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From: Lluis Godo Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2026 5:24 AM The 17th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM2026) 21–23 October 2026, Athens
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Call for Papers
We solicit papers on the management of large amounts of complex kinds of uncertain, incomplete, or inconsistent information. We welcome both theoretical contributions and application-driven research demonstrating uncertainty management techniques in real-world domains. We are particularly interested in papers that focus on bridging gaps, for instance between different communities, between statistical and symbolic approaches, uncertainty reasoning and modern machine learning systems, or between theoretical foundations and practical applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Imperfect information in databases
- Methods for modeling, indexing, and querying uncertain databases
- Top-k queries, skyline query processing, and ranking
- Approximate, fuzzy query processing
- Uncertainty in data integration and exchange
- Uncertainty and imprecision in geographic information systems
- Probabilistic databases and possibilistic databases
- Data provenance and trust
- Data summarization
- Very large datasets
Imperfect information in information retrieval and semantic web applications
- Approximate schema and ontology matching
- Uncertainty in description logics and logic programming
- Learning to rank, personalization, and user preferences
- Probabilistic language models
- Combining vector-space models with symbolic representations
- Inductive reasoning for the semantic web
Imperfect information in artificial intelligence
- Statistical relational learning, graphical models, probabilistic inference
- Argumentation, defeasible reasoning, belief revision
- Weighted logics for managing uncertainty
- Reasoning with imprecise probability, Dempster-Shafer theory, possibility theory
- Approximate reasoning, similarity-based reasoning, analogical reasoning
- Planning under uncertainty, reasoning about actions, spatial and temporal reasoning
- Incomplete preference specifications
- Learning from data
Risk analysis
- Aleatory vs. epistemic uncertainty
- Uncertainty elicitation methods
- Uncertainty propagation methods
- Decision analysis methods
- Tools for synthesizing results
Submission Guidelines
SUM 2026 solicits papers in the following three categories:
- Long papers: technical papers reporting original research or survey papers
- Short papers: papers reporting promising work-in-progress, system descriptions, position papers on controversial issues, or survey papers providing a synthesis of some current research trends
- Extended abstracts of recently published work in a relevant journal or top-tier conference
Regular research papers should be at most 14 pages (including references, figures, and tables). Short papers should be between 4 and 7 pages. Extended abstracts should be at most 2 pages and should reference the originally published work. For the final version of the accepted paper, it is possible to use an additional page to address the reviewers' comments. Short and long papers may extend to 8 and 15 pages, respectively (including references). All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by members of the program committee.
All SUM submissions must be formatted according to the LNCS/LNAI guidelines, and each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file via Chairingtool at the following URL: https://chairingtool.com/conferences/sum2026/main-track?role=author
Publication
Accepted regular and short papers will be considered for publication by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Authors of an accepted regular or short paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and one author is expected to give a presentation at the conference. Authors of accepted extended abstracts will be expected to present their work during the conference, but the extended abstracts will not be published in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings (they will be made available in a separate booklet).
Organisation
Conference Chair: Petros Stefaneas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Local Committee Chair: Sofia Almpani, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Program Chairs: Inés Couso, University of Oviedo, Spain, Michael Sioutis, University of Montpellier, France
Steering Committee: Salem Benferhat, Artois University, France Didier Dubois, IRIT-CNRS, France Lluís Godo, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Eyke Hüllermeier, Universität Paderborn, Germany Anthony Hunter, University College London, UK Henri Prade, IRIT-CNRS, France Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University, UK V. S. Subrahmanian, Northwestern University, USA
IMPORTANT DATES Submissions: May 22, 2026 Extension: June 5, 2026 Notification: July 31, 2026 Camera-ready copies: August 15, 2026 Conference: October 21-23, 2026 Registration: from August 1, 2026