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