NMR 2000 - Schedule of  talks


 
Sunday, April 9
8:45- 8:50
Welcome (Ten Mile)
8:50-10:00
Invited talk: Victor Marek, Nonmonotonic Reasoning: recent advances, questions and future directions (Ten Mile)
10:00-10:30
Break (Miners B)
10:30-12:00
Aspen/Bighorn NMR: Torsten Schaub - session chair (Aspen/Bighorn) Systems descriptions and demonstrations: Juergen Dix - session chair (Ten Mile)
10:30-11:00
M. Hietalahti, F. Massacci, I. Niemela, DES: a challenge problem for nonmonotonic reasoning systems OSCAR(1), SATEN(1)
11:00-11:30
P. Nicolas, F. Saubion, I. Stephan, Genetic algorithms for extension serach in default logic  SNePS(1), ACLP(1)
11:30-12:00
K. Satoh, H. Okamoto, Computing circumscriptive databases by integer programming: revisited  E-RES(1), SLDNF(1)
12:00-13:30
Lunch
13:30-15:30
NMR: Fangzhen Lin -session chair (Aspen/Bighorn) Systems descriptions and demonstrations: Juergen Dix - session chair (Ten Mile)
13:30-14:00
Y. Babovich, E. Erdem, V. Lifschitz, Fages' theorem and answer set programming  PAL(1),  XNMR(1)
14:00-14:30
J. Delgrande, T. Schaub, H. Tompits, Logic programs with compiled preferences PAL(2),  XNMR(2)
14:30-15:00
M. Denecker, Extending classical logic with inductive definitions   dlv(1), QUIP(1)
15:00-15:30
Break (Miners B)
15:30-16:30
NMR: Jim Delgrande - session chair (Aspen/Bighorn) Systems descriptions and demonstrations: Juergen Dix - session chair (Ten Mile)
15:30-16:00
G. Antoniou, D. Billington, G. Governatori, M. Maher, A flexible framework for defeasible logics  OSCAR(2), SATEN(2)
16:00-16:30
L. Bovens, S. Hartmann, Coherence, belief expansion and bayesian networks OSCAR(3), SATEN(3)
16:30-17:00
  SNePS(2), SLDNFA(2)
17:00-17:30
  SNePS(3), SLDNFA(3)
17:30-18:00
Break (Miners B)
18:00-20:00
Reception/Poster session (Ten Mile)

 
 
 
Monday, April 10
8:30- 9:15
Invited tutorial: Ilkka Niemela, Answer Set Programming, part 1 (Ten Mile)
9:15- 9:30
Break
9:30-10:15
Invited tutorial: Ilkka Niemela, Answer Set Programming, part 2 (Ten Mile)
10:15-10:30
Break (Miners B)
10:30-12:00
Joint NMR and BR session: Mary-Anne Williams - session chair (Aspen/Bighorn) Systems descriptions and demonstrations: Juergen Dix - session chair (Ten Mile)
10:30-11:00
G. Brewka, Declarative Representation of Belief Revision Strategies PAL(3), XNMR(3)
11:00-11:30
R. Booth, The Lexicographic Closure as a revision Process  smodels(1), GADEL(1)
11:30-12:00
T. Meyer, The semantics of merging  dcs(1), PREFERRED(1)
12:00-14:00
Workshop Lunch (Forest)
14:00-16:00
Belief revision: Maurice Pagnucco - session chair (Aspen/Bighorn) Systems descriptions and demonstrations: Juergen Dix - session chair (Ten Mile)
14:00-14:30
J. Delgrande, T. Schaub, A consistency-based model for belief change E-RES(2), QUIP(2)
14:30-15:00
F. Johnson, S. Shapiro, Implementing integrity constraints in an existing belief revision system E-RES(3), QUIP(3)
15:00-15:30
S. Chopra, K. Georgatos, R. Parikh, Relevance Sensitive Non-monotonic Inference on BeliefSequences  dlv(2), ACLP(2)
15:30-16:00
G. Kern-Isberner, Conditional indifference and conditional preservation  dlv(3), ACLP(3)
16:00-16:30
Break (Miners B)
16:30-18:30
Belief revision: Samir Chopra - session chair (Aspen/Bighorn) Systems descriptions and demonstrations: Juergen Dix - session chair (Ten Mile)
16:30-17:00
R. Wassermann, Local Diagnosis smodels(2), GADEL(2)
17:00-17:30
A. Darwiche, On the tractability of counting theory models and its application to belief revision and truth maintenance smodels(3), GADEL(3)
17:30-18:00
R. Lau, A.H.M. ter Hofstede, P.D. Bruza, Applying max-adjustment to adaptive information filtering agents  dcs(2), PREFERRED(2)
18:00-18:30
 dcs(3), PREFERRED(3)

 
 
 
Tuesday, April 11
9:00-10:00
Invited talk: Didier Dubois, invited talk  (Ten Mile)
10:00-10:30
Break (Miners B)
10:00-10:30
Uncertainty frameworks in NMR (Aspen/Bighorn) Abductive reasoning; Tony Kakas - session chair (Ten Mile)
10:30-11:00
A. Darwiche, Non-monotonic reasoning using bayesian network compilation N. Pelov,  E. De Mot, M. Bruynooghe, A comparison  of logic programming approaches for representation and solving of constraint satisfaction problems 
11:00-11:30
M.Y. Khayata, D. Pacholczyk, A statistical probability theory for a symbolic management of quantified assertions K. Satoh, Consistency management of normal logic program by top-down abductive proof procedure 
11:30-12:00
T. Lukasiewicz, Probabilistic default reasoning with conditional constraints B. Van Nuffelen, M. Denecker, Problem solving in ID-logic with aggregates: some experiments
12:00-13:30
Lunch
13:30-15:30
Uncertainty frameworks in NMR (Aspen/Bighorn) Abductive reasoning: Francesca Toni - session chair (Ten Mile)
13:30-14:00
A. Gilio, Precise propagation of upper and lower probability bounds in System P D. T. Dupre, Abductive and consistency-based diagnosis revisited: A modeling Perspective
14:00-14:30
R. Da Silva Neves, J.F. Bonnefon, E. Raufaste, Rationality in human nonmonotonic inference J. Gartner, T. Swift, A. Tien, C.V. Damasio, L.M. Pereira, Psychiatric diagnosis from the view of computational logic 
14:30-15:00
L. Godo, R. Rodriguez, A short note on nonmonotonic inferences induced by graded similarity N. Mellouli, B. Bouchon-Meunier, Fuzzy approaches to abductive inference
15:00-15:30
R.R. Yager, Nonmonotonicity and compatibility relations in belief structures Discussion: evaluation of the role of abductive reasoning in Artificial Intelligence, its problems and challenges
15:30-16:00
Break (Miners B)
16:00-18:00
Uncertainty frameworks in NMR (Aspen/Bighorn) Reasoning about action and planning (Ten Mile)
16:00-16:30
J. Kohlas, R. Haenni, D. Berzati, Probabilistic argumentation systems and abduction S. Holldoebler, H.-P. Stoerr, BDD-based reasoning in the fluent calculus - first results
16:30-17:00
L. Amgoud, C. Cayrol, A reasoning model based on the production of acceptable arguments H. Grosskreutz, G. Lakemeyer, cc-Golog: towards more realistic logic-based robot controllers
17:00-17:30
S. Benferhat, D. Dubois, S. Kaci, H. Prade,    Encoding classical fusion in ordered knowledge bases framework M. Bruynooghe, Logic programming for describing and solving planning problems
17:30-18:00
W. Liu, M.-A. Williams, A framework for multi-agent belief revision:  Part II, A layered model and shared knowledge structure A. Kakas, R. Miller and F. Toni, Planning with incomplete information
18:00-18:15
Break
18:15-19:00
Wrap up (Ten Mile)