Workshop on Abduction and Induction 
in Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics (AIAI'07) 
and
The First Franco-Japanese Symposium 
on Knowledge Discovery in Systems Biology (FJ'07) 

 
15th-18th September, 2007 
 
Hotel Aquabella 
Aix-en-Provence, France.  
http://www.aquabella.fr/ 
(Wi-fi connection supplied) 
 
 
Sponsored by: 
LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France 
and 
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, 
 
As a part of: 
the JST-CNRS Strategic International Cooperative Program between France and Japan 
"Knowledge-based Discovery in Systems Biology".  
http://www.jst.go.jp/inter/pj/en_list_PJ_fr.htm 
 
 
 
The photograph in Aix-en-Provence
 
 
 
PROGRAMME (as of 15th September) 
 
FRIDAY, 14TH SEPTEMBER
 
Hotel Aquabella, Aix-en-Provence 
 
Pre-Meeting by Organizers / 
Preparation 
 
 
SATURDAY, 15TH SEPTEMBER
 
Hotel Aquabella, Aix-en-Provence  
 
Workshop on Abduction and Induction in Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics (AIAI'07) 
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~or/AIAI07/
 
 
Participants (18):   
 
Dalal Alrajeh (Imperial College London, UK), 
Joseph Aguilar-Martin (LAAS-CNRS, France), 
Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA), 
Gauvain Bourgne (Univ. Paris IX, France), 
Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark), 
Jacques Demongeot (TIMC-IMAG Laboratory, France), 
Andrei Doncescu (LAAS-CNRS, France), 
Katsumi Inoue (National Institute of Informatics, Japan), 
Koji Iwanuma (University of Yamanashi, Japan), 
Antonis Kakas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), 
Yoshitaka Kameya (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), 
Hidetomo Nabeshima (University of Yamanashi, Japan), 
Oliver Ray (University of Bristol, UK), 
Chiaki Sakama (Wakayama University, Japan), 
Taisuke Sato (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), 
Pierre Siegel (Univ. Provence, France), 
Louise Trave-Massuyes (LAAS-CNRS, France), 
Yoshitaka Yamamoto (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan).  
 
 
Schedule
 
09:15 OPEN Ray, Inoue, Doncescu  
               Overview of AIAI'07 and FJ'07 arrangements (15min) 
               
09:30 INVITED TALK Chitta Baral 
               On the use action languages for biological modeling (45min) 
 
10:15 Christiansen 
               Logic-statistic modeling and analysis of biological sequence data: A Research Agenda (30min) 
 
10:45 COFFEE 
 
11:15 Ray 
               Nonmonotonic abductive inductive learning (30min) 
 
11:45 Alrajeh, Ray, Russo, Uchitel
               Using Abduction and Induction for Operational Requirements Elaboration (30min)
 
12:15 LUNCH 
 
14:00 Bourgne, El Fallah Seghrouchni, Maudet 
               Towards refinement of abductive or inductive hypothesis through propagation (30min) 
 
14:30 Iwanuma, Inoue, Nabeshima 
               Reconsideration of circumscriptive induction with pointwise circumscription (30min) 
 
15:00 COFFEE
 
15:30 Sakama, Inoue 
               Equivalence issues in abduction and induction (30min) 
 
16:00 Aguilar-Martin 
                Fuzzy logic connectives in abductive inference and clustering (30min) 
 
16:30 PANEL DISCUSSION
               A. Kakas (chair), biologists from FJ'07 (panelists) 
                Abduction and Induction in Bioinformatics (1h20) 
 
17:30 CLOSE 
 
20:00 DINNER 
 
 
SUNDAY, 16TH SEPTEMBER 
 
EXCURSION 
 
09:15 Departure by bus from Hotel Aquabella 
 
 - Casis - Les Calanques (boat trip) - Casis (lunch) - Marseille (Notre Dame de la Garde and Vieux Port) - 
 
Note: Each participant will pay directly the fare for the boat excursion as well as lunch at a restaurant.  
 
18:00 Return to Hotel Aquabella 
 
19:30 BANQUET / Gala dinner 
 
 
MONDAY, 17TH SEPTEMBER 
 
Hotel Aquabella, Aix-en-Provence  
 
The First Franco-Japanese Symposium on Knowledge Discovery in Systems Biology (FJ'07) 
http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ki/event/fj07.html
 
Participants (19):   
 
Joseph Aguilar-Martin (LAAS-CNRS, France), 
Henri Angelino (National Institute of Informatics, Japan), 
Celine Cazenave (LAAS-CNRS, France), 
Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark), 
Jacques Demongeot (TIMC-IMAG Laboratory, France), 
Andrei Doncescu (LAAS-CNRS, France), 
Gerald Goma  (INSA-INRA-CNRS, France), 
Katsumi Inoue (National Institute of Informatics, Japan), 
Koji Iwanuma (University of Yamanashi, Japan), 
Yoshitaka Kameya (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), 
Emmanuel Montseny (LAAS-CNRS, France), 
Gerard Montseny (LAAS-CNRS, France), 
Hidetomo Nabeshima (University of Yamanashi, Japan), 
Oliver Ray (University of Bristol, UK), 
Chiaki Sakama (Wakayama University, Japan), 
Taisuke Sato (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), 
Pierre Siegel (Univ. Provence, France), 
Louise Trave-Massuyes (LAAS-CNRS, France), 
Yoshitaka Yamamoto (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan).  
 
 
Schedule
 
09:15 OPEN Inoue, Doncescu 
               Introduction to the JST-CNRS strategic international cooperative program (15min) 
 
09:30 Demongeot 
                On metabolic pathways modelling (1h30) 
 
11:00 COFFEE 
 
11:30 G. Montesny, Cazenave 
               Introduction to diffusive representation and applications (1h) 
 
12:30 LUNCH
 
14:00 Yamamoto, Inoue, Doncescu 
 Integration of abduction and induction in biological networks using CF-induction + system demonstration (40min) 
 
14:40 Nabeshima 
               Consequence finding with SOLAR-C + system demonstration (30min) 
 
15:10 Ray
                Applications and methods of logic- based  abduction and induction in bioinformatics (40min) 
 
15:50 COFFEE 
 
16:20 Iwanuma 
               A short introduction to sequential data mining (20min)
 
16:40 Nabeshima 
               An introduction to SAT planning on pathway problems (20min) 
 
17:00 Kameya 
                An introduction to PRISM and its applications + system demonstration (40min) 
 
17:40 Sato
               Propositinonalized probabilistic modeling and statistical learning in PRISM (40min) 
 
19:30 DINNER
 
 
TUESDAY, 18TH SEPTEMBER
 
Hotel Aquabella, Aix-en-Provence  
 
The First Franco-Japanese Symposium on Knowledge Discovery in Systems Biology (FJ'07) 
 
09:15 Goma 
               Microbial bioreactors/bioreactions: tools for basic knowledge on "holistic biology" (40min) 
 
09:55 E. Montseny 
Linearization of dynamic systems by time-nonlocal operatorial transformations and application to biological systems (35min) 
 
10:30 COFFEE 
 
11:00 Doncescu 
                Reasoning about uncertainty in biological systems (30min) 
 
11:30 PROJECT MEETING 1:  
               Defining biochemical problems in the FJ project (1h) 
 
12:30 LUNCH 
 
14:00 PROJECT MEETING 2:  
               Discussion for future work and the next symposium (1h) 
 
15:00 WALK-AROUND 
 
19:30 DINNER 
 
 

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