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8th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2014)

Oxford, UK

15-17 September, 2014

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Uncertainty, imprecision and inconsistency in data sets have been studied for

several years in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation

and Databases. The availability of vast amounts of information nowadays makes

the need for formalisms, algorithms and tools for managing uncertainty even

more compelling. The Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) series, commenced

in 2007, brings together researchers from the Artificial Intelligence and

Database communities, with a special focus on problems and applications dealing

with uncertainty and requiring efficient, and especially scalable, data

processing.

The 2014 edition of SUM will take place in St. Anne's College, Oxford, UK, from

the 15th to the 17th of September.

Papers are solicited in all areas of managing and reasoning with substantial

and complex kinds of uncertain, incomplete or inconsistent information. These

include (but are not restricted to) applications in decision support systems,

machine learning, negotiation technologies, semantic web applications, search

engines, ontology systems, information retrieval, natural language processing,

information extraction, image recognition, vision systems, data and text

mining, and the consideration of issues such as provenance, trust,

heterogeneity, and complexity of data and knowledge.

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ORGANISATION

General chair:

� � Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford, UK

Program committee chairs:

� � Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy

� � Andrea Cali, University of London, Birkbeck College, UK

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IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission: 2 May, 2014 (EXTENDED)

Paper Submission : 9 May, 2014 (EXTENDED)

Notification : 19 June, 2014

Camera Ready : 10 July, 2014

Conference : 15-17 September, 2014