QR Workshop Schedule and Papers
October 19, 2024, 9:15 - 18:00
North Campus of the University of Santiago de Compostela

QR Proceedings
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Keynotes

Keynote by Núria Agell: From Orders of Magnitude to Linguistic Nuance: Managerial Insights and Applications
	short bio: Núria Agell is a professor in the Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences. She holds a degree in Mathematics (University of Barcelona, UB) and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from UPC-BarcelonaTech for a dissertation on artificial intelligence, specifically around qualitative reasoning modelling. She is an active member of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (ACIA) and the EURO Working Group on Multi-criteria Decision Aiding. Her main research interests are in the development of artificial intelligence techniques and decision-making systems. In particular, she works on learning algorithms, qualitative and fuzzy reasoning, multi-criteria and group decision-making, recommending systems and consensus modelling.
Invited talk by Vicent Costa: Qualitative Modeling and Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Applications to Art Painting Style Categorization and Quality of Life for People with Disability
	short bio: Vicent Costa is a tenured scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the Spanish National Research Council (IIIA-CSIC), a substitute lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (teaching subjects in the Bachelor's degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy), and a vocal member of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence Board of Directors. With a bachelor's in Mathematics and a bachelor's in Philosophy, a master's in Pure and Applied Logic, and a PhD in Cognitive Science and Language, his interrelated research focuses on logics for artificial intelligence, the design of cognitive and explainable AI systems, especially those based on qualitative reasoning, and the study of ethical aspects of AI, including its uses and impacts in disability. His research has been published in several journals and book chapters, presented at international conferences, and has received various distinctions (e.g., the Best STAIRS-ECAI 2020 Paper Award). Previously, he conducted research at the Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes (Spain) and the Bremen Spatial Cognition Center (Germany).

QR Schedule

time	topic and presenters
opening session
9:15 - 9:30	Welcome to QR2024!
9:30 - 10:30	keynote by Núria Agell, Esade
10:30 - 11:00	coffee break
session I: QR models for education
11:00 - 11:30	Qualitative Reference Model for Learning about Melatonin Regulation by Nihal Fawzi, Marco Kragten, and Bert Bredeweg
11:30 - 12:00	Qualitative and quantitative modelling of dynamic systems: how do they relate? by Marco Kragten and Bert Bredeweg
12:00 - 12:30	Reconstructing Qualitative Model Variations from Qualitative Descriptions for Conversational Explanation by Moritz Bayerkuhnlein and Diedrich Wolter
12:30 - 14:00	lunch break
14:00 - 15:00	invited talk by Vicent Costa, IIIA-CSIC
session II: applications of QR
15:00 - 15:15	Safe parking of a nonholonomic autonomous vehicle by qualitative reasoning by Domen Šoberl, Jan Lemeirec, Ruben Spolminkd, and Jure Žabka
15:00 - 15:15	Using qualitative reasoning to compare media coverage of Israel Gaza war by Walaa Abuasaker, Núria Agell, Jennifer Nguyen, Nil Agell, Mónica Sánchez, and Francisco J. Ruiz
15:30 - 16:00	coffee break
16:00 - 16:30	Qualitative Modeling of Social Relationships by Ken Forbus
session III: QR and Explainable ML
16:30 - 17:00	Unveiling Ontological Commitment in Multi-Modal Foundation Models by Mert Kesera, Gesina Schwalbe, Niki Amini-Naienid, Matthias Rottmanne, and Alois Knoll
17:00 - 17:15	Preliminary Experiments of Qualitative Reasoning Model Construction Using Large Language Model by Shinpei Suzuki and Masaharu Yoshioka
17:15 - 17:30	Using Qualitative Techniques with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Explainable AI by Ismael Sanz, Lledó Museros, Vicente Casales-Garcia, and Luis Gonzalez-Abril
17:30 - 18:00	open discussion and closing of workshop