Workshop on Action and Causality
	(http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/vl/nmr98.html)

The Workshop on Action and Causality is a part of the Seventh
International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning to be held in Trento,
Italy from May 30 until June 1, in conjunction with the Sixth
International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation
and Reasoning.

The study of nonmonotonic reasoning has been motivated to a large degree
by the problem of representing properties of actions and by interest in
the formalization and automation of reasoning about actions.  In recent
years, the investigation of difficult cases of the frame problem has led
to the development of several nonmonotonic theories of causality.

High-quality original research papers on the nonmonotonic aspects of
reasoning about action and causality are invited for presentation at the
workshop.  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,

* formalizations of new action domains,
* action languages,
* theories of causality and their applications to formalizing action,
* probabilistic approaches to actions,
* relations between action formalisms,
* automated reasoning about actions,
* planning in domains described in logic-based formalisms,
* challenging problems.

Submission Information

A paper of up to 6000 words, excluding the bibliography, either hardcopy
(4 copies) or electronic (postscript files only) should be sent to
Vladimir Lifschitz at the address below, to arrive on or before February 23,
1998.  Electronic submissions are preferred.

Final papers will be distributed at the meeting.

Organizers

Hector Geffner (hector@usb.ve)
Departamento de Computacion
Universidad Simon Bolivar
Aptdo 89000, Caracas 1080-A
Venezuela

Vladimir Lifschitz (vl@cs.utexas.edu)
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1188
USA

Timetable

February 23, 1998: Submission deadline
March 31: Notification of acceptance
April 27: Final papers due
May 30 - June 1: Workshop