M-PREF 2007
Forum 'Annonces' - Sujet créé le 2007-04-03
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>>CALL FOR PAPERS
>>
>>3rd Multidisciplinary Workshop on
>>
>>ADVANCES IN PREFERENCE HANDLING
>>
>>(M-PREF 2007)
>>
>>Held in conjunction with VLDB 2007
>>September 23 or 24, Vienna, Austria
>>==================================================
>>
>>
>>Workshop URL: http://www.mycosima.com/vldb2007-preferences/
>>Conference URL: http://www.vldb2007.org/
>>
>>--++ Workshop goals
>>
>>Although preferences have traditionally been studied in fields such
>>as economic decision making, social choice theory, and Operations
>>Research, they have nowadays found significant interest in
>>computational fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases, and
>>Human-computer interaction. This broadened scope of preferences
>>leads to new types of preference models, new problems for applying
>>preference structures, and new kinds of benefits. Explicit
>>preference modeling provides a declarative way to choose among
>>alternatives, whether these are solutions of problems to solve,
>>answers of database queries, decisions of a computational agent,
>>plans of a robot, and so on. Preference-based systems allow
>>finer-grained control over computation and new ways of interactivity,
>>and therefore provide more satisfactory results and outcomes.
>>Preference models may also provide a clean understanding, analysis,
>>and validation of heuristic knowledge used in existing systems such
>>as heuristic orderings, dominance rules, and heuristic rules.
>>Preferences are studied in many areas of Artificial Intelligence
>>such as knowledge representation, multi-agent systems, constraint
>>satisfaction, decision making, decision-theoretic planning, and beyond.
>>Preferences are inherently a multi-disciplinary topic, of interest to
>>AI, Databases, Logic Programming, Operation Research, and more.
>>
>>The workshop promotes this broadened scope of preference handling and
>>continues a series of multidisciplinary workshops on preference handling
>>(an ECAI-06 workshop, an IJCAI-05 workshop and a Dagstuhl-Seminar in
>>2004) which have been very successful. The workshop provides a forum for
>>presenting advances in preference handling and for exchanging
>>experiences between researchers facing similar questions, but coming
>from different fields. The workshop builds on the large number of AI
>>researchers working on preference-related issues and on an increasing
>>number of database researchers, but also seeks to attract researchers
>from multi-criteria decision making, economics, etc. These different
>>research areas are represented in the program committee.
>>
>>--++ Topics of interest
>>
>>The scope of the workshop is intentionally broad and addresses all
>>aspects of understanding, modeling, computational handling, and
>>application of preferences. In particular, we welcome original
>>contributions to these areas and contributions that provide
>>cross-fertilization between these fields, like e.g. the application of
>>AI techniques to database queries. Furthermore, we highly appreciate
>>applications of preferences, in particular for personalized database
>>applications.
>>
>>* Preference handling in database systems:
>> - Preference query languages for SQL and XML
>> - Algebraic and cost-based optimization of preference queries
>> - Top-k algorithms and cost models
>> - Ranking relational data and rank-aware query processing
>> - Skyline query optimization
>> - Preference management and repositories
>> - Personalized search engines
>> - Preference recommender systems
>>* Preference handling in Artificial Intelligence
>> - Qualitative decision theory
>> - Non-monotonic reasoning
>> - Preferences in logic programming
>> - Preferences for soft constraints in constraint satisfaction
>> - Preferences for search and optimization
>> - Preferences for AI planning
>> - Preferences reasoning about action and causality
>> - Preference logic
>>* Applications of preferences:
>> - Web search
>> - Decision making
>> - Combinatorial optimization and other problem solving tasks
>> - Personalized human-computer interaction
>> - Personalized recommendation systems
>> - e-commerce and m-commerce
>>* Preference elicitation:
>> - Preference elicitation in multi-agent systems
>> - Preference elicitation with incentive-compatibility
>> - Learning of preferences
>> - User preference mining
>> - Revision of preferences
>>* Preference representation and modeling:
>> - Linear and non-linear utility representations
>> - Multiple criteria/attributes
>> - Qualitative decision theory
>> - Graphical models
>> - Logical representations
>> - Soft constraints
>> - Relations between qualitative and quantitative approaches
>>* Properties and semantics of preferences:
>> - Preference and choice
>> - Preference composition, merging, and aggregation
>> - Incomplete or inconsistent preferences
>> - Intransitive indifference
>> - Reasoning about preferences
>>* Comparison of approaches, cross-fertilization, interdisciplinary work
>>
>>--++ Program co-chairs
>>
>>James Delgrande
>>School of Computing Science
>>Simon Fraser University
>>Burnaby, BC, V5A1S6, Canada
>>
>>Werner Kiessling
>>Institute of Computer Science
>>University of Augsburg
>>Universitaetsstr. 14, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany
>>
>>--++ Program committee:
>>
>>* Wolf Tilo Balke, University of Hannover, Germany
>>* Ronen Brafman, Stanford University, USA
>>* Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany
>>* Kevin C. Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
>>* Jan Chomicki, University of Buffalo, USA
>>* Gautam Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
>>* Jon Doyle, North Carolina State University, USA
>>* James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Canada
>>* Matthias Ehrgott, University of Auckland, New Zealand
>>* Burkhard Freitag, University of Passau, Germany
>>* Parke Godfrey, York University, Canada
>>* Judy Goldsmith, University of Kentucky, USA
>>* Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, USA
>>* John Horty, University of Maryland, USA
>>* Vagelis Hristidis, Florida International University, USA
>>* Ihab Ilyas, University of Waterloo, Canada
>>* Ulrich Junker, ILOG, France
>>* Werner Kiessling, University of Augsburg, Germany
>>* Georgia Koutrika, Stanford University, USA
>>* Jerome Lang, IRIT - Univ. Paul Sabatier, France
>>* Thomas Meyer, NICTA Sydney, Australia
>>* Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland
>>* Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italy
>>* Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany
>>* Alexis Tsoukias, LAMSADE, France
>>* Toby Walsh, NICTA Sydney, Australia
>>
>>--++ Invited talk
>>
>>William Macready, VP Product Development, D-Wave Systems Inc,
>>Vancouver:
>>Quantum Computing, Databases and Preferences
>>
>>--++ Important dates:
>>
>>* Paper submission deadline: June 17, 2007
>>* Notification of acceptance or rejection: July 13, 2007
>>* Camera ready version of accepted papers: July 23, 2007
>>* Workshop: September 23 or 24, 2007
>>
>>--++ Submission details
>>
>>Submissions consist of a maximum of 8 pages in two-column format
>>including title, author names, abstract, and body.
>>They should follow the style described in the VLDB guidelines
>>(http://www.vldb2007.org/vldb_format.html) and use PDF as file format.
>>Details can be found at the M-PREF 2007 home page.
>>_______________________________________________
>>==================================================
>>CALL FOR PAPERS
>>
>>3rd Multidisciplinary Workshop on
>>
>>ADVANCES IN PREFERENCE HANDLING
>>
>>(M-PREF 2007)
>>
>>Held in conjunction with VLDB 2007
>>September 23 or 24, Vienna, Austria
>>==================================================
>>
>>
>>Workshop URL: http://www.mycosima.com/vldb2007-preferences/
>>Conference URL: http://www.vldb2007.org/
>>
>>--++ Workshop goals
>>
>>Although preferences have traditionally been studied in fields such
>>as economic decision making, social choice theory, and Operations
>>Research, they have nowadays found significant interest in
>>computational fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases, and
>>Human-computer interaction. This broadened scope of preferences
>>leads to new types of preference models, new problems for applying
>>preference structures, and new kinds of benefits. Explicit
>>preference modeling provides a declarative way to choose among
>>alternatives, whether these are solutions of problems to solve,
>>answers of database queries, decisions of a computational agent,
>>plans of a robot, and so on. Preference-based systems allow
>>finer-grained control over computation and new ways of interactivity,
>>and therefore provide more satisfactory results and outcomes.
>>Preference models may also provide a clean understanding, analysis,
>>and validation of heuristic knowledge used in existing systems such
>>as heuristic orderings, dominance rules, and heuristic rules.
>>Preferences are studied in many areas of Artificial Intelligence
>>such as knowledge representation, multi-agent systems, constraint
>>satisfaction, decision making, decision-theoretic planning, and beyond.
>>Preferences are inherently a multi-disciplinary topic, of interest to
>>AI, Databases, Logic Programming, Operation Research, and more.
>>
>>The workshop promotes this broadened scope of preference handling and
>>continues a series of multidisciplinary workshops on preference handling
>>(an ECAI-06 workshop, an IJCAI-05 workshop and a Dagstuhl-Seminar in
>>2004) which have been very successful. The workshop provides a forum for
>>presenting advances in preference handling and for exchanging
>>experiences between researchers facing similar questions, but coming
>from different fields. The workshop builds on the large number of AI
>>researchers working on preference-related issues and on an increasing
>>number of database researchers, but also seeks to attract researchers
>from multi-criteria decision making, economics, etc. These different
>>research areas are represented in the program committee.
>>
>>--++ Topics of interest
>>
>>The scope of the workshop is intentionally broad and addresses all
>>aspects of understanding, modeling, computational handling, and
>>application of preferences. In particular, we welcome original
>>contributions to these areas and contributions that provide
>>cross-fertilization between these fields, like e.g. the application of
>>AI techniques to database queries. Furthermore, we highly appreciate
>>applications of preferences, in particular for personalized database
>>applications.
>>
>>* Preference handling in database systems:
>> - Preference query languages for SQL and XML
>> - Algebraic and cost-based optimization of preference queries
>> - Top-k algorithms and cost models
>> - Ranking relational data and rank-aware query processing
>> - Skyline query optimization
>> - Preference management and repositories
>> - Personalized search engines
>> - Preference recommender systems
>>* Preference handling in Artificial Intelligence
>> - Qualitative decision theory
>> - Non-monotonic reasoning
>> - Preferences in logic programming
>> - Preferences for soft constraints in constraint satisfaction
>> - Preferences for search and optimization
>> - Preferences for AI planning
>> - Preferences reasoning about action and causality
>> - Preference logic
>>* Applications of preferences:
>> - Web search
>> - Decision making
>> - Combinatorial optimization and other problem solving tasks
>> - Personalized human-computer interaction
>> - Personalized recommendation systems
>> - e-commerce and m-commerce
>>* Preference elicitation:
>> - Preference elicitation in multi-agent systems
>> - Preference elicitation with incentive-compatibility
>> - Learning of preferences
>> - User preference mining
>> - Revision of preferences
>>* Preference representation and modeling:
>> - Linear and non-linear utility representations
>> - Multiple criteria/attributes
>> - Qualitative decision theory
>> - Graphical models
>> - Logical representations
>> - Soft constraints
>> - Relations between qualitative and quantitative approaches
>>* Properties and semantics of preferences:
>> - Preference and choice
>> - Preference composition, merging, and aggregation
>> - Incomplete or inconsistent preferences
>> - Intransitive indifference
>> - Reasoning about preferences
>>* Comparison of approaches, cross-fertilization, interdisciplinary work
>>
>>--++ Program co-chairs
>>
>>James Delgrande
>>School of Computing Science
>>Simon Fraser University
>>Burnaby, BC, V5A1S6, Canada
>>
>>Werner Kiessling
>>Institute of Computer Science
>>University of Augsburg
>>Universitaetsstr. 14, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany
>>
>>--++ Program committee:
>>
>>* Wolf Tilo Balke, University of Hannover, Germany
>>* Ronen Brafman, Stanford University, USA
>>* Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany
>>* Kevin C. Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
>>* Jan Chomicki, University of Buffalo, USA
>>* Gautam Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
>>* Jon Doyle, North Carolina State University, USA
>>* James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Canada
>>* Matthias Ehrgott, University of Auckland, New Zealand
>>* Burkhard Freitag, University of Passau, Germany
>>* Parke Godfrey, York University, Canada
>>* Judy Goldsmith, University of Kentucky, USA
>>* Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, USA
>>* John Horty, University of Maryland, USA
>>* Vagelis Hristidis, Florida International University, USA
>>* Ihab Ilyas, University of Waterloo, Canada
>>* Ulrich Junker, ILOG, France
>>* Werner Kiessling, University of Augsburg, Germany
>>* Georgia Koutrika, Stanford University, USA
>>* Jerome Lang, IRIT - Univ. Paul Sabatier, France
>>* Thomas Meyer, NICTA Sydney, Australia
>>* Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland
>>* Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italy
>>* Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany
>>* Alexis Tsoukias, LAMSADE, France
>>* Toby Walsh, NICTA Sydney, Australia
>>
>>--++ Invited talk
>>
>>William Macready, VP Product Development, D-Wave Systems Inc,
>>Vancouver:
>>Quantum Computing, Databases and Preferences
>>
>>--++ Important dates:
>>
>>* Paper submission deadline: June 17, 2007
>>* Notification of acceptance or rejection: July 13, 2007
>>* Camera ready version of accepted papers: July 23, 2007
>>* Workshop: September 23 or 24, 2007
>>
>>--++ Submission details
>>
>>Submissions consist of a maximum of 8 pages in two-column format
>>including title, author names, abstract, and body.
>>They should follow the style described in the VLDB guidelines
>>(http://www.vldb2007.org/vldb_format.html) and use PDF as file format.
>>Details can be found at the M-PREF 2007 home page.
>>_______________________________________________