Guest editorial: special issue on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2011)

摘要

This special issue is associated with the 21st International Conference of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2011) which was held in Cumberland Lodge, Great Windsor Park and marked 20 years since the first ILP workshop in 1991. During this period the conference has developed into the premier forum for work on logic-based machine learning. The submission procedure followed a similar format to that of previous conferences, and was particularly close to that used in ILP 2006. Submissions were requested in two phases. The first phase involved submission of short papers (6 pages) which were then presented at the conference and posted on the website prior to the event itself. In the second phase, reviewers selected papers for long paper submission (15 pages). These were assessed by the same reviewers, who then decided which papers to include in the journal special issue, and which ones in the conference proceedings. The post-conference proceedings of ILP 2011 have been published as Volume 7207 in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. A separate late-breaking paper proceedings is being published by Imperial College Press under the title "Latest Advances in Inductive Logic Programming".