1st Multidisciplinary Workshop on
Advances in Preference Handling
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
The workshop will take place at the University of Edinburgh in the William Robertson Building G01 .
Sunday, July 31st
8:45 - 8:55 Welcome
8:55 - 9:45 Session: AI Planning - chair: Carmel Domshlak
Keith Golden and Ronen Brafman and Wanlin Pang, Preferences in Data Production Planning (22+3)
Meghyn Bienvenu and Sheila Mc Ilraith, Qualitative Dynamical Preferences in the Situation Calculus (22+3)
9:45 - 10:30 Session: Preference relations 1 - chair: Werner Kießling
Gerhard Brewka and Ilkka Niemelae and Miroslaw Truszczynski, Prioritized Component Systems (22+3)
Wolf-Tilo Balke and Ulrich Güntzer, Efficient Skyline Queries under Weak Pareto Dominance (15+3)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:15 Session: Preference relations 2 - chair: Ulrich Junker
Ph. Besnard and J. Lang and P. Marquis, Variable forgetting in preference relations over propositional domains (22+3)
Carmel Domshlak and Thorsten Joachims, Unstructuring User Preferences: Efficient Non-Parametric Utility Revelation (22+3)
Kathrin Konczak and Jerome Lang, Voting procedures with incomplete preferences (22+3)
12:15 - 14:05 Lunch break
14:05 - 15:00 Session: Preference aggregation - chair: Jerome Lang
Daniel Eckert and Johann Mitloehner, Logical representation and merging of preference information (15+3)
Gautier Meyer and Vincent Louis and Jean-Paul Sansonnet and Yannick Larvor, Two logical operators for representing and handling preferences (15+3)
Souhila Kaci and Leendert van der Torre, Non-monotonic Reasoning With Various Kinds of Preferences (15+3)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:45 Session: CP-nets - chair: Francesca Rossi
Ronen I. Brafman and Doron Friedman, Adaptive Rich Media Presentations via Preference-Based Constrained Optimization (22+3)
S. Prestwich and F. Rossi and K. B. Venable and T. Walsh, Constraint-based Preferential Optimization (22+3)
Didier Dubois and Souhila Kaci and Henri Prade, CP-nets and possibilistic logic: Two approaches to preference modeling Steps towards a comparison (22+3)
16:45 - 16:55 Short break
16:55 - 17:35 Session: Importance preferences - chair: Judy Goldsmith
Ronen I. Brafman and Carmel Domshlak and Solomon Eyal Shimony and Yael Silver, TCP-nets for Preferences over Sets (15+3)
Yannis Dimopoulos and Pavlos Moraitis and Alexis Tsoukias, Extending Variable Importance in Preference Networks (15+3)
17:35 - 18:00 Wrap-up, discussions, announcenents
Monday, August 1st
8:45 - 9:50 Session: Preference elicitation - chair: Carmel Domshlak
Paolo Viappiani and Boi Faltings and Vincent Schikel Zuber and Pearl Pu, Stimulating Preference Expression Using Suggestions (22+3)
Ruggiero Cavallo, David C. Parkes, Adam I. Juda, Adam Kirsch, Alex Kulesza, Sebastien Lahaie, Benjamin Lubin, Loizos Michael, and Jeffrey Shneidman, TBBL: A Tree-Based Bidding Language for Iterative Combinatorial Exchanges (15+3)
Derek Williams and Kyle Bailey and Alex Dekhtyar and Judy Goldsmith and Beth Goldstein and Raphael Finkel and Joan Mazur, Interactive preferences and decision-theoretic planning (15+3)
9:50 - 10:30 Session: Complex preference structures - chair: Pearl Pu
Florin Constantin and David C. Parkes, Preference-Based Characterizations of Truthfulness and the Limited Expressiveness of Order-Based Domains (15+3)
Meltem Oeztuerk and Alexis Tsoukias, Preferences On Intervals: a general framework (15+3)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:15 Session: Graphical representations - chair: Alexis Tsoukiàs
Christophe Gonzales and Patrice Perny, GAI Networks for Decision Making under Certainty (22+3)
Darius Braziunas and Craig Boutilier, Local Utility Elicitation in GAI Models (22+3)
Yagil Engel and Michael P.Wellman, CUI networks: A graphical representation for conditional utility independence (22+3)
12:15 - 13:55 Coffee break
13:55 - 15:00 Session: Probabilistic approaches - chair: Ronen Brafman
Chihiro Ono and Youichi Motomura and Hideki Asoh, A Study of Probabilistic Models for Integrating Collaborative and Content-based Recommendation (15+3)
Jason D. M. Rennie and Nati Srebro, Loss Functions for Preference Levels: Regression with Discrete Ordered Labels (15+3)
Daniel Kikuti and Fabio G. Cozman and Cassio P. de Campos, Partially Ordered Preferences in Decision Trees: Computing Strategies with Imprecision in Probabilities (22+3)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:40 Session: Constraint Programming - chair: Patrice Perny
Robert Morris and Paul Morris and Lina Khatib and Neil Yorke-Smith, Temporal Constraint Reasoning with Preferences and Probabilities (15+3)
Maria Silvia Pini and Francesca Rossi and Brent Venable, Possibilistic and probabilistic uncertainty in soft constraint problems (22+3)
Ulrich Junker, Preference-based Inconsistency Proving: When the Failure of the Best Is Sufficient (22+3)
16:40 - 16:50 Short break
16:50 - 17:35 Session: Advanced Issues - chair: Werner Kießling
Jan Chomicki and Joyce Song, Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Preference Revision (22+3)
Michael Mc Geachie, Integrating Tradeoffs Preferences with Arbitrary Ceteris Paribus Preferences (15+3)
17:35 - 18:00 Wrap-up, discussions, announcenents