CFP

Mi Apr 4 09:37:55 CEST 2007

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On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:56:22 -0700 (PDT)
  Jim Delgrande <jim at cs.sfu.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hello, could you please send out the following CFP for a 
>multidisciplinary
> workshop on preferences.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> Jim Delgrande
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> James Delgrande
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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.
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