[agents] First call for papers: NMR session on Preferences and Norms

Wed Nov 25 20:50:14 EST 2009

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The NMR'2010 Workshop on

Preferences and Norms

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/NMR2010/NMR_2010/Preferences_and_Norm.html

Collocated With KR'2010, FOIS’2010, ICAPS’2010 and AAMAS’2010

May 14-16 2010

Sutton Place, Toronto, Canada

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-- Workshop Description --

In the last decades, the literature on preferences and norms has grown and
flourished in multiple areas of computer science, including Logic,
Databases, Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems and Human-Computer
Interaction. Although there has been a growing interest in the last 10
years, the consideration of preferences in non-monotonic reasoning has been
going on for 20 years.

The spectrum of recent applications that resort on the ability to handle
preferences is extremely wide, ranging from configuration softwares and
recommender systems to autonomous agents and group decision-making. For such
applications, handling information in terms of preferences appears to be
especially appealing, because it allows the user(s) to specify desires in a
declarative way, to combine qualitative and quantitative modes of reasoning,
and to deal with inconsistencies and exceptions in a quite flexible manner.

Historically non-monotonic logic and deontic logic have been related. On the
one hand, Hansson's preference based deontic logic DSDL3 introduced in 1969
may be seen as the predecessor of preferential semantics used in
non-monotonic logic, and on the other hand non-monotonic logics developed in
the 80s and 90s have given rise to the new subfield of defeasible deontic
logic, in which non-monotonic reasoning techniques are used to formalize
prima facie obligations, deontic dilemmas, contrary-to-duty reasoning, norm
change, merging of normative systems, and more.

Finally, preferences and norms have many interconnections. In the sixties,
von Wright's logic of preference already distinguished intrinsic from
extrinsic preferences, where the latter were directly related to conditional
obligations. For example, if obligations are expressed as conditionals "if
p, then q" using a preference based semantics, then they can be represented
by a preference of p and q over p and the absence of q. Some more
sophisticated preference and deontic logics developed since then have been
related to, but how they are related in general is an important open
problem. Besides contributions in preferences and contributions in norms,
the workshop particularly welcomes papers that examine these notions
together.

-- Topics of Interest --

Submissions are welcome on the role of preferences and norms in areas that
include but are not limited to the following ones:

- constitutive norms

- defeasible logics

- deontic dilemmas

- epistemic norms

- formal models of norm change

- imperatives

- merging normative systems

- normative multiagent systems

- permissive norms

- preference-based planning

- preferences in constraint programming

- preferences in logic programming

- preferences in multi-agent systems

- preference languages

- preference revision and fusion

- preference elicitation

- preference learning

- preference modeling frameworks

- preference semantics

- prima facie obligations

- reasoning about preferences

-- Submission Instructions --

Submitted articles will undergo peer-review. Papers must be submitted in
AAAI style and in PDF only.  The maximum length of a submission is 7 pages
including references, figures, and appendixes if any.  

Papers should be submitted via Easychair using the following link.

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nmr2010preferencesandnorms

-- Important Dates --

- Papers due:     January 29 (Friday), 2010

- Notification:   March 1 (Monday), 2010

- Final version:  April 6 (Tuesday), 2010

- Workshop:       May 14-16, 2010

-- Selected Papers --

Revised versions of selected papers in all workshops on NMR will appear in a
special issue of a renowned journal. 

-- Additional Information --

Please visit the NMR website at

 <http://www.cs.sfu.ca/news/conferences/NMR/2010/NMR_2010/NMR10.html>
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/news/conferences/NMR/2010/NMR_2010/NMR10.html

for more information about NMR, the venue of the workshop, the city of 

Toronto, accommodation and travel tips.

-- Session Chairs --

Frederic Koriche (Université Montpellier II)

http://www.lirmm.fr/~koriche/

Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg)

http://agamemnon.uni.lu/ILIAS/vandertorre/

-- Program Committee –

Guido Boella (Italy)

guido at di.unito.it

http://www.di.unito.it/~guido/

Gerhard Brewka (Germany)

G.Brewka at t-online.de

http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~brewka/

Jan Broersen (The Netherlands)

broersen at cs.uu.nl

http://people.cs.uu.nl/broersen/

Jan Chomicki (USA)

chomicki at buffalo.edu

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~chomicki/

Jim Delgrande (Canada)

jim at cs.sfu.ca

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~jim/

Judy Goldsmith (USA)

goldsmit at cs.uky.edu

http://www.cs.uky.edu/~goldsmit/

Guido Governatori (Australia)

guido at governatori.net

http://www.governatori.net/research/index.html

Davide Grossi (The Netherlands)

d.grossi at uva.nl

http://www.davidegrossi.name/home.html

Jörg Hansen (Germany)

jhansen at bachhaus.de

Sven Ove Hansson (Sweden)

soh at kth.se

http://www.infra.kth.se/~soh/

John F. Horty (USA)

horty at umiacs.umd.edu

http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~horty/

Katsumi Inoue (Japan)

ki at nii.ac.jp

http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ki/official/content_e.html

Jerome Lang (France)

Lang at irit.fr

http://www.irit.fr/recherches/RPDMP/persos/Jerome.html

Fenrong Liu (China)

fenrong at mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Sheila McIlraith (Canada)

sheila at cs.toronto.edu

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila/

Tran Cao Son (USA)

tson at cs.nmsu.edu

http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~tson/

Hans Tompits (Austria)

tompits at kr.tuwien.ac.at

http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/tompits/

Kewen Wang (Australia)

k.wang at griffith.edu.au

http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~kewen/

Nic Wilson (Ireland)

n.wilson at 4c.ucc.ie

http://4c.ucc.ie/web/index.jsp

Bruno Zanuttini (France)

bruno.zanuttini at info.unicaen.fr

http://users.info.unicaen.fr/~zanutti/english.html