CFP

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), and with the Fifteenth
Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory (COLT 2002),
bringing together the various communities of researchers who have a
common interest in Machine Learning. ILP 2002, ICML 2002 and COLT 2002
will include an extensive joint series of invited speakers and
tutorials.

The mandate of the ILP 2002 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 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.

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     SUBMISSION details: see ILP 2002 website.
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     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
     Conference dates:        July 9 - 12, 2002

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     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