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WS QSTR 2015 : Workshop on Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning: Computational Complexity and Algorithms | |||||||||||
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Call for Papers - Workshop on Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning: Computational Complexity and Algorithms http://www.math.tu-dresden.de/Workshop_QSTR_2015/ August 21st/22nd, 2015 - Dresden, Germany co-located with KI 2015 submission deadline: June 1st, 2015 ********************************************************************* Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to interested colleagues and students. MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES Qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning is a subfield of AI that is committed to the study of relational knowledge representation languages. Such languages are used for reasoning about semantically meaningful properties of the represented domain (contact of regions, temporal order, etc.). Allen's interval algebra and the RCC calculi are the most prominent approaches, but many more have been developed. Spatial and temporal domains are typically infinite and exhibit complex structures. Due to their richness and diversity, qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning is confronted with some unique challenges. In particular, analyzing the computational complexity of such problems and developing efficient algorithms have proven to be highly challenging tasks. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers from different fields (including Automated Theorem Proving, Constraint Solving, Logic, Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science, Qualitative Reasoning) to discuss open problems, methodology, and recent advancements in the field. TOPICS OF INTEREST We invite submissions related to all computational aspects of qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning including but not limited to: * complexity of qualitative reasoning tasks * efficient algorithms * formal characterizations of qualitative representation and reasoning * qualitative reasoning problems in applications * qualitative vs. other forms of geometric, spatial and temporal reasoning * logics for qualitative reasoning * mixed qualitative–quantitative reasoning * algorithms for qualitative query languages IMPORTANT DATES submission due June, 1st, 2015 notification of acceptance July 8th, 2015 workshop August 21nd/22nd (TBA), 2015 SUBMISSIONS Participants are invited to submit papers presenting ongoing and new research, important results, and brilliant ideas. Papers will be reviewed by the program committee and should be submitted as PDF files (maximum 10 pages, plus clearly marked technical appendix if necessary). Please submit your manuscript at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quac2015 PROGRAM COMMITTEE AND ORGANIZATION Manuel Bodirsky TU Dresden, Germany (organizer, chair) Hubie Chen University of the Basque Country and Ikerbasque Martin Cooper IRIT, Université de Toulouse III, France Ivo Duentsch Brock University, Canada Robin Hirsch University College London, UK Peter Jonsson Linköping University, Sweden (organizer) Sanjiang Li University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Michael Pinsker Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jochen Renz The Australian National University Steven Schockaert Cardiff University, UK John Stell University of Leeds, UK Stefan Woelfl University of Freiburg, Germany Diedrich Wolter University of Bamberg, Germany (organizer) |
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