B E L I E F R E V I S I O N W O R K S H O P Trento, Italy May 30 - June 1, 1998 http://infosystems.newcastle.edu.au/belief.revision/br@kr.html CALL FOR PAPERS The Seventh International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Trento, Italy, May 30 - June 1, 1998. It will consist of plenary sessions and several specialized workshops, one of which is on Belief Revision. The actual timetable will be made available at a later date. Modeling incompleteness, uncertainty and change are critically important, yet difficult and problematical, tasks in the design of intelligent systems. Typically, information in real application domains exhibits at least one of these tantalizingly troublesome properties. Initially Belief Revision operations were used to model change, i.e. the incorporation of new information into an existing corpus of knowledge. Later however, connections with nonmonotonic reasoning and possibilistic reasoning were established. As a consequence techniques in Belief Revision can be used to model the incompleteness and the uncertainty of information, as well as change itself. Our understanding of Belief Revision has been significantly strengthened over the last twenty years, and this workshop is intended to improve our understanding even further by investigating the process of Belief Revision as a theoretical operation, and as a practical intelligent reasoning tool. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: theoretical advances computational strategies multi-agent models implementations applications Invited Speaker --------------- Professor Isaac Levi from Columbia University USA is will give an invited presenation. Paper Submission ---------------- Authors are invited to submit either four hard copies or an electronic copy of their paper. Previously accepted papers, or papers under review are not acceptable. Submissions should be limited to 15 pages formatted on an area of (approx.) 140 x 210 mm (5.75 x 8.5 in.) in 12 point type (single-spaced and single column). Submissions should arrive no later than February 23, 1998. No copyright claims will be made, therefore accepted papers may be submitted elsewhere after the workshop reviewing period. The format of the papers may be in either hardcopy form (send 4 copies) or electronic form (post-script only). The Programme Committee has a preference for electronic submissions. We also welcome suggestions for panels. Those accepted papers in electronic format will be available on the web page three weeks before the workshop, and hardcopies of all papers will be available at the workshop. All submissions should include an email address, and a postal address of the author(s). Hardcopy papers should be sent to: Mary-Anne Williams Information Systems School of Management University of Newcastle NSW 2308, Australia Post-Script files should be sent to: emonk@infosystems.newcastle.edu.au Important Dates --------------- Deadline for Submission: February 23, 1998 Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 1998 Camera Ready Copy Due: May 4, 1998 Workshop Date: May 30 - June 1, 1998 Programme Committee ------------------- Didier Dubois, IRIT, CNRS, France Aldofranco Dragoni, University of Ancona, Italy Konstantinos Georgatos, University of Newcastle, Australia Sven-Ove Hansson, Uppsala University, Sweden Pavlos Peppas, Macquarie University, Australia Henri Prade, IRIT, CNRS, France Hans Rott, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (co-chair) Krister Segerberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Mary-Anne Williams, University of Newcastle, Australia (co-chair) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Mary-Anne Williams /--_|\ Head of Information Systems Office: +61-2-49-215009 / \ School of Management School: +61-2-49-216644 \_.--._* The University of Newcastle Fax: +61-2-49-216911 v Newcastle, NSW 2308 Email: maryanne@infosystems.newcastle.edu.au Australia http://infosystems.newcastle.edu.au/maryanne