IJCAI-03 Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action, and Change

CALL FOR PAPERS

IJCAI-03 Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action, and Change (NRAC'03)
Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003. 
www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~nrac03/
(held at the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial 
Intelligence)


Overview 

The biannual Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action, and Change (NRAC) was 
first established in 1995 and since then it has been held in conjunction with 
the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).

The focus of NRAC is on the areas of Reasoning about Action, Nonmonotonic 
Reasoning, and Belief Change, all three of which have been identified as the 
fundamental high-level cognitive capabilities necessary for an intelligent 
agent to function in a rich, dynamic environment. 

Research in these areas has made significant progress during the last two 
decades of the past century. In Reasoning about Actions, much of the research 
has focused on the design of appropriate logics for dealing effectively with 
the frame, ramification, and qualification problems. Most of these logics are 
nonmonotonic, showing the strong connection between Nonmonotonic Reasoning and 
Reasoning about Action.  Moreover, as the need to accommodate new observations 
(possibly from inaccurate sensors) enters the scene, the connection between 
Belief Revision and Reasoning about Action comes at focus. 

As the various formalisms in the above three areas are reaching a satisfactory 
level of stability and effectiveness in dealing with the conceptual problems, 
the research community is diverting part of its effort in tackling 
computational considerations as well as applying the theoretical work in 
domains like the Semantic Web and Cognitive Robotics.  

The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from all three 
research areas, working either in theory or in applications, with the aim to: 

- Compare and evaluate existing formalisms in the three areas. 
- Report on new developments and innovations. 
- Identify important challenges (either in theory or in practice). 
- Explore the strong inter-connections between the three areas. 


Submission of Papers

Submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages of standard LaTeX 12pt article 
format (excluding bibliography). Electronic submissions are strongly 
encouraged.  To submit a paper electronically, the authors should send an email 
with subject "NRAC'03 Submission" to both co-chairs (see below), with the file 
of the paper as an attachment (Postscript format), and the following 
information at the body of the email in plain text:

Paper title.
Author names.
Surface mail, email address, and phone number of the contact author.
A short abstract and up to five keywords.

Authors unable to submit their paper electronically should post four hardcopies 
of their paper to one of the co-chairs at the addresses listed below. The paper 
should include an email address, and a postal address of the contact author. 
Deadline dates will be strictly adhered to.


Important Dates

Deadline for Submission:  March 31, 2003 
Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 2003
Camera Ready Copy Due: May 22, 2003 
Workshop Dates: August 10-11, 2003 


Workshop Co-Chairs

Gerhard Brewka 
Computer Science Institute 
University of Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10-11 
04109 Leipzig, Germany
Email: brewka-jNDFPZUTrfTw9Zu3TmXbXSJk02hg1TJes0AfqQuZ5sE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel: +49 341 9 73 22 35 
Fax: +49 341 9 73 22 99 

Pavlos Peppas (contact person)
AIT - Athens Information Technology
19.5km Markopoulo Ave., Peania 19002
Athens, Greece
Email: ppeppas-pvs+CRRe+RBQFI55V6+gNQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel: +30 974 399 683


Programme Committee

Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany
Norman Foo, University of New South Wales, Australia
Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA
Leora Morgenstern, IBM Research Center, USA
Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen Univ. of Technology, Germany
Jerome Lang, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Pavlos Peppas, Athens Information Technology, Greece
Erik Sandewall, Linkoping University, Sweden
Michael Thielscher, Dresden University of Technology, Germany


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