6th Workshop on Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief (DKB-2017)   and   5th Workshop KI & Kognition (KIK-2017): Formal and Cognitive Reasoning Workshop at the 40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2017) September 25-29, 2017, Dortmund, 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. Explanations may be incomplete knowledge, incorrect beliefs, or inconsistencies.

Knowledge representation offers a rich palette of methods for uncertain reasoning both to describe human reasoning and to model AI approaches. Its many facets like qualitative vs. quantitative reasoning, defeasible and analogical reasoning, argumentation and negotiation in multi-agent systems, causal reasoning for action and planning, as well as nonmonotonicity and belief revision, among many others, have become very active fields of research. Beyond computational aspects, these methods aim to reflect the rich variety of human reasoning in uncertain and dynamic environments.

Syllogistic Reasoning Challenge

At this year's KI conference in Dortmund we plan a challenge on cognitive computational modeling of human syllogistic reasoning. The ultimate goal of cognitive modeling is to explain underlying cognitive processes while approximating the answer distributions generated by humans. The competition is necessary as so far any existing psychological theory is deviating significantly from the data. More information about this competition can be found at http://www.cc.uni-freiburg.de/syllogchallenge.

Call for Papers

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. We put a special focus on papers from both fields that provide a base for connecting formal-logical models of knowledge representation and cognitive models of reasoning, addressing formal as well as experimental or heuristic issues. Previous events of the Workshop on "Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief" (DKB) took place in Osnabrück (2007), Paderborn (2009), Berlin (2011), and Koblenz (2013), previous editions of the Workshop on "KI & Kognition" (KIK) took place in Saarbrücken (2012), Koblenz (2013), and Stuttgart (2014), and a joint workshop took place in Dresden (2015).

• 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
• Decision theory and preferences
• Inductive reasoning and cognition
• Knowledge representation
• Learning and knowledge discovery
• Nonmonotonic and uncertain reasoning
• Ontologies and description logics
• Probabilistic approaches of reasoning
• Syllogistic reasoning

Publication

The proceedings will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (now available: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1928).

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-2017 conference.

Last modified 2017-05-21