MWAP 2014 - The AAAI 2014 Workshop on Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling

Preferences are a central concept of decision making. As preferences are fundamental for the analysis of human choice behavior, they are becoming of increasing importance for computational fields such as artificial intelligence, databases, and human-computer interaction. Nearly all areas of artificial intelligence deal with choice situations and can thus benefit from computational methods for handling preferences. Moreover, social choice methods are also of key importance in computational domains such as multiagent systems. This broadened scope of preferences leads to new types of preference models, new problems for applying preference structures, and new kinds of benefits. Preferences are inherently a multidisciplinary topic, of interest to economists, computer scientists, operations researchers, mathematicians and more. The workshop on Advances in Preferences Handling promotes this broadened scope of preference handling. The workshop seeks to improve the overall understanding of the benefits of preferences for those tasks. Another important goal is to provide cross-fertilization between different fields.
Topics
The main topics are preferences in Artificial Intelligence, multiagent systems, database systems, applications of preferences, preference elicitation, representation, and modeling, and properties and semantics of preferences.
Format and Attendance
The program will consist of presentations of peer-reviewed papers, panel discussions about future challenges, and an invited talk. We expect between 30 and 40 submissions and thus around 15 presentations. We therefore target a one-day workshop.
Submissions
The workshop authors are required to use the AAAI style files to prepare their papers. Papers may be no longer than 6 pages and must be submitted in PDF format.
Workshop Chairs
Darius Braziunas
Kobo Inc.
135 Liberty St
Toronto ON M6K 1A7, Canada
dbraziunas-AT-kobo.com
+1 647 274 8392
Markus Endres
Department of Computer Science
University of Augsburg
Universitatsstr. 6a
86159 Augsburg (Germany)
endres-AT-informatik.uni-augsburg.de
+49 821 598 2166
K. Brent Venable
Tulane University and IHMC
6823 St. Charles Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70118
kvenabl-AT-tulane.edu
+1 214-219-1444
Paul Weng
LIP6, UPMC (Pierre and Marie Curie University)
4 Place Jussieu
75005 Paris, France
paul.weng-AT-lip6.fr
+33 144 27 88 64
Lirong Xia
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12110, USA
xial-AT-cs.rpi.edu
+1 781296 6043
Program Committee
Tentative: Maria Silvia Pini (University of Padova, Italy), Patrice Perny (University Pierre Marie Curie, France), Paolo Ciaccia (University of Bologna, Italy), James Delgrande (Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Canada), Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky, USA), Andrea Passerini (University of Trento, Italy), Francesca Rossi (University of Padova, Italy), Paolo Viappiani (University Pierre Marie Curie, France), Martine Ceberio (University of Texas at El Paso, USA), Marc Pirlot (University of Mons, Belgium), Souhila Kaci (University Montpellier 2, France), Nicolas Maudet (University Pierre Marie Curie, France), Toby Walsh (UNSW, Australia), Matthias Ehrgott (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Eyke Huellermeier (University of Marburg, Germany), Shengbo Guo (Australian National University, Australia), Vincent Mousseau (LGI, Ecole Centrale Paris, France), Jan Chomicki (University at Buffalo, USA), Sylvain Bouveret (Ensimag, Grenoble, France), Ulrich Junker (ILOG, France), Jerome Lang (CNRS and University Dauphine, France), Nic Wilson (4C, Ireland), Scott Sanner (NICTA, Australia), Alexis Tsoukias (CNRS and University Dauphine, France), Neil Yorke-Smith (American University of Beirut, Lebanon), Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University, Israel), Johannes Furnkranz (TU Darmstadt, Germany), Stefano Bistarelli (University of Perugia, Italy)