CFP: IJCAI'13 Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling

[Souhila Kaci]

 [Apologies for multiple postings]

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 IJCAI 2013 Workshop MPREF

 7th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling

 http://www.mpref.preferencesql.com/mpref2013

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 * Call for papers:
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 Preference handling has become a flourishing topic. There are many 
 interesting results, good examples for cross-fertilization between 
 disciplines, and many new questions.

 Preferences are a central concept of decision making. As preferences 
 are fundamental for the analysis of human choice behavior, they are 
 becoming of increasing importance for computational fields such as 
 artificial intelligence, databases, and human-computer interaction. 
 Preference models are needed in decision-support systems such as 
 web-based recommender systems, in automated problem solvers such as 
 configurators, and in autonomous systems such as Mars rovers. Nearly all 
 areas of artificial intelligence deal with choice situations and can 
 thus benefit from computational methods for handling preferences. 
 Moreover, social choice methods are also of key importance in 
 computational domains such as multi-agent systems.

 This broadened scope of preferences leads to new types of preference 
 models, new problems for applying preference structures, and new kinds 
 of benefits. Preferences are studied in many areas of artificial 
 intelligence such as knowledge representation, multi-agent systems, game 
 theory, social choice, constraint satisfaction, decision making, 
 decision-theoretic planning, and beyond. Preferences are inherently a 
 multi-disciplinary topic, of interest to economists, computer 
 scientists, operations researchers, mathematicians and more.

 This workshop promotes this broadened scope of preference handling and 
 continues a series of events on preference handling at AAAI-02, Dagstuhl 
 in 2004, IJCAI-05, ECAI-06, VLDB-07, AAAI-08, ADT-09, ECAI-2010 and 
 ECAI-2012. Since 2008, this series of workshops is organized by the 
 multidisciplinary working group on Advances in Preference Handling, 
 which is affiliated to the Association of European Operational Research 
 Societies EURO.

 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, but also seeks to attract researchers from databases, 
 multi-criteria decision making, economics, etc.

 TOPICS OF INTEREST

 The workshop on Advances in Preferences Handling addresses all 
 computational aspects of preference handling. This includes methods for 
 the elicitation, learning, modeling, representation, aggregation, and 
 management of preferences and for reasoning about preferences. The 
 workshop studies the usage of preferences in computational tasks from 
 decision making, database querying, web search, personalized 
 human-computer interaction, personalized recommender systems, 
 e-commerce, multi-agent systems, game theory, social choice, 
 combinatorial optimization, planning and robotics, automated problem 
 solving, perception and natural language understanding and other 
 computational tasks involving choices. The workshop seeks to improve the 
 overall understanding of the benefits of preferences for those tasks. 
 Another important goal is to provide cross-fertilization between 
 different fields.

 - 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

 - 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 evaluation
 Preference management and repositories
 Personalized search engines
 Preference recommender systems

 - Preference handling in multiagent systems

 Game theory
 (Combinatorial) auctions and exchanges
 Social choice, voting, and other rating/ranking systems
 Mechanism design and incentive compatibility

 - 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

 * Important dates:
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 Saturday, April, 20, 2013: Workshop paper submission deadline
 Monday, May, 20, 2013: Notification on workshop paper submissions
 Thursday, May, 30, 2013: Camera-ready copy due to organizers
 August 3-4, 2013: M-PREF’13 Workshop

 * Workshop chairs:
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 Markus Endres, University of Augsburg, Germany
 Souhila Kaci, Universite Montpellier 2, LIRMM, France
 K. Brent Venable, Tulane University and IHMC, USA
 Paolo Viappiani, CNRS & LIP6, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France

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 Souhila Kaci
 Professor
 University of Montpellier 2
 LIRMM - UMR 5506
 161 rue ADA
 F34392 Montpellier Cedex 5
 France
 http://www2.lirmm.fr/~kaci/
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