FCR-2021: 7th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning Workshop at the 44th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2021) September 27 - October 1, 2021: Berlin, Germany Organized by the FG Wissensrepräsentation und Schließen and FG Kognition of the GI
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Aims and Scope

Information for real life AI applications is usually pervaded by uncertainty and subject to change, and thus demands for non-classical reasoning approaches. At the same time, psychological findings indicate that human reasoning cannot be completely described by classical logical systems. Sources of explanations are incomplete knowledge, incorrect beliefs, or inconsistencies. A wide range of reasoning mechanism has to be considered, such as analogical or defeasible reasoning, possibly in combination with machine learning methods. The field of knowledge representation and reasoning offers a rich palette of methods for uncertain reasoning both to describe human reasoning and to model AI approaches.

Call for Papers

Information for real life AI applications is usually pervaded by uncertainty and subject to change, and thus demands for non-classical reasoning approaches. At the same time, psychological findings indicate that human reasoning cannot be completely described by classical logical systems. Sources of explanations are incomplete knowledge, incorrect beliefs, or inconsistencies. A wide range of reasoning mechanism has to be considered, such as analogical or defeasible reasoning, possibly in combination with machine learning methods. The field of knowledge representation and reasoning offers a rich palette of methods for uncertain reasoning both to describe human reasoning and to model AI approaches. This year we welcome especially contributions on intersections between human and formal aspects such as computational thinking. The aim of this series of workshops is to address recent challenges and to present novel approaches to uncertain reasoning and belief change in their broad senses, and in particular provide a forum for research work linking different paradigms of reasoning. A special focus is on papers that provide a base for connecting formal-logical models of knowledge representation and cognitive models of reasoning and learning, addressing formal and experimental or heuristic issues. Previous events of the Workshop on "Formal and Cognitive Reasoning" Dresden (2015), Bremen (2016), Dortmund (2017), Berlin (2018), Kassel (2019), and Bamberg (2020).

• Action and change
• Agents and multiagent systems
• Analogical reasoning
• Argumentation theories
• Belief revision and belief update
• Cognitive modeling and empirical data
• Common sense and defeasible reasoning
• Computational thinking
• Decision theory and preferences
• Inductive reasoning and cognition
• Knowledge representation in theory and practice
• Learning and knowledge discovery in data
• Nonmonotonic and uncertain reasoning
• Ontologies and description logics
• Probabilistic approaches of reasoning
• Syllogistic reasoning

Keynote Speaker

Abstract: Belief Dynamics as a field of research is quite mature, with a history of over thirty years. At a very high level, it is akin to science in spirit: to build theories that can be employed to make predictions. Given the belief state of an agent, and some new information that it has accepted (or rejected), Belief Dynamics aims to predict the new belief state of the agent.
There is an intreresting converse of this problem that has drawn little attention from the community, that we call Belief Manipulation. Given that we know the current state of an agent's knowledge, and some proposition that we want them to believe (or suspend their judgment on), how can we bring about that epistemic change in that agent. In this, the problem of belief manipulation has the flavour of engineering rather than of science.
Belief manipulation is not as rare a phenomenon as one would like it to be. Political propaganda, fake news, information warfare, various sorts of scams and market manipulation are all instances of belief manipulation. A good understanding of this process can help us to potentially detect attempts at belief manipulation and take pre-emptive measures.
In this talk I will present some preliminary ideas on the logic of belief manipulation.

Publication

The proceedings will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (now available: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2961). After the workshop, a selection of extended papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Applied Logics - IfCoLog Journal.

Workshop Organizers and Co-Chairs

Program Committee

Important Dates

Submission Details

Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format. The length of each paper should not exceed 8-12 pages. All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system.

Local Information

Local information can be found on the web pages of the KI-2021 conference.

Last modified 2021-09-16