[Hol-info] [CFP] Call for Participation: KR-2025 Workshop in Honour of Pavlos Peppas

[Maurice P. <mo...@un...>]

Call for Participation: KR-2025 Workshop in Honour of Pavlos Peppas (PavlosPeppas@KR-2025)

Held in conjunction with KR 2025<https://kr.org/KR2025/> (registration required).
13:30 – 17:30, Thursday 13 November 2025

Workshop web site: https://sites.google.com/view/kr2025-pavlospeppasworkshop/home
Location: Latham Theatre (102), Redmond Barry Building, The University of Melbourne.


Overview
This workshop is in memory, and in honour of, Pavlos Peppas. Pavlos was a leading researcher in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (particularly Belief Revision), and a friend, colleague, or mentor to a great many people in the KR community and beyond.

The schedule for the Workshop is below and can also be found on the workshop web site (link above).

The final session of the day is open for reflections which you can also send through if you’re not able to attend or make in person if you’re at the workshop.

The workshop includes reflections from family members and colleagues, submitted papers, and a workshop dinner at a local (Greek, of course!) restaurant.



Workshop Schedule:

12:30 – 13:30: Lunch


13:30 – 15:30: Session 1: Recaps of Papers Published with Pavlos Peppas

13:30 – 13:50: Welcome
13:50 – 14:10:

General Belief Revision: Extended Summary
James Delgrande, Pavlos Peppas and Stefan Woltran

14:10 – 14:30:
Causality and Minimal Change Demystified (IJCAI-2001)
Maurice Pagnucco and Pavlos Peppas

14:30 – 14:50:
Constructive Modelings for Theory Change (Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 36(1): 120-133, Winter 1995)
Pavlos Peppas and Mary-Anne Williams

14:50 – 15:10:
Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Alexander Hahn and Pavlos Peppas
Epistemic Syntax Splitting – Links to Propositional Splitting and an Algorithmic Approach

15:10 – 15:30:
Revision vs. Update: Taking a Closer Look (ECAI-1996)
Pavlos Peppas, Abhaya C. Nayak, Maurice Pagnucco, Norman Y. Foo, Rex Bing Hung Kwok, Mikhail Prokopenko


15:30 – 16:00: Afternoon Tea/Coffee


16:00 – 17:30: Session 2: Papers Influenced by Pavlos Peppas

16:00 – 16:20:

Incompatibility of Parametrized-Difference and Theory-Relational Belief Revision

Theofanis Aravanis

16:20 – 16:40:

Undecidability and the edge of chaos: from the Liar Paradox to the Game of Life information on submission

Mikhail Prokopenko, Michael Harre, Ori Livson and Joseph Lizier

16:40 – 17:00:

An Analysis of The Role of Syntax in Inductive Inference
Jesse Heyninck, Richard Booth, Thomas Meyer and Lars-Phillip Spiegel

17:00 – 17:30:

Reflections from workshop participants


18:00 – 21:00: Dinner (venue to be confirmed)

Organisers

  *   Dr. Theofanis Aravanis, University of the Peloponnese, Greece
  *   Professor Emeritus James P. Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  *   Professor Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund University, Germany
  *   Professor Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales, Australia
  *   Professor Mikhail Prokopenko, The University of Sydney, Australia
  *   Professor Mary-Anne Williams, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Program Committee

  *   Professor Emeritus Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany
  *   Emeritus Professor Samir Chopra, USA
  *   Professor Giuseppe de Giacomo, Oxford University, UK
  *   Professor Thomas Eiter, TU Vienna, Austria
  *   Professor Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey
  *   Professor Eduardo Ferme, University of Madeira, Portugal
  *   Professor Randy Goebel, The University of Alberta, Canada
  *   Associate Professor Aleksander Ignjatovic, The University of New South Wales
  *   Professor Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen, Germany
  *   Professor Pierre Marquis, University of Artois and CNRS, France
  *   Professor Sheila McIlraith, The University of Toronto, Canada
  *   Professor Tommie Meyer, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  *   Professor Jochen Renz, Australian National University, Australia
  *   ​​Professor Hans Rott, University of Regensburg, Germany
  *   Dr Kai Sauerwald, University of Hagen, Germany
  *   Professor Torsten Schaub, Potsdam University, Germany
  *   Dr Steven Shapiro, The University of Toronto, Canada
  *   Professor Sylvie Thiebaux, Australian National University
  *   Professor Matthias Thimm, University of Hagen, Germany
  *   Professor Francesca Toni, Imperial College London, UK
  *   Professor Son Tran, New Mexico State University, USA
  *   Professor Emeritus Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA


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