35th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning

Welcome to 35th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning at IJCAI/ECAI 2022

The Qualitative Reasoning (QR) community develops qualitative representations to understand the world from incomplete, imprecise, or uncertain data. Our qualitative models span natural systems (e.g., physics, biology, ecology, geology), social systems (e.g., economics, cultural decision-making), cognitive systems (e.g., conceptual learning, spatial reasoning, intelligent tutors, robotics), and more. The QR community includes researchers in Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Cognitive Science, Applied Mathematics, and Natural Sciences, commonly seeking to understand, develop, and exploit the ability to reason qualitatively.

Vienna · July 23rd, 2022 from 9:30h to 18:00h

Place: Messe Wien Exhibition and Congress Center, Gallerie 11-12

Former workshops

QR 2021 (Montreal, Canada)

QR 2020 (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

QR 2019 (Macao, China)

QR 2018 (Stockholm, Sweden)

QR2017 (Melbourne, Australia)

QR2016 (New York City, NY, USA)

QR2015 (Minneapolis, USA)

QR2013 (Bremen, Germany)

QR2012 (Playa Vista, USA)

QR2011 (Barcelona, Spain)

QR2010 (Portland, USA)

QR2009 (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

QR2008 (Boulder, USA)

Further information on past workshops can be found via QR proceedings archive.

Submissions

Three types of submissions are sought: theory, application, and demo oriented:

  • Theory contributions present novel ideas regarding representation and reasoning, and position this result in the context of known QR theory.
  • Application contributions present the use and evaluation of software implementing QR theory in actual real-world contexts. Evaluations can range from technology oriented (e.g. address software functioning in operational contexts) to human oriented (e.g. address usability or stakeholders and market related issues).
  • Demos focus on (novel) implementations of QR theory in software. They can be proof of concepts, but also mature products. Contributions typically address the extras needed to realize the implementation.

Format:

  • Submissions must be submitted via EasyChair (see below) before the submission deadline.
  • Submissions must be in PDF format and not exceed 8 pages.
  • Submissions should be formatted according to the IJCAI author guidelines.
  • Submissions do not need to be anonymized; the author list and the author publications should read as they will in the camera-ready copy.

We also invite authors who recently published results of interest to the QR community to submit a short summary paper which highlights the results and explains their relevance to QR.

Review Process

All submissions will be evaluated and selected according to their quality, significance, originality, and potential to generate discussion. Each contribution will be reviewed by at least two referees from the QR2022 Program Committee. Papers may be accepted for either oral or poster presentation. The accepted papers will be published as a collection of Working papers. The format of the publication will be discussed with the authors after acceptance (e.g. CEUR-ws.org or on-line without ISSN).

Submission

QR 2022 uses EasyChair for submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qr2022

Dates

Workshop (preliminary, details may change)

  • Date: one day in July 23-29th, 2022 (at IJCAI ECAI 2022, Vienna, Austria).

Important deadlines:

  • Submission deadline: May 24th, 2022
  • Notifications: June 19th, 2022
  • Early registration date: June 5th, 2022
  • Camera-ready copy deadline: July 11th, 2022

Consult the QR2022 submission page for formatting instructions and submission details.

Committee

Programme Chairs:

Núria Agell
Esade Business School, Universitat Ramon Llull, Catalonia, Spain
https://www.esade.edu/faculty/nuria.agell

Kenneth D. Forbus
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~forbus/

Programme Committee:

Elena Andonova, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria
Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University, USA
Mehul Bhatt, University of Bremen, Germany
Stefano Borgo, ISTC CNR, Italy
Ivan Bratko, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Elizabeth Bradley, University of Colorado, USA
Bert Bredeweg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Maria Chang, IBM, USA
Tony Cohn, University of Leeds, UK
George M. Coghill, University of Aberdeen, UK
Ken Forbus, Northwestern University, USA Scott Friedman, Smart Information Flow Technologies, USA
Joanna Golińska-Pilarek, University of Warsaw, Poland
Luis Gonzalez-Abril, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Zoe Falomir, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Florian Grigoleit, Technical University München, Germany
Hans Guesguen, Massey University, New Zealand
Tomoya Horiguchi, Kobe University, Japan
Kamal Kansou, Centre de recherche Angers-Nantes, France
Alexandra Kirsch, University of Tübingen, Germany
Johan de Kleer, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Matthew Klenk, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Kate Lockwood, University of St. Thomas, USA
Andrew Lovett, Northwestern University, USA
Lleó Museros, University Jaume I, Spain
Wei Pang, University of Aberdeen, UK
Chris Price, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK
Mónica Sánchez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Paulo Salles, University of Brasília, Brazil
Paulo Santos, Centro Universitario FEI, Brasil
Qiang Shen, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK
Carl Schultz, Aarhus University, Denmark
Steven Schockaert Cardiff University, UK
Peter Struss, Technical University München, Germany
Kazuko Takahashi, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Stefania Tentoni, IMATI - CNR, Pavia, Italy
Louise Travé-Massuyès, LAAS-CNRS, France
Przemyslaw A. Walega, University of Oxford, University of Warsaw
Jan O. Wallgrün, Penn State University, USA
Diedrich Wolter, University of Bamberg, Germany
Jure Zabkar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Programme

See below

Download document, Programme

Proceedings

See below

Download proceedings, Proceedings

Registration

*Workshop only registration is also possible.

Consult the IJCAI-ECAI-2022 website, Registration

Venue & Accommodations

The workshop is part of the IJCAI-ECAI-2022 workshop programme. The venue of the workshop is at Messe Wien Exhibition and Congress Center, see the workshop program for more details about the venue and local arrangements. 

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about the workshop, please contact workshop chairs:

  • Núria Agell: nuria.agell@esade.edu
  • Kenneth D. Forbus: forbus@northwestern.edu