Automated Reaoning Workshop Programme

Wednesday 31st March

08:30 - 09:00  Registration in New School of Music & ICSRiM building, 
                               Cavendish Road, University of Leeds

09:00 - 10:00  ARW/AISB Plenary talk:  Reasoning about Perception, Space and Motion: 
                         a Cognitive Robotics Perspective, by David Randell

10:00 - 10:25  coffee break

10:25 - 10:30  ARW Welcome    

10:30 - 11:45  Technical Session 1:  NON-CLASSICAL SYSTEMS

        10:40  Implementation of a tableau theorem prover for modal logic, Zhen Li
   
        10:50  A principle for incorporating axioms into the first-order translation 
                 of modal formulae,   Renate A. Schmidt and Ullrich Hustadt

        11:00  A Three-Valued Hoare Calculus,  Viviana Bono and Manfred Kerber

        11:10  E-Checker: A prototype tool for investigating some properties of
                multivalent logic systems,  David Anderson and Peter W. Pearson

        11:20  Abductive Logic Programming with CIFF,  Ulle Endriss, Paolo Mancarella, 
                     Fariba Sadri, Giacomo Terreni, and Francesca  Toni

        11:30   Short Poster introductions:
                Case studies for first-order temporal logic, M.Carmen Fernandez Gago   
                    Michael Fischer, Clare Dixon, Boris Konev, Ullrich Hustadt, and Frank Wolter

                Qualitative Descriptions of Location: an approach using a
                     hybrid matroid structure,  Anthony J. Roy 

                Environmental knowledge representation, Antony Galton and James Hood

                Compilation of quasi-destructive unification of type feature structures
                          Liviu Ciortuz

                Specifying and Verifying Security Protocols using Temporal Logics of Knowledge
                 Clare Dixon, Mari-Carmen Fernandez Gago, Michael Fisher and Wiebe van der Hoek

11:45 - 12:30  POSTER SESSION 1

12:30 - 13:30  Lunch

13:30 - 14:30  AISB AGM

14:30 - 15:30  Technical Session 1:  SPATIAL and TEMPORAL REASONING         

        14:30  Logical representation for route graphs, Paolo Torrini
        
        14:40  Deductive Verification of Infinite Systems: Broadcast Protocols
                    Michael Fisher and Alexei Lisitsa, Fisher   

        14:50  A Clausal Resolution Method for Branching-Time Logic ECTL+,
                    Alexander Bolotov and Artie Basukoski

        15:00  Monodic abstract state machines and temporal verification
                     Alexei Lisitsa and Michael Fischer
 
15:10 - 15:30  POSTER SESSION 2        
                
15:30 - 15:55  coffee break

15:55 - 17:00  Invited talk by Jacques Fleuriot
                  Interactive Theorem Proving in Geometry: issues and applications


19:30 Workshop Dinner Darbar restaurant

Thursday 1st April

09:00 - 10:00  Session 1: AISB Plenary talk by Ian Cross, The social mind and the  
                  emergence of musicality: implications for modelling music

10:00 - 10:25  coffee break
              
10:25 - 11:30  Invited talk by Franz Baader
                   From Tableau to Automata for Description Logics
                    
11:30 - 12:00  Technical Session 3: AUTOMATED REASONING TECHNIQUES
        
        11:30  Reasoning about types in a general purpose inference engine,
                            Allan Ramsay
              
        11:40  Proof planning: Comparing OMEGA, lambda-CLAM and ISAPLANNER
                        Lucas Dixon, Mateja Jamnik, and Martin Pollet
              
        11:50  Mechanized Support for Retrenchment, Simon Fraser and Richard Banach
                       
12:00 - 12:30  POSTER SESSION 3
              
12:30 - 14:00  Lunch  (and ARW Committee Meeting)

14:00 - 14:40  Technical Session 4: LEARNING and KNOWLEDGE

        14:00  Automatic conjecture modification, Alison Pease and Simon Colton

        14:10  Looking for Logic in Vision, Paulo Santos, Derek Magee and Anthony Cohn

        14:20  Automatic Generation of Classification Theorems  for Finite Algebras
                        Simon Colton, Andreas Meier, Volker Sorge, Roy McCasland

        14:30  A reasoning mechanism for corpus-based knowledge representation
                    Shabnam Surjitsingh Ivkovic and Anne Banks Pidduck

14:40 - 15:30  PANEL: Difficult Questions for Automated Reasoning 

15:30 - 15:55 coffee break

15:55   Closing Session