Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty: 15th European Conference, ECSQARU 2019, Belgrade, Serbia, September 18-20, 2019, Proceedings ... Notes in Computer Science Book 11726)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU 2019, held in Belgrade, Serbia, in September 2019. The 41 full papers presented together with 3 abstracts of invited talks inn this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: Argumentation; Belief Functions; Conditional, Default and Analogical Reasoning; Learning and Decision Making; Precise and Imprecise Probabilities; and Uncertain Reasoning for Applications. -- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Similarity Measures Between Arguments Revisited (Leila Amgoud, Victor David, Dragan Doder)....Pages 3-13 A New Generic Framework for Mediated Multilateral Argumentation-Based Negotiation Using Case-Based Reasoning (Rihab Bouslama, Raouia Ayachi, Nahla Ben Amor)....Pages 14-26 Interpretability of Gradual Semantics in Abstract Argumentation (Jérôme Delobelle, Serena Villata)....Pages 27-38 An Imprecise Probability Approach for Abstract Argumentation Based on Credal Sets (Mariela Morveli-Espinoza, Juan Carlos Nieves, Cesar Augusto Tacla)....Pages 39-49 A Model-Based Theorem Prover for Epistemic Graphs for Argumentation (Anthony Hunter, Sylwia Polberg)....Pages 50-61 Discussion Games for Preferred Semantics of Abstract Dialectical Frameworks (Atefeh Keshavarzi Zafarghandi, Rineke Verbrugge, Bart Verheij)....Pages 62-73 Polynomial-Time Updates of Epistemic States in a Fragment of Probabilistic Epistemic Argumentation (Nico Potyka, Sylwia Polberg, Anthony Hunter)....Pages 74-86 Ordering Argumentation Frameworks (Chiaki Sakama, Katsumi Inoue)....Pages 87-98 Constructing Bayesian Network Graphs from Labeled Arguments (Remi Wieten, Floris Bex, Henry Prakken, Silja Renooij)....Pages 99-110 Front Matter ....Pages 111-111 Toward the Evaluation of Case Base Maintenance Policies Under the Belief Function Theory (Safa Ben Ayed, Zied Elouedi, Eric Lefevre)....Pages 113-124 Belief Functions and Degrees of Non-conflictness (Milan Daniel, Václav Kratochvíl)....Pages 125-136 On Expected Utility Under Ambiguity (Radim Jiroušek, Václav Kratochvíl)....Pages 137-147 Combination in Dempster-Shafer Theory Based on a Disagreement Factor Between Evidences (Joaquín Abellán, Serafín Moral-García, María Dolores Benítez)....Pages 148-159 Front Matter ....Pages 161-161 A New Perspective on Analogical Proportions (Nelly Barbot, Laurent Miclet, Henri Prade, Gilles Richard)....Pages 163-174 On the Antecedent Normal Form of Conditional Knowledge Bases (Christoph Beierle, Steven Kutsch)....Pages 175-186 Revisiting Conditional Preferences: From Defaults to Graphical Representations (Nahla Ben Amor, Didier Dubois, Henri Prade, Syrine Saidi)....Pages 187-198 Conjunction of Conditional Events and t-Norms (Angelo Gilio, Giuseppe Sanfilippo)....Pages 199-211 Reasoning About Exceptions in Ontologies: An Approximation of the Multipreference Semantics (Laura Giordano, Valentina Gliozzi)....Pages 212-225 Computation of Closures of Nonmonotonic Inference Relations Induced by Conditional Knowledge Bases (Steven Kutsch, Christoph Beierle)....Pages 226-237 Solving Word Analogies: A Machine Learning Perspective (Suryani Lim, Henri Prade, Gilles Richard)....Pages 238-250 Decrement Operators in Belief Change (Kai Sauerwald, Christoph Beierle)....Pages 251-262 Front Matter ....Pages 263-263 A Novel Document Generation Process for Topic Detection Based on Hierarchical Latent Tree Models (Peixian Chen, Zhourong Chen, Nevin L. Zhang)....Pages 265-276 Fast Structure Learning for Deep Feedforward Networks via Tree Skeleton Expansion (Zhourong Chen, Xiaopeng Li, Zhiliang Tian, Nevin L. Zhang)....Pages 277-289 An Effective Maintenance Policy for a Multi-component Dynamic System Using Factored POMDPs (İpek Kıvanç, Demet Özgür-Ünlüakın)....Pages 290-300 Epistemic Sets Applied to Best-of-n Problems (Jonathan Lawry, Michael Crosscombe, David Harvey)....Pages 301-312 Multi-task Transfer Learning for Timescale Graphical Event Models (Mathilde Monvoisin, Philippe Leray)....Pages 313-323 Explaining Completions Produced by Embeddings of Knowledge Graphs (Andrey Ruschel, Arthur Colombini Gusmão, Gustavo Padilha Polleti, Fabio Gagliardi Cozman)....Pages 324-335 Efficient Algorithms for Minimax Decisions Under Tree-Structured Incompleteness (Thijs van Ommen, Wouter M. Koolen, Peter D. Grünwald)....Pages 336-347 Front Matter ....Pages 349-349 A Probabilistic Graphical Model-Based Approach for the Label Ranking Problem (Juan Carlos Alfaro, Enrique González Rodrigo, Juan Ángel Aledo, José Antonio Gámez)....Pages 351-362 Sure-Wins Under Coherence: A Geometrical Perspective (Stefano Bonzio, Tommaso Flaminio, Paolo Galeazzi)....Pages 363-373 Conditioning of Imprecise Probabilities Based on Generalized Credal Sets (Andrey G. Bronevich, Igor N. Rozenberg)....Pages 374-384 Probabilistic Logic for Reasoning About Actions in Time (Šejla Dautović, Dragan Doder)....Pages 385-396 Towards a Standard Completeness for a Probabilistic Logic on Infinite-Valued Events (Tommaso Flaminio)....Pages 397-407 Bayesian Confirmation and Justifications (Hamzeh Mohammadi, Thomas Studer)....Pages 408-418 Probability Propagation in Selected Aristotelian Syllogisms (Niki Pfeifer, Giuseppe Sanfilippo)....Pages 419-431 Structural Fusion/Aggregation of Bayesian Networks via Greedy Equivalence Search Learning Algorithm (Jose M. Puerta, Juan Ángel Aledo, José Antonio Gámez, Jorge D. Laborda)....Pages 432-443 On Irreducible Min-Balanced Set Systems (Milan Studený, Václav Kratochvíl, Jiří Vomlel)....Pages 444-454 A Recursive Algorithm for Computing Inferences in Imprecise Markov Chains (Natan T’Joens, Thomas Krak, Jasper De Bock, Gert de Cooman)....Pages 455-465 Front Matter ....Pages 467-467 Probabilistic Consensus of the Blockchain Protocol (Bojan Marinković, Paola Glavan, Zoran Ognjanović, Dragan Doder, Thomas Studer)....Pages 469-480 Measuring Investment Opportunities Under Uncertainty (Jorge Castro, Joaquim Gabarro, Maria Serna)....Pages 481-491 Balancing Schedules Using Maximum Leximin (Federico Toffano, Nic Wilson)....Pages 492-503 Back Matter ....Pages 505-506