Ecsqaru99
The Fifth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches
to Reasoning with Uncertainty
Conference Programme
Monday 5 July
09.30: Registration
09.30:
Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems
14.00: Tutorial on Belief Functions
17.00: End of tutorial
18.00: End of workshop
Tuesday 6 July
09.00: Registration
09.30:
Workshop on Decision-theoretic and Game-theoretic Agents
14.00: Tutorial on Bayesian Networks
14.00:
Workshop on the ESPRIT Fusion Project
18.00: End of tutorial and workshops
Wednesday 7 July
09.00: Registration
09.30: Key note talk: Inferring causal explanations
Philippe Besnard
10.30: Coffee break
11.00: Gradient descent training of Bayesian networks
Finn Jensen
11.30: Optimized algorithm for learning Bayesian network from data
Fedia Khalfallah and Khaled Mellouli
12.00: Lazy propagation and independence of causal influence
Anders Madsen and Bruce D'Ambrosio
12.30: Updating directed belief networks
Boutheina Ben Yaghlane and Khaled Mellouli
13.00: Buffet lunch in the Ibis Hotel
14.30: A Monte Carlo algorithm for combining Dempster-Shafer belief based
on approximate pre-computation
Serafin Moral and Antonio Salmeron
15.00: Handling different forms of uncertainty in regression analysis:
a fuzzy belief structure approach
Simon Petit-Renaud and Thierry Denoeux
15.30: Information fusion in the context of stock index prediction
Stefan Siekmann, Jorg Gebhardt and Rudolf Kruse
16.00: Coffee break
16.30: Merging with integrity constraints
Sebastien Konieczny and Ramon Pino Perez
17.00: Avoiding non-ground variables
Stefan Bruning and Torsten Schaub
17.30: Non-monotonic and paraconsistent reasoning:
From basic entailments to plausible relations
Ofer Arieli and Arnon Avron
18.00: A comparison of systematic and local search algorithms
for regular CNF formulas
Ramon Bejar and Felip Manya
19.00: Drinks Reception in the Ibis Hotel
Thursday 8 July
09.30: Keynote talk:Robot navigation and map building with the event calculus
Murray Shanahan
10.30: Coffee break
11.00: A critique of inductive causation
Christian Borgelt and Rudolf Kruse
11.30: Anchoring symbols to vision data by fuzzy logic
Silvia Coradeschi and Alessandro Saffiotti
12.00: Filtering vs revision and update: let us debate!
Corine Cossart and Catherine Tessier
12.30: Assessing the value of a candidate: a qualitative possibilistic approach
Didier Dubois, Michel Grabisch and Henri Prade
13.00: Lunch
14.30: On bottom-up pre-processing techniques for automated default reasoning
Thomas Linke and Torsten Schaub
15.00: Probabilisitc logic programming using maximum entropy
Thomas Lukasiewicz and Gabriele Kern-Isberner
15.30: Open default theories over closed domains: An extended abstract
Michael Kaminski
16.00: Coffee break
16.30: Irrelevance and independence axioms in quasi-Bayesian theory
Fabio Cozman
17.00: Rough knowledge discovery and applications
J Guan and D Bell
17.30: Boolean-like interpretation of Sugeno integral
Ivan Kramosil
18.00: An extension of a linguistic negation model allowing us
to deny nuanced property combinations
Daniel Pacholczyk
20.00: Conference Dinner
Friday 9 July
09.30: Keynote talk:Knowledge representation for inductive learning
Peter Flach
10.30: Coffee break
11.00: On the dynamics of default reasoning
Grigoris Antoniou
11.30: Learning default theories
Beatrice Duval and Pascal Nicolas
12.00: Connecting lexicographic with maximum entropy entailment
Rachel Bourne and Simon Parsons
12.30: Query-answering in prioritized default logic
Farid Benhammadi, Pascal Nicolas and Torsten Schaub
13.00: Lunch
14.30: Handling inconsistency efficiently in the incremental construction
of stratified belief bases
Eric Gregoire
15.00: State recognition in discrete dynamical systems
using Petri nets and evidence theory
Michele Rombaut, Iman Jarkass and Thierry Denoeux
15.30: An alternative to outward propagation for Dempster-Shafer Belief functions
Norbert Lehmann and Rolf Haenni
16.00: Coffee break
16.30: Argumentation and qualitative decision making
Simon Parsons and Shaw Green
17.00: Defeasible goals
Leendert van der Torre
17.30: Logical deduction using the local computation framework
Nic Wilson and Jerome Mengin
18.00: End of Conference
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