Program

The program of this school, spread over 5 days (from Monday, October 30 to Friday, November 3), is mainly composed of fundamental courses (mornings) supplemented by advanced presentations (afternoons) on specific research topics. The program also contains presentations on applications/case studies/projects as well as a special session, in the form of posters and short talks for PhD students. The teaching language is English.

• Sunday, October 29:

  • 5pm-7pm: Registration

• Monday, October 30:

  • 08:30 -- 08:55: Registration

  • 09am-12pm: Quantitative models of uncertainty in reasoning and learning, Sébastien Destercke (UTC, Compiègne).

    • • Session chair:  Salem Benferhat

Abstract:

This lecture is composed of two distinct parts, and concentrates on the problem of modelling uncertainty and reasoning with it. 

In the first part, I will introduce the main uncertainty theories as well as some motivations to go beyond the basic models that are sets and probabilities. I will then introduce some reasoning and information treatment problems, as well as corresponding proposed solutions, providing pointers to go further into their studies. Treated problems include the modelling of available information, merging or fusing information, conditioning, modelling independence, decision. 

In the second part of the course, I will concentrate on the role of imprecision and uncertainty models in learning problems. I will mainly treat two aspects: on the one hand how to obtain cautious predictions, either through the learning of natively cautious models, or through the use of post-hoc approaches providing cautious predictions; on the other hand what becomes the learning problem when data themselves become uncertain, detailing what are the associated challenges but also why considering uncertain data may actually represent an interesting opportunity. 

• • 2-3:15 p.m: AI and health, Fleur Mougin (Univ. Bordeaux).

    • • Session chair:  Franca Debole

• • 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.: A session of posters dedicated to PhD students:

    • Youssef Amari: Acceleration of Embedded Reasoning in Symbolic AI

    • Nina Varchavsky--Bergin: A computational framework for online controversy analysis - The case of the electric vehicle.

    • Hamza Khyari: Knowledge graphs and similarity-based data completion

    • Batoul Haydar: Knowledge Modeling and Data Completion for UrbanWater Network

    • Jorge Honles: Modeling pesticide pollution risk at a small geographic scale and the relationship with human health: case of Peru

    • Pierre Laclau: Design of Dynamic and Virtualized Network Architectures for Software Defined Vehicles

    • Ahmed Laouar: Inconsistency Management of Partially Ordered Ontologies and Access Control Models

    • Arthur Marzinzinkowski: Clustering and reasoning from legend-based maps

    • Helene Tran: Emo'LIS - Automatic Multimodal Emotion Recognition based on facial expressions, voice, and text

  • 6 p.m. Welcome cocktail 

• Tuesday, October 31:

  • 09am-12pm: AI and image processing, Isabelle Bloch (Univ. Sorbonne, Paris).

    • • Session chair: Sébastien Destercke

• • 2-4 pm: Argumentation systems: 

    • Similarity in  argumentation systems, Leila Amgoud (IRIT, Toulouse).

    • Dialogue and arguments, Serena Villata (I3S, Nice).

      • Session chair: Madalina Croitoru

• Wednesday, 01 November:

  • 09am-12pm: Representing and Completing Heterogeneous Data and Information , Andrea Tettamanzi (I3S, Nice).

    • • Session chair: Umberto Straccia

• • 2-3 pm :  Human aware intelligent machine interaction, Madalina Croitoru (LIRMM, Montpellier).

  • 3-5 pm: AI and Water Sciences:

    • Nanée Chahinian et Carole Delenne  (HSM, Montpellier).

    • Francesca Frontini (CNR, Pise).

      • Session chair:  Ahlame Begdouri 

• Thursday 02 November:

  • 09am-12pm:  Query-answering from linked data, Umberto Straccia (CNR, Pise).

    • • Session chair:  Andrea Tettamanzi

• • 1:30-2:45 pm: KLM-Style Defeasible Reasoning and inconsistency handling, Tommie Meyer (CAIR, Cape Town). 

  • 2:45-3:45 : A short review of access control models, Salem Benferhat (CRIL, Lens).

    • • Session chair:  Ramón Pino Pérez

• • 4-7 pm: Knowledge Fusion, Sébastien Konieczny (CRIL, Lens).

    • • Session chair: Tommie Meyer

• Vendredi 03 novembre :

  • 09am-12pm: Discussions

Coffee breaks are scheduled every day, in the morning from 10:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. and in the afternoon from 4 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Lunch breaks are scheduled from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Dinners are scheduled for 7:30 p.m.