\nThe process of voting can be seen as the aggregation of individual\npreferences (i.e., that of the vote rs for candidates) to produce a\ncollectively pref erred alternative (the result of the election). Th is\nproblem is extensively studied by social choic e theory. On the other hand,\nbelief revision inve stigates the dynamics of the process of belief cha nge: \nwhen an agent is faced with new informatio n which contradicts his/her\ncurrent beliefs, he/s he will have to retract some of the old beliefs in \norder to accommodate the new belief consistently . The main concern here is\nhow to make a fair dec ision on what old beliefs to retract. There is a\n vaste literature on the subject. Similarly, belief merging investigates\nways to aggregate a number of individual belief bases into a collective\none. Here again, the aggregation procedure in belief m erging faces\nproblems similar to those addressed in voting theory and belief revision. \nAlthough there are clear connections and sharing of princip les between the\nareas, the investigation of the s imilarities between the three of them is\nquite ne w. The main motivation for this workshop is to pro mote interaction\nbetween researchers of the areas and generate cross-fertilisation of\nideas.\n
\n \n \nFor more informatio n, see\n http://www.dcs.kcl .ac.uk/events/ADMW06/.\n
\n\nThe Program Committee invites su bmissions of abstracts in the interface of the abo ve or\nrelated areas that investigate common probl ems.\nAuthors should submit an extended abstract b y September, 22nd. \n
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