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IJCAI 2013 Workshop MPREF 7th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling http://www.mpref.preferencesql.com/mpref2013 *************************************************** * Call for papers: -------------------- Preference handling has become a flourishing topic. There are many interesting results, good examples for cross-fertilization between disciplines, and many new questions. Preferences are a central concept of decision making. As preferences are fundamental for the analysis of human choice behavior, they are becoming of increasing importance for computational fields such as artificial intelligence, databases, and human-computer interaction. Preference models are needed in decision-support systems such as web-based recommender systems, in automated problem solvers such as configurators, and in autonomous systems such as Mars rovers. Nearly all areas of artificial intelligence deal with choice situations and can thus benefit from computational methods for handling preferences. Moreover, social choice methods are also of key importance in computational domains such as multi-agent systems. This broadened scope of preferences leads to new types of preference models, new problems for applying preference structures, and new kinds of benefits. Preferences are studied in many areas of artificial intelligence such as knowledge representation, multi-agent systems, game theory, social choice, constraint satisfaction, decision making, decision-theoretic planning, and beyond. Preferences are inherently a multi-disciplinary topic, of interest to economists, computer scientists, operations researchers, mathematicians and more. This workshop promotes this broadened scope of preference handling and continues a series of events on preference handling at AAAI-02, Dagstuhl in 2004, IJCAI-05, ECAI-06, VLDB-07, AAAI-08, ADT-09, ECAI-2010 and ECAI-2012. Since 2008, this series of workshops is organized by the multidisciplinary working group on Advances in Preference Handling, which is affiliated to the Association of European Operational Research Societies EURO. The workshop provides a forum for presenting advances in preference handling and for exchanging experiences between researchers facing similar questions, but coming from different fields. The workshop builds on the large number of AI researchers working on preference-related issues, but also seeks to attract researchers from databases, multi-criteria decision making, economics, etc. TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop on Advances in Preferences Handling addresses all computational aspects of preference handling. This includes methods for the elicitation, learning, modeling, representation, aggregation, and management of preferences and for reasoning about preferences. The workshop studies the usage of preferences in computational tasks from decision making, database querying, web search, personalized human-computer interaction, personalized recommender systems, e-commerce, multi-agent systems, game theory, social choice, combinatorial optimization, planning and robotics, automated problem solving, perception and natural language understanding and other computational tasks involving choices. The workshop seeks to improve the overall understanding of the benefits of preferences for those tasks. Another important goal is to provide cross-fertilization between different fields. - Preference handling in artificial intelligence Qualitative decision theory Non-monotonic reasoning Preferences in logic programming Preferences for soft constraints in constraint satisfaction Preferences for search and optimization Preferences for AI planning Preferences reasoning about action and causality Preference logic - Preference handling in database systems Preference query languages for SQL and XML Algebraic and cost-based optimization of preference queries Top-k algorithms and cost models Ranking relational data and rank-aware query processing Skyline query evaluation Preference management and repositories Personalized search engines Preference recommender systems - Preference handling in multiagent systems Game theory (Combinatorial) auctions and exchanges Social choice, voting, and other rating/ranking systems Mechanism design and incentive compatibility - Applications of preferences Web search Decision making Combinatorial optimization and other problem solving tasks Personalized human-computer interaction Personalized recommendation systems e-commerce and m-commerce - Preference elicitation Preference elicitation in multi-agent systems Preference elicitation with incentive-compatibility Learning of preferences User preference mining Revision of preferences - Preference representation and modeling Linear and non-linear utility representations Multiple criteria/attributes Qualitative decision theory Graphical models Logical representations Soft constraints Relations between qualitative and quantitative approaches - Properties and semantics of preferences Preference and choice Preference composition, merging, and aggregation Incomplete or inconsistent preferences Intransitive indifference Reasoning about preferences * Important dates: ---------------------- Saturday, April, 20, 2013: Workshop paper submission deadline Monday, May, 20, 2013: Notification on workshop paper submissions Thursday, May, 30, 2013: Camera-ready copy due to organizers August 3-4, 2013: M-PREF’13 Workshop * Workshop chairs: ---------------------- Markus Endres, University of Augsburg, Germany Souhila Kaci, Universite Montpellier 2, LIRMM, France K. Brent Venable, Tulane University and IHMC, USA Paolo Viappiani, CNRS & LIP6, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France
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