loui@wucs1.wustl.edu (Ron Loui) (11/22/88)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Defeasible Reasoning with Specificity and Multiple Inheritance St. Louis, MO, April 7 - 9, 1989 Sponsored by AAAI Co-sponsored by McDonnell Douglas AI Support Center, Washington University Department of Computer Science, and Rockwell Science Center Palo Alto This workshop is intended to bring together authors of reasoning systems with specificity defeaters, in order to sort out their differences. These include systems of defeasible, default and non-monotonic reasoning, alterations to conditional logic, non-standard logics, and systems of inheritance. The focal dispute is over what additional behavior a system should exhibit, given that it will prefer more specific defeasible rules when there is conflict. This workshop is intended primarily as a research tool for those already active in the area. Attendance is limited to forty participants. New work is welcome if it is closely related to the focus of the workshop. There will be no proceedings, but discussion will be transcribed. The technical sessions will consist of informal presentations and discussions led by participants. They should offer a forum in which positions, which may already have been presented elsewhere, can be asserted with opportunity for challenge or clarification. Participants thus far include: James DelGrande (Toronto), Jon Doyle (MIT), David Etherington (AT&T Bell Laboratories), Hector Geffner (UCLA), Michael Gelfond (Texas El Paso), Matt Ginsberg (Stanford), Benjamin Grosof (IBM), Brian Haugh (Maryland), John Horty (CMU, Maryland), David Israel (SRI International), Kurt Konolige (SRI International), Vladimir Lifschitz (Stanford), Eric Neufeld (New Brunswick), Donald Nute (Georgia), Lin Padgham (Linkoeping), Judea Pearl (UCLA), John Pollock (Arizona), David Poole (British Columbia), Erik Sandewall (Linkoeping), Rich Thomason (Pittsburgh). Structure Friday 7pm - 10pm. Reception and Problem Session. Saturday 9am - 5pm. Technical Session. River Boat Banquet. Sunday 9am - 2pm. Technical Session. Meetings to be held at Embassy Suites Downtown St. Louis. Contact The program committee will make all decisions regarding attendance. What they will need to decide is a short statement describing why an individual feels that attendance is necessary, indicating issues or problems the individual intends to raise. For those who would like to present work, an extended abstract (2 - 4 pages) would be appropriate. Submit the statement or the abstract to the workshop chair by February 14, 1989. Workshop Chair: Ronald Loui Dept. of Computer Science Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130 (314) 889-6102 Program Committee: David Etherington (AT&T), Hector Geffner (UCLA), David Poole (UBC) Local Arrangements: William Ball, Rosanne Fulcomer (Washington U.)