The RCRA group (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) of
       the AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence)

                            organizes the

                         25th RCRA workshop:
           Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving
           problems with combinatorial explosion  (RCRA 2018)

       workshop of the Federated Logic Conference 2018 (FLoC 2018)
                      http://www.floc2018.org/
                    Oxford, UK, July 13th, 2018


RCRA group web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/
Workshop web site:   http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra-2018
e-mail:              rcra2018[AT]easychair[DOT]org


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.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Abstract submission deadline: April 22th, 2018 <— NEW
  • Paper submission deadline: April 25th, 2018 <— EXTENDED
  • Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2018
  • Final version of accepted original papers: May 25th, 2018
  • RCRA workshop: July 13th, 2018

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
    • knowledge representation
    • automated reasoning
    • planning
    • scheduling
    • machine learning
    • model checking
    • boolean satisfiability (SAT)
    • constraint programming
    • argumentation
    • temporal reasoning
    • combinatorial optimization
    • quantified boolean formulae and quantified constraints
    • modal logics
    • logic programming
    • answer set programming
    • 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

Oxford University, UK

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit either original (full or short) papers, or papers that appear on conference proceedings.

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.

The authors are requested to clearly specify whether their submission is original or already published. A footnote in the first page would suffice, and the type of submission can be specified also while registering/submitting the paper.

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 2018 uses EasyChair for the submission of contributions.

All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.

CONTACT

In case of need, the workshop co-chairs can be contacted by sending an email to: rcra2018[AT]easychair[DOT]org

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted original papers may be published online, as an issue of the CEUR-WS workshop proceeding series, AI*IA sub-series, provided that a sufficient amount of original accepted papers is collected.

Moreover, as in [previous editions] (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), we are considering the possibility of having workshop post-proceedings appearing in a special issue of an international journal, provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected.

HISTORY OF THE RECENT WORKSHOP SERIES