[PlanetKR] MPREF 2014: Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (at AAAI 2014)

[Paul Weng]

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M-PREF14:  CALL FOR PAPERS

8th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling

July 27-28, 2014, Quebec, Canada, in conjunction with AAAI 2014
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Workshop website:
http://ursaminor.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/mpref/mpref2014


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, 
ECAI-2012, and IJCAI-13. 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.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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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

Comparison of approaches, cross-fertilization, interdisciplinary work

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SUBMISSION
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Researchers interested in preference handling from AI, OR, DB, CS or 
other computational fields may submit a paper not longer than 6 pages, 
including figures, tables, proofs, references, etc. in PDF. Papers must 
be formatted in AAAI style and submitted via the Easy Chair system: 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mpref14

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IMPORTANT DATES
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  * April 10, 2014: Workshop paper submission deadline.
  * May 01, 2014: Notification on workshop paper submissions.
  * May 15, 2014: Camera-ready copy due to organizers.
  * July 27-28, 2014: M-PREF’14 Workshop.

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WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Darius Braziunas, Kobo Inc, Toronto, Canada
Markus Endres, University of Augsburg, Germany
K. Brent Venable, Tulane University and IHMC, USA
Paul Weng, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Lirong Xia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

Best,
-- 
Paul Weng
Associate Professor / Maître de conférences
LIP6, UPMC             Bur. 406 (26-00)
Boite courrier 169     Tel: 01 44 27 88 64
4 place Jussieu        Fax: 01 44 27 88 89
75005 Paris, France    http://www-desir.lip6.fr/~weng/

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