[UAI] CFP: KI-2001 Workshop "Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence"

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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

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<h1><a href="http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/KI2001/">KI-2001</a> Workshop "Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence"</h1>
 
 
<h2>Vienna, Austria 
September 17, 2001</h2>

<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>

<a NAME="Workshop_Description"></a>WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The ability to reason with uncertain information is a crucial feature
of intelligent behaviour in a complex and dynamic environment. This is
why uncertain reasoning 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.

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.

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.

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>

<a NAME="CFP"></a>CALL FOR PAPERS

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.

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).

The proceedings will be published as technical report,
which will be available at the workshop.

<a NAME="ID"></a>IMPORTANT DATES
 
 Submission of papers: May 31, 2001
 Acceptance decision by: June 30, 2001
 Camera ready copy due: August 10, 2001
 Workshop Meeting: September 17, 2001

<a NAME="Reg"></a>REGISTRATION

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.

<a NAME="Reg"></a>WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
 
 <a href="http://wwwpi6.fernuni-hagen.de/">Gabriele Kern-Isberner</a>
 Fachbereich Informatik
 Lehrgebiet Praktische Informatik VI
 FernUniversität Hagen
 P.O. Box 940
 D-58084 Hagen, Germany
 Email: gabriele.kern-isberner@fernuni-hagen.de
 
 <a href="http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/">Thomas Lukasiewicz</a>
 Institut für Informationssysteme
 Technische Universität Wien
 Favoritenstrasse 9-11
 A-1040 Wien, Austria
 Email: lukasiewicz@kr.tuwien.ac.at
 
 <a href="http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~weydert/">Emil Weydert</a>
 Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
 Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85
 D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
 Email: emil@mpi-sb.mpg.de

<a NAME="PC"></a>WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE

<a href="http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~brewka/">Gerhard Brewka</a> (University of Leipzig, Germany)
 
<a href="http://ippserv.rug.ac.be/~gert/">Gert de Cooman</a> (Ghent University, Belgium)
 
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~reiner/">Reiner Hähnle</a> (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
 
<a href="http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~jaeger/">Manfred Jaeger </a>(MPI Saarbrücken, Germany)
 
<a href="http://fuzzy.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~kruse/">Rudolf Kruse</a> (Otto-von-Guericke-University of
Magdeburg, Germany)
 
<a href="http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_I/Philosophie/Theor_Phil">Hans Rott</a>
(University of Regensburg, Germany)
 
<a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/~torre/">Leendert van der Torre</a> (Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands)
 
<a href="http://www.illc.uva.nl/People/voorbraak.html">Frans Voorbraak</a> (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
 
 

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