[UAI] 2nd CFP: Workshop on belief revision, belief merging and social choice Augustus De Morgan Workshop 2006 - 2nd call for papers
"Belief revision, belief merging and social choice"
8 - 10 November 2006, King's College London, UK
http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/events/ADMW06/index.html

Belief revision, belief merging and social choice theory share a 
number of principles. Belief revision investigates the dynamics of 
the process of belief change: when an agent is faced with new 
information which contradicts his/her current beliefs, he/she will 
have to retract some of the old beliefs in order to accommodate the 
new information consistently. Recently, the problem of belief 
revision has been generalised to consider the aggregation of 
potentially conflicting individual belief bases into a collective 
one. This new area is called belief merging. On the other hand, 
social choice deals with the aggregation of individual preferences to 
decide on a collectively preferred outcome. Although there are clear 
connections between these areas, the investigation of the relations 
between them is quite new.

The aim of this workshop is to promote interaction between 
researchers of these three disciplines and generate 
cross-fertilisation of ideas. As such, we have invited leading 
researchers in belief revision, belief merging and social choice 
theory to present their work, and we also invite submissions of 
papers and extended abstracts in related areas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* belief revision
* belief merging
* social choice theory
* decision making
* preference handling
* aggregation of preferences and judgments
* negotiations in multi-agent systems
* theories of order
* fuzzy preferences
* voting

IMPORTANT DATES:
* Extended abstracts submission deadline: September, 22nd
* Notification of acceptance: October, 2nd
* Registration: October, 9th
* Workshop: November, 8th-10th

INVITED SPEAKERS:
Gerhard Brewka (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Sebastien Konieczny (CRIL, Lens, France)
Jerome Lang (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Christian List (LSE, London, UK)
Francesca Rossi (University of Padova, Italy)
Maurice Salles (University of Caen, France)

ORGANISERS:
Dov Gabbay (KCL)
Gabriella Pigozzi (KCL and Univ. of Luxembourg)
Odinaldo Rodrigues (KCL)

CONTACT:
izfy85@gmail.com

FURTHER DETAILS:
http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/events/ADMW06/index.html
-- 
Gabriella Pigozzi
Department of Computer Science
King's College London
http://www.pigozzi.org


