AAAI 2002 Workshop on

Preferences in AI and CP: symbolic approaches

Purpose

Although several approaches for treating preferences have been developed in AI, the mathematical formulations as well as the applications of the preferences are often quite different. The time is ripe to

• exchange information and experiences about the different approaches
• understand which approach is best suited for which problem
• compare the different approaches
• study the gaps between different approaches (which can lead to new approaches)
• discuss algorithms for preference handling and present implemented systems
• identify challenging issues for future research on preferences

The purpose of this workshop is to bring researchers from different areas together and to provide a forum for addressing these questions. It is interesting for all AI and CP researchers on (symbolic or qualitative) approaches to preferences, e.g. the participants of recent events on related topics such as the AAAI Spring Symposium on Qualitative Preferences in Deliberation and Practical Reasoning (1997), the workshops on soft constraints at CP, and the workshops on non-monotonic reasoning.

List of Topics

The workshop is intended to be a forum to exchange ideas and results about theory and applications of (symbolic or qualitative approaches to) preferences, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• preferences in qualitative decision theory
• preferences in non-monotonic reasoning
• preferences in logic programming
• preferences in logical data-bases
• preferences for soft constraints
• preferences for search and optimization
• preferences for AI planning
• preferences reasoning about action and causality
• preference logic
• preference representations (e.g., graphical models)
• acquisition and learning of preferences
• preference elicitation
• revision of preferences
• comparison of approaches
• applications of preferences.