Twelfth International Workshop on

Non-Monotonic Reasoning

13 September to 15 September 2008.
Sydney, Australia

Collocated with KR 2008 CP 2008 ICAPS 2008 in Sydney, Australia.

News: Paper submission deadline extended to 22 June, 2008.

NMR'08 Special session on Preferences

Preferences constitute a natural and effective way of resolving conflicts and choosing best solutions from a large set of candidates. The problem of preference handling and its applications received extensive interest in artificial intelligence, including non-monotonic reasoning, logic programming, constraint programming, planning, and decision making.

The session on preferences is a one-day event and the technical program forms a part of the Twelfth International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2008), to be held in Sydney, Australia, collocated with the KR 2008, CP 2008, and ICAPS 2008 conferences.

Topics

Authors are invited to submit papers on preference handling and its applications in non-monotonic reasoning. The list of topics of interest includes but is not limited to:

• Semantics of preferences
• Preference-based non-monotonic reasoning
• Logic programming with preference
• Preference-based planning and causal reasoning
• Preference in constraint programming
• Preference-based search and optimization
• Preference in multi-agent systems
• Defeasible logic
• Preference specification
• Reasoning about preferences
• Preference revision and composition
• Inconsistent or incomplete preferences
• Equivalence and preferences
• Preference elicitation
• Preference modelling frameworks
• Foundational aspects
• Complexity and expressiveness

Session Co-Chairs

• Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, tompits [at] kr [dot] tuwien [dot] ac [dot] at
• Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia, k [dot] wang [at] griffith [dot] edu [dot] au

Program Committee

• Ronen I. Brafman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
• Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Jan Chomicki, University at Buffalo, USA
• James P. Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
• Jon Doyle, North Carolina State University, USA
• Judy Goldsmith, University of Kentucky, USA
• Katsumi Inoue, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
• Ulrich Junker, ILOG, France
• Jerome Lang, IRIT, Toulouse, France
• Sheila A. McIlraith, University of Toronto, Canada
• Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italy
• Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany
• Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA
• Toby Walsh, University of New South Wales, Australia

Submission Details

Submissions are limited to 9 pages using KR paper format. Your submission in PDF should be sent to each of the co-chairs by e-mail, subject header: "[NMR'08] session PREF paper submission", without the quotes.

Important Dates

• Submission of papers: June 15, 2008 June 22, 2008 (extended)
• Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2008
• Camera ready copy: August 15, 2008