Awards

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).

Best Paper

• Walter Forkel and Stefan Borgwardt: Closed-World Semantics for Conjunctive Queries with Negation over ELH-bottom Ontologies.

Best Student Paper

• Pedro Cabalar, Jorge Fandinno, Torsten Schaub and Sebastian Schellhorn: Lower Bound Founded Logic of Here-and-There.

Papers invited by the IJCAI 2019 Sister Conference Best Paper Track

• Walter Forkel and Stefan Borgwardt: Closed-World Semantics for Conjunctive Queries with Negation over ELH-bottom Ontologies.
• Pedro Cabalar, Jorge Fandinno, Torsten Schaub and Sebastian Schellhorn: Lower Bound Founded Logic of Here-and-There.

Papers selected for the special issue of TPLP

• TBA