This volume contains the Up-and-coming and Short Papers of ILP 2018: the 28th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2018), held in Ferrara, Italy from Sunday 2nd to Tuesday 4th of September 2018. Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is a sub eld of machine learning, which relies on logic programming as a uniform representation language for expressing examples, background knowledge and hypotheses. Due to its strong representation formalism, based on rst-order logic, ILP provides an excellent means for multi-relational learning and data mining. The ILP conference series, started in 1991, is the premier international forum for learning from structured or semistructured relational data. Originally focusing on the induction of logic programs, over the years it has expanded its research horizon signi cantly and welcomes contributions to all aspects of learning in logic, multi-relational data mining, statistical relational learning, graph and tree mining, learning in other (non-propositional) logic-based knowledge representation frameworks, exploring intersections to statistical learning and other probabilistic approaches. The conference will be co-located with two events: a. Long papers describing original mature work split into regular papers, accepted for appearing in Springer LNAI conference proceedings [1], and upand-coming papers, accepted for appearing in these proceedings; b. Short papers describing original work in progress not enough mature to be published in the long paper category. Short papers are included in these proceedings; c. Works in progress describing ideas and proposals to be discussed with the conference audience; d. Papers relevant to the conference topics and recently published or accepted for publication by a rst-class conference or journal.
Marco Gori, Full Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Siena, Italy: Learning and Inference with Constraints Maximilian Nickel, Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research: Hierarchical Representation Learning on Relational Data
Best student paper among up-and-coming papers (supported by Machine Learning Journal).
The winners will be announced during the conference and published on the conference website at http://ilp2018.unife.it/.
We would like to really thank all the people who contributed to the success of ILP 2018: the members of the organization committee, the members of the program committee, the additional reviewers that have been solicited and the sponsors. July 2018
University Aldo Moro of Bari, Italy NCSR \Demokritos" Athens, Greece Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium University of Strasbourg, France Imperial College London, UK LIACC/FEUP University of Porto, Portugal University of York, UK Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Universidade do Porto, Portugal Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Universit degli Studi di Bari, Italy Universit degli Studi di Bari, Italy Universitat Politecnica de Valncia, Spain EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany National Institute of Informatics, Japan Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan TU Dortmund University, Germany Cardi University, UK University of Manchester, UK University of Strasbourg, France Universit degli Studi di Bari, Italy Universit degli Studi di Bari, Italy Imperial College London, UK University of Texas at Dallas, USA Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil INRIA, France University of Paris 13, France Imperial College London, UK Universidade do Porto, Portugal Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India Imperial College London, UK Hiroshima City University, Japan University of Orleans, France Fraunhofer IAIS & University of Bonn, Germany Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil NCSR \Demokritos" Athens, Greece University of Texas at Dallas, USA Universit degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Wakayama University, Wakayama, Japan We gratefully thank all the organizations and institutions that have supported this event: