Fifth International Symposium on

Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS)

February 11-15, 2008 -- Pisa, Italy

Important Dates:
Paper submission: Aug 29, 2007
Author notification: Oct 31, 2007
Early registration: Jan 31, 2008
Symposium: Feb 11-15, 2008
 

Invited Talks

  • Coupling Design and Verification in Software Product Lines
    Egon Börger (Università di Pisa, Italy) and Don Batory (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

  • Random Geometric Identification
    Gyula O.H. Katona (Rényi Institute, Budapest, Hungary)

  • Strategic Abilities of Agents
    Jürgen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)

    Accepted Papers (Regular Presentation)

  • Aggregation of Attack Relations: A Social-Choice Theoretical Analysis of Defeasibility Criteria
    Fernando A. Tohmé, Gustavo A. Bodanza, and Guillermo R. Simari

  • Alternative Characterizations for Program Equivalence under Answer-Set Semantics based on Unfounded Sets
    Martin Gebser, Torsten Schaub, Hans Tompits, and Stefan Woltran

  • An Alternative Foundation for DeLP: Defeating Relations and Truth Values
    Ignacio D. Viglizzo, Fernando A. Tohmé, and Guillermo R. Simari

  • Appropriate Reasoning about Data Dependencies in Fixed and Undetermined Universes
    Joachim Biskup and Sebastian Link

  • Autonomous Sets - A Method for Hypergraph Decomposition with Applications in Database Theory
    Henning Koehler

  • Cost-minimising Strategies for Data Labelling: Optimal Stopping and Active Learning
    Christos Dimitrakakis and Christian Savu-Krohn

  • Information-Optimal Reflections of View Updates on Relational Database Schemata
    Stephen J. Hegner

  • Merging First-Order Knowledge using Dilation Operators
    Nikos Gorogiannis and Anthony Hunter

  • On the Existence of Armstrong Instances with Bounded Domains
    Attila Sali and László Székely

  • Reasoning on Data Models in Schema Translation
    Paolo Atzeni, Giorgio Gianforme, and Paolo Cappellari

  • Tightly Integrated Probabilistic Description Logic Programs for Representing Ontology Mappings
    Andrea Calì, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Livia Predoiu, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

  • Using Transversals for Discovering XML Functional Dependencies
    Thu Trinh

  • Visibly Pushdown Transducers for Approximate Validation of Streaming XML
    Alex Thomo, S. Venkatesh, and Ying Ying Ye

    Accepted Papers (Short Presentation)

  • A Probabilistic Logic with Polynomial Weight Formulas
    Aleksandar Perovi, Zoran Ognjanovi, Miodrag Raskovi, and Zoran Markovi

  • A Transformation-based Approach to View Updating in Stratifiable Deductive Databases
    Andreas Behrend and Rainer Manthey

  • Algorithms for Effective Argumentation in Classical Propositional Logic: A Connection Graph Approach
    Vasiliki Efstathiou and Anthony Hunter

  • Database Preference Queries - A Possibilistic Logic Approach with Symbolic Priorities
    Allel Hadjali, Souhila Kaci, and Henri Prade

  • Defeasible Reasoning and Partial Order Planning
    Diego R. García, Alejandro J García, and Guillermo R. Simari

  • Lossless Decompositions in Complex-Valued Databases
    Henning Koehler and Sebastian Link

  • SIM-PDT: A Similarity Based Possibilistic Decision Tree Approach
    Ilyes Jenhani, Nahla Ben Amor, Salem Benferhat, and Zied Elouedi

  • Towards a Logic for Abstract MetaFinite State Machines
    Qing Wang and Klaus-Dieter Schewe

  • Towards a Fuzzy Logic for Automated Multi-issue Negotiation
    Azzurra Ragone, Umberto Straccia, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, and Francesco M. Donini

  • Enquiries:
    (program and submission)     Sven Hartmann & Gabriele Kern-Isberner
    (local arrangements)     Carlo Meghini

    Copyright © 2007-2008 Markus Kirchberg, Information Science Research Centre, New Zealand.