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Call for Papers
Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning
The 17th International FLAIRS Conference
Miami Beach, Florida
The Palms South Beach Hotel
May 17-19, 2004
Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium
In cooperation with AAAI
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The capability of reasoning with uncertain and/or incomplete information is
a crucial feature both of human and machine intelligence. The Special Track
on Uncertain Reasoning at the Seventeenth International Florida Artificial
Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS) Conference seeks to bring together
researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty.
This track was started in 1996 and has become an annual event at FLAIRS. In
2003 the track was merged with the Special Track on Imprecise and
Indeterminate Probabilities.
Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning and imprecise probabilities are
solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies
* Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief functions,
argumentation, rough sets, and probability logics
* Modelling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information,
using for instance: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex
sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities
* Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning
* Nonmonotonic reasoning
* Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making
* Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process
* Temporal reasoning and uncertainty
* Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge
discovery
* Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion,
diagnosis, prediction, and situation assessment
* Practical applications of uncertain reasoning
Paper Submission and Publication
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Full papers of a maximum of 6 pages (AAAI style) will be reviewed. The
papers should not identify the author(s) in any manner. AAAI formatting
guidelines can be found at
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/authorinstructions.pdf. The
electronic submission system can be accessed from the conference web site
http://www.flairs.com/flairs2004/.
The deadline for submission is October 24, 2003.
Accepted papers will appear as regular papers in the FLAIRS-2004 conference
proceedings published by AAAI Press. Selected papers of FLAIRS-2004 will be
considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal
on Artificial Intelligence Tools. In addition, we are arranging a special
issue in the International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and
Knowledge-Based Systems devoted to extended and revised papers selected from
the special track on uncertain reasoning.
Invited Speakers of FLAIRS-2004
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Justine Cassell, MIT
Edward Feigenbaum, Stanford University
Jim Hendler, University of Maryland
Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University
Important Dates
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Papers due: October 24, 2003
Notification: January 7, 2004
Camera ready copies due: February 6, 2004
Conference: May 17-19, 2004
Program Committee
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Co-Chairs
Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Hagen, Germany)
Choh Man Teng (University of West Florida, USA)
Committee
Rania El Baida (IRIT, France)
Salem Benferhat (Universit� d'Artois, France)
Boris Brandherm (Saarland University, Germany)
Mats Danielson (Orebro University, Sweden)
Alex Dekhtyar (University of Kentucky, USA)
Love Ekenberg (Mid Sweden University, Stockholm University, KTH, Sweden)
Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky, USA)
Thomas Lukasiewicz (Universit� di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
Eric Neufeld (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Simon Parsons (City University of New York, USA)
Laurent Perrussel (IRIT/Universit� Toulouse 1, France)
Wilhelm Roedder (University of Hagen, Germany)
Eugene Santos, Jr. (University of Connecticut, USA)
Solomon Shimony (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
Michael Wong (University of Regina, Canada)
Dan Wu (University of Windsor, Canada)
Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada)
For Further Information
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Gabriele Kern-Isberner
Department of Computer Science
FernUniversitaet Hagen
58084 Hagen, Germany
gabriele.kern-isberner @ fernuni-hagen.de
Choh Man Teng
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
University of West Florida
40 South Alcaniz Street
Pensacola FL 32501 USA
cmteng @ ai.uwf.edu
Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium: http://www.flairs.com/
FLAIRS-2004 Conference: http://www.flairs.com/flairs2004/
Special track on uncertain reasoning:
http://www.ihmc.us/users/cmteng/flairs04_UR.html
