JOEFEST — PROGRAM

Days: Sunday, 19 July 2026

Sunday, 19 July 2026
09:00-10:10 Contributed Talks 1 JoeFest
Session Chair:
Sander Beckers
Location: C4.01
09:00-09:10
Introduction (abstract) 10 min
Sander Beckers1
1 University College London
09:10-09:30
Operationalising Relative Causal Knowledge: Backbone Identifiability from Private Reports (abstract) 20 min
Fabrizio Russo1, Mark Somers2
1 Imperial College London
2 Fifty One Degrees Ltd
09:30-09:50
Salient Preference Dynamics: A Model of Attention-Driven Preference Change (abstract) 20 min
David Hyland1, Sarit Kraus2, Michael Wooldridge1
1 University of Oxford
2 Bar-Ilan University
09:50-10:10
Lessons from the Past for the Future of Robotics (abstract) 20 min
Mohan Sridharan1
1 University of Edinburgh
10:10-10:40 Coffee Break JoeFest
Location: C4.01
10:40-12:20 Contributed Talks 2 JoeFest
Session Chair:
Hana Chockler
Location: C4.01
10:40-11:00
Proof-theoretic approach to representable qualitative probabilities (abstract) 20 min
Ondrej Majer1, Paolo Baldi2
1 Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
2 University of Salento
11:00-11:20
Cheap Talk Games with Dempster-Shafer Priors (abstract) 20 min
Krishna Manoorkar1, Willem Conradie2, Alessandra Palmigiano3, Nachoem Wijnberg4, Apostolos Tzimoulis5
1 Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia
2 School of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
3 School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
4 Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam
5 Deaprtment of Computer Science, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
11:20-11:40
Answer Set Programming for Actual Causality: The Role of Negations (abstract) 20 min
Thomas Eiter1, Tobias Geibinger1, Xinghan Liu1
1 TU Wien
11:40-12:00
Causality, Harm, and Elections (abstract) 20 min
Jerome Lang1
1 LAMSADE, CNRS, Universit e Paris-Dauphine PSL
12:00-12:20
Computing Actual Causes for Neural Network Predictions under Structured Causal Inputs (abstract) 20 min
Jannick Strobel1, Muqsit Azeem2, Stefan Leue2
1 University of Konstanz
2 University of Kosntanz
12:20-13:50 Lunch JoeFest
Location: C4.01
13:50-15:05 In-Person Invited Talks JoeFest
Session Chair:
Sander Beckers
Location: C4.01
13:50-14:05
Invited Talk (abstract) 15 min
Hana Chockler1
1 King’s College London
14:05-14:20
Invited Talk (abstract) 15 min
Moshe Vardi1
1 Rice University
14:20-14:35
Invited Talk (abstract) 15 min
Ron van der Meyden1
1 University of New South Wales
14:35-14:50
Invited Talk (abstract) 15 min
Dov Samet1
1 Tel Aviv University
14:50-15:00
Invited Talk (abstract) 10 min
Gerhard Lakemeyer1
1 RWTH Aachen University
15:00-15:05
Invited Talk (abstract) 5 min
Hector Geffner1
1 RWTH Aachen University
15:05-15:35 Coffee Break JoeFest
Location: C4.01
15:35-17:00 Pre-recorded Invited Talks JoeFest
Session Chair:
Hana Chockler
Location: C4.01
15:35-17:00
Pre-recorded Videos (abstract) 85 min
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