Second Call for Papers
Fifth International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management
SUM-2011
http://www.wright.edu/academicaffairs/sum/
October 10-12, 2011, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Deadline Extended to : May 4th, 2011
In many applications, information systems are increasingly complex, open and
dynamic. They also involve a massive amount of data, issued from different
sources, which may be inconsistent, incomplete, heterogeneous and pervaded with
uncertainty. The annual International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty
Management (SUM) has grown out of this wide-ranging interest in managing
uncertainty and inconsistency in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, and AI.
It aims at bringing together researchers from artificial intelligence and
databases by highlighting methods and technologies devoted to address the
problems of managing uncertainty and inconsistency in a semantically defendable
manner when huge amounts of data are being processed.
SUM 2011, the fifth edition of the International Conference on Scalable
Uncertainty Management will be held in Dayton, Ohio, USA, during October
10th-12th, 2011 following the successful previous editions SUM 2007 in
Washington DC, USA, SUM 2008 in Naples, Italy, SUM 2009 in Washington DC, USA
and SUM 2010 in Toulouse, France.
Submissions are solicited in all areas of managing substantial and complex
kinds of uncertainty and inconsistency in data and knowledge, including (but
not restricted to) the topics listed below:
- annotated logic
- approximate query processing
- approximate schema and ontology mapping
- audio processing and uncertainty
- Bayesian models
- data sharing and uncertainty
- data integration and data fusion
- image, speech, multimedia, and text information retrieval
- inconsistent databases
- indexing methods for uncertainty
- information extraction
- Markov models
- matchmaking and negotiation
- mining image, speech, multimedia, and text data
- mobile systems and uncertainty
- multimedia and uncertainty
- ontology systems
- paraconsistent logic
- personalization and user preferences
- possibilistic logic
- probabilistic databases
- probability logic
- query caching for uncertain databases
- query optimization with uncertainty
- ranking in information retrieval
- reasoning with uncertain and inconsistent information
- semantic web applications
- similarity in ontology languages
- similarity search and extraction
- skyline query processing
- spatiotemporal uncertainty management
- text mining and data mining
- uncertain aggregate queries
- uncertain database algebras
- uncertainty and inconsistency in the Web and in the Semantic Web
- uncertainty and trust issues
- uncertainty in data integration and exchange, data streams
- uncertainty and inconsistency in computer security (intrusion detection,
access control, etc)
- vision and uncertainty
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Full papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (see http://www.springer.com/
comp/lncs/Authors.html). The length should not exceed 14 pages. Submissions
which deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without
review. Submissions will especially be judged for originality and scientific
quality.
The proceedings of SUM2011 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence series.
Researchers and practitioners are also invited to submit short papers or
position papers reporting on interesting work in progress or providing system
descriptions. Short papers are limited in length to 5 pages and should also be
typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style format. All accepted short papers will
also be published in the proceedings.
Full and short papers must be submitted using the following easychair website:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?timeout=1;conf=sum2011
SPECIAL ISSUE JOURNAL
After the conference, there will be a special issue of the international
journal of approximate reasoning (IJAR, www.elsevier.com/locate/ijar) with
selected papers from the conference.
DISCUSSANTS:
SUM2011 will revisit the idea of discussants introduced in SUM2011. A
discussant is assigned to each set of accepted papers pertaining to a common
topic. The discussant will provide a short presentation containing an overview
of research on the topic as well as describe interesting points and
perspectives in the presented papers. These presentations often lead to
informative discussions and intensive exchanges between conference attendees.
IMPORTANT DATES (tentative schedule)
Full and short paper submission deadline: May 4th
Accept/reject decisions: June 15th
Camera ready papers due: June 30th
GENERAL CHAIR
Thomas Sudkamp
Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies
and University College
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 45435
Thomas Sudkamp <[email protected]>
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Salem Benferhat
CRIL
CNRS - UMR 8188
Université d'Artois,
Faculté des sciences Jean Perrin
Rue Jean Souvraz, SP 18
F62307 lens Cedex, France
Email: [email protected]
John Grant
Department of Mathematics
Towson University
Towson, MD 21252, USA and
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742, USA
Email : [email protected]
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