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
 

Program

Monday, February 11

09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk Egon Börger and Don Batory Coupling Design and Verification in Software Product Lines
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Tea Break
10:30 - 12:00 Regular Presentation Martin Gebser, Torsten Schaub, Hans Tompits, and Stefan Woltran Alternative Characterizations for Program Equivalence under Answer-Set Semantics based on Unfounded Sets
Short Presentation Allel Hadjali, Souhila Kaci, and Henri Prade Database Preference Queries - A Possibilistic Logic Approach with Symbolic Priorities
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Regular Presentation Stephen J. Hegner Information-Optimal Reflections of View Updates on Relational Database Schemata
Short Presentation Andreas Behrend and Rainer Manthey A Transformation-based Approach to View Updating in Stratifiable Deductive Databases
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Tea Break
16:00 - 18:00 Regular Presentation Nikos Gorogiannis and Anthony Hunter Merging First-Order Knowledge using Dilation Operators
Regular Presentation Ignacio D. Viglizzo, Fernando A. Tohmé, and Guillermo R. Simari An Alternative Foundation for DeLP: Defeating Relations and Truth Values

Tuesday, February 12

09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk Gyula O.H. Katona Random Geometric Identification
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Tea Break
10:30 - 12:00 Regular Presentation Thu Trinh Using Transversals for Discovering XML Functional Dependencies
Short Presentation Henning Koehler and Sebastian Link Lossless Decompositions in Complex-Valued Databases
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Regular Presentation Andrea Calì, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Livia Predoiu, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt Tightly Integrated Probabilistic Description Logic Programs for Representing Ontology Mappings
Short Presentation Aleksandar Perovic, Zoran Ognjanovic, Miodrag Raskovic, and Zoran Markovic A Probabilistic Logic with Polynomial Weight Formulas
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Tea Break
16:00 - 18:00 Regular Presentation Attila Sali and László Székely On the Existence of Armstrong Instances with Bounded Domains
Regular Presentation Alex Thomo, S. Venkatesh, and Ying Ying Ye Visibly Pushdown Transducers for Approximate Validation of Streaming XML

Wednesday, February 13

09:00 - 10:00 Regular Presentation Joachim Biskup and Sebastian Link Appropriate Reasoning about Data Dependencies in Fixed and Undetermined Universes
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Tea Break
10:30 - 12:00 Regular Presentation Paolo Atzeni, Giorgio Gianforme, and Paolo Cappellari Reasoning on Data Models in Schema Translation
Short Presentation Qing Wang and Klaus-Dieter Schewe Towards a Logic for Abstract MetaFinite State Machines
from 12:00 Lunch Excursion, Dinner

Thursday, February 14

09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk Jürgen Dix Strategic Abilities of Agents
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Tea Break
10:30 - 12:00 Regular Presentation Henning Koehler Autonomous Sets - A Method for Hypergraph Decomposition with Applications in Database Theory
Short Presentation Vasiliki Efstathiou and Anthony Hunter Algorithms for Effective Argumentation in Classical Propositional Logic: A Connection Graph Approach
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Regular Presentation Christos Dimitrakakis and Christian Savu-Krohn Cost-minimising Strategies for Data Labelling: Optimal Stopping and Active Learning
Short Presentation Ilyes Jenhani, Nahla Ben Amor, Salem Benferhat, and Zied Elouedi SIM-PDT: A Similarity Based Possibilistic Decision Tree Approach
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Tea Break
16:00 - 18:00 Regular Presentation Fernando A. Tohmé, Gustavo A. Bodanza, and Guillermo R. Simari Aggregation of Attack Relations: A Social-Choice Theoretical Analysis of Defeasibility Criteria
Short Presentation Azzurra Ragone, Umberto Straccia, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, and Francesco M. Donini Towards a Fuzzy Logic for Automated Multi-issue Negotiation
Short Presentation Diego R. García, Alejandro J García, and Guillermo R. Simari Defeasible Reasoning and Partial Order Planning
Enquiries:
(program and submission)     Sven Hartmann & Gabriele Kern-Isberner
(local arrangements)     Carlo Meghini

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