Belief Change

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Specialized workshop in conjunction with NMR2004 (www.pims.math.ca/science/2004/NMR/papers.html)

Belief change and nonmonotonic reasoning go hand in hand. Over the years, research in belief change has taken several interesting turns and seen many novel developments. Moreover, it has allowed us to see other areas of endeavour in a new light. As a way of capturing commonsense reasoning, for instance, belief change provides a unique perspective. However, there is still much work to be done, many interesting challenges to be overcome and problems to be explored.

The specialized workshop on Belief Change is a one-day event intended to bring together researchers interested in the area of belief change, and to discuss current research, results, and problems of a theoretical, foundational or practical nature. In particular, researchers from allied fields are encouraged to submit papers and participate in the workshop. This workshop will be a part of the technical program of the tenth Nonmonotonic Reasoning Workshop (NMR-04), to be held in Whistler, BC, Canada, immediately following the KR-04 conference. The goal is to promote further development of the theory of belief change as well as connections to other research areas in nonmonotonic reasoning, knowledge representation and reasoning, and artificial intelligence.

TOPICS

Authors are invited to submit original papers on all aspects of belief change.

The list of topics of interest includes but is not limited to:

• Theoretical and philosophical foundations of belief change
• Belief merging
• Iterated belief change
• Non-prioritized belief change
• Interrelations
• Complexity of belief change operations
• Implementations of belief change systems

We also welcome suggestions for panel discussions.

ORGANIZERS
Maurice Pagnucco (morri@cse.unsw.edu.au)
Odile Papini (papini@univ-tln.fr)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alexander Bochman, Holon Academic Institute of Technology, Israel
Richard Booth, University of Leipzig, Germany
Samir Chopra, Brooklyn College of CUNY, USA
David Makinson, Kings College, UK
Thomas Meyer, UNSW, Australia
Abhaya Nayak, Macquarie University, Australia
Maurice Pagnucco, UNSW, Australia (Co-chair)
Odile Papini, University of Toulon, France (Co-chair)
Pavlos Peppas, University of Patras, Greece
Hans Rott, University of Regensburg, Germany
Steven Shapiro, UNSW, Australia
Renata Wasserman, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil

SUBMISSION DETAILS
All NMR-04 subworkshops have the same submission requirements. Submissions are limited to 12 pages (excluding title page and references) of standard LaTeX 12pt article format. Send a pdf file with the submission to each of the organizers by e-mail.

PROCEEDINGS
Final papers, limited to 9 KR-style pages, will be distributed at the meeting along with papers from the other NMR workshops. Accepted papers will also be arranged into on-line proceedings.

NMR-04 AND OTHER NMR-04 SUBWORKSHOPS
The other specialized workshops that will be held at NMR-04 are:

• Foundations of Nonmonotonic Reasoning,
• Computational Aspects of Nonmonotonic Reasoning,
• Action and Causality,
• Uncertainty Frameworks,
• Argument, Dialogue and Decision

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Submission of papers February 27, 2004
Notification of acceptance March 31, 2004
Final version (pdf file) April 30, 2004
Conference Dates: June 6-8, 2004

ACCEPTED PAPERS