Last CfP: DKB 2017 & KIK 2017: Dynamics of Knowledge & Belief / KI & Kognition, Dortmund (Germany), 26 Sep 2017

[Frieder Stolzenburg]

Last CALL FOR PAPERS

!!! SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED until July 31, 2017 !!!

6th Workshop on Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief (DKB-2017) and
5th Workshop KI & Kognition (KIK-2017):

Formal and Cognitive Reasoning
==============================

Web page: <http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/dkbkik2017.html>

Workshop at the
40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2017)
September 25-29, 2017, Dortmund, Germany

Organized by the "FG Wissensrepraesentation und Schliessen"
and the FG "Kognition" of the German Informatics Society (GI)

Aims and Scope
**************
Information for real life AI applications is usually pervaded by uncertainty
and subject to change, and thus demands for non-classical reasoning approaches.
At the same time, psychological findings indicate that human reasoning cannot
be completely described by classical logical systems. Explanations may be
incomplete knowledge, incorrect beliefs, or inconsistencies.

Knowledge representation offers a rich palette of methods for uncertain
reasoning both to describe human reasoning and to model AI approaches. Its many
facets like qualitative vs. quantitative reasoning, defeasible and analogical
reasoning, argumentation and negotiation in multi-agent systems, causal
reasoning for action and planning, as well as nonmonotonicity and belief
revision, among many others, have become very active fields of research. Beyond
computational aspects, these methods aim to reflect the rich variety of human
reasoning in uncertain and dynamic environments.

Syllogistic Reasoning Challenge
*******************************
At this year's KI conference in Dortmund we plan a challenge on cognitive
computational modeling of human syllogistic reasoning. The ultimate goal of
cognitive modeling is to explain underlying cognitive processes while
approximating the answer distributions generated by humans. The competition is
necessary as so far any existing psychological theory is deviating
significantly from the data. More information about this competition can be
found at <http://www.cc.uni-freiburg.de/syllogchallenge>.

Call for Papers
***************
The aim of this series of workshops is to address recent challenges and to
present novel approaches to uncertain reasoning and belief change in their
broad senses, and in particular provide a forum for research work linking
different paradigms of reasoning. We put a special focus on papers from both
fields that provide a base for connecting formal-logical models of knowledge
representation and cognitive models of reasoning, addressing formal as well as
experimental or heuristic issues. Previous events of the Workshop on "Dynamics
of Knowledge and Belief" (DKB) took place in Osnabrück (2007), Paderborn
(2009), Berlin (2011), and Koblenz (2013), previous editions of the Workshop on
"KI & Kognition" (KIK) took place in Saarbrücken (2012), Koblenz (2013), and
Stuttgart (2014), and a joint workshop took place in Dresden (2015).
We welcome papers on the following and any related topics:

* Action and change
* Agents and multiagent systems
* Analogical reasoning
* Argumentation theories
* Belief revision and belief update
* Cognitive modeling and empirical data
* Common sense and defeasible reasoning
* Decision theory and preferences
* Inductive reasoning and cognition
* Knowledge representation
* Learning and knowledge discovery
* Nonmonotonic and uncertain reasoning
* Ontologies and description logics
* Probabilistic approaches of reasoning
* Syllogistic reasoning

Publication
***********
It is planned to publish the proceedings in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings
series <http://ceur-ws.org/>.

Workshop Organizers and Co-Chairs
*********************************
Christoph Beierle, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund, Germany
Marco Ragni, Universität Freiburg, Germany
Frieder Stolzenburg, Hochschule Harz, Germany

Important Dates
***************
Deadline for Submission: July 31, 2017 (extended)
Notification of Authors: August 15, 2017
Camera-ready Paper:      August 31, 2017
Challenge submission:    September 01, 2017
Workshop & Challenge:    September 26, 2017

Program Committee
*****************
Thomas Barkowsky, Universität Bremen, Germany
Gerhard Brewka, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Emmanuelle-Anna Dietz, TU Dresden, Germany
Christian Freksa, Universität Bremen, Germany
Ulrich Furbach, Universität Koblenz, Germany
Andreas Herzig, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Steffen Hölldobler, TU Dresden, Germany
Manfred Kerber, University of Birmingham, UK
Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Bernhard Nebel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Henri Prade, IRIT - CNRS, France
Hans Rott, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Ute Schmid, Universität Bamberg, Germany
Claudia Schon, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Matthias Thimm, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Paul Thorn, Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Hans Tompits, TU Wien, Austria
Christoph Wernhard, TU Dresden, Germany

Submission Details
******************
Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>.
The length of each paper should not exceed 8-12 pages. All papers must be
written in English and submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system
<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dkbkik2017>.

Local Information
*****************
Local information can be found on the web pages of the KI-2017
<http://ki2017.tu-dortmund.de/> conference.