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CALL FOR PAPERS:
Special Issue on "Formal and Cognitive Reasoning"

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR)

GUEST EDITORS: Christoph Beierle, Marco Ragni, Kai Sauerwald, Frieder Stolzenburg, Matthias Thimm

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Information for real life AI applications is usually pervaded by uncertainty and subject to change, and thus demands for non-classical reasoning approaches. At the same time, psychological findings indicate that human reasoning cannot be completely described by classical logical systems. Sources of explanations are incomplete knowledge, incorrect beliefs, or inconsistencies. A wide range of reasoning mechanism has to be considered, such as analogical or defeasible reasoning, possibly in combination with machine learning methods. The field of knowledge representation and reasoning offers a rich palette of methods for uncertain reasoning both to describe human reasoning and to model AI approaches.

The aim of the workshop series "Formal and Cognitive Reasoning" is to address recent challenges and to present novel approaches to uncertain reasoning and belief change in their broad senses. In particular, it provides a forum for research work linking different paradigms of reasoning, connecting formal-logical models of knowledge representation and cognitive models of reasoning and learning, or addressing formal and experimental or heuristic issues.

The special issue “Formal and Cognitive Reasoning” is a follow-up to the 8th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning (FCR-2022). It welcomes both extended versions of presentations from the workshop as well as new contributions on the following and any related topics:

* Action and change;
* Agents and multiagent systems;
* Analogical reasoning argumentation;
* Belief revision and belief update;
* Cognitive modeling and empirical data;
* Commonsense and defeasible reasoning;
* Computational thinking;
* Decision theory and preferences;
* Inductive reasoning and cognition;
* Knowledge representation in theory and practice;
* Learning and knowledge discovery in data;
* Machine learning and automated reasoning;
* Nonmonotonic and uncertain reasoning;
* Ontologies and description logics;
* Probabilistic approaches of reasoning;
* Syllogistic reasoning.

The special issue will be published by the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-approximate-reasoning). All submissions to the special issue will be rigorously peer-reviewed following the standards of IJAR.

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Authors should prepare their manuscripts according to the "Instructions for Authors" guidelines of IJAR outlined at the journal website:

https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reasoning/0888-613X/guide-for-authors.

All submissions to the special issue will be peer-reviewed following the standards of IJAR. Submissions are handled through the editorial manager of IJAR (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reasoning).

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, it is important that authors select "VSI: FCR-2022" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  30th April 2023
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Contact:
Any inquiries on the special should be addressed to Christoph Beierle (christoph.beierle@fernuni-hagen.de)
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