TU Wien Informatics

Kees van Berkel

Assistant Prof. Dr.techn. / MSc

Research Focus

Research Areas

  • Philosophical Logic, Computational Logic, Knowledge Representation, Proof Theory, AI Ethics, Formal Normative Systems
Kees van Berkel

About

Kees van Berkel is an Assistant Professor of AI ethics at the Institute of Logic and Computation, TU Wien. His core research interests are in logical and formal argumentative perspectives on normative reasoning, explainability, and AI ethics.

Roles

  • Assistant Professor
    Theory and Logic, E192-05
  • Curriculum Coordinator
    Master / Area / Societal Impact and Critical Reflections

2024

  • Proof Theory and Decision Procedures for Deontic STIT Logics / Lyon, T. S., & van Berkel, K. (2024). Proof Theory and Decision Procedures for Deontic STIT Logics. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 81, 837–876. https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.1.15710
  • AI Alignment and Normative Reasoning / van Berkel, K. (2024, November 26). AI Alignment and Normative Reasoning [Keynote Presentation]. 1st AIxIA Workshop on Green-Aware Artificial Intelligence (Green-Aware AI 2024). Co-located with the 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2024), Bolzano, Italy.
  • Deontic Explanations Through Dialogue and 5 Key Challenges / van Berkel, K. (2024, October 16). Deontic Explanations Through Dialogue and 5 Key Challenges [Conference Presentation]. ENIGMA 2024, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
    Project: LoDEx (2024–2026)
  • Logical Argumentation: A Tutorial. / Straßer, C., & van Berkel, K. (2024, September). Logical Argumentation: A Tutorial. [Poster Presentation]. The 6th Summer School on Argumentation, Hagen, Germany.
  • A Nonmonotonic Proof Theory for Dialectical Argumentation Under Bounded Resources / van Berkel, K., & Modgil, S. (2024). A Nonmonotonic Proof Theory for Dialectical Argumentation Under Bounded Resources. In Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2024 (pp. 301–312). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA240330
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  • Towards Deontic Explanations Through Dialoque / van Berkel, K., & Straßer, C. (2024). Towards Deontic Explanations Through Dialoque. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Argumentation for eXplainable AI (pp. 29–40). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/202378
  • Deontic Reasoning Based on Inconsistency Measures / Arieli, O., van Berkel, K., Raddaoui, B., & Straßer, C. (2024). Deontic Reasoning Based on Inconsistency Measures. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (pp. 71–81). IJCAI Organization. https://doi.org/10.24963/kr.2024/7
    Project: LoDEx (2024–2026)
  • Towards an Argumentative Unification of Default Reasoning / van Berkel, K., Straßer, C., & Zhou, Z. (2024). Towards an Argumentative Unification of Default Reasoning. In C. Reed, M. Thimm, & T. Rienstra (Eds.), Computational Models of Argument : Proceedings of COMMA 2024 (pp. 313–324). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA240331
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2023

2022

  • Reasoning With and About Norms in Logical Argumentation / van Berkel, K., & Straßer, C. (2022). Reasoning With and About Norms in Logical Argumentation. In Computational Models of Argument. Proceedings of COMMA 2022 (pp. 332–343). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA220164
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    Project: RTD-Indian (2017–2022)
  • Search for heavy resonances decaying to ZZ or ZW and axion-like particles mediating nonresonant ZZ or ZH production at √s = 13 TeV / Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Escalante Del Valle, A., Frühwirth, R., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Lechner, L., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Paulitsch, P., Pitters, F. M., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R., Schwarz, D., … The CMS collaboration. (2022). Search for heavy resonances decaying to ZZ or ZW and axion-like particles mediating nonresonant ZZ or ZH production at √s = 13 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(4), Article 87. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2022)087
  • Deontic Explanations by means of Formal Argumentation / van Berkel, K. (2022, March 31). Deontic Explanations by means of Formal Argumentation [Conference Presentation]. The ACLC-ILLC Workshop on Argumentation, Amsterdam, Netherlands (the). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/135855
  • Annotated Sequent Calculi for Paraconsistent Reasoning and Their Relations to Logical Argumentation / Arieli, O., van Berkel, K., & Straßer, C. (2022). Annotated Sequent Calculi for Paraconsistent Reasoning and Their Relations to Logical Argumentation. In L. D. Raedt (Ed.), Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-22) (pp. 2532–2538). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/351
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