Second Call For Papers
<br> <br>BNC@ECAI'12
<br>Belief change, Non-monotonic reasoning and Conflict resolution
<br> <br><a href="http://cair.meraka.org.za/%7Ebnc2012" target="_blank">http://cair.meraka.org.za/~bnc2012</a>
<br> <br> <br>Montpellier, France
<br> <br>*** Aims and Scope
<br> <br>Belief change, non-monotonic reasoning and conflict resolution are well established
<br>research areas in Artificial Intelligence. In recent years these topics have become
<br>important for designing robots and infobots with convincing reasoning and adaptation
<br>capabilities. The main aim of this workshop is to bring together active researchers
<br>on these topics, including work on belief revision, belief merging, reasoning about
<br>action, logic programming, inconsistency management, judgment aggregation,
<br>negotiation, and other related topics. Papers on emerging research in this area are
<br>especially welcome.
<br> <br>Numerous recent papers use techniques from belief change to define conflict resolution
<br>methods. In particular, several negotiation and judgment aggregation methods are closely
<br>related to work in belief revision or belief merging. Combining ideas from these research
<br>topics is one of the aims of this workshop. Hence we especially encourage submission of
<br>survey papers or position papers on these questions.
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<br>A further important trend is the study of the applicability of well known belief change
<br>operators and techniques for particular languages that are largely used in applications,
<br>such as Horn logics, description logics, or argumentation frameworks. New developments
<br>towards such applicative contexts are also highly welcome.
<br> <br>*** Topics
<br> <br>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
<br>- Argumentation
<br>- Belief change
<br>- Belief revision and update
<br>- Belief merging
<br>- Conflict resolution
<br>- Inconsistency management
<br>- Judgment aggregation
<br>- Logic Programming
<br>- Negotiation
<br>- Non-monotonic reasoning
<br>- Reasoning about action and change
<br> <br> <br>*** Submission instructions
<br> <br>Papers submitted to BNC'12 must be no longer than 7 pages in the ECAI format
<br>(<a href="http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/%7Eluc.deraedt/ecai2012-style.zip" target="_blank">http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~luc.deraedt/ecai2012-style.zip</a>)
<br> <br>and the pdf file should be submitted on EasyChair:
<br><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bncecai2012" target="_blank">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bncecai2012</a>
<br> <br>*** Important dates
<br> <br>Submission deadline : 25 May 2012
<br>Notification: 22 June 2012
<br>Final version deadline: 6 July 2012
<br> <br>*** Workshop chairs:
<br>- Sébastien Konieczny (CRIL-CNRS, France)
<br>- Thomas Meyer (CAIR, UKZN and CSIR Meraka)
<br> <br>*** Program Committee
<br>- Thomas Meyer (CAIR, UKZN and CSIR Meraka)
<br>- Sébastien Konieczny (CRIL-CNRS, France)
<br>- Ivan Varzinczak (CAIR, UKZN and CSIR Meraka)
<br>- Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg)
<br>- Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam)
<br>- Gerhard Brewka (Leipzig University)
<br>- Weiru Liu (Queen's University Belfast)
<br>- Eduardo Fermé (Universidade da Madeira)
<br>- Maurice Pagnucco (The University of New South Wales)
<br>- Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam)
<br>- Ramon Pino Perez (Universidad de Los Andes)
<br>- James Delgrande (Simon Fraser University)
<br>- Renata Wassermann (University of Sao Paulo)
<br>- Leon Van Der Torre (ILIAS)
<br>- Gabriella Pigozzi
<br>- Pavlos Peppas (University of Patras)
<br> <br>*** Website maintenance
<br>- Kodylan Moodley (CAIR, UKZN and CSIR Meraka)
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