universität Bremen
Barbara Morawska, Ahmedabad University
Filip Murlak, University of Warsaw
Linh Anh Nguyen, University of Warsaw
Magdalena Ortiz, Vienna University of Technology
Ana Ozaki, University of Bergen
Fabio Papacchini, University of Liverpool
Jeff Pan, The University of Edinburgh
Peter Patel-Schneider, Xerox PARC
Rafael Peñaloza, University of Milano-Bicocca
Andreas Pieris, The University of Edinburgh
Antonella Poggi, Sapienza University of Rome
Denis Ponomaryov, Novosibirsk State University
Guilin Qi, Southeast University
Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza University of Rome
Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden
Vladislav Ryzhikov, Birkbeck College
Leif Sabellek, University of Bremen
Uli Sattler, The University of Manchester
Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester
Barış Sertkaya, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Mantas Simkus, TU Wien
Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau
Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens
Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR
David Toman, University of Waterloo
Nicolas Troquard, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Ivan Varzinczak, Univ. Artois and CNRS
Grant Weddell, University of Waterloo
Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool
Yizheng Zhao, Nanjing University
Organizing committee
GENERAL CHAIR & LOCAL ORGANISER
Martin Homola University of Bratislava
PC CHAIRS
Vladislav Ryzhikov Birkbeck College, London
Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester
Publication
The proceedings will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Due to a change of policy at CEUR-WS.org papers of type B are no longer indexed by dblp.org and the case of an abstract of a pre-published paper may require a permission by the copyright holder.
Venue
The 34th edition will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia from September 19th to 22nd, 2021, and will be collocated with a number of events as part of Bratislava Knowledge September (BAKS 2021, see https://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/baks2021/).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC chairs or the general chair.