Workshop program

08.30 - 08.45 Welcome + Opening

08.45 - 09.30 Invited talk (Chair: Matthew Klenk)

• Qualitative spatial reasoning: from calculi to applications - Diedrich Wolter

09.30 - 10.30 Session 1 (3 papers, 20 min each) (Chair: Kamal Kansou)

• Reconciling function and structure in scientific models - Scott Friedman, Mark Burstein, David McDonald, James Pustejovsky, Peter Anick, Rusty Bobrow and Brent Cochran
• Preparing MILA for college - Ashok Goel, David Joyner and Taylor Hartman
• Assessing learner-constructed conceptual models and simulations of dynamic systems - Bert Bredeweg, Jochem Liem and Christiana Nicolaou

10.30 - 11.00 Break (coffee)

11.00 - 12.15 Session 2 (5 papers, 15 min each) (Chair: Bert Bredeweg)

• How much qualitative reasoning is required in elementary school science test questions? - Max Crouse and Kenneth Forbus
• Challenges in formulating explanatory models for co-morbidities - Matthew Klenk, Marzieh Nabi, Adam Arvay, Daniel Bobrow and Johan de Kleer
• Structuring the domain knowledge for model-based decision support to water management in a peri-urban region in India - Peter Struss, Franziska Steinbruch and C. Woiwode
• From qualitative absolute order-of-magnitude to the extended set of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets - Jordi Montserrat-Adell, Mónica Sánchez, Francisco Javier Ruiz and Núria Agell
• Towards a qualitative descriptor for paper folding reasoning - Zoe Falomir

12.15 - 14.00 Break (lunch)

14.00 - 15.00 Session 3 (3 papers, 20 min each) (Chair: Matthew Klenk)

• Hole in one: using qualitative reasoning for solving hard physical puzzle problems - Xiaoyu Ge, Jae Hee Lee, Jochen Renz and Peng Zhang
• Unified approach to qualitative motion planning in dynamic environments - Domen Šoberl and Ivan Bratko
• Collaborative communication of qualitative spatial perceptions for multi-robot systems - Danilo Perico, Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi, Paulo E. Santos and Ramon López de Mántaras

15.00 - 15.30 Sessions 4 (2 papers, 15 min each) (Chair: Matthew Klenk)

• QSRLib: a software library for online acquisition of qualitative spatial relations from video - Yiannis Gatsoulis, M Alomari, C. Burbridge, C. Dondrup, P. Duckworth, P. Lightbody, M. Hanheide, N. Hawes, D. C. Hogg and A. G. Cohn
• Eclipse in occlusion: a perspectival mereotopological representation of celestial eclipses - Paulo E. Santos, Roberto Casati, Hannah Dee, Carl Schultz and Mehul Bhatt

15.30 - 16.00 Break (coffee)

16.00 - 17.00 Session 5 (3 papers, 20 min each) (Chair: Bert Bredeweg)

• On the use of qualitative deviation models for diagnosis - Franz Wotawa
• Testing scientific models using a QR model: Application to cellulose biodegradation - Kamal Kansou and Bert Bredeweg
• Using qualitative reasoning to evaluate performance: An application in the retail sector - Xari Rovira, Núria Agell, Josep M. Sayeras and Mónica Sánchez

17.00 - 17.30 Reflection & Future plans

Resources in PDF

• QR2016Proceedings
• QR2016Program