Call for Papers: 24th International Workshop on
Qualitative Reasoning
August 8-10, 2010
Qualitative
modeling concerns the representations and reasoning that people use to
understand continuous aspects of the world.
Qualitative models formalize everyday notions of causality, and provide
accounts of how to ground symbolic, relational representations in perceptual
processes. Qualitative models describe
what phenomena might be relevant in a situation and support reasoning about
what outcomes might occur. Qualitative
analyses frame the use of quantitative knowledge, making them important in
understanding expert performance as well as everyday reasoning. There is ample evidence that people use
intuitive mental models in reasoning about the world, and that mental models
also play important roles in expert performance. Qualitative modeling provides formal
representations for such mental models.
Qualitative reasoning has been used to create systems that help
engineers and scientists, including tools for designing, monitoring, and
troubleshooting complex systems, conducting experiments and analyzing data in
human-like ways. Qualitative reasoning
also has great potential for education, since its representations and reasoning
techniques appear to be similar in useful ways to those people use. Consequently, qualitative reasoning is of
interest to researchers in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, as well
as many areas of science and engineering.
The 24th
International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning will be held in
We seek papers on
qualitative reasoning and qualitative modeling, including:
·
Qualitative modeling of particular areas
in physical, biological and social sciences, and in engineering.
·
New
ways to use qualitative reasoning for tasks such as diagnosis, design,
monitoring.
·
Applications
of qualitative reasoning, including education, science, and engineering.
·
Cognitive
models of qualitative reasoning, including use of existing QR formalisms for
cognitive modeling and using ideas and results from other areas of cognitive
science for qualitative reasoning.
·
Using
qualitative reasoning in understanding language, sketches, images, and other
kinds of signals and data sources.
·
Formalization,
axiomatization, and mathematical foundations of qualitative reasoning.
PAPER SUBMISSION AND
REVIEW
All papers must be submitted via the conference submission
web site, by May 19, 2010.
All submissions must be in PDF format, and can be one of the following
types:
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 QR-10 Program Committee.
Submission to
Conferences or Journals. The accepted papers will be published as
a collection of Working papers. As QR-10 is a workshop, not a conference,
submission of the same paper to conferences (e.g., AAAI-10) or journals is
acceptable.
Format.
Papers should be formatted according to the AAAI-10 guidelines, available from www.aaai.org,
and must be in PDF format.
The workshop is also open to people who
would like to attend without submitting a paper or a poster.
IMPORTANT DATES |
Submissions: May 19, 2010 |
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Johan de Kleer, Parc, Inc., and Kenneth D.
Forbus, Northwestern University
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Nuria Agell, ESADE
Business School |