Declarative AI 2020
Rules, Reasoning, Decisions, and Explanations
24 June - 1 July 2020, Virtual
Declarative AI 2020 goes virtual by keeping the planned dates and extending the submission deadlines!
The registration is free of charge.
Schedule
The schedule is also available for download in pdf.
Note: ALL times are CEST
Wednesday, June 24th 2020
10:00 - 10:30 RW Opening
10:30 - 12:45 RW Session 1: Introduction to Probabilistic Ontologies (by Rafael Peñaloza)
12:45 - 14:00 Break
14:00 - 16:15 RW Session 2: On the Complexity of Learning Description Logic Ontologies (by Ana Ozaki)
16:15 - 16:45 Break
16:45 - 19:00 RW Session 3: Explanation via Machine Arguing (by Francesca Toni, Oana Cocarascu and Antonio Rago)
Thursday, June 25th 2020
10:30 - 12:45 RW Session 4: Stream Reasoning: From Theory to Practice (by Emanuele Della Valle, Emanuele Falzone and Riccardo Tommasini)
12:45 - 14:00 Break
14:00 - 16:15 RW Session 5: First-Order Rewritability of Temporal Ontology-Mediated Queries (by Michael Zakharyaschev, Vladislav Ryzhikov and Przemysław Wałęga)
16:15 - 16:45 Break
16:45 - 18:45 RW Session 6: Student talks
Friday, June 26th 2020
10:30 - 12:45 RW Session 7: Aggregates and Generalized Atoms in Answer Set Programming (by Wolfgang Faber)
12:45 - 14:00 Break
14:00 - 16:15 RW Session 8: Declarative Data Analysis using Limit Datalog Programs (by Egor V. Kostylev)
16:15 - 16:45 Break
16:45 - 19:00 RW Session 9: Knowledge Graphs: Research Directions (by Aidan Hogan)
19:00 - 19:30 RW Closing
Monday, June 29th 2020
11:50 - 12:00 RuleML+RR Opening
12:00 - 13:00 RuleML+RR Session 1: Reasoning
12:00 - 12:20 Tackling the DMN Challenges with cDMN: A Tight Integration of DMN and Constraint Reasoning (by Bram Aerts, Simon Vandevelde and Joost Vennekens)
12:20 - 12:35 Reasoning under Uncertainty in Datalog+/- Knowledge Graphs (by Luigi Bellomarini, Eleonora Laurenza, Emanuel Sallinger and Evgeny Sherkhonov)
12:35 - 12:50 Distributed Reasoning for Restricted Weakly-Linear Disjunctive Tuple-Generating Dependencies (by Arash Karimi and Jia-Huai You)
13:00 - 13:10 Break
13:10 - 14:10 RuleML+RR Session 2: Uncertainty
13:10 - 13:30 Query Answering in Fuzzy DL-Lite with Graded Axioms (by Gabriella Pasi and Rafael Peñaloza)
13:30 - 13:45 Symbolic Similarity Relations for Tuning Fully Integrated Fuzzy Logic Programs (by Gines Moreno and José Antonio Riaza Valverde)
13:45 - 14:00 Contestable Black-Boxes (by Andrea Aler Tubella, Andreas Theodorou, Virginia Dignum and Loizos Michael)
14:10 - 14:20 Break
14:20 - 15:20 RuleML+RR Session 3: Machine Learning
14:20 - 14:40 New Rule Induction Method by use of a Co-occurrence Set from the Decision Table (by Yuichi Kato and Tetsuro Saeki)
14:40 - 15:00 An ASP-Based Approach to Counterfactual Explanations for Classification (by Leopoldo Bertossi)
15:00 - 15:15 On Defining Rules for Cancer Data Fabrication (by Juliana Küster Filipe Bowles, Agastya Silvina, Eyal Bin and Michael Vinov)
15:20 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:00 Keynote I: Knowledge Graphs: Methodologies, Tools, and Selected Use Cases (by Dieter Fensel, Professor at University of Innsbruck, Austria)
16:00 - 16:30 Keynote II: Requirements as Rules (by Arild Waaler, Professor at University of Oslo, Norway)
16:35 - 16:45 DecisionCAMP Kickoff
16:45 - 18:30 DecisionCAMP Session 1
16:45 - 17:15 Decision model as template: using DMN to constrain the configurability of a domain of decision logic (by Dr. Alan Fish, FICO)
17:20 - 17:50 Ruleflow or Decision Model? Why not both? (by Guilhem Molines and Kayla Martens, IBM)
17:55 - 18:25 Thinking inside the box – Introducing new boxed expressions to DMN (by Denis Gagne, Trisotech)
18:30 - 18:45 Break
18:45 - 20:30 DecisionCAMP Session 2
18:45 - 19:15 Discovering Decision Models in Legacy Code (by Larry Goldberg, Sapiens)
19:20 - 19:50 Artificial Intelligence needs explanation (by Silvie Spreeuwenberg, librt)
19:55 - 20:25 Making Executable DMN Modeling More Business-Friendly (by Bruce Silver, Method and Style, Matteo Mortari, Red Hat)
20:30 - 21:15 DecisionCAMP Interactive Discussion I
Tuesday, June 30th 2020
12:00 - 13:00 RuleML+RR Session 4: Standards/Representations I
12:00 - 12:20 Benchmark for Performance Evaluation of SHACL Implementations in Graph Databases (by Robert Schaffenrath, Daniel Proksch, Markus Kopp, Iacopo Albasini, Oleksandra Panasiuk and Anna Fensel)
12:20 - 12:35 Dialogue Games for Explaining Medication Choices (by Qurat-Ul-Ain Shaheen, Alice Toniolo and Juliana K. F. Bowles)
12:35 - 12:50 On the Formal Representation of the Australian Spent Conviction Scheme (by Guido Governatori and Pompeu Casanovas)
13:00 - 13:10 Break
13:10 - 14:10 RuleML+RR Doctoral Consortium
13:00 - 13:25 Distributed Medical Rule Engine (DMRE)-Project (by Gerhard Kober)
13:25 - 13:40 Supporting Metamodeling in Ontologies Using Rules (by Haya Majid Qureshi and Wolfgang Faber)
13:40 - 13:55 Advanced Syntax and Compilation for Probabilistic Production Rules using PRM (by Gaspard Ducamp, Philippe Bonnard, Christian De Sainte Marie and Pierre-Henri Wuillemin)
13:55 - 14:10 Toward a Transparent Recommender System (by Grzegorz P. Mika)
14:10 - 14:20 Break
14:20 - 15:20 RuleML+RR Session 5: Standards/Representations II
14:20 - 14:40 Invertible Bidirectional Metalogical Translation Between Prolog and RuleML for Knowledge Representation and Querying (by Mark Thom, Harold Boley and Theodoros Mitsikas)
14:40 - 15:00 A Hands-on PSOA RuleML Tutorial: Relationship & Framepoint Facts and Rules (Theodoros Mitsikas)
15:00 - 15:20 Diving Deep into LegalRuleML for Modelling Legal Norms (Monica Palmirani)
15:20 - 15:30 Break (incl. Zoom voting for the RuleML+RR 2020 best presentation)
15:30 - 16:00 Keynote III: What The Real World Needs From Decision Management, Reasoning and AI (by Derek Miers, Sr. Director at Gartner, United Kingdom)
16:00 - 17:00 RuleML+RR Business Meeting (by invitation only, on Skype; in parallel with DecisionCAMP Session 3)
16:00 - 17:50 DecisionCAMP Session 3
16:05 - 16:35 A Decision Framework for Machine Learning (by Brian Stucky, Quicken Loans)
16:40 - 17:10 Automated Decision Making from A to Z (by Prof. Jan Vanthienen, Vedavyas Etikala, KU Leuven)
17:15 - 17:45 Developing Decision Optimization Microservices for real-world decision-making application (by Dr. Jacob Feldman, OpenRules)
17:50 - 18:05 Break
18:05 - 19:50 DecisionCAMP Session 4
18:05 - 18:35 Good beginnings (by Chris Berg, inrule)
18:40 - 19:10 cDMN: Combining DMN with Constraint Reasoning (by Simon Vandevelde, Bram Aerts and Joost Vennekens, KU Leuven)
19:15 - 20:00 DecisionCAMP Interactive Discussion II
Wednesday, July 1st 2020
12:00 - 13:00 RuleML+RR Industry
12:00 - 12:15 Digital Marketing knowledge transfer to a rule-based reasoning system for massive optimization of campaigns (by Fernando Perales, Ignacio Martínez, Javier Bielsa, Jose Cabanillas and Francisco Rodríguez)
12:15 - 12:30 Rule-based Anti-Money Laundering in Financial Intelligence Units: Experience and Vision (by Luigi Bellomarini, Eleonora Laurenza and Emanuel Sallinger)
12:30 - 12:45 Hostile Takeovers during the COVID-19 Crisis: Reasoning on Company Knowledge Graphs (by Luigi Bellomarini, Marco Benedetti, Stefano Ceri, Andrea Gentili, Rosario Laurendi, Davide Magnanimi, Markus Nissl and Emanuel Sallinger)
12:45 - 13:00 DeRool: A rule-based dialog engine (by Kevin Angele and Jürgen Angele)
13:00 - 13:10 Break
13:10 - 14:10 RuleML+RR Challenge 1
13:10 - 13:30 Using PROVA-Rule engine as dispatching-service for FHIR-Observation-Resources (by Gerhard Kober and Adrian Paschke)
13:30 - 13:50 One Shot Rule Learning for Challenging Character Recognition (by Dany Varghese and Alireza Tamaddoni Nezhad)
13:50 - 14:10 Action Rules: Counterfactual explanations in Python (by Lukáš Sýkora and Tomáš Kliegr)
14:10 - 14:20 Break
14:20 - 15:20 RuleML+RR Challenge 2
14:20 - 14:40 Rule Extraction via Dynamic Discretization with an Application to Air Quality Modelling (by Estrella Lucena Sánchez, Guido Sciavicco, Joanna Kamińska and Eduard Ionel Stan)
14:40 - 15:00 A Visual Rule Generation Tool for SWRL (by Alia El Bolock, Ibrahim Mohamed, Cornelia Herbert and Slim Abdennadher)
15:00 - 15:20 Towards the use of Situation Hierarchies for supporting Decision Making: A Formal Lattice-Based Approach (by Franco Giustozzi, Julien Saunier and Cecilia Zanni-Merk)
15:20 - 15:30 Break (incl. Zoom voting for the RuleML+RR Challenge winner)
15:30 - 16:00 Keynote IV: Multilabel Rule Learning (by Eyke Hüllermeier, Professor at Paderborn University, Germany)
16:00 - 16:30 RuleML+RR Closing
16:30 - 18:15 DecisionCAMP Session 5
16:30 - 17:00 How End to End Decision Automation Increases Business Agility (by Arash Aghlara, FlexRule)
17:05 - 17:35 Modeling Insurance Products with DMN (by Wilfried Kurth, AXA CH)
17:40 - 18:10 Decision Requirements Level: The real key feature of DMN (by Daniel Schmitz-Hübsch, Materna)
18:15 - 18:30 Break
18:30 - 20:10 DecisionCAMP Session 6
18:30 - 19:00 Visualization of DMN models using Design Structure Matrices (by Dario Campagna, Carlos Kavka, Sara Nicastro and Alessandro Turco, ESTECO SpA)
19:05 - 19:35 Creating executable decision service designs using DMN and Excel Workbook (by Gediminas Vedrickas, FICO)
19:40 - 20:10 The Triple Crown in Practice (by Dennis Aarts, The Business Analysts)
20:10 - 20:20 DecisionCAMP Closing
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