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# NeSy'09
Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning

### Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning

### Pasadena, USA, July 11, 2009.

Edited by

### Artur d'Avila Garcez *
Pascal Hitzler **

* City University London, UK
** AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

- Here you can download the complete proceedings as a single PDF-file.
- Below you can download each single contribution.

## Table of Contents

Preface

1. Cognitive Synergy: A Principle to Guide the Tight Integration of Heterogeneous Components in Integrative AI Systems (abstract)
   Ben Goertzel
2. A Neural Network Approach for First-Order Abductive Inference
   Oliver Ray and Bruno Golenia
3. Using Attentive Focus to Discover Action Ontologies from Perception
   Amitabha Mukerjee
4. Text-based Reasoning with Symbolic Memory Model
   Kun Tu and Hava Siegelmann
5. Extracting Propositional Rules from Feedforward Neural Networks by Means of Binary Decision Diagrams
   Sebastian Bader
6. Symbol Emergence in Design
   Amitabha Mukerjee and Madan Dabbeeru
7. A Neural-Symbolic System for Automated Assessment in Training Simulators (position paper)
   Leo de Penning, Bart Kappe and Karel van den Bosch

01-Jul-2009: submitted by Artur d'Avila Garcez
15-Jul-2009: published on CEUR-WS.org