QR2021

Program of QR2021, August 19th 2021

The Workshop will run from 10:00 to 16:00 Montreal time (UCT-4)
All times below are in EDT (UTC-4), local time in Montreal
The keynote will be 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of discussion
Regular talks will be 10 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion

Time in EDT (UTC-4)	Session
10:00-10:15	Welcome
10:15-11:15	Keynote speaker: Hiroaki Kitano, President, System Biology Institute, Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. Nobel Turing Challenge: Creating the engine for scientific discovery
11:15-12:15	Language and Cognition Towards a Model of the Dynamics of Norm-guided Blaming, by Emily Leblanc Extracting Qualitative Causal Structure with Transformer-based NLP, by Scott Friedman, Ian Magnusson and Sonja Schmer-Galunder Artificial Intelligent Agents Go to School, by Sergei Nirenburg, Jesse English and Marjorie McShane
12:15-12:30	First Break
12:30-13:10	Spatial Reasoning Behind The Corner: Using Qualitative Reasoning for Solving Angry Birds, by Felix Haase and Diedrich Wolter Qualitative Spatiotemporal Representations of Episodic Memory for Strategic Reasoning, by Will Hancock and Ken Forbus
13:10-13:25	Second Break
13:25-14:25	Education Qualitative Representations for Systems Thinking in Secondary Education, by Bert Bredeweg, Marco Kragten and Loek Spitz Learning Domain Knowledge and Systems Thinking using Qualitative Representations in Secondary Education (grade 8-9), by Loek Spitz, Marco Kragten and Bert Bredeweg Learning Domain Knowledge and Systems Thinking using Qualitative Representations in Secondary Education (grade 9-10), by Marco Kragten, Loek Spitz and Bert Bredeweg
14:25-14:40	Third Break
14:40-15:20	Constraints Robust Vs Fast Solving of Qualitative Constraints: Can we do Both?, by Jan Wehner, Michael Sioutis and Diedrich Wolter Resource Models in Qualitative Decision-Making: A Proposal, by Ken Forbus and Tom Hinrich
15:20-15:35	Fourth Break
15:35-16:00	Summary Session and Future QR meetings

last update: 2021-8-16