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CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL SESSION ON KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
UNDER VAGUENESS AND UNCERTAINTY
http://fuzzy.rug.ac.be/fskd
ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02
2002 International Conference on
Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery
November 18-22, 2002, Singapore
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To process information using a knowledge-based system requires that
the data be stated according to an agreed-upon representation formalism.
Typically, the choice of a given representation will be crucial to the
efficiency, the expressiveness and the transparency of the overall system.
Moreover, very often the data to be represented are pervaded with
modalities of imprecision, notably vagueness and uncertainty. This occurs
e.g. when our knowledge of a given system or process is only partial, or
when we are dealing with linguistic information. In any of those cases,
the system developer is challenged to choose from a panoply of different
potential frameworks which have been introduced during the past decades to
deal with this kind of imperfection:
* fuzzy sets
* second-order, interval-valued or intuitionistic fuzzy sets
* rough sets
* probability, possibility and necessity distributions
* generalized nets
* frames
* ...
There is of course no strict preference between any of these approaches,
and their suitability is largely determined by the needs of the
application at hand. The aim of this session is therefore to bring
together scientists from different backgrounds to discuss and exchange ideas
about representational aspects of vagueness and uncertainty. We welcome
original contributions from both the theoretical and the application side.
Authors are invited to submit electronic files (postscript, pdf or Word
format) to the session organizers (address see below). Papers should be
double-column and use 10pt Times Roman or similar fonts. The final version
of a paper should not exceed 5 pages in length. A selected number of
ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for
possible inclusion in edited books and peer-reviewed journals, such as Soft
Computing and Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal
by Springer-Verlag.
Important Dates:
Paper/Summary Deadline: April 30, 2002
Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2002
Camera-Ready Copy Due: August 15, 2002
Chris Cornelis, Martine De Cock and Etienne Kerre
{chris.cornelis|martine.decock|etienne.kerre}@rug.ac.be
Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Unit
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
Ghent University
Krijgslaan 281 (S9)
B-9000 Ghent (Belgium)
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Chris Cornelis e-mail : Chris.Cornelis@rug.ac.be
homepage : http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~ccorneli
Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders
Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Unit
Internet address: http://fuzzy.rug.ac.be
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
Ghent University
Krijgslaan 281 (S9) tel. : +32 (0)9/264.47.72
B-9000 Ghent (Belgium) fax. : +32 (0)9/264.49.95
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