Conference Report: 18th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming

摘要

The 18th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP2008) was held in Prague, Czech Republic on September 10-12. Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is a subfield of machine learning which uses logic programming as a uniform representation technique for examples, background knowledge and hypotheses. Due to its strong representation formalism based on first-order Horn Clause logic, ILP provides excellent means for multi-relational learning and data mining. This year the ILP conference has welcomed contributions to learning from multi-relational databases and otherwise non-trivially structured data, ranging from purely logic-based to alternative approaches, such as probabilistic or connectionist, including their viable combinations.