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                    Call for Participation
        
               3rd Multidisciplinary Workshop on
         Advances in Preference Handling (M-PREF 2007)
                in conjunction with VLDB 2007

           Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Sept 23, 2007

         http://www.mycosima.com/vldb2007-preferences/
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DESCRIPTION:
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Although preferences have traditionally been studied in fields such as
economic decision making, social choice theory and Operations Research, they
have nowadays found significant interest in computational fields such as
Artificial Intelligence, databases and human-computer interaction. This
broadened scope of preferences leads to new types of preference models, new
problems for applying preference structures, and new kinds of benefits. The
workshop promotes this broadened scope of preference handling and continues a
series of multidisciplinary workshops on preference handling which have been
very successful. It provides a forum for presenting advances in preference
handling and for exchanging experiences between researchers facing similar
questions, but coming from different fields. Topics of interest include
preference handling in database systems and in AI, applications of
preferences, preference elicitation, preference representation and modeling,
properties and semantics of preferences, comparison of approaches and
interdisciplinary work.


LOCATION & REGISTRATION:
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M-PREF 2007 will be held in conjuction with VLDB 2007, at the
University of Vienna, Austria.
Visit

http://www.vldb2007.org/

for instructions on how to register.


PROGRAM:
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The complete workshop program can be found at

http://www.mycosima.com/vldb2007-preferences/program.html


ACCEPTED PAPERS:
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Paolo Ciaccia:
Querying Databases with Incomplete CP-nets

Denis Mindolin, Jan Chomicki:
Hierarchical CP-networks

Yannis Dimpopoulos, Fani Athienitou:
Learning CP-Networks: A preliminary investigation

Timotheus Preisinger, Werner Kießling:
The Hexagon Algorithm for Pareto Preference Queries

Ulrich Güntzer, Wolf Balke:
Consistently Adding Amalgamations to Preference Orders

Akrivi Vlachou, Michalis Vazirgiannis:
Link-based Ranking of Skyline Result Sets

Luís Moniz Pereira, Gonçalo Lopes, Pierangelo Dell'Acqua:
Pre- and Post Preferences over Abductive Models

Wolfgang Faber, Hans Tompits, Stefan Woltran:
Characterizing Notions of Strong Equivalence for Logic Programs with Ordered
Disjunctions

Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Manuela Ritterskamp:
Using Preference Fusion for Default Reasoning

Olivier Pivert, Patrick Bosc, Allel Hadjali:
Preference-Based Divisions to Overcome Empty Answers

Souhila Kaci, Henri Prade:
Combining Qualitiative Preferences expressed by means of Generic Constraints

Daniel Kikuti, Fabio Cozman:
Influence Diagrams with Partially Ordered Preferences

Pierre Marquis, Meltem Öztürk:
Representing Interval Orders by Weighted Bases: some Complexity Results

Eftychia Baikousi, Panos Vassiliadis:
Tuning the top-k Update Process

Ulrich Junker:
QuickLex (Sat): Hierarchical Lexicographical Bound Reduction for
Propositional Satisfiability


INVITED TALK:
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William Macready (VP Product Development, D-Wave Systems Inc, Vancouver):
Quantum Computing, Databases and Preferences