[APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS] * ______________________________________________________________________ * The RCRA group (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) of the AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence) organizes the 29th RCRA workshop on Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving problems with combinatorial explosion (RCRA 2022) affiliated to the 16th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2022) https://sites.google.com/view/lpnmr2022 September, 5th, 2022; Genova, Italy RCRA group web site:http://rcra.aixia.it/ Workshop web site: TBA e-mail:marco@dibris.unige.it,M.Vallati@hud.ac.uk * ______________________________________________________________________ * This event follows the series of the RCRA (Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning) annual meetings, held since 1994. The success of the previous events shows that RCRA is becoming a major forum for exchanging ideas and proposing experimentation methodologies for algorithms in Artificial Intelligence. * ______________________________________________________________________ * IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: July 10th, 2022 Notification of acceptance: August 1st, 2022 Final version of accepted original papers: August 22nd, 2022 RCRA workshop: September 5th, 2022 AIMS AND SCOPE Many problems in Artificial Intelligence show an exponential explosion of the search space. Although stemming from different research areas in AI, such problems are often addressed with algorithms that have a common goal: the effective exploration of huge state spaces. Many algorithms developed in one research area are applicable to other problems, or can be hybridized with techniques in other areas. Artificial Intelligence tools often exploit or hybridize techniques developed by other research communities, such as Operations Research. In recent years, research in Artificial Intelligence has more and more focused on experimental evaluation of algorithms, the development of suitable methodologies for experimentation and analysis, the study of languages and the implementation of systems for the definition and solution of problems. Scope of the workshop is fostering the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming from different areas, proposing benchmarks for new challenging problems, comparing models and algorithms from an experimental viewpoint, and, in general, comparing different approaches with respect to efficiency, problem modeling, and ease of development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experimental evaluation of algorithms for o knowledge representation o automated reasoning o planning o scheduling o machine learning o model checking o boolean satisfiability (SAT) o constraint programming o argumentation o temporal reasoning o combinatorial optimization o quantified boolean formulae and quantified constraints o modal logics o logic programming o answer set programming o ontological reasoning * Definition and construction of benchmarks * Experimentation methodologies * Metaheuristics * Algorithm hybridization * Static analysis of combinatorial problems * Languages and systems for definition and solution of problems * Comparisons between systems and algorithms * Application experiences (visualization, graphics, security, transports,...) WORKSHOP CHAIRS Marco Maratea University of Genova, Italy Mauro Vallati University of Huddersfield, UK HOST ORGANIZATION AND VENUE University of Genova, Italy The workshop will take place in Genova Nervi, Italy, in the Collegio Emiliani (http://www.collegioemiliani.it/), which is a college directly situated on the see. Of course, we will continuously monitor the pandemic situation in order to evaluate whether the conference can be indeed held as an in-person event, or we will need to switch to a hybrid event, if not completely on-line. SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit either original and non-original papers. Publications showing negative results are welcome, provided that the approach was original and very promising in principle, the experimentation was well-conducted, the results obtained were unforeseeable and gave important hints in the comprehension of the target problem, helping other researchers to avoid unsuccessful paths. Workshop submissions must be in PDF format, do not exceed 15 (for full papers) or 8 (for short papers) pages, and should be written in LaTeX, using the LNCS style. RCRA 2022 uses EasyChair for the submission of contributions. Contributions must be submitted through this page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcra2022 All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee (TBD). CONTACT In case of need, the workshop co-chairs can be contacted by sending an email to: marco@dibris.unige.it,M.Vallati@hud.ac.uk PROCEEDINGS CEUR-WS Proceedings: Accepted original papers will be published in the AIxIA series of CEUR-WS AI*IA Series on CEUR-WS.org (upon authors confirmation) Moreover, as in some previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), we are considering the possibility of having a special issue of an international journal, provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. All technical papers, original and non-original, will be eligible. HISTORY OF THE RECENT WORKSHOP SERIES * RCRA 2021 as a workshop of AI*IA 2021, Virtual https://rcra2020.wordpress.com/ * RCRA 2020 as a workshop of AI*IA 2020, Virtual https://rcra2020.wordpress.com/ * RCRA 2018 as a workshop of FLoC 2018, Oxford, UK http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra~2018 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae * RCRA 2017 as a workshop of AI*IA 2017, Bari, Italy http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2017 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae * RCRA 2016 as a workshop of AI*IA 2016, Genova, Italy http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2016 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of JETAI * RCRA 2015 as a workshop of AI*IA 2015, Ferrara, Italy http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2015 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae * RCRA 2014 as a workshop of SAT 2014, IJCAR 2014 and ICLP 2014, Vienna, Austria -http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2014 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of AI Communications * Previous editions:http://rcra.aixia.it/workshops