godfrey@cs.umd.edu (Parke Godfrey) (04/04/91)
Mathematical Sciences Institute The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies The Association for Logic Programming Xerox Webster Research Center ADVANCE PROGRAM & REGISTRATION INFORMATION FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LOGIC PROGRAMMING and NON-MONOTONIC REASONING July 22-24, 1991 Capitol Holiday Inn Washington, DC SCHEDULE Monday, July 22nd 8:00 - 8:50 Registration 8:50 - 9:00 Welcome 9:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk Vladimir Lifschitz (Univ. of Texas - Austin) "Negation-by-Failure as a Modal Operator" 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break Session I: Auto-Epistemic Logic Session Chair: To be announced 10:30 - 11:00 "Auto-epistemic Logic and Logic Programming" T. Przymusinski (Univ. of Texas - El Paso) 11:00 - 11:30 "Credulous and Autoepistemic Reasoning Using Ordered Logic" P. Geerts & D. Vermeir (Univ. of Antwerp) 11:30 - 12:00 "Computing Intersection of Autoepistemic Expansions" W. Marek & M. Truszczynski (Univ. of Kentucky) 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (Not Provided) 2:00 - 3:00 Invited Talk Jeff Remmel (Univ. of California - San Diego) "Normal Default Logic is Less Expressive Than Stable Semantics of Logic Programs" 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break Session II: Properties of Logic Programming Semantics Session Chair:To be announced 3:30 - 4:00 "Beliefs as Stable Conjectures" P. Bonatti (Univ. of Pisa) 4:00 - 4:30 "Dualities between Alternative Semantics for Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning" C. Baral & V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ. of Maryland) 4:30 - 5:00 "Partial Models and Three Valued Logic in Logic Programs with Negations" C. Zaniolo (MCC) & D. Sacca (Univ. della Calabria) 5:00 - 5:15 Break 5:15 - 6:30 Rump Session Tuesday, July 23rd 9:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk Melvin Fitting (City University of New York) "Approximation Logics and Well-Founded Semantics" 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break Session III: Well-Founded Semantics Session Chair:To be announced 10:30 - 11:00 "Contradiction Removal within Well-Founded Semantics" J.N. Aparicio, L.M. Pereira, J.J. Alfreres (Univ. of Lisbon) 11:00 - 11:30 "Well-Founded Reasoning with Classical Negation" P.M. Dung & P. Ruamviboonsuk (Asian Inst. of Tech.) 11:30 - 12:00 "Taking Possibilities Seriously" J. Schlipf (Univ. of Cincinnati) 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (Not Provided) Session IV: Theory Session Chair:To be announced 2:00 - 2:30 "Embedding Default Logic into Modal Non-Monotonic Logics" M. Truszczynski (Univ. of Kentucky) 2:30 - 3:00 "Cumulative Extensions of the Stratified Semantics" J. Dix (Univ. of Karlsruhe) 3:00 - 3:30 "Representing Sets of Rational Trees Using Techniques of Non-Monotonic Reasoning" M. Maher (IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr.) 3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break 4:00 - 5:30 Panel Discussion Moderator: V.S. Subrahmanian "Applications of Logic Programming & Non-Monotonic Reasoning" - A. Nerode (Cornell Univ.) - P. Broome (U.S. Army) - A. Brown (Xerox) 6:00 Banquet Banquet Speaker: Jack Minker University of Maryland Wednesday, July 24th 9:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk David S. Warren (SUNY at Stonybrook) "Extending OLDT Resolution to Compute Well-Founded and Stable Model Semantics of Logic Programs" 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break Session V: Extensions Session Chair:To be announced 10:30 - 11:00 "A Cumulative Inference Relation for JTMS & Logic Programming" G. Brewka & D. Makinson 11:00 - 11:30 "Circumscribing Embedded Implications" L.T. McCarty (Rutgers Univ.) 11:30 - 12:00 "Belief Revision, Extended Logic Programs and Paraconsistency" S. Pimental (Adroit Systems, Inc.) & W. Rodi (M.I.T.) 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (Not Provided) Session VI: Miscellaneous Session Chair:To be announced 2:00 - 2:30 "Explicit Definition in Epistemic Specifications" M. Gelfond & H. Przymusinska (Univ. of Texas-El Paso) 2:30 - 3:00 "Auto-epistemic Logic of Knowledge" G. Schwarz (Univ. of Kentucky) 3:00 - 3:30 "The Stable Semantics of Logic Programs Through Negation as Hypothesis" A.C. Kakas (Imperial Coll.) & P. Mancarella (Univ. of Pisa) 3:30 CONCLUSION ******************************************************************************* REGISTRATION FORM Deadline June 21, 1991 Name: _______________________________________________________________ Affiliation: _______________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Telephone: _____________________________ Fax: __________________________ E-mail: _______________________________________________________________ Dietary Restriction: Kosher ___________ Vegetarian ________________ (Banquet) REGISTRATION DEADLINE - JUNE 21, 1991 Fee includes a banquet and a copy of the proceedings - (Except students) Regular pre-registration fee - $100 Regular late registration fee - $150 (after June 21st) Student pre-registration fee - $50 Student late registration fee - $75 (after June 21st) Make check payable to the University of Maryland Foundation/LPNMR. Mail check and registration form to: Dawn Vance UMIACS A.V. Williams Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 ______________________________________ HOTEL RESERVATIONS: A block of rooms is being held from Sunday, July 21st through Wednesday, July 24th at the disounted rate of $88/single and $108/double. Reservations received after the cut-off date of June 21, 1991 or after the room block is filled are subject to limited availability and might not be available at the discount rate. Contact Dawn Vance at (301) 405-6722 or by e-mail, dawn@umiacs.umd.edu to receive a hotel reservation form and other pertinent information. AIRLINE INFORMATION: USAir has been designated as the official airline of the workshop. Contact Dawn Vance for additional information. STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS: Partial travel support is available for a limited number of graduate students. Please send a 1 page letter and a copy of your CV by electronic mail to Dawn Vance at dawn@umiacs.umd.edu by April 30th. Decisions will be made by May 15th. PROCEEDINGS:The proceedings will be published by MIT Press and will be available at the workshop.
godfrey@cs.umd.edu (Parke Godfrey) (04/04/91)
... Mathematical Sciences Institute The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies The Association for Logic Programming Xerox Webster Research Center ADVANCE PROGRAM & REGISTRATION INFORMATION FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LOGIC PROGRAMMING and NON-MONOTONIC REASONING July 22-24, 1991 Capitol Holiday Inn Washington, DC SCHEDULE Monday, July 22nd 8:00 - 8:50 Registration 8:50 - 9:00 Welcome 9:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk Vladimir Lifschitz (Univ. of Texas - Austin) "Negation-by-Failure as a Modal Operator" 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break Session I: Auto-Epistemic Logic Session Chair: To be announced 10:30 - 11:00 "Auto-epistemic Logic and Logic Programming" T. Przymusinski (Univ. of Texas - El Paso) 11:00 - 11:30 "Credulous and Autoepistemic Reasoning Using Ordered Logic" P. Geerts & D. Vermeir (Univ. of Antwerp) 11:30 - 12:00 "Computing Intersection of Autoepistemic Expansions" W. Marek & M. Truszczynski (Univ. of Kentucky) 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (Not Provided) 2:00 - 3:00 Invited Talk Jeff Remmel (Univ. of California - San Diego) "Normal Default Logic is Less Expressive Than Stable Semantics of Logic Programs" 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break Session II: Properties of Logic Programming Semantics Session Chair:To be announced 3:30 - 4:00 "Beliefs as Stable Conjectures" P. Bonatti (Univ. of Pisa) 4:00 - 4:30 "Dualities between Alternative Semantics for Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning" C. Baral & V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ. of Maryland) 4:30 - 5:00 "Partial Models and Three Valued Logic in Logic Programs with Negations" C. Zaniolo (MCC) & D. Sacca (Univ. della Calabria) 5:00 - 5:15 Break 5:15 - 6:30 Rump Session Tuesday, July 23rd 9:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk Melvin Fitting (City University of New York) "Approximation Logics and Well-Founded Semantics" 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break Session III: Well-Founded Semantics Session Chair:To be announced 10:30 - 11:00 "Contradiction Removal within Well-Founded Semantics" J.N. Aparicio, L.M. Pereira, J.J. Alfreres (Univ. of Lisbon) 11:00 - 11:30 "Well-Founded Reasoning with Classical Negation" P.M. Dung & P. Ruamviboonsuk (Asian Inst. of Tech.) 11:30 - 12:00 "Taking Possibilities Seriously" J. Schlipf (Univ. of Cincinnati) 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (Not Provided) Session IV: Theory Session Chair:To be announced 2:00 - 2:30 "Embedding Default Logic into Modal Non-Monotonic Logics" M. Truszczynski (Univ. of Kentucky) 2:30 - 3:00 "Cumulative Extensions of the Stratified Semantics" J. Dix (Univ. of Karlsruhe) 3:00 - 3:30 "Representing Sets of Rational Trees Using Techniques of Non-Monotonic Reasoning" M. Maher (IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr.) 3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break 4:00 - 5:30 Panel Discussion Moderator: V.S. Subrahmanian "Applications of Logic Programming & Non-Monotonic Reasoning" - A. Nerode (Cornell Univ.) - P. Broome (U.S. Army) - A. Brown (Xerox) 6:00 Banquet Banquet Speaker: Jack Minker University of Maryland Wednesday, July 24th 9:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk David S. Warren (SUNY at Stonybrook) "Extending OLDT Resolution to Compute Well-Founded and Stable Model Semantics of Logic Programs" 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break Session V: Extensions Session Chair:To be announced 10:30 - 11:00 "A Cumulative Inference Relation for JTMS & Logic Programming" G. Brewka & D. Makinson 11:00 - 11:30 "Circumscribing Embedded Implications" L.T. McCarty (Rutgers Univ.) 11:30 - 12:00 "Belief Revision, Extended Logic Programs and Paraconsistency" S. Pimental (Adroit Systems, Inc.) & W. Rodi (M.I.T.) 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (Not Provided) Session VI: Miscellaneous Session Chair:To be announced 2:00 - 2:30 "Explicit Definition in Epistemic Specifications" M. Gelfond & H. Przymusinska (Univ. of Texas-El Paso) 2:30 - 3:00 "Auto-epistemic Logic of Knowledge" G. Schwarz (Univ. of Kentucky) 3:00 - 3:30 "The Stable Semantics of Logic Programs Through Negation as Hypothesis" A.C. Kakas (Imperial Coll.) & P. Mancarella (Univ. of Pisa) 3:30 CONCLUSION ******************************************************************************* REGISTRATION FORM Deadline June 21, 1991 Name: _______________________________________________________________ Affiliation: _______________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Telephone: _____________________________ Fax: __________________________ E-mail: _______________________________________________________________ Dietary Restriction: Kosher ___________ Vegetarian ________________ (Banquet) REGISTRATION DEADLINE - JUNE 21, 1991 Fee includes a banquet and a copy of the proceedings - (Except students) Regular pre-registration fee - $100 Regular late registration fee - $150 (after June 21st) Student pre-registration fee - $50 Student late registration fee - $75 (after June 21st) Make check payable to the University of Maryland Foundation/LPNMR. Mail check and registration form to: Dawn Vance UMIACS A.V. Williams Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 ______________________________________ HOTEL RESERVATIONS: A block of rooms is being held from Sunday, July 21st through Wednesday, July 24th at the disounted rate of $88/single and $108/double. Reservations received after the cut-off date of June 21, 1991 or after the room block is filled are subject to limited availability and might not be available at the discount rate. Contact Dawn Vance at (301) 405-6722 or by e-mail, dawn@umiacs.umd.edu to receive a hotel reservation form and other pertinent information. AIRLINE INFORMATION: USAir has been designated as the official airline of the workshop. Contact Dawn Vance for additional information. STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS: Partial travel support is available for a limited number of graduate students. Please send a 1 page letter and a copy of your CV by electronic mail to Dawn Vance at dawn@umiacs.umd.edu by April 30th. Decisions will be made by May 15th. PROCEEDINGS:The proceedings will be published by MIT Press and will be available at the workshop.