<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>due to several requests, the deadline has been extended till May 11.</div><div>So, you still have time to update your papers or submit new ones!</div><div><br></div><div>Note also that QR has been scheduled finally to take place on Friday 13.</div><div>Please, widespread this call into your networks!</div><div><br></div><div>And all the best,</div><div>Zoe</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>=====================================================================</div><div>QR’18 — 31st International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning</div><div><br></div><div>*NEW* Extended Deadline: 11 May</div><div>LAST CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div><br></div><div>=====================================================================</div><div><br></div><div>Co-located at IJCAI-ECAI-18, Stockholm, Sweden, </div><div>*NEW* Confirmed date: Friday July 13, 2018</div><div><br></div><div>======================================================================</div><div><br></div><div>Web Page: <a href="http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/pang.wei/pages/QR2018/index.html">http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/pang.wei/pages/QR2018/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>======================================================================</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>INTRODUCTION</div><div>------------</div><div>The Qualitative Reasoning (QR) community develops qualitative representations to understand the world from incomplete, imprecise, or uncertain data. Our qualitative models span natural systems (e.g., physics, biology, ecology, geology), social systems (e.g., economics, cultural decision-making), cognitive systems (e.g., conceptual learning, spatial reasoning, intelligent tutors, robotics), and more.</div><div><br></div><div>The QR community includes researchers in Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Cognitive Science, Applied Mathematics, and Natural Sciences, commonly seeking to understand, develop, and exploit the ability to reason qualitatively. This broadly includes:</div><div><br></div><div>* Developing new formalisms and algorithms for qualitative reasoning.</div><div>* Building and evaluating predictive, prescriptive, diagnostic, or explanatory qualitative models in novel domains.</div><div>* Characterizing how humans learn and reason qualitatively about the (physical) world with incomplete knowledge.</div><div>* Developing novel, formal representations to describe central aspects of our world: time, space, change, uncertainty, causality, and continuity.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>TOPICS</div><div>------</div><div><br></div><div>* Qualitative modeling in physical, biological and social sciences, and in engineering.</div><div>* Representations and techniques for QR.</div><div>* Methods that integrate QR with other forms of knowledge representation and computational approaches, including quantitative and semi-quantitative methods and machine learning.</div><div>* Using QR for diagnosis, design, and monitoring of physical or biological systems.</div><div>* Applications of QR, including education, science, and engineering.</div><div>* Cognitive models of QR, including the use of existing QR formalisms for cognitive modeling and results from other areas of cognitive science for qualitative reasoning.</div><div>* Using QR in understanding language, decision-making, sketches, images, and other kinds of signals and data sources.</div><div>* Formalization, axiomatization, and mathematical foundations of QR.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div>---------------</div><div>* Submissions deadline: **May 11, 2018**</div><div>* Author notification: May 24-29, 2018 </div><div>* Early registration date: **May 31, 2018**</div><div>* Camera-ready paper: June 15, 2018</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PAPER SUBMISSION </div><div>----------------</div><div><br></div><div>Three types of submissions are sought: theory, application, and demo oriented:</div><div><br></div><div>* Theory contributions present novel ideas regarding representation and reasoning, and position this result in the context of known QR theory.</div><div>* Application contributions present the use and evaluation of software implementing QR theory in actual real-world contexts. Evaluations can range from technology oriented (e.g. address software functioning in operational contexts) to human oriented (e.g. address usability or stakeholders and market related issues).</div><div>* Demos focus on (novel) implementations of QR theory in software. They can be proof of concepts, but also mature products. Contributions typically address the extras needed to realize the implementation.</div><div><br></div><div>Format:</div><div>* Submissions must be in PDF format and not exceed 8 pages.</div><div>* Submissions should be formatted according to the IJCAI author guidelines.</div><div>* Submissions do not need to be anonymized; the author list and the author publications should read as they will in the camera-ready copy.</div><div><br></div><div>Review Process: All submissions will be evaluated and selected according to their quality, significance, originality, and potential to generate discussion. Each contribution will be reviewed by at least two referees from the QR2018 Program Committee. Papers may be accepted for either oral or poster presentation.</div><div><br></div><div>Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair platform at:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qr18">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qr18</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PUBLICATION</div><div>-----------</div><div>The accepted papers will be published as a collection of working papers. The format of the publication will be discussed with the authors after acceptance (eg. CEUR-ws.org or on-line without ISSN).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ORGANIZATION</div><div>------------</div><div>George M. Coghill (primary contact)</div><div>Department of Computing Science</div><div>University of Aberdeen, UK</div><div><a href="mailto:g.coghill@abdn.ac.uk">g.coghill@abdn.ac.uk</a></div><div><br></div><div>Zoe Falomir</div><div>Bremen Spatial Cognition Centre (BSCC)</div><div>Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics</div><div>University of Bremen, Germany</div><div><a href="mailto:zfalomir@uni-bremen.de">zfalomir@uni-bremen.de</a></div><div><br></div><div>Wei Pang</div><div>Department of Computing Science</div><div>University of Aberdeen, UK</div><div><a href="mailto:pang.wei@abdn.ac.uk">pang.wei@abdn.ac.uk</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</div><div>-----------------</div><div>Nuria Agell, ESADE - Ramon Llull University, Spain</div><div>José V. Alvarez, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain</div><div>Elena Andonova, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria</div><div>Mehul Bhatt, University of Bremen, Germany</div><div>Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University, USA</div><div>Stefano Borgo, ISTC CNR, Italy</div><div>Elizabeth Bradley, University of Colorado, USA</div><div>Bert Bredeweg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands</div><div>Ivan Bratko, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia</div><div>Tony Cohn, University of Leeds, UK</div><div>Maria Chang, IBM, USA</div><div>Juan J. Flores, Universidad Michoacana, Mexico</div><div>Ken Forbus, Northwestern University, USA</div><div>Christian Freksa, University of Bremen, Germany</div><div>Scott Friedman, Smart Information Flow Technologies, USA</div><div>Joanna Golińska-Pilarek, University of Warsaw, Poland</div><div>Luis Gonzalez-Abril, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain</div><div>Hans Guesguen, Massey University, New Zealand</div><div>Tomoya Horiguchi, Kobe University, Japan</div><div>Liliana Ironi, IMATI - CNR, Italy</div><div>Kamal Kansou, Centre de recherche Angers-Nantes, France</div><div>Alexandra Kirsch, University of Tübingen, Germany</div><div>Johan de Kleer, Palo Alto Research Center, USA</div><div>Matthew Klenk, Palo Alto Research Center, USA</div><div>Kate Lockwood, University of St. Thomas, USA</div><div>Andrew Lovett, Northwestern University, USA</div><div>Emilio Muñoz-Velasco, University of Malaga, Spain</div><div>Lledó Museros, University Jaume I, Spain</div><div>Chris Price, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK</div><div>Mónica Sánchez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain</div><div>Paulo Santos, Centro Universitario FEI, Brasil</div><div>Qiang Shen, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK</div><div>Carl Schultz, Aarhus University, Denmark</div><div>Steven Schockaert Cardiff University, UK</div><div>Peter Struss, Technical University München, Germany</div><div>Kazuko Takahashi, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan</div><div>Stefania Tentoni, IMATI - CNR, Pavia, Italy</div><div>Louise Travé-Massuyès, LAAS-CNRS, France</div><div>Jan O. Wallgrün, Penn State University, USA</div><div>Diedrich Wolter, University of Bamberg, Germany</div><div>Jure Zabkar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia</div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>------------------------------------------------------------<br>Dr.-Ing. 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