CaNew'98
Causal Networks:
from inference to data mining
3 October, 1998
A workshop held in conjunction with the
the sixth biennial Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence
IBERAMIA'98
Universidade Nova
de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
October 5-9, 1998, Lisbon, Portugal.
kindly
supported
by: ACIA
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Workshop Information
* What the Workshop is About
* Instructions for Participants
* Instruction for Submissions
* Workshop Committee
* Important Dates
* Address for Submisssions and Further Information
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What the Workshop is About
Causality has a natural representation in the form of Directed
Acyclic Graphs. Causal associations have been represented in the
framework of Bayesian Networks and Possibilistic Causal Networks and
also by means of special logics. There is a growing interest both in
defining more precisely the causal semantics equivalences of the
existing representations as well as in developing efficient methods
for reasoning and learning that could be used in practical
applications.
The workshop will focus on several topics on this area, basically
in properties of causal networks related to inference and learning
methods. Participants are encouraged to submit descriptions of work in
progress specially in the areas of learning and practical application
but not limited to these ones.
Topics:
* Properties and expressiveness of causal networks
o Conditional Independency relationships in causal networks
o Relation to other causal formalizations
+ Causal theories
+ Default Logics
o Expression in other formalisms
* Learning methods
o Identifying Causal Parameters
o Dependence-based methods
o Information-based methods
o Hybrid methods
o Comparative studies
* Practical applications
o Scaling up to large volumes of data
o Data Mining
o Applications to industry and services
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Instructions for Participants
All workshop participants must register both for the main IBERAMIA'98
conference and the workshop itself.
We expect the number of participants to be around 20, and attendance
will not be limited to active participants.
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Instructions for Submissions
Interested authors may submit papers (max. 12 pages) addressing issues
that are clearly relevant to the workshop theme, including an
additional brief (max. 1 page) description of their ongoing research
projects as well as applications in the area. Also, authors planning
to submit a contribution must contact as soon as possible to the
Workshop Organizing Committee by e-mail. A provisional title must be
provided.
Authors should send a copy of their original manuscript to Workshop
Organizing Committee by June 10, 1998. The length of each manuscript
including figures should be limited to 12 pages typed double-spaced
using font size 12. Each manuscript should start with an abstract of
no more than 150 words and should include a list of five keywords.
Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least two referees. Following
the recommendations by the reviewers, authors of accepted papers will
prepare a presentation. Presentations will be grouped into sections
to foster focused discussions. The workshop schedule will provide time
for specific discussions directly after each presentation as well as
for extended more general exchange of ideas between presentations and
sessions. Some of the attendees will be asked to serve as session
commentators who summarize and critically reflect on the presentations
of a session.
In addition to the camera ready paper for the Workshop Notes that will
be distributed at the workshop, authors must prepare electronic
versions of their papers to be made available prior to the workshop.
The Workshop Proceedings will be published as a special issue of a
relevant publication after the conference. In this case, authors will
have the opportunity to revise and extend their contributions.
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Workshop Committee
Organizing Committee:
Ulises Cortés, Technical University of Catalonia, Catalonia,
Spain.
Luís M. De Campos, University of Granada, Spain.
J.F: Huete, University of Granada, Spain.
Héctor Geffner, Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, Venezuela.
Ramon Sangüesa, Technical University of Catalonia, Catalonia,
Spain.
Arno Siebes, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, CWI,
Amsterdam.
Program Committee:
Robert Castelo, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, CWI,
Amsterdam.
Ulises Cortés, Technical University of Catalonia, Catalonia,
Spain.
Luís M. De Campos, University of Granada, Spain.
J.F: Huete, University of Granada, Spain.
Héctor Geffner, Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, Venezuela.
Ramon Sangüesa, Technical University of Catalonia, Catalonia,
Spain.
Gustavo Núñez, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México.
Arno Siebes, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, CWI,
Amsterdam.
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Important Dates
* June 10, 1998 Deadline for submission of papers
* July 8, 1998 Authors notification of acceptance/rejection
* July 15, 1998 Publication of final workshop program
* September 8, 1998 Final revised camera-ready papers
* October 3, 1998 Workshop at IBERAMIA 98
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Address for Submissions and Further Information
Proposals should be submitted via surface mail or electronically (in
UNIX compatible postscript, html, or RTF) to Ulises Cortés, at
following address:
Ulises Cortés
Dept. of Software
Technical University of Catalonia
Campus Nord-Edifici C5
C. Jordi Girona 1-3
08034 Barcelona
Catalonia, Spain
Tel.: + 34 3 401 70 16
Fax: + 34 3 401 70 14
e-mail: ia@lsi.upc.es
Further information on IBERAMIA'98 is available at the IBERAMIA98
Homepage: http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/
The URL of this Workshop Homepage will be:
http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/canew.html
There exists a text and PostScript of this call.
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Ulises Cortés
Ramon Sangüesa