 | ---+ Call for Papers: IJCAI-05 Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling
---++ Workshop Web Page:
http://wikix.ilog.fr/wiki/bin/view/Preference05/WebHome
---++ Workshop Goals
Preferences guide human decision making from early childhood (e.g. "which ice
cream flavour do you prefer?") up to complex professional and organisatorial
decisions (e.g. "which investment funds to choose?"). Preferences have
traditionally been studied in economics and applied to decision making problems.
Recent work in AI and related fields has led to new types of preference models
and new problems for applying preference structures (see, for example, the
special issue on preferences of Computational Intelligence
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/issue.asp?ref=0824-7935&vid=20&iid=2&oc=&s=&site=1
published in May 2004). The workshop promotes this broadened scope of preference
handling. As such, it provides a forum for presenting advances in preference
handling and for exchanging experiences between researchers facing similar
questions, but coming from different fields. In particular, this workshop is
intended as a multidisciplinary workshop that will bring together researchers
from diverse areas, as in the recent Dagstuhl workshop on preferences
http://www.dagstuhl.de/04271/
held in June, 2004. It also continues the tradition of the AAAI-02 workshop on
preferences
http://www.aaai.org/Workshops/2002/ws-02.html
which brought together two communities (NMR and CP) with fruitful results. The
workshop builds on the large number of AI researchers working on preference-
related issues, but aims to attract researchers from databases, multi-criteria
decision making, economics, etc. This intended diversity is reflected in the
program committee, and registration to this workshop does not require
registration to the main conference.
Explicit preference modelling provides a declarative way to choose among
alternatives, whether these are solutions of problems to solve, answers of
data-base 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. Preferences are a relatively new topic to artificial intelligence
and are becoming of greater interest in many areas: knowledge representation,
multi-agent systems, constraint safisfaction, decision making, decision-theoretic
planning, and more. Preferences are inherently a multi-disciplinary topic, of
interest to economists, computer scientists, OR researchers, mathematicians and
more.
---++ Topics of Interest
The scope of the workshop is intentionally broad and addresses all aspects of
understanding, modelling, computational handling, and application of preferences.
In particular, we welcome original contributions to these areas and contributions
that provide cross-fertilization between these fields.
* preference elicitation
* interactive preference elicitation
* preference elicitation in multi-agent systems
* preference elicitation with incentive-compatibility
* learning of preferences
* preference mining
* revision of preferences
* measures of preference accuracy
* preference representation / modelling:
* 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 composition, merging, and aggregation
* incomplete or inconsistent preferences
* intransitive indifference
* reasoning about preferences
* preference and choice
* algorithms for preference handling
* applications of preferences to
* decision making (sorting, ranking, choice)
* problem solving (search, optimization, explanation)
* data-base querying and repair
* AI planning, action and causality
* non-monotonic reasoning, logic programming, belief revision
* web search
* human-computer interaction
* personalization
* recommendation systems and other e-commerce applications
* preference management and repositories
* comparison of approaches, cross-fertilization
---++ Participation and Paper Submission
The workshop is organized as part of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI-05
http://www.ijcai-05.org/
and will be held from July 30 to August 1, 2005 in Edinburgh, Scotland, immediately
prior to the technical conference. Workshop attendees need not register for the main
IJCAI conference, but are encouraged to do so. The number of participants is limited.
Interested participants should submit a paper formatted using the standard IJCAI
guidelines (6 pages in two-column format) by emailing a PDF or Postscript file to
the main workshop organizers by the date indicated below.
* March 24, 2005: submission of papers
* April 30, 2005: notification about acceptance
* May 22, 2005: submission of camera-ready version
Please consult the following web pages for further information on IJCAI
formatting guidelines and templates:
* Formatting guidelines in PDF format: http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/resources/ijcai05.pdf
* Formatting guidelines as Word template: http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/resources/ijcai05.dot
* Formatting guidelines as LaTeX sources: http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/resources/ijcai05_latex.zip
---++ Program / Organizing Committee
* Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto, Canada
* Ronen Brafman, Stanford University, USA
* Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany
* Jan Chomicki, University at Buffalo, USA
* Jim Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada
* Carmel Domshlak, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
* Jon Doyle, North Carolina State University, USA
* Matthias Ehrgott, University of Auckland, New Zealand
* Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, USA
* Ulrich Junker, ILOG, France
* Werner Kießling, University of Augsburg, Germany
* Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland
* David Parkes, Harvard University, USA
* Pearl Pu, EPFL, Switzerland
* Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italy
* Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany
* Alexis Tsoukiās, LAMSADE, France
---++ Main Organizers
Ronen Brafman
Dept. of Computer Science
Stanford University
Stanford CA 94305
e-mail: brafman@cs.stanford.removethis.edu
Ulrich Junker
ILOG S.A.
Les Taissounieres HB2
1681, route des Dolines
F-06560 Valbonne
e-mail: ujunker@ilog.removethis.fr
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