Call for papers
Call for papers
Announcement: Call for Late-Breaking Papers
Late-Breaking Papers for Qualitative Reasoning Workshop (QR2011)
The
Programme Committee invites the submission of papers related to the
theory and applications of Qualitative Reasoning. We are also interested
in real application papers that discuss the real challenges or problems
that can be addressed by using QR techniques. The purpose of
late-breaking papers is to provide conference attendees with information
about research that was initiated, enhanced, improved or completed
after the original paper submission deadline.
Late-breaking papers will be examined briefly for relevance and acceptability, but will not be peer reviewed.
Late-breaking
papers must be submitted in camera-ready format in accordance with the
camera-ready QR2011 format specifications, which are available on http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/files/ijcai11.tar
LATE-BREAKING PAPERS ARE TO BE 4 PAGES IN LENGTH; NO MORE, NO LESS.
Important Dates for Late-Breaking Papers
Paper Submission: 10th June 2011
Author Acceptance Notification: 15th June 2011
Important issues:
- Accepted late-breaking papers will be presented together in a poster session;
- Late-breaking papers will not be included in the proceedings;
- An external reviewer/moderator will guarantee the scientific level of the late-breaking papers;
- The moderator will introduce all the late-breaking papers to the audience before the poster session.
We hope that this will increase participation and, as a result, guarantee the scientific level of the workshop.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Qualitative
Reasoning (QR) is a research area at the interface of Artificial
Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Engineering and Science. Its main
objective is to model real-world systems that have continuous aspects
about which we only have incomplete, qualitative knowledge. Humans are
amazingly effective at working with such knowledge, and many science,
engineering and educational applications could benefit greatly from
similar capabilities. In seeking to understand the ability to reason
qualitatively, QR combines the quest for fundamental understanding of
effective reasoning about systems and new ways to supplement
conventional modelling, analysis, diagnosis and control techniques to
tackle real-world applications. On this occasion, the conference will be
organised by the Research Group on Knowledge Engineering (GREC).
The
main goal of this conference is to present and discuss the latest
contributions to Qualitative Reasoning. The secondary objective is to
forge links among researchers from different universities and research
groups around the world.
The
25th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning will be held at the
Residencia d'Investigadors in the centre of Barcelona from 16th to 18th
July 2011. It will be co-located with the 22nd International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI-11, which will also be held in Barcelona, from 19th to 22nd July.
The
25th edition of the International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning
(QR2011) will bring together the following research interest domains:
TOPICS
Development of algorithms and systems for constructing, simulating, and applying qualitative and semi-quantitative models
Study, from a cognitive modeling perspective, how humans represent and use incomplete knowledge
Development
of methods for system modeling, explanation, diagnosis, and design,
with applications in science, engineering, business and education.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
All papers must be submitted via the QR2011 submission web site. All submissions should be formatted according to the IJCAI-11 guidelines , must be in PDF format and can be one of the following types:
Full Paper: Not to exceed 6000 words, excluding references.
Poster: Not to exceed 6000 words, excluding references.
Brief Ideas/Viewpoints: Exactly one page in the workshop format (see below).
Review
Process. All submissions will be selected according to their quality,
significance, originality, and potential to generate discussion. Each
contribution will be reviewed by at least two referees from the QR2011
Program Committee.
Submission
to Conferences or Journals. The accepted papers will be published as a
collection of Working papers. As QR2011 is a workshop, not a conference,
submission of the same paper to conferences or journals is acceptable.
The workshop is also open to people who would like to attend without submitting a paper or a poster.
25th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning