The
concept of preference has played an important role in various aspects
of computer science. For example, preferences play a key role in the
design of practical and efficient reasoning systems dealing with
real-world knowledge. The concept of preference has been investigated
by many researchers in different fields, both within Computer
Science (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, Optimizations,
Scheduling) and outside of Computer Science (e.g., Economics,
Decision Theory).
In
recent years we have witnessed a growing interest in studying
the integration of preferences in the context of logic-based
and logic programming systems. These directions of research
are of great importance, considering that preferences are
considered a vital component of reasoning with real-world
knowledge, and logic programming is one of the most widely
used programming paradigms employed in knowledge
representation and reasoning.
This
workshop attempts to address all aspects of describing,
modelling, computationally handling, and application of
preferences, within the context of logic programming. In
particular, we seek contributions that create
cross-fertilization between different approaches to preferences
and different flavors of logic programming (e.g., constraint
logic programming, answer set programming), hopefully leading
to new, more general, approaches for handling preferences in
logic programming.
The
workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
- preferences in logic programming
- preferences in answer set programming
- preferences in logic-based planning
- soft constraints
- knowledge representation and reasoning with preferences
- languages for preferences description
- systems and experiences
- applications of preferences
The
purpose of this workshop is to bring together
researchers interested in modeling and implementing
preferences in logic programming. The objective is to promote
exchange of ideas and possible integration between the
different approaches proposed so far.
The workshop is co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Logic Programming.
Marcello
Balduccini, Department of Computer Science, Texas Tech
University, USA
Gerhard Brewka,
Intelligent Systems Department, University of Leipzig, Germany
Ulrich Junker,
ILOG, France
Enrico Pontelli,
Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, USA
Torsten Schaub,
Institute of Informatics, University of Potsdam, Germany
Tran Cao Son,
Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, USA
Mirek Truszczynski,
Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, USA
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