DKB 2013 - Fourth Workshop on Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief

Information for real life AI applications is usually pervaded by uncertainty and subject to change, and thus demands for non-classical processing. A rich palette of methods for uncertain reasoning have been developed in the field of knowledge representation showing its many facets - qualitative vs. quantitative reasoning, argumentation and negotiation in multi-agent systems, causal reasoning for action and planning,as well as nonmonotonicity and belief revision have become very active fields of research, among many others. The aim of this series of workshops is to address recent challenges and to present novel approaches to uncertain reaoning and belief change in their broad senses, and in particular provide an interdisciplinary forum for research work linking different paradigms of reasoning such as work on argumentation and belief change, or the usage of uncertain reasoning methods in first-order environments, especially for ontologies. The workshops shall also foster cross-fertilization between the area of knowledge representation, on the one hand, and other disciplines such as philosophy and psychology, on the other hand.
Topics of Interest:
We welcome papers on the following and any related topics:
Knowledge representation in theory and practice
Belief revision and belief update
Nonmonotonic and uncertain reasoning
Learning and knowledge discovery in data
Argumentation theories
Decision theory and preferences
Ontologies and description logics
Agents and multiagent systems
Action and change
Submission and Contribution Format:
The workshop will be held in English in order to attract an international audience. The agenda will leave enough room for discussions, so each talk will be followed by a discussion period of 10 minutes. Papers should be formated according to the Springer LNCS format, the length of each paper should not exceed 15 pages. Papers are subject to regular peer review and subsequent publication within the workshop proceedings.