Connectionists: QR'18 - 31st International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR)

[Zoe Falomir]

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QR'18 — 31st International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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Co-located at IJCAI-ECAI-18, Stockholm, Sweden, July 13-19, 2018

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Web Page: http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/pang.wei/pages/QR2018/index.html
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INTRODUCTION
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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.

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:

* Developing new formalisms and algorithms for qualitative reasoning.
* Building and evaluating predictive, prescriptive, diagnostic, or
explanatory qualitative models in novel domains.
* Characterizing how humans learn and reason qualitatively about the
(physical) world with incomplete knowledge.
* Developing novel, formal representations to describe central aspects
of our world: time, space, change, uncertainty, causality, and
continuity.


TOPICS
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* Qualitative modeling in physical, biological and social sciences,
and in engineering.
* Representations and techniques for QR.
* Methods that integrate QR with other forms of knowledge
representation and computational approaches, including quantitative
and semi-quantitative methods and machine learning.
* Using QR for diagnosis, design, and monitoring of physical or
biological systems.
* Applications of QR, including education, science, and engineering.
* 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.
* Using QR in understanding language, decision-making, sketches,
images, and other kinds of signals and data sources.
* Formalization, axiomatization, and mathematical foundations of QR.


IMPORTANT DATES
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* Submissions deadline:                         May 4, 2018
* Author notification:                         June 1, 2018
* Camera-ready paper submission deadline:      June 15, 2018
* Early registration date:                     to appear at IJCAI-ECAI website


PAPER SUBMISSION
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Three types of submissions are sought: theory, application, and demo oriented:

* Theory contributions present novel ideas regarding representation
and reasoning, and position this result in the context of known QR
theory.
* 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).
* 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.

Format:
* Submissions must be in PDF format and not exceed 8 pages.
* Submissions should be formatted according to the IJCAI author guidelines.
* Submissions do not need to be anonymized; the author list and the
author publications should read as they will in the camera-ready copy.

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.

Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair platform at:

 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qr18


PUBLICATION
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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).


ORGANIZATION
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George M. Coghill (primary contact)
Department of Computing Science
University of Aberdeen, UK
g.coghill at abdn.ac.uk

Zoe Falomir
Bremen Spatial Cognition Centre (BSCC)
Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics
University of Bremen, Germany
zfalomir at uni-bremen.de

Wei Pang
Department of Computing Science
University of Aberdeen, UK
pang.wei at abdn.ac.uk


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Nuria Agell, ESADE - Ramon Llull University, Spain
José V. Alvarez, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Elena Andonova, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria
Mehul Bhatt, University of Bremen, Germany
Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University, USA
Stefano Borgo, ISTC CNR, Italy
Elizabeth Bradley, University of Colorado, USA
Bert Bredeweg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ivan Bratko, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tony Cohn, University of Leeds, UK
Maria Chang, IBM, USA
Juan J. Flores, Universidad Michoacana, Mexico
Ken Forbus, Northwestern University, USA
Christian Freksa, University of Bremen, Germany
Scott Friedman, Smart Information Flow Technologies, USA
Joanna Golińska-Pilarek, University of Warsaw, Poland
Luis Gonzalez-Abril, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Hans Guesguen, Massey University, New Zealand
Tomoya Horiguchi, Kobe University, Japan
Liliana Ironi, IMATI - CNR, Italy
Kamal Kansou, Centre de recherche Angers-Nantes, France
Alexandra Kirsch, University of Tübingen, Germany
Johan de Kleer, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Matthew Klenk, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Kate Lockwood, University of St. Thomas, USA
Andrew Lovett, Northwestern University, USA
Emilio Muñoz-Velasco, University of Malaga, Spain
Lledó Museros, University Jaume I, Spain
Chris Price, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK
Mónica Sánchez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Paulo Santos, Centro Universitario FEI, Brasil
Qiang Shen, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK
Carl Schultz, Aarhus University, Denmark
Steven Schockaert Cardiff University, UK
Peter Struss, Technical University München, Germany
Kazuko Takahashi, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Stefania Tentoni, IMATI - CNR, Pavia, Italy
Louise Travé-Massuyès, LAAS-CNRS, France
Jan O. Wallgrün, Penn State University, USA
Diedrich Wolter, University of Bamberg, Germany
Jure Zabkar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Dr.-Ing. Zoe Falomir Llansola
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Twitter @zfalomir

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