Workshop on Preference Handling for Artificial Intelligence
Schedule
The workshop will be on July 22, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
8:30 - 8:45 am Welcome
8:45 - 9:35 am Session: Auctions and Voting
session chaired by Ulrich Junker
Yagil Engel, Kevin M. Lochner, Michael P. Wellman, Preference Representation for Multi-Unit Multiattribute Auctions , (20+5)
Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K. Brent Venable, Toby Walsh, Sequential majority voting with incomplete profiles , (20+5)
9:35 - 9:40 am Short break
9:40 - 10:30 am Session: Preferences and Constraints
session chaired by Judy Goldsmith
Krzysztof R. Apt, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Comparing the notions of optimality in strategic games and soft constraints , (20+5)
Pauline M. Berry, Melinda Gervasio, Bart Peintner, Neil Yorke-Smith, A Preference Model for Over-Constrained Meeting Requests , (20+5)
10:30 - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:15 pm Session: Combinatorial Preferences
session chaired by Sheila McIlraith
Ronen Brafman, Ajay Martin, Solomon Shimony, Craig Boutilier, Max Binshtok, Computing Optimal Subsets , (20+5)
Darius Braziunas, Craig Boutilier, Minimax regret based elicitation of generalized additive utilities , (20+5)
Ulrich Junker, Upside-down Preference Reversal: How to Override Ceteris Paribus Preferences? , (20+5)
12:15 - 2:00 pm Lunch Break (1h45)
2:00 - 3:00 pm Session: Optimization and Representation
session chaired by Ronen Brafman
Lina Khatib, John Gasch, Robert Morris, Steven Covington, Local Search for Optimal Global Map Generation Using Mid-Decadal Landsat , (15+5)
Joel Uckelman, Ulle Endriss, Preference Representation with Weighted Goals: Expressivity, Succinctness, Complexity, (15+5)
Zhang Zhizheng, Xing Hancheng, A Preference Logic With Four Kinds of Preferences , (15+5)
3:00 - 3:30 pm Session: Learning of Preferences
session chaired by Francesca Rossi
Smiljana Petrovic, Susan L. Epstein, Preferences Improve Learning to Solve Constraint Problems , (15+5)
Julie S. Weber, Preference Learning for Adaptive Interaction , (10)
3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:10 pm Session: Voting and Aggregation
session chaired by Neil Yorke-Smith
Judy Goldsmith, Robert H. Sloan, The AI Conference Paper Assignment Problem , (20+5)
Joachim Giesen, Dieter Mitsche, Eva Schuberth, A Spectral Approach to Collaborative Ranking , (20+5)
Arnold Binas, Sheila A. McIlraith, Exploiting Preferences over Information Sources to Efficiently Resolve Inconsistencies in Peer-to-peer Query Answering , (15+5)
5:10 - 5:40 pm Animated Discussion: Preferences and Intelligence
5:40 - 6:00 pm Wrap-up and announcement