Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty [electronic resource] : 9th European Conference, ECSQARU 2007, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 31 - November 2, 2007, Proceedings /

Invited Talks -- Pattern Recognition and Information Fusion Using Belief Functions: Some Recent Developments -- Causality and Dynamics of Beliefs in Qualitative Uncertainty Frameworks -- Elements of Argumentation -- Causal Networks -- Causal Graphical Models with Latent Variables: Learning and Inference -- Learning Causal Bayesian Networks from Incomplete Observational Data and Interventions -- Belief Revision and Inconsistency Handling -- Measuring Inconsistency for Description Logics Based on Paraconsistent Semantics -- On the Dynamics of Total Preorders: Revising Abstract Interval Orders -- Approaches to Constructing a Stratified Merged Knowledge Base -- Syntactic Propositional Belief Bases Fusion with Removed Sets -- COBA 2.0: A Consistency-Based Belief Change System -- An Algorithm for Computing Inconsistency Measurement by Paraconsistent Semantics -- How Dirty Is Your Relational Database? An Axiomatic Approach -- Logics Under Uncertainty -- A Top-Down Query Answering Procedure for Normal Logic Programs Under the Any-World Assumption -- Measure Logic -- Weak Implication in Terms of Conditional Uncertainty Measures -- Language Invariance and Spectrum Exchangeability in Inductive Logic -- Best Approximation of Ruspini Partitions in Gödel Logic -- A Logical Approach to Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning -- Description Logic Programs Under Probabilistic Uncertainty and Fuzzy Vagueness -- From DEL to EDL: Exploring the Power of Converse Events -- Argumentation Systems -- Comparing Argumentation Semantics with Respect to Skepticism -- An Algorithm for Computing Semi-stable Semantics -- The Logical Handling of Threats, Rewards, Tips, and Warnings -- On the Acceptability of Incompatible Arguments -- Handling Ignorance in Argumentation: Semantics of Partial Argumentation Frameworks -- DialecticalProof Theories for the Credulous Prudent Preferred Semantics of Argumentation -- Towards an Extensible Argumentation System -- Dialectical Explanations in Defeasible Argumentation -- Arguing over Actions That Involve Multiple Criteria: A Critical Review -- Belief Functions -- Shared Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams for Dempster-Shafer Theory -- Cautious Conjunctive Merging of Belief Functions -- Consonant Belief Function Induced by a Confidence Set of Pignistic Probabilities -- On the Orthogonal Projection of a Belief Function -- On Latent Belief Structures -- The DSm Approach as a Special Case of the Dempster-Shafer Theory -- Interpreting Belief Functions as Dirichlet Distributions -- Forward-Backward-Viterbi Procedures in the Transferable Belief Model for State Sequence Analysis Using Belief Functions -- Uncertainty in Semantic Ontology Mapping: An Evidential Approach -- Learning and Classification -- Measures of Ruleset Quality Capable to Represent Uncertain Validity -- A Discriminative Learning Method of TAN Classifier -- Discriminative vs. Generative Learning of Bayesian Network Classifiers -- PADUA Protocol: Strategies and Tactics -- A Semi-naive Bayes Classifier with Grouping of Cases -- Split Criterions for Variable Selection Using Decision Trees -- Inference and Learning in Multi-dimensional Bayesian Network Classifiers -- Combining Decision Trees Based on Imprecise Probabilities and Uncertainty Measures -- Belief Classification Approach Based on Generalized Credal EM -- Bayesian Networks and Probabilistic Reasoning -- Logical Compilation of Bayesian Networks with Discrete Variables -- Local Monotonicity in Probabilistic Networks -- Independence Decomposition in Dynamic Bayesian Networks -- Average and Majority Gates: Combining Information by Means of Bayesian Networks -- A Fast Hill-Climbing Algorithm for Bayesian Networks Structure Learning -- On Directed and Undirected Propagation Algorithms for Bayesian Networks -- Reasoning About Preferences -- Lexicographic Refinements of Sugeno Integrals -- Algebraic Structures for Bipolar Constraint-Based Reasoning -- A Revised Qualitative Choice Logic for Handling Prioritized Preferences -- An Abstract Theory of Argumentation That Accommodates Defeasible Reasoning About Preferences -- Relaxing Ceteris Paribus Preferences with Partially Ordered Priorities -- Reasoning and Decision Making Under Uncertainty -- Conceptual Uncertainty and Reasoning Tools -- Reasoning with an Incomplete Information Exchange Policy -- Qualitative Constraint Enforcement in Advanced Policy Specification -- A Qualitative Hidden Markov Model for Spatio-temporal Reasoning -- A Multiobjective Resource-Constrained Project-Scheduling Problem -- Game Theory -- Extending Classical Planning to the Multi-agent Case: A Game-Theoretic Approach -- Dependencies Between Players in Boolean Games -- Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic -- The Use of Fuzzy t-Conorm Integral for Combining Classifiers -- Integrated Query Answering with Weighted Fuzzy Rules -- On Decision Support Under Risk by the WOWA Optimization -- Transposing the Sociology of Organized Action into a Fuzzy Environment -- Possibility Theory -- An Axiomatization of Conditional Possibilistic Preference Functionals -- Conflict Analysis and Merging Operators Selection in Possibility Theory -- Extending Description Logics with Uncertainty Reasoning in Possibilistic Logic -- Information Affinity: A New Similarity Measure for Possibilistic Uncertain Information -- Applications -- Measuring the Quality of Health-Care Services: A Likelihood-Based Fuzzy Modeling Approach -- Automatic Indexing from a Thesaurus Using Bayesian Networks: Application to the Classification of Parliamentary Initiatives -- A Genetic Programming Classifier Design Approach for Cell Images -- Use of Radio Frequency Identification for Targeted Advertising: A Collaborative Filtering Approach Using Bayesian Networks -- Development of an Intelligent Assessment System for Solo Taxonomies Using Fuzzy Logic.