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Monday, August 2nd
8:00am -- Registration
9:00am
9:00am -- Opening session
9:30am
9:30am -- Session 1: Engineering Modeling
10:30 AM Deviation Models Revisited
Peter Struss
The need for qualitative reasoning in fuzzy modeling: robustness and interpretability issues
Raffaella Guglielmann and Liliana Ironi
10:30am -- BREAK
11:00am
11:00am Session 2: Engineering Reasoning
12:00pm Controller Synthesis using Qualitative Models and Constraints
Subramanian Ramamoorthy and Benjamin J. Kuipers 
Describing system functions that depend on intermittent and sequential behavior
Jonathan Bell and Neal Snooke 
12:00pm -- LUNCH
2:00pm
2:00pm -- Session 3: Modeling
3:00pm Causality Enabled Compositional Modelling of Bayesian Networks
Jeroen Keppens and Qiang Shen
Using Strategies and AND/OR Decomposition for Back of the Envelope Reasoning
Praveen K. Paritosh and Kenneth D. Forbus
3:00pm Session 4: Qualitative Reasoning
4:00pm Abductive Proofs as Models of Qualitative Reasoning
Maxim Makatchev, Pamela W. Jordan, Umarani Pappuswamy and Kurt VanLehn 
Qualitative Reasoning about Food Webs: Exploring Alternative Representations
Tim Nuttle,  Bert Bredeweg and Paulo Salles 
4:00pm BREAK
4:30pm
4:30pm Session 5: Poster Session
5:30pm Poster presenters will give a three minute summary (no more than two power-point slides, submitted in advance to be part of a combined presentation)
Posters will be on display for the duration of the workshop
A methodology for qualitative learning in time series
F.J. Cuberos, Juan Antonio Ortega, Luis Gonzalez and  Francisco Velasco
A qualitative model of the Daniell cell for chemical education
Paulo Salles, Ricardo Gauche and Patrícia Virmond
A qualitative model of the nutrient spiraling in lotic ecosystems to support decision makers for river management
Michael Neumann and Bert Bredeweg
An Approach to Qualitative Radial Basis Function Networks over Orders of Magnitude
Xari Rovira, Núria Agell, Mónica Sánche, Francesc Prats and Xavier Parra
Application of Qualitative Reasoning to Robotic Soccer
Gordon Fraser, Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa
Development of a Qualitative Model for Investigating Benthic Community Response to Anthropogenic Activities
Desiree D. Tullos, Michael Neumann,Juan, Jose Alvarez Sanchez
Dynamic Ontological Support for Qualitative Reasoning in The Knowledge Collective 
Jay Yusko and Martha Evens
Jitter in Self-Explanatory Simulation
Brian A. Kyckelhahn and Kenneth D. Forbus
Learning physical concepts using a qualitative approach: a teaching proposal
Jose V. Alvarez-Bravo, Juan J.Alvarez-Sanchez and Francisco J. Gonzalez-Cabrera
Performing FMEA Using Ontologies
Lars Dittmann, Tim Rademacher, Stephan Zelewski 
Qualitative Modelling of Kinematic Robots
Honghai Liu and George M. Coghill
Similarity-based Qualitative Simulation: A preliminary report
Jin Yan  and Kenneth D. Forbus
Toward a Theory of Qualitative Visual Reasoning in Microanatomy
John R. Pani, Julia H. Chariker, Ronald D. Fell 
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