LPNMR'05 is the eighth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning. Seven previous meetings were held in Washington, U.S.A. (1991), in Lisbon, Portugal (1993), in Lexington, U.S.A. (1995), in Dagstuhl, Germany (1997), in El Paso, U.S.A. (1999), in Vienna, Austria (2001), and in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2004).

LPNMR'05 is organized by the Department of Mathematics of University of Calabria (Italy), and will be co-located with the INFOMIX Workshop on Data Integration.

The proceedings of the conference are published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, volume 3662.

AIMS AND SCOPE

LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers interested in the design and implementation of logic based programming languages and database systems, and researchers who work in the areas of knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning.

LPNMR strives to encompass these theoretical and experimental studies that lead to the construction of practical systems for declarative programming and knowledge representation.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The technical program of LPNMR 2005 comprises three invited talks, 25 research papers, and two special tracks for application and system presentations (16 additional presentations). For further details on the scheduling of the talks, please visit our web site.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Jürgen Angele (Ontoprise GmbH)

Tohmas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)

WORKSHOPS

The conference will be co-located with the INFOMIX Workshop on Data Integration. The aim of the workshop is to discuss about recent research results on data integration exploiting LPNMR methods and systems, and capable of handling also data inconsistency and incompleteness.

IMPORTANT DATES

Early Registration Deadline                   July 15, 2005

Conference                                           September 5-8, 2005

REGISTRATION FEES

Early registration (before July 15th)    

Full                         Euro        250

Student                   Euro        140

Late registration (after July 15th)        

Full                         Euro        320

Student                   Euro        190

The registration fee includes the attendance to all technical sessions (including the special tracks) and invited talks of LPNMR’05, a copy of the LPNMR’05 proceedings (published by Springer Verlag), all coffee breaks, free participation to the INFOMIX Workshop on data integration,

and the participation to the social dinner and the guided tour.

REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION

To register and organize your trip to Diamante (accommodation, travel info, etc.), please visit the conference web site.

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Chitta Baral                         (Arizona State University, USA)

Nicola Leone                       (University of Calabria, Italy)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jose Alferes                        (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Leopoldo Bertossi              (Carleton University, Canada)

Pedro Cabalar                      (Corunna University, Spain)

Gerhard Brewka                  (University of Leipzig, Germany)

Juergen Dix                         (Technical University of Clausthal, Germany)

Wolfgang Faber                   (University of Calabria, Italy)

Norman Foo                        (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Michael Gelfond                 (Texas Tech University, USA)

Antonis Kakas                    (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Katsumi Inoue                    (Kobe University, Japan)

Vladimir Lifschitz               (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Fangzhen Lin                      (The Hong Kong University of Science and

                                             Technology, China)

Ilkka Niemelä                      (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

David Pearce                       (Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain)

Alessandro Provetti            (University of Messina, Italy)

Francesco Scarcello             (University of Calabria, Italy)

Torsten Schaub                   (University of Potsdam, Germany)

Hans Tompits                     (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Francesca Toni                    (Imperial College, London, UK)

Mirek Truszczynski           (University of Kentucky, USA)

Marina de Vos                    (University of Bath, United Kingdom)

PUBLICITY CHAIR

Gianluigi Greco                    (University of Calabria, Italy)

LOCAL ORGANIZATION CO-CHAIRS

Giovambattista Ianni          (University of Calabria, Italy)

Giorgio Terracina                (University of Calabria, Italy)

PRESS OFFICER

Andrea Gualtieri                 (Exeura, Italy)