From: fronhoef@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Bertram Fronhoefer)
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Subject: WS IJCAI (Action & Change)
Date: 25 Dec 92 01:00:09 GMT
Expires: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 08:00:00 GMT
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Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, Germany


 		CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

 		Reasoning about Action & Change

 		Workshop at IJCAI-93
		August 29 -- September 3, 1993,
		Chamb'ery, France



    The theme of the workshop is the discussion of foundations of
`Reasoning about Action & Change'. Since the topic is fairly broad we
are not interested in special research papers of his field, but rather
intend to focus on fundamental issues which may reach from a critical
assessment of current research trends in this field to guidelines and
perspectives for future research.

Possible topics of contributions might be the following, however, the
list is not comprehensive:

     * 	Which requirements must be fulfilled by a logic
	for Reasoning about Action & Change?
     *	Normative models of change.
     *	Foundational approach to revision.
     *	Revision versus update.
     *	Revision and temporal reasoning
     *	Conditional logic & change.
     *	Action & change.
     *	Syntactical versus semantical views of change.
     *	Abduction & change.
     *	Nonmonotonicity of change


The duration of the workshop will be one full day.
For each talk will be allocated 30 minutes (15 min for the talk
and 15 min for discussion).
The workshop will end with a general discussion of 30-60 minutes in
which the main ideas which have come up shall be summarized and
discussed.

Authors are invited to submit 4 copies of an extended abstract
(4-5 pages) in English.
The submitted abstracts will be refereed by the workshop organisors.
Copies of the accepted abstracts will be distributed at the workshop.

Attendance to the workshop will be limited  to around 35 people.
People interested in attending without intention to give a talk have
to  submit a short 'position paper' stating the reasons of their
interest in the workshop. On the basis of these position papers the
organisors will decide who of the non-speakers will be admitted.
(Rejected submitted abstracts are automatically treated as 'position
papers'.)

Both abstracts and position papers should include an exact address and
an e-mail address.

We invited already the following speakers to give a talk at the workshop:

	Peter G"ardenfors   (Lund, Sweden)
	Remo Pareschi	    (ECRC, Germany)
	Alberto Mendelzon   (Toronto, Canada)
	Yoav Shoham	    (Stanford, USA)


	Important Dates:

	Deadline for submissions: 	March 1
	Notification of acceptance: 	April 1
	Final version of abstract: 	June 1

Since the time for reviewing is rather short the deadline for
submissions will be rather strict.


	Organisors:

	Luis Farinas del Cerro 	(IRIT Toulouse, France)
	Bertram Fronh"ofer 	(TU Munich, Germany)
 	Dov Gabbay 		(Imperial College London, UK)
 	Camilla Schwind 	(GIA Marseille, France)


	Abstracts and position papers should be sent to:

		Bertram Fronh"ofer

		Institut f\"ur Informatik der TU M\"unchen
  		Postfach 20 24 20
  		W -- 8000  M\"unchen  2
  		Tel: +49--89--2105--2031
		Fax: +49--89--2105--526502
  		email: fronhoef@informatik.tu-muenchen.de


	Important Note:

 Each WORKSHOP attendee MUST HAVE REGISTERED FOR THE MAIN CONFERENCE.
 He  will pay an ADDITIONAL (low) 300 FF fee for the WORKSHOP (about
 60 $).  NO  ATTENDANCE TO A WORKSHOP WILL BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT
 REGISTRATION TO IJCAI-93.
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