The Best Paper and the Best Student Paper of the conference will receive a cash prize of EUR 500 each, offered by Springer. To be eligible for the Best Student Paper award at least one author must be a student, i.e. she/he is currently enrolled in a bachelor, master or PhD program, or the graduation date is NOT BEFORE June 30th, 2018.
Two high-quality papers of the conference that are suitable for presentation to a general AI audience, will be invited for publication (of abridged versions) to the IJCAI 2019 Sister Conference Best Paper Track.
The authors of the top-notch contributions (from 3 to 6 papers, including both best papers) will be invited to submit long and more elaborate versions of their work for a special issue of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP).