Fwd: [Event at CIG] CFP: Special Issue of AIJ on Preferences

[Carlos Soares]

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> From: "Carmel Domshlak" <dcarmel at ie.technion.ac.il>
> Date: October 28, 2008 1:23:48 PM GMT+00:00
> To: event at in.tu-clausthal.de
> Subject: [Event at CIG] CFP: Special Issue of AIJ on Preferences
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>                C A L L  F O R  P A P E R S
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>     Special issue of the ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Journal
>
>
>      Representing, Learning, and Processing Preferences:
>            Theoretical and Practical Challenges
>
>
>           http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb12/kebi/si-ai
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>
>
> ===================================================
> Background and Scope
> ===================================================
> The topic of preferences has recently attracted considerable attention
> in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and plays an increasingly important
> role in several AI-related research fields, including, e.g., agents,
> constraint satisfaction, decision theory, planning, machine learning,
> and argumentation. Representing and processing knowledge in terms of
> preferences appears to be especially appealing from an AI perspective,
> notably as it allows one to specify desires in a declarative way, to
> combine qualitative and quantitative modes of reasoning and to deal
> with inconsistencies and exceptions in a quite flexible manner.
>
> Even though methods for dealing with preferences in a formal way have
> been developed in research areas such as operations research, game and
> decision theory, and social choice for quite a while, AI research has
> made novel and complementary contributions to preference handling
> during the last decade. Besides, having contemporary application
> fields such as electronic auctions, e-commerce, and recommender
> systems in mind, AI research has raised new problems and put emphasis
> on additional aspects such as combinatorial structure of the
> alternatives, algorithmic issues and complexity, and the absence of a
> decision analyst in the loop (which is typical for many applications).
>
> Despite the existence of some established representation frameworks
> that allow for building and handling preference models in an effective
> and tractable way, research in the preference field has remained very
> active and still faces many challenges, such as comparing the
> expressivity and complexity of existing modeling languages, combining
> different representation modes and frameworks, supporting the
> knowledge acquisition task by discovering, learning, and adapting user
> preferences based on different types of feedback, handling preferences
> in multi-agent systems and group decision making, and developing
> efficient and theoretically sound algorithms for preference
> aggregation and revision, just to mention a few.
>
> The aim of this special issue is to provide an up-to-date picture of
> the current trends in the AI research on handling user preferences.
> Especially welcome are contributions that bridge the gap between the
> rather particulate approaches existing so far, thereby helping to
> establish a coherent theoretical foundation of preferences in AI, as
> well as interdisciplinary work that combines or integrates approaches
> from other fields, such as operations research, databases, or game and
> decision theory.
>
>
> ===================================================
> Submission Information
> ===================================================
> All manuscripts must adhere to the submission guidelines of the AI
> journal and should be submitted to the journal in the usual way (that
> is, not to the guest editors directly). To give notice of submitting
> to the special issue, please put "Special Issue on Preferences" in the
> subject heading of your email to aij at ida.liu.se.
>
> We kindly ask prospective authors to express, as far as possible,
> their intention to submit a paper. To this end, please send an email
> including a tentative title and a short abstract to all guest editors.
>
>
> ===================================================
> Timetable
> ===================================================
> * Intention:      December 15th, 2008
> * Submission:     February 15th, 2008
> * Notification:   June 15th, 2009
> * Revised papers: July 30th, 2009
>
>
> ===================================================
> Guest Editors
> ===================================================
> Carmel Domshlak, Israel Institute of Technology
> dcarmel at ie.technion.ac.il
>
> Eyke Hüllermeier, University of Marburg, Germany
> mail at eyke.de
>
> Souhila Kaci, IUT de Lens, France,
> kaci at cril.univ-artois.fr
>
> Henri Prade, University of Toulouse, France,
> prade at irit.fr
>
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==
Carlos Soares
Faculdade de Economia do Porto - Prof. Auxiliar
LIAAD-INESC Porto LA - Investigador
csoares at fep.up.pt






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