[agents] CFP: 16th European Conf on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2021)

[Nic Wilson]

						CALL FOR PAPERS
				The Sixteenth European Conference on
	Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty
						ECSQARU 2021
					http://ecsqaru.utia.cas.cz/
				September 21-24, 2021, Prague (Czechia)

The biennial ECSQARU conferences constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty, with a focus on bringing symbolic and quantitative aspects together. Contributions come from researchers interested in advancing the scientific knowledge and from practitioners using uncertainty techniques in real-world applications. The scope of the ECSQARU conferences encompasses fundamental issues, applications, representation, inference, learning, and decision making in qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms.

Previous ECSQARU events have been held in Marseille (1991), Granada (1993), Fribourg (1995), Bonn (1997), London (1999), Toulouse (2001), Aalborg (2003), Barcelona (2005), Hammamet (2007), Verona (2009), Belfast (2011), Utrecht (2013), Compiègne (2015),  Lugano (2017), and Belgrade (2019)

SCOPE

For ECSQARU 2021 we invite submissions of original papers on topics which include but are not limited to:
- Algorithms for uncertain inference
- Applications of uncertain systems
- Argumentation systems
- Automated planning and acting under uncertainty
- Belief functions
- Belief change & merging
- Classification & clustering
- Decision theory & decision graphs
- Default reasoning
- Description logics with uncertainty
- Foundations of reasoning under uncertainty
- Fuzzy sets & fuzzy logic
- Game theory
- Hybrid Reasoning
- Imprecise probabilities
- Inconsistency handling
- Information fusion - Learning for uncertainty formalisms
- Logics for reasoning under uncertainty
- Markov decision processes
- Possibility theory & possibilistic logic
- Preferences
- Probabilistic graphical models
- Probabilistic logics
- Qualitative uncertainty models
- Rough sets
- Uncertainty & data

PROCEEDINGS

In accordance with the previous conferences, it is planned that the proceedings of ECSQARU 2021 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. 

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are requested to prepare their conference papers in the LNCS/LNAI format. Submitted papers must be original and not under review in a journal or another venue with formally published proceedings. They will be evaluated by peer reviews based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference to present their work: at least one author of each paper must register for the conference.

Submitted papers must be at most 12 pages in the Springer LNCS/LNAI format.

Submissions will be through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsqaru2021

IMPORTANT DATES

May 1, 2021 - abstract submission deadline
May 5, 2021 - paper submission deadline
June 14, 2021 - author notification
July 5, 2021 - submission of final version 
July 5, 2021 - early registration & payment