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<p class="MsoNormal">[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop on Causal Reasoning and Explanation in Logic Programming<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> *** CAUSAL 2021 ***<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> CAUSAL 2021 is a workshop of ICLP 2021, to
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<p class="MsoNormal"> be held virtually September 20-27, 2021.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Additional details about virtual
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<p class="MsoNormal"> attendance will be announced soon.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">CAUSAL 2021 Important Dates<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Paper submission: July 17th 2021<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> * Notification: July 31st 2021<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> * Final Versions: August 15th 2021<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> * Workshop Date: TBA (in September 20-27, 2021)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sophisticated causal reasoning has long been prevalent in human society and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">continues to have an undeniable impact on the advancement of science,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">technology, medicine, and other significant fields. From the development of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ancient tools to modern roots of causal analysis in business and industry,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">reasoning about causality and having the ability to explain causal mechanisms
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<p class="MsoNormal">enables us to identify how an outcome of interest came to be and gives
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<p class="MsoNormal">insight into how to bring about, or even prevent, similar outcomes in future
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<p class="MsoNormal">scenarios.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">logic programming with a dedicated focus on methods and trends emerging from<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the study of causality and explanation. We welcome the submission of papers on<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">systems, tools, and applications of logic programming methods for causal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">reasoning and explanation. In particular, we encourage submissions presenting<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">recent developments, including works in progress. The workshop will present<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the latest research and application developments in these areas and provide<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">opportunities to discuss current and future research directions and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">relationships to other fields (e.g. Machine Learning, Diagnosis, Natural<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Language Processing and Understanding, Philosophy of Science). An important
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<p class="MsoNormal">expected outcome of this workshop is to collect first-hand feedback from the ICLP
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<p class="MsoNormal">community about the role and placement of causal reasoning and explanation in
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<p class="MsoNormal">the landscape of modern computer theory as well as in the software industry.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">* Modeling causal theories in logic programming<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Formalization of types of causes: sufficient, necessary, actual, etc<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Causality, temporal reasoning and action theories<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Causality and counterfactual reasoning<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Causality, learning and experimental design<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Causality and probability<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Causality and equivalence<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Causality and ontology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Learning causal relations and information<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Novel causal benchmarks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Relating LP based causality and Causal Networks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Challenging problems and benchmark examples<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Justifications and argumentation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Explainable AI<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Explanations for diagnosis and debugging<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Tools, systems and applications<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submissions must describe original research and be prepared using the Springer LNAI/LNCS format,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">available at:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
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<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop invites submissions of two types:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">* Full papers not exceeding 13 pages (excluding references)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Extended abstracts not exceeding 3 pages (excluding references)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please submit your paper via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=causal2021<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At least one co-author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please check the ICLP 2021 website (https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/) for registration procedure
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<p class="MsoNormal">and fees. We are planning to publish a special issue with selected workshop papers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Organizers<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">* Emily LeBlanc, US Naval Research Lab, USA (emily.leblanc@nrl.navy.mil, ecl.drexel@gmail.com)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Joost Vennekens, KU Leuven, Belgium<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Spain<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Jorge Fandiño, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Marcello Balduccini, Saint Joseph's University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
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