QUALITATIVE REASONING 2026
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Zoe Falomir
May 6, 2026, 3:37:08 PM (9 days ago) May 6
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QUALITATIVE REASONING 2026
https://dwolter.github.io/qr26/
held as Workshop at IJCAI
Bremen, Germany
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Paper submission: May, 15
Notification of acceptance: June, 12
Workshop: August, 15 or 16 (TBA)
Qualitative Reasoning (QR) is involved with the development and application of qualitative representations to understand the world from incomplete, imprecise, or uncertain data. Qualitative representations are explicit symbolic representations that may not require numerical quantities. Qualitative models have successfully been applied to natural systems (e.g., physics, biology, ecology, geology), social systems (e.g., economics, cultural decision-making), cognitive systems (e.g., conceptual learning, spatial reasoning, intelligent tutors, robotics), and more. The QR community includes researchers in Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Cognitive Science, Applied Mathematics, and Natural Sciences, commonly seeking to understand, develop, and exploit the ability to reason qualitatively.
We are inviting original research works, system demonstrations, and further contributions to qualitative representation and reasoning. Topics of interest broadly include:
* Qualitative modeling in physical, biological and social sciences, and in engineering.
* Representations and techniques for QR.
* Methods that integrate QR with other forms of knowledge representation, including quantitative methods, machine learning and other formalisms.
* Using QR for diagnosis, design, and monitoring of physical systems.
* Applications of QR, including education, science, and engineering.
* Cognitive models of QR, including the use of existing QR formalisms for cognitive modeling and results from other areas of cognitive science for qualitative reasoning.
* Using QR in understanding language, decision-making, sketches, images, and other kinds of signals and data sources.
* Formalization, axiomatization, and mathematical foundations of QR.
Three types of submissions are sought: research, application, and demo oriented:
* Research contributions present novel ideas or theoretical advancements regarding representation and reasoning, and position this result in the context of known QR theory.
* Application contributions present the use and evaluation of software implementing QR theory in actual real-world contexts. Evaluations can range from technology oriented (e.g. address software functioning in operational contexts) to human oriented (e.g. address usability or stakeholders and market related issues).
* Demos focus on (novel) implementations of QR theory in software. They can be proof of concepts, but also mature products. Contributions typically address the extras needed to realize the implementation.
For details on how to submit please see the workshop homepage at https://dwolter.github.io/qr26/
We are looking forward to discuss you work at QR 2026 in Bremen!
Zoe Falomir and Diedrich Wolter (PC Chairs of QR 2026)
QUALITATIVE REASONING 2026
https://dwolter.github.io/qr26/
held as Workshop at IJCAI
Bremen, Germany
================================
Paper submission: May, 15
Notification of acceptance: June, 12
Workshop: August, 15 or 16 (TBA)
Qualitative Reasoning (QR) is involved with the development and application of qualitative representations to understand the world from incomplete, imprecise, or uncertain data. Qualitative representations are explicit symbolic representations that may not require numerical quantities. Qualitative models have successfully been applied to natural systems (e.g., physics, biology, ecology, geology), social systems (e.g., economics, cultural decision-making), cognitive systems (e.g., conceptual learning, spatial reasoning, intelligent tutors, robotics), and more. The QR community includes researchers in Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Cognitive Science, Applied Mathematics, and Natural Sciences, commonly seeking to understand, develop, and exploit the ability to reason qualitatively.
We are inviting original research works, system demonstrations, and further contributions to qualitative representation and reasoning. Topics of interest broadly include:
* Qualitative modeling in physical, biological and social sciences, and in engineering.
* Representations and techniques for QR.
* Methods that integrate QR with other forms of knowledge representation, including quantitative methods, machine learning and other formalisms.
* Using QR for diagnosis, design, and monitoring of physical systems.
* Applications of QR, including education, science, and engineering.
* Cognitive models of QR, including the use of existing QR formalisms for cognitive modeling and results from other areas of cognitive science for qualitative reasoning.
* Using QR in understanding language, decision-making, sketches, images, and other kinds of signals and data sources.
* Formalization, axiomatization, and mathematical foundations of QR.
Three types of submissions are sought: research, application, and demo oriented:
* Research contributions present novel ideas or theoretical advancements regarding representation and reasoning, and position this result in the context of known QR theory.
* Application contributions present the use and evaluation of software implementing QR theory in actual real-world contexts. Evaluations can range from technology oriented (e.g. address software functioning in operational contexts) to human oriented (e.g. address usability or stakeholders and market related issues).
* Demos focus on (novel) implementations of QR theory in software. They can be proof of concepts, but also mature products. Contributions typically address the extras needed to realize the implementation.
For details on how to submit please see the workshop homepage at https://dwolter.github.io/qr26/
We are looking forward to discuss you work at QR 2026 in Bremen!
Zoe Falomir and Diedrich Wolter (PC Chairs of QR 2026)
Sergei Nirenburg
May 6, 2026, 6:38:28 PM (9 days ago) May 6
to Zoe Falomir, cognitive-systems
This is an apt workshop for us at IJCAI. We had a paper at a previous one in I think 2021. I think it was run by Forbud.
Much love!
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