Overview

The concept of preference has played an important role in various aspects of computer science. For example, preferences play a key role in the design of practical and efficient reasoning systems dealing with real-world knowledge. The concept of preference has been investigated by many researchers in different fields, both within Computer Science (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, Optimizations, Scheduling) and outside of Computer Science (e.g., Economics, Decision Theory). In recent years we have witnessed a growing interest in studying the integration of preferences in the context of logic-based and logic programming systems. These directions of research are of great importance, considering that preferences are considered a vital component of reasoning with real-world knowledge, and logic programming is one of the most widely used programming paradigms employed in knowledge representation and reasoning.

This workshop attempts to address all aspects of describing, modelling, computationally handling, and application of preferences, within the context of logic programming. In particular, we seek contributions that create cross-fertilization between different approaches to preferences and different flavors of logic programming (e.g., constraint logic programming, answer set programming), hopefully leading to new, more general, approaches for handling preferences in logic programming. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in modeling and implementing preferences in logic programming. The objective is to promote exchange of ideas and possible integration between the different approaches proposed so far.

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Proceedings

Program

• PREFS program
• PREFS accepted papers
• PREFS pre-proceedings

Topics

• preferences in logic programming
• preferences in answer set programming
• preferences in logic-based planning
• soft constraints
• knowledge representation and reasoning with preferences
• languages for preferences description
• systems and experiences
• applications of preferences

Workshop Organizers

Program Committee

Marcello Balduccini, Department of Computer Science, Texas Tech University, USA

Gerhard Brewka, Intelligent Systems Department, University of Leipzig, Germany

Ulrich Junker, ILOG, France

Enrico Pontelli, Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, USA

Torsten Schaub, Institute of Informatics, University of Potsdam, Germany

Tran Cao Son, Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, USA

Mirek Truszczynski, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, USA

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