Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights

The book "Working with Preferences — Less Is More" [11] by Souhila Kaci was released in September 2011 (by Springer, Cognitive Technologies Series). This book is devoted to the representation of preferences and the associated reasoning, as well as the application of preferences to argumentation systems, database queries and multi-criteria decision making.

Marie-Laure Mugnier was keynote speaker at the International Conference RR 2011 (The Fifth International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems). This conference is becoming a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results on all topics concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems.