Important DatesPaper and Posters: February 14,
2005
Acceptance notification: March 31, 2005
Camera-ready
copies: April 18, 2005
Workshop: May 18-20, 2005
Program CommitteeNuria Agell
Chris
Bailey-Kellogg
Gautam Biswas
Ivan Bratko
Bert
Bredeweg
Philippe Dague
Hidde de Jong
Ron Ferguson
Juan
Flores
Ken Forbus
Michael Hofbaur
Liliana Ironi
Johan
de Kleer
Ben Kuipers
Mark Lee
Pieter J. Mosterman
Juan
Ortega
Chris Price
Claudia Picardi
Bernhard Rinner
Paulo
Salles
Cem Say
Qiang Shen
Peter Struss
Stefania
Tentoni
Tetsuo Tomiyama
Louise Trave-Massuyes
Franz
Wotawa
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Qualitative
Reasoning is an exciting research area at the interface
between Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence that combines
the quest for fundamental understanding of how people reason about
physical systems with new ways to supplement conventional modeling,
analysis, diagnosis, and control techniques to tackle real-world
applications. The 19th edition of the workshop will be held in Graz,
Austria from May 18th through May 20th, 2005.
Paper
submissions are encouraged in the following research topics:
- QR and cognitive modeling (e.g., cognitive theories of
reasoning about physical systems, theories and experiments
concerning human reasoning and learning of mental models, QR
models for spatial reasoning, cognitive maps, cognitive
robots);
- QR techniques (e.g., qualitative simulation,
ontologies, management of multiple models, reasoning over time and
space, mathematical formalizations of QR, qualitative algebras,
qualitative dynamics, qualitative kinematics, qualitative
optimization);
- Task-level reasoning (e.g., design, planning,
monitoring, diagnosis and repair, explanation, tutoring and
training, process control and supervision);
- QR applications engineering, (e.g., engineering,
education, business, biology, chemistry, ecology, economics,
social science, environmental science, medicine, and law);
- QR techniques and other modeling approaches (e.g.,
system dynamics and bond-graphs, signal processing, numerical
methods, statistical techniques, differential equations);
- Knowledge acquisition methods (e.g., model building
tools and techniques, automated model construction and machine
learning, acquisition of models from data).
- Theoretical foundations of qualitative reasoning
techniques.
The Program Chairs are Michael
Hofbaur, Bernhard Rinner, and Franz Wotawa (all of them Graz
University of Technology).
Submission of Papers
- Full Paper. A PDF file of the full paper not to exceed
6000 words (excluding references) must be submitted via the
workshop homepage qr05.tugraz.at (or less preferred via e-mail to
qr05@ist.tugraz.at) by February 14, 2005.
- Posters. A PDF file of the poster paper not to exceed
2000 words (excluding references) must be submitted via the
workshop homepage qr05.tugraz.at (or less preferred via e-mail to
qr05@ist.tugraz.at) by February 14, 2005.
- Review Process. Both papers and posters 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-2005 Program
Committee.
- Submission to Conferences or Journals. The accepted
papers will be published as a collection of Working papers. As
QR-2005 is a workshop, not a conference, submission of the same
paper to conferences or journals is acceptable.
We
strongly recommend authors to format their papers according to the
IJCAI 2005 guidelines. Style files are available at the IJCAI 2005 homepage .
Additional ParticipantsPeople who
wish to attend the workshop without submitting a paper or a poster
should send a request to
qr05@ist.tugraz.at.
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