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Second Call For Papers
BNC@ECAI'12
Belief change, Non-monotonic reasoning and Conflict resolution
http://cair.meraka.org.za/~bnc2012
Montpellier, France
*** Aims and Scope
Belief change, non-monotonic reasoning and conflict resolution are
well established
research areas in Artificial Intelligence. In recent years these
topics have become
important for designing robots and infobots with convincing
reasoning and adaptation
capabilities. The main aim of this workshop is to bring together
active researchers
on these topics, including work on belief revision, belief merging,
reasoning about
action, logic programming, inconsistency management, judgment
aggregation,
negotiation, and other related topics. Papers on emerging research
in this area are
especially welcome.
Numerous recent papers use techniques from belief change to define
conflict resolution
methods. In particular, several negotiation and judgment aggregation
methods are closely
related to work in belief revision or belief merging. Combining
ideas from these research
topics is one of the aims of this workshop. Hence we especially
encourage submission of
survey papers or position papers on these questions.
A further important trend is the study of the applicability of well
known belief change
operators and techniques for particular languages that are largely
used in applications,
such as Horn logics, description logics, or argumentation
frameworks. New developments
towards such applicative contexts are also highly welcome.
*** Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Argumentation
- Belief change
- Belief revision and update
- Belief merging
- Conflict resolution
- Inconsistency management
- Judgment aggregation
- Logic Programming
- Negotiation
- Non-monotonic reasoning
- Reasoning about action and change
*** Submission instructions
Papers submitted to BNC'12 must be no longer than 7 pages in the
ECAI format
(http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~luc.deraedt/ecai2012-style.zip)
and the pdf file should be submitted on EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bncecai2012
*** Important dates
Submission deadline : 25 May 2012
Notification: 22 June 2012
Final version deadline: 6 July 2012
*** Workshop chairs:
- Sébastien Konieczny (CRIL-CNRS, France)
- Thomas Meyer (CAIR, UKZN and CSIR Meraka)
*** Program Committee
- Thomas Meyer (CAIR, UKZN and CSIR Meraka)
- Sébastien Konieczny (CRIL-CNRS, France)
- Ivan Varzinczak (CAIR, UKZN and CSIR Meraka)
- Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg)
- Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam)
- Gerhard Brewka (Leipzig University)
- Weiru Liu (Queen's University Belfast)
- Eduardo Fermé (Universidade da Madeira)
- Maurice Pagnucco (The University of New South Wales)
- Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam)
- Ramon Pino Perez (Universidad de Los Andes)
- James Delgrande (Simon Fraser University)
- Renata Wassermann (University of Sao Paulo)
- Leon Van Der Torre (ILIAS)
- Gabriella Pigozzi
- Pavlos Peppas (University of Patras)
*** Website maintenance
- Kodylan Moodley (CAIR, UKZN and CSIR Meraka)