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                                 *** IULP 2017 ***                         

               2nd International Workshop on User-Oriented Logic Paradigms
                                   3rd July 2017
                              
                           http://iulp2017.uni-leipzig.de

                                 Collocated with the
                 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and
                          Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017)
                                 Espoo, Finland
                                July 3 - 6, 2017

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NEW: Independent of IULP 2017, there will be a special issue of TPLP on 
"User-Oriented Logic Programming and Reasoning Paradigms".
IULP 2017 provides an excellent opportunity to present and 
discuss papers intended for submission to the special issue.
Authors of papers accepted for IULP 2017 will be given the opportunity
to also submit their IULP reviews along with a statement of revision
as part of their special issue submission.

Since the emergence of logic reasoning paradigms, such as logic programming,
argumentation, and other non-monotonic reasoning formalisms,
a lot of theoretical work has been done, for example with respect to
different semantics and their properties. More recently, implementations
and IDEs emerged which have been used for various problem-solving
applications.
However, user-friendliness is still an issue for both experts and
non-experts working with logic paradigms; for example experts benefit from
features like debugging and heurist tuning, non-experts from educational
material, explanations, and intuitive visualisations - all of which are ongoing 
topics of research.

The 2nd International Workshop of User-Oriented Logic Paradigms (IULP)
focuses on discussing different aspects involved in making logic paradigms more
user-friendly/oriented, where the "user" could be either an expert of the
paradigm, or a non-expert who simply uses tools developed for the paradigm in
some application.
IULP aims to bring together researchers working on different logic paradigms, 
such as answer set programming, constraint logic programming,
probabilistic logic programming, abductive logic programming,
inductive logic programming, argumentation etc., as user-friendliness is an
important topic in all of these areas.

IULP aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the AI,
KR, and applied sciences community to discuss and present advances in
theories, formalisms, and applications to deliver the mature and
well-defined methods of logic paradigms to a wider audience.

We solicit the submission of papers broadly centred on issues and
research related to user-friendliness in logic paradigms and related
fields.
We welcome papers of either theoretical or practical nature, including
work in progress.


IMPORTANT DATES
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* Papers due: Mon, 1st May 2017
* Notification to authors: Mo, 22nd May 2017
* Camera ready version due: Mo, 12th June 2017
* Workshop date: Mon, 3rd July 2017


TOPICS
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* IDEs 
* debugging
* explanations
* visualisation
* best practice
* modularity     
* usage of natural language
* heuristic tuning 
* LP education
* language extensions


SUBMISSIONS
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Papers must be formatted in Springer LNCS style
(http://www.springer.com/lncs) and should not exceed 13 pages (excluding
references and appendices). All submissions have to be written in English
and submitted electronically as a PDF through easychair
(http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iulp2017).

We encourage the submission of original research in the area as well as
relevant results that have been submitted or accepted elsewhere provided
that the initial publication is mentioned in a footnote on the first
page.

Note that authorship is not anonymous and that at least one author of
each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop to present the
contribution.


PROCEEDINGS
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There are no formal proceedings for IULP.
The accepted papers will be published as a technical report and will be
made available in the CoRR Computing Research Repository.

The copyright of the papers lies with the authors and, as far as IULP is
concerned, authors are free to submit their work to other conferences and
workshops.


COMMITTEE
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Chairs:
* Stefan Ellmauthaler (Leipzig University)
* Claudia Schulz (Imperial College London)

Program Committee
* Gerhard Brewka (Leipzig University)
* Pedro Cabalar (Corunna University)
* Marina De Vos (University of Bath)
* Esra Erdem (Sabanci University)
* Sarah Alice Gaggl (TU Dresden)
* Martin Gebser (Potsdam University)
* Antonis C. Kakas (University of Cyprus)
* Alessandra Russo (Imperial College London)
* Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin (University of Klagenfurt)
* Guillermo R. Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur)
* Stefan Woltran (TU Wien)


CONTACT
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iulp2017 [at] informatik [dot] uni-leipzig [dot] de


HOMEPAGE
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http://iulp2017.uni-leipzig.de