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M-PREF 2008
4th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling
Chicago, Illinois, July 13-14, 2008 in conjunction with AAAI 2008
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: April 7, 2008
Description
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, and VLDB-07.
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. These
different research areas are represented in the organization committee.
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Topics
The workshop on Advances in Preferences Handling addresses all
computational aspects of preference handling. This includes methods
for the elicitation, 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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Format
We will have a mixture of presentations with ample time for questions
and open panel discussions about future challenges. An option is to
have an invited talk about potential applications of preference
handling.
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Attendance
Researchers interested in preference handling from AI, OR, CS or other
computational fields may submit a paper or a send a statement of interest in
participation.
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Submission Requirements
We solicit electronic submissions of papers (5-6 pages in PDF, formatted
in AAAI style) by e-mail to ujunker@ilog.nospam.fr.
(Please remove the string .nospam when sending your submission.)
Submissions need not be anonymous.
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Important Dates
- April 7: Submissions due
- April 21: Notification of acceptance
- May 5: Camera-ready copy due to organizers
- May 12: Camera-ready copy due to AAAI
- July 13-14: AAAI-08 Workshop Program
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Organizers
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Program Committee
- Wolf-Tilo Balke, University of Hannover, Germany
- Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto, Canada
- Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
- Felix Brandt, University of Munich, Germany
- Jan Chomicki, University at Buffalo, USA
- Paolo Ciaccia, University of Bologna, Italy
- Vincent Conitzer, Duke University, USA
- James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Canada
- Carmel Domshlak, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
- Jon Doyle, North Carolina State University, USA
- Matthias Ehrgott, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Edith Elkind, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- Judy Goldsmith, University of Kentucky, USA
- Sergio Greco, University Calabria, Italy
- Samuel Ieong, Stanford University, USA
- Ulrich Junker, ILOG, France
- Werner Kießling, University of Augsburg, Germany
- Jerome Lang, IRIT - Univ. Paul Sabatier, France
- Amelie Marian, Rutgers University, USA
- Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland
- David Parkes, Harvard University, USA
- Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Patrice Perny, LIP6 - Paris 6 University, France
- Ariel Procaccia, Hebrew University, Israel
- Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italy
- Alexis Tsoukiās, LAMSADE, France
- Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
- Toby Walsh, UNSW, Australia
- Neil Yorke-Smith, SRI, USA
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