[sci.logic] LP&NMR Workshop -- Schedule and Registration

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

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			    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.