BASR 2011 - BASR 2011 : IJCAI Workshop on Benchmarks and Applications of Spatial Reasoning

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Deadline: April 18, 2011 | Date: July 17, 2011

Venue/Country: Barcelona, Spain

Updated: 2011-03-04 16:53:13 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Barcelona, 17 July 2011 (part of the IJCAI-2011 workshop programme)

URL: http://qsr.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ijcai11-bench/

Do you work on a problem that has a significant spatial component? A

problem where you need to represent spatial information and reason

about this information? If so, then please continue reading, we would

like to hear from you!

Things are happening in spatial reasoning. Recent years have witnessed

remarkable advances in some of the long standing problems of the

field. While most previous research only addressed isolated research

questions, the research community is putting more and more emphasis on

being able to combine different approaches in order to solve larger

scale real world problems. Similar to other research communities such

as planning or satisfiability, the spatial reasoning community has

started to develop a repository of benchmark problems as well as a

common representation language which allows to formally define and

represent these benchmark problems. This will allow researchers to

focus their research efforts on solving important problems, on

identifying and addressing gaps in existing capabilities, and on

integrating the necessary approaches, tools and methodologies. It

guides the research of the community into jointly achieving far

greater impact and also increases the visibility of the community by

emphasising realistic problems that other people can relate to. In

other research communities, this approach has significantly

strengthened the community and led to a boost in both quantity and

quality of results. We hope that it will have a similar effect on our

research community. This workshop is the third in a series of events

that started with a AAAI Spring Symposium in 2009 and a Dagstuhl

Seminar in 2010. It will be the first that is targeted towards the

wider AI and spatial reasoning community.

** Topics of Interest **

The aim of the workshop is to work towards our goal of having (1) a

repository of applications and benchmark problems, (2) a common

problem language, as well as (3) general methods and tools for solving

these problems.

We invite (short/full) papers, demo description papers and position

papers on all aspects of spatial reasoning. Of particular interest are

submissions in one of the following areas:

(1a) Applications: Submissions presenting specific problems or

applications that have a significant spatial component and that

require some form of spatial reasoning. What kind of spatial

information is used, how is it represented, what kind of reasoning is

required, how is it currently done? What are the strengths and

weaknesses of current approaches, how could it be improved?

(1b) Benchmarks: Submissions that propose new benchmarks, analyze

benchmarks, or present methods for the generation, organization, or

improvement of benchmarks. Submissions that present an overview of the

use of benchmarks in other disciplines are also encouraged if they

include a discussion of how the lessons learnt in other disciplines

can benefit benchmarking in spatial reasoning.

(2) Problem Languages: Submissions with new results on languages for

representing spatial information, such as proposals of new languages,

analysis, comparison, improvement of languages, or combination of

languages. Submissions that present an overview of the use of common

problem languages in other disciplines are also encouraged if they

include a discussion of how the lessons learnt in other disciplines

can benefit the development of common representation languages for

spatial reasoning.

(3) Methods and Tools: Submissions with new results on methods and

tools for spatial reasoning, such as proposal of new methods,

analysis, comparison, improvement of methods, or combination of

methods.

** Paper Submission **

Authors are invited to submit a paper in PDF format by April 18, 2011,

through the Easy-Chair website of the workshop

(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=basr11). Papers must be

written in English and describe original work in at least one of the

workshop topics. The target length of a full paper contribution is 4-6

pages (including abstract, figures and references) in the IJCAI-11

style (http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/files/ijcai11.tar). The final

camera ready version of your paper should not include any headers,

footers, and page numbers.

** Important Dates **

Paper submission: April 18, 2011

Notification: May 9, 2011

Camera ready: May 23, 2011

Workshop: July 17, 2011

** Workshop Organizers **

Anthony G. Cohn

Jochen Renz

Stefan Woelfl

** Program Committee **

Alia Abdelmoty

Marco Aiello

Mehul Bhatt

Jean-Francois Condotta

Matt Duckham

Antony Galton

Jason Jingshi Li

Reinhard Moratz

Bernhard Nebel

Marco Ragni

Christoph Schlieder

Steven Schockaert

Jan-Oliver Wallgruen