Workshop »Conditionals, Information, and Inference« Ulm, Germany September 21, 2004 co-located with KI 2004 - 27th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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Conditionals are fascinating and versatile objects of knowledge representation. On the one hand, they may express rules in a very general sense, representing e.g. plausible relationships, physical laws, and social norms. On the other hand, as default rules or general implications, they constitute a basic tool for reasoning, even in the presence of uncertainty. In this sense, conditionals are tightly related both to information and inference.

Conditionals have raised considerable scientific interest in different sciences, such as Artificial Intelligence, logics, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences. The aim of this workshop is to attract researchers from all these areas, and to provide a forum for intense discussions of new results and open problems focussing on any aspect of conditionals, be they of theoretical or practical relevance, addressing specialized or interdisciplinary issues.

As conditional reasoning touches the heart of many interesting and relevant areas in AI, papers on the following topics are welcome:

• counterfactual and causal reasoning
• cognitive aspects of conditional reasoning
• nonmonotonic reasoning and belief revision
• conditional events
• logic programming and answer set programming
• preferences and decision theory
• causal and belief networks
• probabilistic and uncertain reasoning
• default and defeasible reasoning
• conditional and non-classical logics
• applications, in particular to ontological reasoning and semantic web challenges

Gerhard Brewka, Universität Leipzig, Germany

Gabriele Kern-Isberner Fachbereich Informatik Lehrgebiet Praktische Informatik VIII FernUniversität in Hagen P.O. Box 940 D-58084 Hagen, Germany E-Mail: gabriele.kern-isberner@fernuni-hagen.de Wilhelm Rödder Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft Lehrstuhl BWL, insb. Operations Research FernUniversität in Hagen P.O. Box 940 D-58084 Hagen, Germany E-Mail: wilhelm.roedder@fernuni-hagen.de

Ernest Adams, University of Berkeley, CA, USA

Horacio Arlo-Costa, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA

Christoph Beierle, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

Richard Booth, Universität Leipzig, Germany

Gerhard Brewka, Universität Leipzig, Germany

Phil Calabrese, Data Synthesis, San Diego, USA

Michael Freund, Université de Paris, France

Radim Jirousek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

Andreas Herzig, Université Paul Sabatier, France

Gabriele Kern-Isberner, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

Jerome Lang, Université Paul Sabatier, France

Thomas Lukasiewicz, Università di Roma »La Sapienza«, Italy

David Makinson, King's College London, UK

Wilhelm Rödder, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

Choh Man Teng, University of West Florida, USA

Emil Weydert, University of Applied Sciences, Luxembourg

Last Modified: 30-November-2004