The whole CILC 2026 crew in one frame.
Ph.D. Thesis Awards
The GULP award for the best Italian PhD thesis in logic programming goes to Antonio Ielo, for his outstanding doctoral dissertation “Applications of Answer Set Programming to Linear Temporal Logic over Finite Traces”.
for her doctoral dissertation “Neuro-Symbolic Integration in Artificial Intelligence and its Applications”.
for his doctoral dissertation “Optimizing Evaluation of Logic Programs: Extended Compilation & Enhanced Rewritings”
Best Paper Award
Winner: "CUD@ILP: a GPU based, massively scalable Inductive Learning Algorithm"
Authors: Enrico Santi, Agostino Dovier, Andrea Formisano
Test of Time Award
Winner: "Defeasible Reasoning in 𝒮ℛ𝒪ℰℒ: from Rational Entailment to Rational Closure"
Authors: Laura Giordano, Daniele Theseider Dupré
Your CILC 2026 organizing team, slightly sleep-deprived, fully caffeinated, and very happy you came to Ferrara. Putting this together was a labor of love (and a few hundred emails).
Thanks for making it worth it. See you at the next one!
from: Alessandro, Damiano, Fabrizio, Marco & Michela
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