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SUBWORKSHOPS
Foundations of Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Computational Aspects of Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Action and Causality
Belief Change
Uncertainty Frameworks
Argument, Dialogue and Decision

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International Workshop on
Non-Monotonic Reasoning

June 6-8, 2004
Westin Whistler Resort and Spa,
Whistler BC, Canada


Sunday June 6 | Monday June 7 | Tuesday June 8

Programme for Tuesday June 8

9:00 - 10:30am
09:00-10:00 Jerome Lang, "Logical languages for preference representation (and their relation to
nonmonotonic reasoning)"

10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00pm

Workshop 1 - Belief Change

Horacio Arlo-Costa and Isaac Levi
"A complete characterization of a decision-theoretical notion of contraction"

Charles G. Morgan
"Probability, rational belief, and belief change"

James P. Delgrande
"Preliminary considerations on the modelling of belief change operators by metric spaces"

Workshop 1 - Argument, Dialogue and Decision

F Tohme and G Simari
"Preferential defeasiblity: Utility in defeasible logic programming"

P Baroni and M Giacomin
"A recursive approach to argumentation: Motivation and perspectives"

C Chesnevar, A Maguitman and G Simari
"A first approach to argument-based recommender systems based on defeasible logic programming"

12:00-1:30pm
Lunch Break
1:30-3:30pm

Workshop 2- Belief Change

Alexander Nittka
"Adjusting adjustments - An algorithm for knowledge base exraction"

Marcelo A. Falapa, Alejandro J. Garcia and Guillermo R. Simari
"Belief dynamics and defeasible argumentation in rational agents"

Richard Booth, Samir Chopra, Thomas Meyer and Aditya Ghose
"A unifying semantics for belief change"

Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis and Grigoris Antoniou
"Generalizing the AGM postulates: Preliminary results and applications"

Workshop 2 - Argument, Dialogue and Decision

T Takahashi and H Sawamura
"A logic of multiple-valued argumentation"

J Hulstijn and L van der Torre
"Combining goal generation and planning in an argumentation framework"

S Doutre and J Mengin
"On sceptical vs credulous acceptance for abstract argumentation systems"

M Caminada
"Dialogoues and HY-arguments"

3:30-4:00pm
Coffee Break
4:00-5:30pm

Workshop 3- Belief Change

Jose Luis Chacon and Roman Pino Perez
"Logic-based merging: The infinite case"

James P. Delgrande and Torsten Schaub
"Consistency-based approaches to merging knowledge bases"

Sebastien Konieczny
"Propositional belief merging and belief negotiation model"

Workshop 3 - Argument, Dialogue and Decision

L Amgoud and H Prade
"Generation and evaluation of different types of arguments in negotiation"

Ph Besnard and S Doutre
"Checking the acceptability of a set of arguments"

Anthony Hunter
"Towards higher impact argumentation"

 


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