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DKB 2017 & KIK 2017: Dynamics of Knowledge & Belief / KI & Kognition

25-29 Sep 2017
Dortmund, Germany

CALL FOR PAPERS

6th Workshop on Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief (DKB-2017) and
5th Workshop KI & Kognition (KIK-2017):

Formal and Cognitive Reasoning
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Web page: <http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/dkbkik2017.html>

Workshop at the
40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2017)
September 25-29, 2017, Dortmund, Germany

Organized by the "FG Wissensrepraesentation und Schliessen"
and the FG "Kognition" of the German Informatics Society (GI)

Aims and Scope
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Information for real life AI applications is usually pervaded by uncertainty 
and subject to change, and thus demands for non-classical reasoning approaches. 
At the same time, psychological findings indicate that human reasoning cannot 
be completely described by classical logical systems. Explanations may be 
incomplete knowledge, incorrect beliefs, or inconsistencies.

Knowledge representation offers a rich palette of methods for uncertain 
reasoning both to describe human reasoning and to model AI approaches. Its many 
facets like qualitative vs. quantitative reasoning, defeasible and analogical 
reasoning, argumentation and negotiation in multi-agent systems, causal 
reasoning for action and planning, as well as nonmonotonicity and belief 
revision, among many others, have become very active fields of research. Beyond 
computational aspects, these methods aim to reflect the rich variety of human 
reasoning in uncertain and dynamic environments.

Syllogistic Reasoning Challenge
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At this year's KI conference in Dortmund we plan a challenge on cognitive 
computational modeling of human syllogistic reasoning. The ultimate goal of 
cognitive modeling is to explain underlying cognitive processes while 
approximating the answer distributions generated by humans. The competition is 
necessary as so far any existing psychological theory is deviating 
significantly from the data. More information about this competition can be 
found at <http://www.cc.uni-freiburg.de/syllogchallenge>.

Call for Papers
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The aim of this series of workshops is to address recent challenges and to 
present novel approaches to uncertain reasoning and belief change in their 
broad senses, and in particular provide a forum for research work linking 
different paradigms of reasoning. We put a special focus on papers from both 
fields that provide a base for connecting formal-logical models of knowledge 
representation and cognitive models of reasoning, addressing formal as well as 
experimental or heuristic issues. Previous events of the Workshop on "Dynamics 
of Knowledge and Belief" (DKB) took place in Osnabrück (2007), Paderborn 
(2009), Berlin (2011), and Koblenz (2013), previous editions of the Workshop on 
"KI & Kognition" (KIK) took place in Saarbrücken (2012), Koblenz (2013), and 
Stuttgart (2014), and a joint workshop took place in Dresden (2015).
We welcome papers on the following and any related topics:

* Action and change
* Agents and multiagent systems
* Analogical reasoning
* Argumentation theories
* Belief revision and belief update
* Cognitive modeling and empirical data
* Common sense and defeasible reasoning
* Decision theory and preferences
* Inductive reasoning and cognition
* Knowledge representation
* Learning and knowledge discovery
* Nonmonotonic and uncertain reasoning
* Ontologies and description logics
* Probabilistic approaches of reasoning
* Syllogistic reasoning

Publication
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It is planned to publish the proceedings in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings 
series <http://ceur-ws.org/>.

Workshop Organizers and Co-Chairs
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Christoph Beierle, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund, Germany
Marco Ragni, Universität Freiburg, Germany
Frieder Stolzenburg, Hochschule Harz, Germany

Important Dates
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Deadline for Submission: July 01, 2017
Notification of Authors: July 31, 2017
Camera-ready Paper:      August 15, 2017
Challenge submission:    September 01, 2017
Workshop & Challenge:    September 26, 2017   (exact day to be confirmed)

Program Committee (not yet complete)
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Thomas Barkowsky, Universität Bremen, Germany
Gerhard Brewka, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Emmanuelle-Anna Dietz, TU Dresden, Germany
Christian Freksa, Universität Bremen, Germany
Ulrich Furbach, Universität Koblenz, Germany
Andreas Herzig, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Steffen Hölldobler, TU Dresden, Germany
Manfred Kerber, University of Birmingham, UK
Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Bernhard Nebel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Henri Prade, IRIT - CNRS, France
Hans Rott, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Claudia Schon, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Matthias Thimm, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Paul Thorn, Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Hans Tompits, TU Wien, Austria
Christoph Wernhard, TU Dresden, Germany

Submission Details
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Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format 
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>. 
The length of each paper should not exceed 8-12 pages. All papers must be 
written in English and submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system 
<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dkbkik2017>.

Local Information
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Local information can be found on the web pages of the KI-2017 
<http://ki2017.tu-dortmund.de/> conference.

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