Schedule
WORKSHOP AT IJCAI-05
The Sixth Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action, and Change
August 1, 2005, Edinburgh

IJCAI-05

URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~nrac05/





Workshop Location: University of Edinburgh, William Robertson Building G02





Note: PDF versions of papers may be obtained by clicking on their titles. The entire proceedings may be obtained in a single PDF file by clicking here (file size approx. 2.3 Mb).


Time Event
8:20 - 8:25 Opening
 
Session 1: Reasoning About Actions and Change (Chair: TBA)
 
8:25 - 8:50 Richard Scherl
Action, Belief Change and the Frame Problem: A Fluent Calculus Approach
8:50 - 9:15 Steven Shapiro
Belief Change with Noisy Sensing and Introspection
9:15 - 9:40 Aaron Hunter and James P. Delgrande
Using Ranking Functions to Determine Plausible Action Histories
9:40 - 10:05 Jorge Baier and Sheila McIlraith
Planning with Programs that Sense
10:05 - 10:30 Christian Fritz and Sheila McIlraith
Compiling Qualitative Preferences into Decision-Theoretic Golog Programs
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
 
Session 2: Belief Change (Chair: TBA)
 
11:00 - 11:25 Richard Booth, Samir Chopra and Thomas Meyer
Restrained Revision
11:25 - 11:50 Frances L. Johnson and Stuart C. Shapiro
Improving Recovery for Belief Bases
11:50 - 12:15 Horacio Arlo-Costa
Decision Theoretic Contraction and Value Indeterminacy: Maximizing rather than Optimizing
12:15 - 12:40 Didier Dubois and Henri Prade
Modeling the role of (ab)normality in the ascription of causality judgements by agents
 
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch
 
Session 3: Special theme panel: Wumpus World (Chair: Michael Thielscher)
 
14:00 - 15:00 Special theme panel: Wumpus World (Chair: Michael Thielscher)
Sebastian Sardina and Stavros Vassos
The Wumpus World in IndiGolog: A Preliminary Report
Stuart C. Shapiro and Michael Kandefer
A SNePS Approach to The Wumpus World Agent: or Cassie Meets the Wumpus
Michael Thielscher
A FLUX Agent for the Wumpus World
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee/Tea Break
 
Session 4: Reasoning About Actions (Chair: TBA)
 
15:30 - 15:55 Erik Sandewall
Actions as a Basic Software Concept in the Leonardo Computation System
15:55 - 16:20 Andreas Herzig, Jerome Lang and Pierre Marquis
Action Progression and Revision in Multiagent Belief Structures
16:20 - 16:45 Esra Erdem and Alfredo Gabaldon
Cumulative Effects of Concurrent Actions on Numeric-Valued Fluents
16:45 - 17:10 Selim Erdogan and Vladimir Lifschitz
Actions as Special Cases (Preliminary Report)
17:10 - 17:35 Norman Foo, Thomas Meyer, Yan Zhang and Dongmo Zhang
Negotation Logic Programs
17:35 - 17:40 Closing

A workshop dinner may be held if there is sufficient interest and a venue can be arranged. An announcement will be made during the workshop.


morri@cse.unsw.edu.au