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Program

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Program at a Glance

Monday, Sept. 17

Workshops

Tuesday, Sept. 18

Workshops

Wednesday, Sept. 19th

09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk by Bernhard Nebel
Location: FH HS 6
10:30 - 12:00 Cognitive Robotics
Location: FH HS 6
Search
Location: FH HS 5
13:30 - 15:00 Joint Session: Selected Papers
Location: FH HS 6
15:30 - 16:30 Ontologies and Knowledge Discovery
Location: FH HS 6
Configuration
Location: FH HS 5
20:00 - Mayor's Reception

Thursday, Sept. 20th

09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk by V.S. Subrahmanian
Location: FH HS 6
10:30 - 12:00 Industrial Day: Session I
Location: FH HS 6
Tutorial: Stefan Wrobel
Location: FH HS 5
13:30 - 14:30 Invited Talk by Michael Kearns
Location: FH HS 6
15:00 - 16:30 Industrial Day: Session II
Location: FH HS 6
Tutorial: Thom Fruehwirth
Location: FH HS 5
17:15 - 23:30 Conference Dinner in Klosterneuburg

Friday, Sept. 21st

09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk by Hans Kamp
Location: FH HS 6
10:30 - 12:00 Theorem Proving
Location: FH HS 6
Diagnosis
Location: FH HS 5
13:30 - 15:00 Constraints
Location: FH HS 6
Robotics
Location: FH HS 5
15:30 - 16:30 Nonmonotonic and Temporal Reasoning
Location: FH HS 6
Multiagent Systems
Location: FH HS 5
16:30 Conference Closing

Detailed Program

Monday, Sept. 17

Workshops

Tuesday, Sept. 18

Workshops

Wednesday, Sept. 19th

09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk: Cooperative Sensing and Acting in Robotic Soccer
Bernhard Nebel, Universität Freiburg, Germany
Location: FH HS 6
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Cognitive Robotics
Location: FH HS 6
Search
Location: FH HS 5
Inferring Implicit State Knowledge and Plans with Sensing Actions
Michael Thielscher
Theory and Practice of Time-Space Trade-Offs in Memory Limited Search
Stefan Edelkamp, Ulrich Meyer
Belief Update in the pGolog Framework
Henrik Grosskreutz, Gerhard Lakemeyer
Prediction of Regular Search Tree Growth by Spectral Analysis
Stefan Edelkamp
Addressing the Qualification Problem in FLUX
Yves Martin, Michael Thielscher
Finding Optimal Solutions to Atomix
Falk Hueffner, Stefan Edelkamp, Henning Fernau, Rolf Niedermeier
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00 Joint Session: Selected Papers
Location: FH HS 6
Approximating Most Specific Concepts in Description Logics with Existential Restrictions
Ralf Küsters, Ralf Molitor
Towards First-Order Temporal Resolution
Anatoli Degtyarev, Michael Fisher
Bayesian Learning and Evolutionary Parameter Optimization
Thomas Ragg
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30 Ontologies and Knowledge Discovery
Location: FH HS 6
Configuration
Location: FH HS 5
OilEd: A Reason-able Ontology Editor for the Semantic Web
Sean Bechhofer, Ian Horrocks, Carole Goble, Robert Stevens
Towards Distributed Configuration
Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich, Dietmar Jannach, Markus Zanker
Intelligent Structuring and Reducing of Association Rules with Formal Concept Analysis
Gerd Stumme, Rafik Taouil, Yves Bastide, Nicolas Pasquier, Lotfi Lakhal
Hierarchical Diagnosis of Large Configurator Knowledge Bases
Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich, Dietmar Jannach, Markus Stumptner, Markus Zanker
20:00 Mayor's Reception

Thursday, Sept. 20th

09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk: IMPACT: Interactive Maryland Platform for Agents Collaborating Together
V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA
Location: FH HS 6
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Industrial Day: Session I
Location: FH HS 6
Tutorial: Knowledge Discovery in Databases
Stefan Wrobel, Otto-von-Guericke-University,
Magdeburg, Germany

Location: FH HS 5
Constraints Applied to Configurations
Gerhard Fleischanderl, Siemens AG Österreich
Semantic Networks in a Knowledge Management Portal
Kai Lebeth, Dresdner Bank AG
From Theory to Practice: AI Planning for High Performance Elevator Control
Jana Koehler, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Invited Talk: Computational Game Theory and AI
Michael Kearns, Syntek Capital
Location: FH HS 6
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:00 Industrial Day: Session II
Location: FH HS 6
Tutorial: Constraint Handling Rules
Thom Frühwirth, Ludwig-Maximilians-University,
Munich, Germany

Location: FH HS 5
Collaborative Supply Net Management
Kurt Sundermeyer, DaimlerChrysler AG
Neural Net Speech Recognizers: Voice Remote Control Devices for Disabled People
Wolfgang Tschirk, Siemens AG Österreich
17:15 - 23:30 Conference Dinner in Klosterneuburg

Friday, Sept. 21st

09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk: Representations of temporal Information in natural Language and their Logic
Hans Kamp, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Location: FH HS 6
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Theorem Proving
Location: FH HS 6
Diagnosis
Location: FH HS 5
Exploiting Conditional Equivalences in Connection Calculi
Stefan Brüning
DiKe - A Model-Based Diagnosis Kernel and its Application
Gerhard Fleischanderl, Thomas Havelka, Herwig Schreiner, Markus Stumptner, Franz Wotawa
Learning Search Control Knowledge for Equational Theorem Proving
Stephan Schulz
Comparing Two Models for Software Debugging
Markus Stumptner, Dominik Wieland, Franz Wotawa
An Agent-oriented Approach to Reasoning
Christoph Benzmueller, Mateja Jamnik, Manfred Kerber, Volker Sorge
History-based Diagnosis Templates in the Framework of the Situation Calculus
Gero Iwan
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00 Constraints
Location: FH HS 6
Robotics
Location: FH HS 5
Towards Inferring Labelling Heuristics for CSP Application Domains
Zeynep Kiziltan, Pierre Flener, Brahim Hnich
Learning to Execute Navigation Plans
Thorsten Belker, Michael Beetz
Propositional Satisfiability in Answer Set Programming
Deborah East, Miroslaw Truszczynski
Constraint-based Optimization of Priority Schemes for Decoupled Path Planning Techniques
Maren Bennewitz, Wolfram Burgard, Sebastian Thrun
Abductive Partial Order Planning with Dependent Fluents
Liviu Badea, Doina Tilivea
Extracting Situation Facts from Activation Value Histories in Behavior-Based Robots
Frank Schönherr, Mihaela Cistelecan, Joachim Hertzberg, Thomas Christaller
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30 Nonmonotonic and Temporal Reasoning
Location: FH HS 6
Multiagent Systems
Location: FH HS 5
Possible Worlds Semantics for Credulous and Contraction Inference
Alexander Bochman
Multi-Agent Systems as Intelligent Virtual Environments
George Anastassakis, Tim Ritchings, Themis Panayiotopoulos
The Point Algebra for Branching Time Revisited
Mathias Broxvall
A Defense Model for Games with Incomplete Information
Wojciech Jamroga
16:30 Conference Closing


Mayor's Reception

On Wednesday evening (8pm, September 19th 2001) the Mayor of Vienna invites all registered conference attendees to a reception in the City Hall.

Conference Dinner in Stift Klosterneuburg

The Conference Dinner on Thursday evening includes a trip to the town Klosterneuburg, a visit to the famous monastery and its winery, and a concert. Finally, enjoy a luscious buffet-style banquet.

17:15 Departure (by bus)
18:00 Guided tour of the monastery
19:00 Concert
19:30 Vinothek/Winery
20:00 Dinner
23:00 Return (by bus)
23:30 Arrival in Vienna

Cost: ATS 370 per person (includes bus, guided tour, concert, one glass of sparkling wine, dinner buffet, and 1/4l of wine)


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