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

[Carlos Soares]

apologies for re-sending the wrong message.
Carlos
On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Carlos Soares wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
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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
>>
>>   [ please distribute - apologies for multiple postings ]
>>
>>
>>                C A L L  F O R  P A P E R S
>>
>>     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
>>
>>
>>
>> ===================================================
>> 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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Carlos Soares
Faculdade de Economia do Porto - Prof. Auxiliar
LIAAD-INESC Porto LA - Investigador
csoares at fep.up.pt






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