Section: New Results

Highlights of the Year

• Michael Thomazo was awarded the AFIA Prize 2014 (French Association for Artificial Intelligence) for his PhD entitled "Conjunctive Query Answering Under Existential Rules - Decidability, Complexity, and Algorithms" defended in October 2013. He was also awarded the first accessit of Gilles Kahn Prize 2014 by the SIF (French Society for Computer Science) [14] .

• Madalina Croitoru and Alain Gutierrez were awarded the Best Technical Paper of SGAI-2014 for "On Ontological Expressivity and Modelling Argumentation Schemes using COGUI", in collaboration with Wael Hamdan, Rady Khazem and Ghaida Rebdawi .

• Abdallah Arioua was awarded the Best Student Paper Award of SGAI-2014 for "Query Failure Explanation in Inconsistent Knowledge Bases: A Dialogical Approach" in collaboration with Nouredine Tamani, Madalina Croitoru and Patrice Buche .

Best Papers Awards :

[36] On Ontological Expressivity and Modelling Argumentation Schemes Using COGUI in AI'2014: Thirty-fourth SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
W. Hamdan, R. Khazem, G. Rebdawi, M. Croitoru, A. Gutierrez, P. Buche.

[28] Query Failure Explanation in Inconsistent Knowledge Bases: A Dialogical Approach in AI'2014: 34th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
A. Arioua, N. Tamani, M. Croitoru, P. Buche.