The deadline of this workshop has been extended until April 30th. INFERENCE METHODS BASED ON GRAPHICAL STRUCTURES OF KNOWLEDGE http://www.irit.fr/LC/
A one day workshop, in Patras Greece on 21st or 22nd July 2008, associated with ECAI 2008 http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008 The use of graphical structures to improve the efficiency of inference and search has been intensively developed in the last few years. These include approaches based on variable elimination and propagation in join trees, methods based on decision diagrams and related representations such as AND/OR graphs, NNFs and tree automata, and incomplete graph-based propagation algorithms. These techniques can be applied, in particular, to constrained optimisation, inference in Bayesian networks and various other uncertainty formalisms, constraints techniques including soft constraints, to relational databases and a wide range of logics. The focus of this workshop will be on these graphical approaches and their use in enabling structural properties of problems to be exploited for inference or search, for example, for uncertain inference or reasoning with soft constraints. The proposed workshop follows on from the ECAI-06 workshop on Inference methods based on graphical structures of knowledge http://www.irit.fr/LC/WIGSK06/ and the ECAI-04 workshop on Local Computation for Logics and Uncertainty http://www.irit.fr/LC/LC04/ IMPORTANT DATES + April 30, 2008: deadline for submissions + May 10, 2008: notification of acceptance + May 26, 2008: deadline for camera-ready version of contributions + July 21 or 22, 2008: workshop dates SUBMISSION Submissions should be 3-5 pages long, and using the ECAI conference submission instructions: http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/substyles.htm. The final versions of the accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. Please email submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Rina Dechter, Univ. California, Irvine, USA. Hélène Fargier, IRIT, Toulouse, France. Jürg Kohlas, Department of Informatics, Fribourg, Switzerland. Jérôme Mengin, IRIT, Toulouse, France. Gérard Verfaillie, ONERA - Toulouse, France. Nic Wilson, 4C, UCC, Ireland. _______________________________________________ uai mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai _______________________________________________ uai mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
