AAAI 2007

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

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)