The theme of the doctoral school is Advanced Topics in Decision Theoretic Artificial Intelligence. Specifically, the school will comprise major courses on topics such as an introduction to constraint programming using ECLiPSe, reasoning under uncertainty, explanation generation for decision-making, and a variety of other short tutorials.

In addition to the course content, students from countries such as Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Turkey, and the UK will give short presentations of their work in an informal workshop environment throughout the week. The Doctoral School is
chaired by Dr Barry O'Sullivan, Associate Director of the Cork Constraint Computation Centre.

The doctoral school will be followed by a meeting of the Management Committee of COST Action IC0602 (Algorithmic Decision Theory) tomorrow, Thursday, April 23rd and Friday, April 24th. Delegates at this meeting come from universities in the USA, Europe, Middle East and Australia.

COST Action IC0602aims to put together researchers coming from different fields such as Decision Theory, Discrete Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in order to improve decision support in the presence of massive data bases, combinatorial structures, partial and/or uncertain information and distributed, possibly interoperating decision makers. Such problems arise in several real-world decision making problems such as humanitarian logistics, epidemiology, risk assessment and management, e-government, electronic commerce, and the implementation of recommender systems. The Action will coordinate ongoing research projects and provide a more solid framework to already existing networked activities.

Web: http://www.cs.ucc.ie/~osullb/IC0602/Welcome.html

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