[agents] Uncertain Reasoning Special Track at FLAIRS-24: first Call For Papers

[Laurent Perrussel]

[Apologies for multiple copies]

FLAIRS-24 - Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR)
West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
May 18-20, 2011

http://www.irit.fr/~Laurent.Perrussel/ur11/


Call For Papers
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Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and 
robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain 
information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a 
broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, 
including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. 
We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote 
cross fertilization among the different approaches for uncertain 
reasoning, and in this way foster the development of new ideas and 
paradigms.

The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in
FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR'2011 Special
Track at the 24th International Florida Artificial Intelligence
Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-24) is the 16th in the series. As
the past tracks, UR'2011 seeks to bring together researchers working on
broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty.

Scopes
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Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of
particular interest include, but are not limited to:

*Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies

*Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief function,
vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics

*Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making

*Modeling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information,
such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of
measures, and interval-valued probabilities

*Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning

*Graphical models of uncertainty

*Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process

*Temporal reasoning and uncertainty

*Argumentation

*Belief change and Merging

*Nonmonotonic and conditional Logics

*Similarity-based reasoning

*Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge
discovery

*Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion,
diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment

*Practical applications of uncertain reasoning


Paper Submission and Publication
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Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a
journal or another conference. Full papers may be up to 6 pages, and
poster papers up to 2 pages. Papers must be in AAAI format, and
submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system.  Instructions
on the submission procedure will be available at the UR'2011 website:

http://www.irit.fr/~Laurent.Perrussel/ur11/

The proceedings of FLAIRS will be published by the AAAI. An author of
each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the
paper at the UR track.

As in previous years, our goal is to publish a selection of the best 
papers in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate 
Reasoning.

Important Dates
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Paper submission due: Nov. 22, 2010
Author Notification: Jan. 21, 2011
Camera Ready Copy Due: Feb. 21, 2011
Conference:     May 18-20, 2011

Program Committee
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[ Track Chairs ]
C. Butz        University of Regina, Canada
L. Perrussel   IRIT - Université de Toulouse, France

[ PC Members ]
Xiangdong An            York U., Canada
Christoph Beierle       U. Hagen, Germany
Salem Benferhat         U. Artois, France
Fabio Cuzzolin          Oxford Brookes U., England
Sylvie Doutre           U. Toulouse, France
Marek Druzdzel          U. Pittsburgh, USA
Love Ekenberg           Stockholm U., Sweden
Konstantinos Georgatos  CUNY, USA
Kevin Grant             U. Lethbridge, Canada
Souhila Kaci            U. Artois, France
Gabriele Kern-Isberner  U. Dortmund, Germany
Pawan Lingras           Saint Mary’s U., Canada
Weiru Liu               Queen's U. Belfast, UK
Tsai-Ching Lu           HRL Laboratories, USA
Anders Madsen           HUGIN Expert, Denmark
Christina Manfredotti   U. Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Malek Mouhoub           U. Regina, Canada
Eric Neufeld            U. Saskatchewan, Canada
Thomas Nielsen          Aalborg U., Denmark
Eugene Santos           Dartmouth College, USA
Paul Snow               New Hampshire, USA
Luis E. Sucar           Inst. Astrophysics, Optics, Electronics, Mexico
Choh-Man Teng           Inst. For Human & Machine Cognition, USA
Paolo Viappini          U. Toronto, Canada
Dan Wu                  U. Windsor, Canada
Yang Xiang              U. Guelph, Canada
Changhe Yuan            Mississippi State U., USA


Travel Information
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FLAIRS 2011 will be held in West Palm Beach, Florida. Additional
information on the conference locale and travel planning can be found
at "http://www.flairs-24.info/".