ECSQARU 2001: Toulouse, France

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/ecsqaru/2001,
  editor    = {Salem Benferhat and
               Philippe Besnard},
  title     = {Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty,
               6th European Conference, ECSQARU 2001, Toulouse, France, September
               19-21, 2001, Proceedings},
  booktitle = {ECSQARU},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume    = {2143},
  year      = {2001},
  isbn      = {3-540-42464-4},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Invited Papers

• Finn Verner Jensen:
  Graphical Models as Languages for Computer Assisted Diagnosis and Decision Making. 1-15
  
• Hector Geffner:
  Planning with Uncertainty and Incomplete Information. 16
  
• Torsten Schaub:
  What's Your Preference? And How to Express and Implement It in Logic Programming! 17
  

Decision Theory

• Michel Grabisch:
  On Preference Representation on an Ordinal Scale. 18-28
  
• Salvatore Greco, Benedetto Matarazzo, Roman Slowinski:
  Rule-Based Decision Support in Multicriteria Choice and Ranking. 29-47
  
• Celine Lafage, Jérôme Lang:
  Propositional Distances and Preference Representation. 48-59
  

Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes

• Weihong Zhang:
  Value Iteration over Belief Subspace. 60-71
  
• Nevin Lianwen Zhang, Weihong Zhang:
  Space-Progressive Value Iteration: An Anytime Algorithm for a Class of POMDPs. 72-83
  

Decision-Making

• Martijn C. Schut, Michael Wooldridge, Simon Parsons:
  Reasoning about Intentions in Uncertain Domains. 84-95
  
• Jirí Vomlel, Claus Skaanning:
  Troubleshooting with Simultaneous Models. 96-107
  
• Silvia Bernardi, Giulianella Coletti:
  A Rational Conditional Utility Model in a Coherent Framework. 108-119
  

Coherent Probabilities

• Giulianella Coletti, Romano Scozzafava, Barbara Vantaggi:
  Probabilistic Reasoning as a General Unifying Tool. 120-131
  
• Andrea Capotorti, Tania Paneni:
  An Operational View of Coherent Conditional Previsions. 132-143
  

Bayesian Networks

• Thomas D. Nielsen:
  Decomposition of Influence Diagrams. 144-155
  
• Serafín Moral, Rafael Rumí, Antonio Salmerón:
  Mixtures of Truncated Exponentials in Hybrid Bayesian Networks. 156-167
  
• Antonio Salmerón, Serafín Moral:
  Importance Sampling in Bayesian Networks Using Antithetic Variables. 168-179
  
• Adnan Darwiche, Mark Hopkins:
  Using Recursive Decomposition to Construct Elimination Orders, Jointrees, and Dtrees. 180-191
  
• Denver Dash, Marek J. Druzdzel:
  Caveats for Causal Reasoning with Equilibrium Models. 192-203
  

Learning Causal Networks

• Tsai-Ching Lu, Marek J. Druzdzel:
  Supporting Changes in Structure in Causal Model Construction. 204-215
  
• Silvia Acid, Luis M. de Campos, Juan F. Huete:
  The Search of Causal Orderings: A Short Cut for Learning Belief Networks. 216-227
  
• Luis M. de Campos, Jose Miguel Puerta:
  Stochastic Local Algorithms for Learning Belief Networks: Searching in the Space of the Orderings. 228-239
  
• Christian Borgelt, Rudolf Kruse:
  An Empirical Investigation of the K2 Metric. 240-251
  

Graphical Representations of Uncertainty

• Riza Demirer, Prakash P. Shenoy:
  Sequential Valuation Networks: A New Graphical Technique for Asymmetric Decision Problems. 252-265
  
• Nahla Ben Amor, Salem Benferhat, Khaled Mellouli:
  A Two-Steps Algorithm for Min-Based Possibilistic Causal Networks. 266-277
  

Imprecise Probabilities

• Andrés Cano, Serafín Moral:
  Computing Intervals of Probabilities with Simulated Annealing and Probability Trees. 278-289
  
• Veronica Biazzo, Angelo Gilio, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Giuseppe Sanfilippo:
  Probabilistic Logic under Coherence, Model-Theoretic Probabilistic Logic, and Default Reasoning. 290-302
  

Belief Functions

• Ivan Kramosil:
  Belief Functions with Partially Ordered Values. 303-315
  
• Paul-André Monney:
  Dempster Specialization Matrices and the Combination of Belief Functions. 316-327
  
• Pietro Baroni, Paolo Vicig:
  On the Conceptual Status of Belief Functions with Respect to Coherent Lower Probabilities. 328-339
  
• Boutheina Ben Yaghlane, Philippe Smets, Khaled Mellouli:
  About Conditional Belief Function Independence. 340-349
  
• Zied Elouedi, Khaled Mellouli, Philippe Smets:
  The Evaluation of Sensors' Reliability and Their Tuning for Multisensor Data Fusion within the Transferable Belief Model. 350-361
  
• Amel Ben Yaghlane, Thierry Denoeux, Khaled Mellouli:
  Coarsening Approximations of Belief Functions. 362-373
  

Fuzzy Sets and Rough Sets

• Jonathan Lawry:
  Label Semantics: A Formal Framework for Modeling with Words. 374-384
  
• Weiru Liu:
  Reasoning about Knowledge Using Rough Sets. 385-397
  

Possibility Theory

• Andrea Sgarro:
  The Capacity of a Possibilistic Channel. 398-409
  
• Didier Dubois, Henri Prade, Philippe Smets:
  New Semantics for Quantitative Possibility Theory. 410-421
  
• Salem Benferhat, Didier Dubois, Souhila Kaci, Henri Prade:
  Bridging Logical, Comparative, and Graphical Possibilistic Representation Frameworks. 422-431
  

Applications

• Franck Dufrenois:
  Ellipse Fitting with Uncertainty and Fuzzy Decision Stage for Detection. Application in Videomicroscopy. 432-443
  
• Norman E. Fenton, Paul Krause, Martin Neil:
  Probabilistic Modelling for Software Quality Control. 444-453
  
• Eric Würbel, Robert Jeansoulin, Odile Papini:
  Spatial Information Revision: A Comparison between 3 Approaches. 454-465
  

Merging

• Thomas Andreas Meyer, Aditya Ghose, Samir Chopra:
  Social Choice, Merging, and Elections. 466-477
  
• Laurence Cholvy:
  Data Merging: Theory of Evidence vs. Knowledge-Bases Merging Operators. 478-487
  

Belief Revision and Preferences

• Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr, Béatrice Duval, Stéphane Loiseau:
  A Priori Revision. 488-497
  
• Sébastien Konieczny, Ramón Pino Pérez:
  Some Operators for Iterated Revision. 498-509
  
• James P. Delgrande, Torsten Schaub, Hans Tompits, Stefan Woltran:
  On Computing Solutions to Belief Change Scenarios. 510-521
  
• Didier Dubois, Henri Prade, Philippe Smets:
  "Not Impossible" vs. "Guaranteed Possible" in Fusion and Revision. 522-531
  
• Yves Moinard:
  General Preferential Entailments as Circumscriptions. 532-543
  

Inconsistency Handling

• Anthony Hunter:
  A Semantic Tableau Version of First-Order Quasi-Classical Logic. 544-555
  
• Frédéric Koriche:
  On Anytime Coherence-Based Reasoning. 556-567
  
• Jan Broersen, Mehdi Dastani, Leendert W. N. van der Torre:
  Resolving Conflicts between Beliefs, Obligations, Intentions, and Desires. 568-579
  

Default Logic

• Robert E. Mercer, Lionel Forget, Vincent Risch:
  Comparing a Pair-Wise Compatibility Heuristic and Relaxed Stratification: Some Preliminary Results. 580-591
  
• James P. Delgrande, Torsten Schaub:
  How to Reason Credulously and Skeptically within a Single Extension. 592-603
  

Conditional Default Reasoning

• Gabriele Kern-Isberner:
  Handling Conditionals Adequately in Uncertain Reasoning. 604-615
  
• Emil Weydert:
  Rankings We Prefer. 616-627
  

Models of Uncertainty from the Psychology Viewpoint

• Jean-François Bonnefon, Denis J. Hilton:
  Formalizing Human Uncertain Reasoning with Default Rules: A Psychological Conundrum and a Pragmatic Suggestion. 628-634
  
• Donald Laming:
  Statistical Information, Uncertainty, and Bayes' Theorem: Some Applications in Experimental Psychology. 635-646
  
• Rui Da Silva Neves, Eric Raufaste:
  Polymorphism of Human Judgment under Uncertainty. 647-658
  
• Guy Politzer:
  How to Doubt about a Conditional. 659-667
  

Argumentation Systems and ATMSs

• Claudette Cayrol, Sylvie Doutre, Jérôme Mengin:
  Dialectical Proof Theories for the Credulous Preferred Semantics of Argumentation Frameworks. 668-679
  
• Valentina A. M. Tamma, Simon Parsons:
  Argumentation and Qualitative Probabilistic Reasoning Using the Kappa Calculus. 680-691
  

Causality, Events, Explanations

• Bernhard Anrig:
  Importance Measures from Reliability Theory for Probabilistic Assumption-Based Reasoning. 692-703
  
• Mahat Khelfallah, Aïcha Mokhtari:
  Ramification in the Normative Method of Causality. 704-713
  
• John Bell:
  Simultaneous Events: Conflicts and Preferences. 714-725
  
• Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Roshan Kamath:
  Orthogonal Relations for Reasoning about Abstract Events. 726-735
  

Logic Programming

• Isabelle Bloch, Ramón Pino Pérez, Carlos Uzcátegui:
  Explanatory Relations Based on Mathematical Morphology. 736-747
  
• Carlos Viegas Damásio, Luís Moniz Pereira:
  Monotonic and Residuated Logic Programs. 748-759
  

Modal Logics for Information Systems

• Teresa Alsinet, Lluis Godo:
  A Proof Procedure for Possibilistic Logic Programming with Fuzzy Constants. 760-771
  
• Philippe Balbiani, Dimiter Vakarelov:
  First-Order Characterization and Modal Analysis of Indiscernibility and Complementarity in Information Systems. 772-781
  

Satisfiability

• Sébastien Ferré:
  Complete and Incomplete Knowledge in Logical Information Systems. 782-791
  
• Edgar Altamirano, Gonzalo Escalada-Imaz:
  Extending Polynomiality to a Class of Non-clausal Many-Valued Horn-Like Formulas. 792-804
  
• Zoran Ognjanovic, Jozef Kratica, Milos Milovanovic:
  A Genetic Algorithm for Satisfiability Problem in a Probabilistic Logic: A First Report. 805-816