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CALL FOR PAPERS: KI-2001 Workshop "Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence" Vienna, Austria, September 17, 2001 http://www.informatik.fernuni-hagen.de/import/pi8/ws_uai_ki01/uai_workshop_cfp.html <!-- saved from url=(0022)http://internet.e-mail --> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>KI-2001 Workshop "Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence"</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#0000FF" lang="EN-US" style="tab-interval:.5in"> <font face="Times New Roman,Times"> <h1><a href="http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/KI2001/">KI-2001</a> Workshop "Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence"</h1> <br> <br> <h2><i>Vienna, Austria<br> September 17, 2001</i></h2> <center><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></center> <ul> <li><a href="#Workshop Description"> Workshop Description</a></li> <li><a href="#CFP"> Call for Papers</a></li> <li><a href="#ID"> Important Dates</a></li> <li><a href="#Reg"> Registration</a></li> <li><a href="#PC"> Program Committee</a></li> </ul> <center><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></center> <a NAME="Workshop_Description"></a><b>WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION</b> <br> <br> The ability to reason with uncertain information is a crucial feature of intelligent behaviour in a complex and dynamic environment. This is why <i>uncertain reasoning</i> has become a major research topic of AI, with many important applications. Powerful and efficient methods for dealing with uncertainty are of central concern for important areas as diagnosis and planning. Recently, especially the challenges of cognitive robotics and of intelligent agent systems have demanded for new formalisms and methodologies to deal with uncertainty. <p> Uncertain reasoning covers a broad spectrum of techniques, which have often been developed independently in different areas and communities. Roughly, these techniques may be classified as to whether they follow a qualitative or a quantitative approach. Within the last decades, a great variety of methods have been developed on both sides, each focusing on certain aspects of uncertainty and designed to cope with specific problems. For instance, default logics implement plausible reasoning for rules with exceptions, whose tentative conclusions may be revised. Whereas probabilistic or alternative numerical techniques aim at quantifying and computing the plausibility of relevant propositions from explicitly given uncertain knowledge. <p> In recent years, relations and similarities between different methods have been investigated more extensively. In particular, the combination of qualitative and quantitative elements has become increasingly popular, as is impressively exemplified by Bayesian networks. Exploring the relationship between different techniques is a central theme of this workshop, where a special focus is on work combining and integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches. <p> The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from all branches of uncertain reasoning to <ul> <li> discuss unifying aspects of different techniques,</li> <li> improve understanding and cross-fertilization of different techniques,</li> <li> present new methods, systems, and applications,</li> <li> discuss open problems and new challenges,</li> <li> intensify cooperations between researchers.</li> </ul> Areas of interest are: <ul> <li> combining qualitative and quantitative approaches to uncertain reasoning,</li> <li> qualitative decision making,</li> <li> belief networks,</li> <li> nonmonotonic reasoning and belief revision,</li> <li> imprecise probabilities in AI,</li> <li> many-valued logics in AI,</li> <li> probabilistic methods in robotics.</li> </ul> Perspectives of interest are: <ul> <li> theory,</li> <li> systems and implementations,</li> <li> applications.</li> </ul> <center><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></center> <a NAME="CFP"></a><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b> <br> <br> For the workshop, we invite full papers on the themes listed above. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages in latex article format. We also welcome extended abstracts (up to 3 pages) sketching ideas, problems, projects, and the like. Authors are requested to specify the subarea(s) their paper belongs to, and to include a list of keywords. Work reported should have not appeared elsewhere. <p> We strongly encourage electronic submission of papers in postscript format. To submit a paper electronically, send an email message to one of the Program Co-Chairs (see email addresses below) that includes the following information: paper title, author names, email address of contact author, and paper body (postscript format). Authors unable to submit papers electronically should send 3 copies of the complete paper to Gabriele Kern-Isberner, or to Thomas Lukasiewicz (see addresses below). <p> The proceedings will be published as technical report, which will be available at the workshop. <br> <br> <hr size=3 width="100%" align=center> <a NAME="ID"></a><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b> <br> <br>Submission of papers: May 31, 2001 <br>Acceptance decision by: June 30, 2001 <br>Camera ready copy due: August 10, 2001 <br>Workshop Meeting: September 17, 2001 <br> <br> <hr size=3 width="100%" align=center> <a NAME="Reg"></a><b>REGISTRATION</b> <br> <br>Please note that registration for the <a href="http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/KI2001/">KI-2001 conference</a> is a necessary condition for participating in the workshop. <br> <br> <hr size=3 width="100%" align=center> <a NAME="Reg"></a><b>WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS</b> <br> <br><a href="http://wwwpi6.fernuni-hagen.de/">Gabriele Kern-Isberner</a> <br>Fachbereich Informatik <br>Lehrgebiet Praktische Informatik VI <br>FernUniversität Hagen <br>P.O. Box 940 <br>D-58084 Hagen, Germany <br>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <br> <br><a href="http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/">Thomas Lukasiewicz</a> <br>Institut für Informationssysteme <br>Technische Universität Wien <br>Favoritenstrasse 9-11 <br>A-1040 Wien, Austria <br>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <br> <br><a href="http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~weydert/">Emil Weydert</a> <br>Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik <br>Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85 <br>D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany <br>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <br> <br> <hr size=3 width="100%" align=center> <a NAME="PC"></a><b>WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE</b> <br> <br> <a href="http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~brewka/">Gerhard Brewka</a> (University of Leipzig, Germany) <br> <a href="http://ippserv.rug.ac.be/~gert/">Gert de Cooman</a> (Ghent University, Belgium) <br> <a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~reiner/">Reiner Hähnle</a> (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) <br> <a href="http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~jaeger/">Manfred Jaeger </a>(MPI Saarbr�cken, Germany) <br> <a href="http://fuzzy.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~kruse/">Rudolf Kruse</a> (Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany) <br> <a href="http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_I/Philosophie/Theor_Phil">Hans Rott</a> (University of Regensburg, Germany) <br> <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/~torre/">Leendert van der Torre</a> (Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) <br> <a href="http://www.illc.uva.nl/People/voorbraak.html">Frans Voorbraak</a> (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) <br> <br> </font> </body> </html>
