domenica, gennaio 29, 2006
ECAI'06 Workshop Abduction and Induction
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
ECAI'06 Workshop on
"Abduction and Induction in AI and Scientific Modelling"
Riva Del Garda, August 29, 2006
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~or/AIAI06/
Submission deadline: April 5, 2006
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BACKGROUND
Abduction and induction are forms of logical reasoning with incomplete
information that have many applications in AI. Abduction reasons from
effects to possible causes and has been used in tasks such as planning
and diagnosis. Induction learns general rules for observed data and is
typically used for classification and knowledge acquisition.
As our understanding of abduction and induction continues to grow and
our computational methods improve, it is becoming apparent that there
are potentially significant benefits to be gained by integrating them
both in an incremental cycle of knowledge development. By providing
a means of extending prior knowledge in the light of new experience,
such techniques could be useful in scientific and other AI modelling
applications. Indeed, some promising results are beginning to emerge
from the very first tentative applications of such hybrid systems.
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FOCUS
The purpose of this Workshop is to identify novel techniques for the
integration of abduction and induction, and to explore the practical
utility of such methods in scientific and other modelling domains.
The primary aims of the Workshop are
1) To better understand the role of abduction and induction in theory
formation and revision; and to explore methods for combining them
both within an incremental cycle of knowledge development;
2) To identify different conceptual models for integrating abduction
and induction and to investigate how this integration can be done
in a computationally viable way;
3) To determine the benefits that could result from the combination of
abduction and induction and to characterise the classes of problems
that can be usefully solved with such techniques;
4) To examine possible application areas (such as systems biology) and
to assess in more detail the utility of such integrated frameworks.
The Workshop will also aim to examine the relations to other approaches
(philosophical or cognitive) for modelling scientific and other domains.
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SUBMISSION
To promote a genuine workshop atmosphere, short papers (of 2-5 pages
in length) are preferred over full conference style technical papers.
These should be written for this Workshop and should address at least
one of its general focus points. Position papers, system descriptions
and original applications are especially welcome. An effort should be
made to cover both abductive and inductive reasoning, as opposed to
focusing mainly on one of the two.
Papers should be prepared in Latex using the ECAI 2006 guidelines and
style files (available on the web page cited at the top of this mail).
Please send the pdf via email to "or@doc.ic.ac.uk" with the subject
"aiai06submission". Submissions should be sent by the 5th of April.
Papers will be reviewed by a Program Committee, who will be assessing
their relevance, quality and/or potential impact. Authors of selected
papers will be invited to present their research at the Workshop.
Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by the 5th of May.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Jan 10th, 2006 --- Call for papers.
Apr 5th, 2006 --- Paper submission deadline.
May 5th, 2006 --- Notification of acceptance.
May 18th, 2006 --- Early registration deadline.
May 20th, 2006 --- Camera ready copy deadline.
Aug 29th, 2006 --- Date of the Workshop.
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Peter Flach (University of Bristol, UK)
Katsumi Inoue (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Antonis Kakas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia, Italy)
Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London, UK)
Oliver Ray (Imperial College London, UK)
Alessandra Russo (Imperial College London, UK)
Chiaki Sakama (Wakayama University, Japan)
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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Peter Flach
Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK
email: Peter.Flach@cs.bris.ac.uk
Antonis Kakas
Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
email: antonis@cs.ucy.ac.cy
Lorenzo Magnani
Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Italy
email: lmagnani@unipv.it
Oliver Ray (primary contact)
Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
email: or@doc.ic.ac.uk
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[for more information, please see http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~or/AIAI06/]
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Patrick J. Coppock
Researcher: Philosophy and Theory of Language
Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Sciences
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia
Italy
phone: + 39 0522.522404 : fax. + 39 0522.522512
email: coppock.patrick@unimore.it
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