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Joint Proceedings of MedRACER 2018
and WoMoCoE 2018
This volume contains the articles from the workshop on Reasoning with Ambiguous and
Conflicting Evidence and Recommendations in Medicine (MedRACER 2018) and the 3rd
International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution (WOMoCoE
2018), held on 29 october 2018 and co-located with the 16th International Conference on
Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2018) in Tempe, Arizona.
MedRACER 2018: Reasoning with Ambiguous and Conflicting Evidence
and Recommendations in Medicine
Medical reasoning is a complex task as it involves information from multiple sources,
interactions among health conditions and medical recommendations and the management of
patient and health professional expectations. Incomplete and contradictory information is
ever present and decisions have to be made relying on it. Given the harsh environment in
which these decisions take place and their potential impacts, mechanisms to support and
facilitate them are in high demand. Through computational methods, it is possible to analyse
available information, summarise relevant parts, discover conflicts and inconsistencies, and
evaluate possible conclusions. They also allow the inclusion in both the representation and
reasoning mechanisms of elements reflecting patient needs and preferences from multiple
sources (patient, clinician, health center etc.). Thus, exploring computational methods –
including defeasible reasoning, computational argumentation, (various forms of) logic
programming, ontological inference, machine-interpretable clinical pathways, decision
support and recommendation systems, preference-based reasoning – for representation of,
reasoning with, and resolving conflicts within, medical knowledge brings forth a positive
impact in medical decisions. The MedRACER 2018 workshop brought together researchers
from the fields of (various) computational logics, argumentation, defeasible reasoning and
reasoning within KR at large, who are interested in health care to share their perspectives on
applications of their research to the medical domain. It featured 3 presentations of submitted
papers, 1 presentation of an invited paper, and 2 keynote talks, respectively by Francesca
Toni and Wlodek Zadrozny. Each submitted paper was reviewed by at least four members of
the program committee. Discussed topics included computational argumentation, conflict
discovery and resolution, and natural language processing of medical documents. Given the
recent recognition of the problems that conflicting and ambiguous information pose to
medical reasoning and therefore in computational systems that assist it, MedRACER 2018 is
a contribution to the establishment of a community that focuses on the development of
computational models to address these problems.
WOMoCoE 2018: Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution
In the area of Knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge is rarely considered as a
monolithic and static structure: partitioning knowledge into distinct modular structures is
central to organize knowledge bases, from their design to their management, from their
maintenance to their use in knowledge sharing. From a different perspective, representing
and reasoning about the context respective to the knowledge in distinct modules is essential
for their correct exploitation and for reliable and effective reasoning in changing situations.
Finally, evolution of knowledge resources, in terms of updates by newly acquired knowledge,
is an important factor influencing the meaningfulness of stored knowledge over time.
The 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution
(WOMoCoE 2018) offered a meeting to introduce and discuss works involving such practical
and theoretical aspects of modularity, contextuality and evolution of knowledge resources.
The workshop aimed to bring together an interdisciplinary audience interested in its topics
both from a theoretical and formal point of view and from an applicational perspective.
WOMoCoE 2018 program featured the oral presentation of the 3 papers included in this
volume. Each submitted paper was reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee. The subject and methods of the presented papers range across different
workshop topics, in particular ontology partitioning, ontology stratification and conceptual
indeterminacy. The workshop program also included a keynote by Thomas Eiter (which
abstract is included in this volume) and a closing discussion panel on the topics of the event.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all authors of the submitted papers, which introduced new results and
discussion topics to the two workshops. We thank the program committee members for their
helpful reviews and comments. Moreover, we would like to thank the keynote speakers for
the two workshops: Francesca Toni, Wlodek Zadrozny and Thomas Eiter. Finally, we thank
the KR 2018 workshop and tutorial chairs, Sebastian Sardina and Ivan Varzinczak for their
help and support in organizing the events.
Workshops organization
MedRACER 2018
Workshop chairs
● Kristijonas Čyras, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
● Tiago Oliveira, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
● Matthew Williams, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London, UK
Program committee
● Alessio Bottrighi, University Piemonte Orientale
● Annette ten Teije, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
● Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus
● Anthony Hunter, University College London
● Davide Carneiro, Polytechnic Institute of Porto
● Emmanuel Hadoux, University College London
● Erik T Mueller, Intelligent Assistants at Capital One
● Francesca Toni, Imperial College London
● Isabelle Bichindaritz, SUNY Oswego
● Jérémie Dauphin, University of Luxembourg
● John Fox, Deontics Ltd; OpenClinical
● John M Prager, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
● Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics
● Kristijonas Čyras, Imperial College London
● Lisa Chalaguine, University College London
● Matthew Williams, Imperial College London
● Paola Mello, University of Bologna
● Paolo Terenziani, University Piemonte Orientale
● Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna
● Pau Herrero, Imperial College London
● Paulo Novais, University of Minho
● Randy Goebel, University of Alberta
● Ryuta Arisaka, University of Perugia
● Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University
● Vicente Julian, Polytechnic University of Valencia
● Tiago Oliveira, National Institute of Informatics
WOMoCoE 2018
Workshop chairs
● Loris Bozzato, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
● Martin Homola, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
● Till Mossakowski, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
● Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
Program committee
● Stefano Borgo, ISTC-CNR, Trento
● Valeria De Paiva, Nuance Communications and University of Birmingham
● Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology
● José M. Giménez-García, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne
● Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University Ohio
● Adila A. Krisnadhi, Universitas Indonesia
● Markus Krötzsch, Dresden University of Technology
● Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano
● Maxime Lefrançois, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
● Rafael Peñaloza, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano
● Daniele Porello, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano
● Thomas Schneider, University of Bremen
● Igor Sedlár, Czech Academy of Sciences
● Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento
● Ivor Uhliarik, Comenius University in Bratislava
● George Vouros, University of Piraeus