It took a bit longer this year, but finally the events on preference handling got announced begin of March.
The 13th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling M-PREF 2022 will be held in Vienna, Austria on July 23, 24, or 25, 2022 in conjunction with IJCAI-ECAI 2022. The workshop will address all computational aspects … Read more
Research is a long-term endeavor driven by questions and not by the means. Good intentions are not sufficient to do research. It is necessary that you really want to know the answer of a research question. To come up with groundbreaking results, it is important to be perseverant, to continue the research even when support is weak or missing, and to report negative results in the same way as positive ones. … Read more
Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has become a popular topic and we may ask which kinds of interconnections may exist between preferences and explanations. Explanations have been considered in artificial intelligence since a long time as an intelligent system should not only be able to solve problems, but also capable to explain its solutions. Explanations are particularly important if the solution … Read more
Scientific exchange has always been essential for scientific progress. The reason for this is simple: scientific theories need to be challenged, criticized, and put to the test. Scientific progress requires a debate between scientists who are pursuing different approaches and who are dialoguing with each other by developing arguments and counterarguments.
Scientific inquiry is concerned with the discovery of universally valid theories. These can be mathematical theories and universality can be established by proofs. Or these can be theories about the world and the inquiry needs to go through a process that seeks to show experimentally that the theory is wrong. The theory is adopted if it is able to explain the observed phenomena and all efforts to falsify it have failed.
