Call for Papers

Important Dates

• Paper submission:                  17 May 2024  10 July 2024 (extended!)

• Notification of acceptance:   6 August 2024

• Camera-Ready copy due:       10 September 2024

• Workshop starts:                     20 October 2024

Topics of Interest

Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Hybrid inductive-deductive approaches to AI,

• Interaction of inductive and deductive techniques for AI solutions, 

• Integration of Answer Set Programming (ASP) in inductive scenarios,

• Integration of Constraint Programming (CSP) in inductive scenarios,

• Integration of other logic programming paradigms in inductive scenarios,

• Integration of declarative solutions in inductive scenarios, 

• Logic programming language extensions for supporting inductive processes,

• New methods for coupling peculiarities of deductive and inductive systems,

• Inductive reasoning to enhance and improve deductive systems, 

• Deductive processes for intensive data flow management, 

• Deductive processes in strong inductive-tailored scenarios, 

• Knowledge representation and reasoning for improving and enhancing inductive processing, 

• Discussions and positions on novel hybrid methods of deductive and inductive reasoning, 

• Evaluation and comparison of existing deductive and inductive methods,

• Hybridizing logic programming paradigms with procedural approaches,

• Novel contexts of application for hybrid deductive and inductive systems,

• Neuro-symbolic approach to reasoning and learning. 

Submissions and Review Process

Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hydra2024.

The workshop welcomes both full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are suggested for presenting work in progress, extended abstracts, software prototypes, or general overviews of research projects. The workshop also welcomes position and discussion papers.

All submissions must be in PDF format, written in English, and formatted according to the LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Full papers should not exceed 13 pages (including bibliography); short, position, and discussion papers should not exceed 6 pages (including bibliography). To ease the reviewing process, the authors of full papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation).

Proceedings and post-Proceedings

All accepted original contributions (both full and short) are being considered for publication in the CCIS book series. 

If a sufficient number of high-quality papers are accepted, Chairs will consider the publication of a selection on an international journal special issue. However, should there be a limited number of accepted papers, the proceedings will be published on CEUR-WS.org. 

Non-original communications will be given visibility on the workshop website including a link to the original publication, if already published.