ILPnet2

Network of Excellence in Inductive Logic Programming ILPnet2

Funded by the European Commission under contract INCO 977102

Administrative coordinator: Peter Flach, University of Bristol (UK)

Scientific coordinator: Saso Dzeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)

Welcome to the homepage of ILPnet2, which officially started 1st September 1998, and was funded for 4 years under the European Union's INCO program until 31 August 2002. This website provides a wealth of resources on Inductive Logic Programming and related machine learning approaches.

Mission and objectives
Activities
Network nodes
End-user club
Management board

Mission and objectives

ILPnet2 is a Network of Excellence consisting of 37 universities and research institutes. In addition the network actively pursues industrial relations through its End-user-club, consisting of companies and other non-academic institutions interested in practical applications of ILP.

The mission of ILPnet2 is defined by the following long-term objectives:

To co-ordinate ILP research among the nodes of the network.
To promote the co-operation and exchange of research results among the network nodes.
To disseminate information on ILP research and applications to the outside world, including both academic and industrial/non-academic institutions.
To facilitate the transfer of ILP research results to practice.
To support the establishment of the infrastructure necessary for achieving the above objectives.

More information is available in the Workplan.

ILPnet2 is the successor of ILPnet (1993-6).

Activities

ILPnet2 organised or sponsored a lot of ILP-related events; see the Events page for more information.

ILPnet2 nodes have been working hard to make ILP-related information available on-line. A good example is the ILPnet2 Library, which is an on-line browsable and searchable bibliography of ILP-related references. For other resources, such as lists of ILP systems and datasets, follow the links in the menubar.

Network nodes

A more complete list, including contact persons, can be found at the IJS ILPnet2 website.

Associate nodes

End-user club

The End-user-club encourages contacts between its members and the network nodes, in order to achieve tighter co-operation and more application-oriented RTD projects. See the End-user club page for more information.

Amer World Research, Nicosia (CY)
Atlantis Telecom, Prague (CZ)
Center for Computational Linguistics, Prague (CZ)
Center of Dutch Language and Speech, Antwerpen (BE)
Dialogis, Bonn (DE)
Hydrometeorological Institute of Slovenia, Ljubljana (SI)
Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London (UK)
KD Labs, Zurich (CH)
Kiminkii, Utrecht (NL)
Morphologic, Budapest (HU)
National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana (SI)
Research Institute for Child Health, Brno (CZ)
Sentient Machine Research, Amsterdam (NL)
Studio PHI, Ljubljana (SI)
Syllogic, Amersfoort (NL)
Virtech, Sofia (BG)

Management Board

The network management board consists of the network manager, the scientific manager, and node managers of the nodes that have undertaken to steer and co-ordinate some of the network's activities.

Pavel Brazdil, University of Porto (PT)
Saso Dzeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute (SI, scientific coordinator)
Peter Flach, University of Bristol (UK, administrative coordinator)
Tibor Gyimothy, Jozsef Attila University (HU)
Zdravko Markov, Sofia University (BG)
Stefan Wrobel, GMD Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik (D)