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Please note: Due  to the Easter holidays, the  deadline for submitting
papers
has  been moved,  providing an additional  two weeks  to polish your work.

CALL FOR PAPERS 18TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON QUALITATIVE REASONING
August 2-4, 2004, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Qualitative Reasoning is an exciting research area at the interface
between
Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence that combines the quest for
fundamental understanding of how people reason about physical systems with
new
ways to supplement conventional modeling,
analysis, diagnosis, and control techniques to tackle real-world
applications.
The 18th edition of the workshop will be held in Evanston, Illinois, co-
located
with the 26th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, which will
be in
Chicago, Illinois (a subway ride away) from August 4th through August 8th.

Paper submissions are encouraged in the following research topics:

* QR and cognitive modeling (e.g., cognitive theories of reasoning about
physical systems, theories and experiments concerning human reasoning and
learning of mental models, QR models for spatial reasoning, cognitive
maps,
cognitive robots);

* QR techniques (e.g., qualitative simulation, ontologies, management of
multiple models, reasoning over time and space, mathematical
formalizations of
QR, qualitative algebras, qualitative dynamics, qualitative kinematics,
qualitative optimization);

* Task-level reasoning (e.g., design, planning, monitoring, diagnosis and
repair, explanation, tutoring and training, process control and
supervision);

* QR applications engineering, (e.g., engineering, education, business,
biology,
chemistry, ecology, economics, social science, environmental science,
medicine,
and law);

* QR techniques and other modeling approaches (e.g., system dynamics and
bond-graphs, signal processing, numerical methods, statistical techniques,
differential equations);

* Knowledge acquisition methods (e.g., model building tools and
techniques,
automated model construction and machine learning, acquisition of models
from
data).

The Program Chairs are Johan de Kleer (PARC, Inc.) and Kenneth D. Forbus
(Northwestern University).

IMPORTANT DATES


*       Paper and Posters: April 29, 2004
*       Acceptance notification: May 27, 2004=20
*       Camera-ready copies: June 16, 2004=20
*       Registration: July 2, 2004.=20
*       Workshop: August 2-4, 2004=20

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS=20

* Full Paper  A PDF file  of the full  paper not to exceed  6000 words
(excluding references)    must   be   submitted    via   e-mail   to
[log in to unmask] by April 12, 2004.

* Posters A PDF file of the full paper not to exceed 2000 words (excluding
references) must be submitted via e-mail to [log in to unmask] by
April
12, 2004.

* Review Process Both papers and posters will be selected according to
their
quality, significance, originality, and potential to generate discussion.
Each
contribution will be reviewed by at least two referees from the QR2004
Program
Committee.

* Submission to Conferences or Journals The accepted papers will be
published as
a collection of Working papers. As QR2004 is a workshop, not a conference,
submission of the same paper to conferences or journals is acceptable.

Please see the web site for details about submission format.

ADDITIONAL PARTICIPANTS
People who wish to attend the workshop without submitting a paper or a
poster
should send a request to [log in to unmask]

Program Committee
*       Johan de Kleer, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA (co-chair)=
20
*       Ken Forbus, Northwestern University, USA (co-chair).=20
*       N=FAria Agell, ESADE, Spain=20
*       Chris Bailey-Kellogg, Purdue University, USA  =20
*       Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University, USA=20
*       Anders Bouwer, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands  =20
*       Ivan Bratko, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia=20
*       Bert Bredeweg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands=20
*       Philippe Dague, Paris-Nord University, France=20
*       Hidde de Jong, INRIA, France=20
*       Ron Ferguson, Georgia Tech, USA=20
*       Juan Flores, University of Michoacana, Mexico=20
*       Fran=E7ois Guerrin, INRA/CIRAD, France=20
*       Michael Hofbaur, Technische Universit=E4t Graz
*       Liliana Ironi, IMATI-CNR, Italy=20
*       Ben Kuipers, University of Texas at Austin, USA=20
*       Mark Lee, University of Wales, United Kingdom=20
*       Juan Ortega, University of Sevilla, Spain=20
*       Chris Price, University of Wales, United Kingdom=20
*       Bernhard Rinner, Technische Universit=E4t Graz
*       Paulo Salles, University of Brasilia, Brazil=20
*       Cem Say, Bogazi=E7i University, Turkey=20
*       Qiang Shen, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom=20
*       Peter Struss, Technical University of Munich, Germany=20
*       Stefania Tentoni, IMATI-CNR, Italy=20
*       Tetsuo Tomiyama, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands=
20
*       Louise Trav=E9-Massuy=E8s, LAAS, France=20
*       Franz Wotawa, Technical University of Graz, Austria=20

ACCOMMODATIONS
We have reserved a block of rooms at a hotel near campus:

Hilton Garden Inn
1818 Maple Avenue
Evanston IL 60201
847/475-6400

The name of the block is "QR04 Workshop" at $109/room.  You must reserve a
room
before July 2, 2004 to guarantee this rate.  (Please note: Students may
double
up to save money.  Dormitory rooms at Northwestern, due to the extremely
high
demand, are more expensive than this rate.)  For more information For
questions,
please contact
[log in to unmask]

The web site for QR04 is:  http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/qr04





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