AAAI 2002 Workshop on

Preferences in AI and CP: symbolic approaches

Schedule

Sunday, July 28, 2002

9:00 - 9:15 am   Welcome

9:15 - 10:00 am   Invited Talk

Jon Doyle, Preferences: Some Problems and Prospects

10:30 - 11:00 am   Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:15 pm   Session 1: Preferences and Soft Constraints I

session chaired by Ulrich Junker

F. Rossi, K.B. Venable, L. Khatib, P. Morris, R. Morris,  Two solvers for tractable temporal constraints with preferences

Lina Khatib, Paul Morris, Robert Morris,  Optimizing Temporal Preferences

T. Schiex and M. Cooper,  Constraints and preferences: The interplay of preferences and algorithms

12:15 - 2:00 pm   Lunch break

2:00 - 3:30 pm   Session: Preferences and Agents

session chaired by Gerd Brewka

Karen L. Myers, David N. Morley,  Resolving Conflicts in Agent Guidance

Trey Smith, Tuomas Sandholm, and Reid Simmons,  Constructing and Clearing Combinatorial Exchanges Using Preference Elicitation

M. S. Franzin, E. C. Freuder, F. Rossi, R. Wallace,  Multi-agent meeting scheduling with preferences: efficiency, privacy loss, and solution quality

Richard J. Wallace and Eugene C. Freuder,  Meeting scheduling with preferences with limited comparability: Effects of agent knowledge

3:30 - 4:00 pm   Coffee break

4:00 - 5:15 pm   Session: Logical Approaches to Preferences

session chaired by Craig Boutilier

Gerhard Brewka, Logic Programming with Ordered Disjunctions

Richmond H. Thomason,  Preferences as Conclusions

James P. Delgrande, Torsten Schaub, Hans Tompits, and Kewen Wang,  Towards a Classification of Preference Handling Approaches in Nonmonotonic Reasoning

Monday, July 29, 2002

9:00 - 10:30 am  Session 4: Decision Theory and Preference Elicitation 

session chaired by Jim Delgrande

Michael McGeachie and Jon Doyle,  Utility Functions for Ceteris Paribus Preferences

James Royalty, Robert Holland, Judy Goldsmith, Alex Dekhtyar,  POET: The Online Preference Elicitation Tool

Angelo Restificar, Peter Haddawy, Vu Ha, and John Miyamoto,  Eliciting Utilities by Refining Theories of Monotonicity and Risk

Giuseppe Carenini and David Poole,  Constructed Preferences and Value-focused Thinking: Implications for AI research on Preference Elicitation

10:30 - 11:00 am   Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 pm   Session 5: Preferences and Soft Constraints II

session chaired by Francesca Rossi

Marc Torrens and Boi Faltings,  Multi-criteria Optimization in Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Jeroen Keppens and Qiang Shen,  A Calculus of Partially Ordered Preferences for Compositional Modelling and Configuration 

12:00 - 1:00 pm   Panel discussion

Current Problems and Future Directions