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The RCRA group (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) of
the AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence)
organizes the
29th RCRA workshop on
Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving
problems with combinatorial explosion (RCRA 2022)
affiliated to the 16th International Conference on Logic
Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2022)
https://sites.google.com/view/lpnmr2022
September, 5th, 2022; Genova, Italy
RCRA group web site:http://rcra.aixia.it/
Workshop web site: TBA
e-mail:marco@dibris.unige.it,M.Vallati@hud.ac.uk
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This event follows the series of the RCRA (Knowledge
Representation and Automated Reasoning) annual meetings, held
since 1994. The success of the previous events shows that RCRA is
becoming a major forum for exchanging ideas and proposing
experimentation methodologies for algorithms in Artificial
Intelligence.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: July 10th, 2022
Notification of acceptance: August 1st, 2022
Final version of accepted original papers: August 22nd, 2022
RCRA workshop: September 5th, 2022
AIMS AND SCOPE
Many problems in Artificial Intelligence show an exponential
explosion of the search space. Although stemming from different
research areas in AI, such problems are often addressed with
algorithms that have a common goal: the effective exploration of
huge state spaces. Many algorithms developed in one research area
are applicable to other problems, or can be hybridized with
techniques in other areas. Artificial Intelligence tools often
exploit or hybridize techniques developed by other research
communities, such as Operations Research. In recent years, research
in Artificial Intelligence has more and more focused on experimental
evaluation of algorithms, the development of suitable methodologies
for experimentation and analysis, the study of languages and the
implementation of systems for the definition and solution of
problems.
Scope of the workshop is fostering the cross-fertilization of ideas
stemming from different areas, proposing benchmarks for new
challenging problems, comparing models and algorithms from an
experimental viewpoint, and, in general, comparing different
approaches with respect to efficiency, problem modeling, and ease of
development.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Experimental evaluation of algorithms for
o knowledge representation
o automated reasoning
o planning
o scheduling
o machine learning
o model checking
o boolean satisfiability (SAT)
o constraint programming
o argumentation
o temporal reasoning
o combinatorial optimization
o quantified boolean formulae and quantified constraints
o modal logics
o logic programming
o answer set programming
o ontological reasoning
* Definition and construction of benchmarks
* Experimentation methodologies
* Metaheuristics
* Algorithm hybridization
* Static analysis of combinatorial problems
* Languages and systems for definition and solution of problems
* Comparisons between systems and algorithms
* Application experiences (visualization, graphics, security, transports,...)
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Marco Maratea University of Genova, Italy
Mauro Vallati University of Huddersfield, UK
HOST ORGANIZATION AND VENUE
University of Genova, Italy
The workshop will take place in Genova Nervi, Italy, in the
Collegio Emiliani (http://www.collegioemiliani.it/), which is a college
directly situated on the see.
Of course, we will continuously monitor the pandemic situation in
order to evaluate whether the conference can be indeed held as an
in-person event, or we will need to switch to a hybrid event, if not
completely on-line.
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit either original and non-original papers.
Publications showing negative results are welcome, provided that the
approach was original and very promising in principle, the
experimentation was well-conducted, the results obtained were
unforeseeable and gave important hints in the comprehension of the
target problem, helping other researchers to avoid unsuccessful
paths.
Workshop submissions must be in PDF format, do not exceed 15 (for
full papers) or 8 (for short papers) pages, and should be written in
LaTeX, using the LNCS style.
RCRA 2022 uses EasyChair for the submission of contributions.
Contributions must be submitted through this page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcra2022
All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the
program committee (TBD).
CONTACT
In case of need, the workshop co-chairs can be contacted by sending
an email to:
marco@dibris.unige.it,M.Vallati@hud.ac.uk
PROCEEDINGS
CEUR-WS Proceedings:
Accepted original papers will be published in the AIxIA series of CEUR-WS
AI*IA Series on CEUR-WS.org (upon authors confirmation)
Moreover, as in some previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications),
we are considering the possibility of having a special issue of an
international journal, provided that a sufficient amount of high quality
papers is collected. All technical papers, original and non-original, will
be eligible.
HISTORY OF THE RECENT WORKSHOP SERIES
* RCRA 2021 as a workshop of AI*IA 2021, Virtual
https://rcra2020.wordpress.com/
* RCRA 2020 as a workshop of AI*IA 2020, Virtual
https://rcra2020.wordpress.com/
* RCRA 2018 as a workshop of FLoC 2018, Oxford, UK
http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra~2018
Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special
issue of Fundamenta Informaticae
* RCRA 2017 as a workshop of AI*IA 2017, Bari, Italy
http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2017
Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special
issue of Fundamenta Informaticae
* RCRA 2016 as a workshop of AI*IA 2016, Genova, Italy
http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2016
Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special
issue of JETAI
* RCRA 2015 as a workshop of AI*IA 2015, Ferrara, Italy
http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2015
Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special
issue of Fundamenta Informaticae
* RCRA 2014 as a workshop of SAT 2014, IJCAR 2014 and ICLP 2014,
Vienna, Austria -http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2014
Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special
issue of AI Communications
* Previous editions:http://rcra.aixia.it/workshops
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