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Preface
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 subfield of machine learning, which
relies on logic programming as a uniform representation language for expressing
examples, background knowledge and hypotheses. Due to its strong representa-
tion formalism, based on first-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 semi-
structured relational data. Originally focusing on the induction of logic pro-
grams, over the years it has expanded its research horizon significantly 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:
• ACAI 2018: Advanced Course on AI, a summer school on Statistical Rela-
tional Artificial Intelligence, 27th - 31st August 2018;
• PLP 2018: 5th Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming, 1st Septem-
ber 2018.
This year the conference included two different tracks: (1) a Journal track
publishing new submissions and best ILP 2017 papers in the Machine Learning
Journal Special Issue on Inductive Logic Programming - ILP 2017 and 2018, and
(2) a Conference track, allowing five types of submissions:
a. Long papers describing original mature work split into regular papers, ac-
cepted for appearing in Springer LNAI conference proceedings [1], and up-
and-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 pro-
ceedings;
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 first-class conference or journal.
Papers of kind c and d are not included in these proceedings.
We have the pleasure to welcome three invited speakers at ILP 2018:
• William Cohen, Professor at the Machine Learning Department and Lan-
guage Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA:
Using Deep Learning Platforms to Perform Inference over Large Knowledge
Bases
• Marco Gori, Full Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineer-
ing, University of Siena, Italy:
Learning and Inference with Constraints
• Maximilian Nickel, Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research:
Hierarchical Representation Learning on Relational Data
Three prizes will be awarded:
• Best paper (supported by Springer);
• Best student paper among regular papers (supported by Machine Learning
Journal);
• 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 Fabrizio Riguzzi
Elena Bellodi
Riccardo Zese
References
1. Riguzzi, F., Bellodi, E., Zese, R. (eds.): Inductive Logic Programming
- 28th International Conference, ILP 2018, Ferrara, Italy, September 2-4,
2018, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 11105. Springer
(2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99960-9, https://doi.org/10.1007/
978-3-319-99960-9
Organization
Conference Chair
Fabrizio Riguzzi University of Ferrara, Italy
Program Chairs
Elena Bellodi University of Ferrara, Italy
Riccardo Zese University of Ferrara, Italy
Sponsorship Chair
Marco Lippi University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Program Committee
Dalal Alrajeh Imperial College London, UK
Annalisa Appice University Aldo Moro of Bari, Italy
Alexander Artikis NCSR “Demokritos” Athens, Greece
Hendrik Blockeel Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Agns Braud University of Strasbourg, France
Krysia Broda Imperial College London, UK
Rui Camacho LIACC/FEUP University of Porto, Portugal
James Cussens University of York, UK
Jesse Davis Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Ins Dutra Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Saso Dzeroski Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Nicola Fanizzi Universit degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Stefano Ferilli Universit degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Csar Ferri Universitat Politècnica de Valncia, Spain
Nuno A. Fonseca EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK
Tamas Horvath University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Katsumi Inoue National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Nobuhiro Inuzuka Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Kristian Kersting TU Dortmund University, Germany
Angelika Kimmig Cardiff University, UK
Ross King University of Manchester, UK
Nicolas Lachiche University of Strasbourg, France
Francesca Lisi Universit degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Donato Malerba Universit degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Stephen Muggleton Imperial College London, UK
Sriraam Natarajan University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Aline Paes Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Jan Ramon INRIA, France
Céline Rouveirol University of Paris 13, France
Alessandra Russo Imperial College London, UK
Vtor Santos Costa Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Ashwin Srinivasan Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India
Alireza Tamaddoni-Nezhad Imperial College London, UK
Tomoyuki Uchida Hiroshima City University, Japan
Christel Vrain University of Orléans, France
Stefan Wrobel Fraunhofer IAIS & University of Bonn, Germany
Gerson Zaverucha Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Additional Reviewers
Nikos Katzouris NCSR “Demokritos” Athens, Greece
Gautam Kunapuli University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Andrea Pazienza Universit degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Chiaki Sakama Wakayama University, Wakayama, Japan
Sponsors
We gratefully thank all the organizations and institutions that have supported
this event:
– Gold sponsors
• Siemens
– Silver sponsors
• Springer
• Machine Learning Journal - Springer
• INdAM-GNCS
• Centro Software
• Association for Logic Programming
– Bronze sponsors
• Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
• Delta Commerce
• UniTec
• Open1
– University and Research Departments, and Italian Institutions
• Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Ferrara
• Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara
• Comune di Ferrara (Ferrara Municipality)