Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence

Workshop series on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning

• Artur d'Avila Garcez (President)
• Daniel Silver (Vice President)
• Pascal Hitzler
• Peter Földiák (Treasurer)
• Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
• Luis C. Lamb
• Luc de Raedt

Further information pertaining to the Steering Committee and the Association.

• NeSy 2023, 17th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning.
• NeSy 2022, Sixteenth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at IJCLR 2022
• NeSy'20/21, Fifteenth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at IJCLR-20/21 - online recordings
• NeSy'19, Fourteenth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at IJCAI-19
• NeSy'18, Thirteenth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at HLAI-18
• NeSy'17, Twelveth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
• NeSy'16, Eleventh International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at HLAI 2016
• NeSy'15, Tenth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at IJCAI-15
• NeSy'13, Ninth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at IJCAI-13
• NeSy'12, Eighth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at AAAI-12
• NeSy'11, Seventh International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at IJCAI-11
• NeSy'10, Sixth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at AAAI-10
• NeSy'09, Fifth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at IJCAI-09
• NeSy'08, Fourth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at ECAI-08
• NeSy'07, Third International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at IJCAI-07
• NeSy'06, Second International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at ECAI-06
• NeSy'05, First International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at IJCAI-05

Books

• Pascal Hitzler, Md Kamruzzaman Sarker (eds.), Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence - The State of the Art. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Vol 342, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2022.
• Artur S. d'Avila Garcez, Luis C. Lamb and Dov M. Gabbay. Neural-Symbolic Cognitive Reasoning. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-73245-7, 2009.
• Barbara Hammer, Pascal Hitzler (Eds), Perspectives of Neural-Symbolic Integration. Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 77. Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-73953-1.
• Artur S. d'Avila Garcez, Krysia Broda and Dov M. Gabbay. Neural-Symbolic Learning Systems: Foundations and Applications, Perspectives in Neural Computing, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 1-85233-512-2, 2002.

Overview Articles

• Md Kamruzzaman Saker, Lu Zhou, Aaron Eberhart, Pascal Hitzler, Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence: Current Trends. AI Communications 34 (3), 197-209, 2022. [pdf]
• Pascal Hitzler, Aaron Eberhart, Monireh Ebrahimi, Md Kamruzzaman Saker, Lu Zhou, Neuro-symbolic approaches in artificial intelligence. National Science Review 9 (6), 2022. [open access]
• Tarek R. Besold, Artur d'Avila Garcez, Sebastian Bader, Howard Bowman, Pedro Domingos, Pascal Hitzler, Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, Luis C. Lamb, Priscila Machado Vieira Lima, Leo de Penning, Gadi Pinkas, Hoifung Poon, Gerson Zaverucha, Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning: A Survey and Interpretation. In: Pascal Hitzler, Md. Kamruzzaman Sarker (eds.), Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence: The State of the Art. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 342, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2021, pp. 1-51. [pdf]
• Artur d'Avila Garcez, Tarek R. Besold, Luc de Raedt, Peter Földiak, Pascal Hitzler, Thomas Icard, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Luis C. Lamb, Risto Miikkulainen, Daniel L. Silver, Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning: Contributions and Challenges. In: Andrew McCallum, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Ramanathan Guha, Kevin Murphy (eds.), Proceedings of the AAAI 2015 Spring Symposium on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Integrating Symbolic and Neural Approaches. Technical Rport SS-15-03, AAAI Press, Palo Alto, 2015. [pdf]
• Sebastian Bader, Pascal Hitzler, Steffen Hölldobler, The Integration of Connectionism and First-Order Knowledge Representation and Reasoning as a Challenge for Artificial Intelligence. Information 9 (1), 2006. [pdf]
• Sebastian Bader, Pascal Hitzler, Dimensions of neural-symbolic integration - a structured survey. In: S. Artemov, H. Barringer, A. S. d'Avila Garcez, L. C. Lamb and J. Woods (eds). We Will Show Them: Essays in Honour of Dov Gabbay, Volume 1. International Federation for Computational Logic, College Publications, 2005, pp. 167-194. [pdf]

Related Dagstuhl Seminars

• Dagstuhl Seminar on Human-Like Neural-Symbolic Computing, May 2017.
• Dagstuhl Seminar on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning, September 2014.
• Dagstuhl Seminar on Learning paradigms in dynamic environments, July 2010.
• Dagstuhl Seminar on Perspectives of Recurrent Neural Networks - Models, Capacities, and Applications, January 2008.

Other Related Events

• CoCoSym2018, Cognitive Computation Symposium: Thinking Beyond Deep Learning" at City, University of London, on February 27, 2018
• CoCo2016, Workshop on Cognitive Computation: Integrating neural and symbolic approaches at NIPS2016.
• CoCo2015, Workshop on Cognitive Computation: Integrating neural and symbolic approaches at NIPS2015.

Tutorials and Courses at Summer Schools

• Neural-Symbolic Learning, Part I. Recording of lecture by A. Garcez at the ACAI 2018 Summer School, Ferrara, Italy, Aug 2018.
• Neural-Symbolic Learning, Part II. Recording of lecture by A. Garcez at the ACAI 2018 Summer School, Ferrara, Italy, Aug 2018.
• Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning with Constraints. A tutorial on Logic Tensor Networks at IJCAI-ECAI 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, July 15, 2018.
• Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning with Constraints. A tutorial on Logic Tensor Networks at IEEE IJCNN 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 8, 2018.
• Integrating Logic Programs and Connectionist Systems at ESSLLI2008 Summer School
• Knowledge Technologies, Hybrid Approaches and Neural Networks at ICANN 2006 Conference
• Neural-symbolic learning and reasoning at IK2006 Summer School
• Connectionist Knowledge Representation and Reasoning at KI 2005 Conference
• Integrating Logic Programs and Connectionist Systems at ESSLLI2005 Summer School

Community

• To join the community slack, please send an email to Pascal Hitzler at hitzler@ksu.edu and you will receive an invitation. We also have a low-traffic mailing list for announcements and discussions related to neural-symbolic integration. Please visit https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=NESY to add yourself to this list.