FINAL PROGRAM

Tuesday 28 October 2008

Meetings of the COST Action IC0602 Working Groups

Room A709 Workshop on Imprecise Probabilities (WG1)

9.00-9.45:
Gert de Cooman: Epistemic irrelevance in credal networks [ slides ]
9.45-10.30
Enrique Miranda: A state-independent preference representation in the continuous case [ slides ]
10.30-11.00 Coffee  break
11.00-11.45
Marco Zaffalon: Learning under prior near-ignorance [ slides ]
11.45-13.30
Lunch break and time for discussions
13.30-14.15
Ahti Salo: Robust Portfolio Modeling
14.15-15.30
Manfred Jaeger: Imprecise probabilities and learning from incomplete data
15.30-
More time for discussions

Room A707

14h00 Working meeting of WG2 and WG3

Wednesday 29 October 2008

8h30-9h00: Registration

9h00-9h15: Opening session

 

9h15-10h45: Tutorial session 1 (chair Alexis Tsoukiās)

Optimal Scheduling of Stochastically Independent Tests [ slides ]

Paul Kantor

 

10h45-11h00: Coffee break

 

11h00-12h30: Tutorial Session 2 (chair Ulle Endriss)

Game Theoretic Solutions and How to Compute Them

Vincent Conitzer

 

12h30-14h30: Lunch

 

14h30-16h00: Tutorial Session 3 (chair Eleni Pratsini)

From Decision Theory to combinatorial optimization: problems and algorithms in graphs [ slides ]

Patrice Perny

 

16h00-16h30: Coffee break

 

16h30-18h00: Tutorial Session 4 (chair Ronen Brafman)

Auctions as Information Aggregation Mechanisms [ slides ]

Aleksandar Pekeč

 

18h00-19h30: Welcome drink

 

Thursday 30 October 2008

8h30-10h15: Session 1 (chair Nicolas Maudet)

Desirable tie-braking rules in collective decision making

G. Pigozzi, M. Slavkovik, L. van der Torre

A geometric approach to judgement aggregation

D. Eckert, Ch. Klamler

Single peaked consistency and its complexity

B. Escoffier, J. Lang, M. Öztürk
 

10h15-10h30: Coffee break

 

10h30-12h45: Tutorial session 5 (chair Meltem Özt:ürk)

Challenges in Business Analytics; an industrial research perspective. [ slides ]

Eleni Pratsini

(followed by a discussion with Fred Roberts and Alexis Tsoukiās)

 

12h45-14h15: Lunch

 

14h15-16h00: Session 2 (chair David Rios Insua)

Centrality and Distribution of Partitions according to the Transfer Distance [ slides ]
L. Belgacem, O. Hudry

An outranking-based sorting method for partially ordered catgegories [ slides ]

Ph. Nemery

w On clustering the criteria in an outranking-based decision aid approach

R, Bisdorff

 

16h00-16h30: Coffee break

 

16h00-17h15: Session 3 (chair Raymond Bisdorff)

Algorithmic Decision Theory within Discrete Complex. Networks

S. Pickl, D. Lozovanu

One-Sided Decision Support for Competitve Bindings

 J. Rios, D. Rios-Insua, D. Banks

 

Dinner.

Friday 31 October 2008

9h30-10h30: Tutorial Session 6 (chair Fred Roberts)

Expressiveness in Mechanism Design

Tuomas Sandholm

 

10h30-10h45: Coffee break

 

10h45-12h30: Session 4 (chair Vincent Conitzer)

Collective decision making with individual confidence scores in the decision rule [ slides ]

F, Benamara, S. Kaci, G. Pigozzi

Complexity of some aspects of control and manipulation in weighted voting games [ slides ]

H. Aziz, M. Paterson

Compiling the votes of a subelectorate  [ slides ]

Y. Chevaleyre, J.Lang, N. Maudet, G. Ravilly-Abadie

 

12h30-14h15: Lunch

 

14h15-16h00: Session 5 (chair Stefan Pickl)

Relational Preference Rules for Control

R. Brafman

Score-based bibliometric rankings of authors

Th. Marchant

Decision Policy Design as Pareto-Minimization of Infeasible Lower Bounds [ slides ]

U. Junker, A. Tsoukiās

 

16h00-16h30: Coffee break

 

16h30-18h30: General Meeting of the COST Action IC0602.