[Apologies for cross-posting. Your help in circulating this call for papers to potentially interested parties will be highly appreciated.] ————————————————————————————————————— IUKM 2018 — CALL FOR PAPERS ————————————————————————————————————— The Sixth International Symposium on INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY in KNOWLEDGE MODELLING and DECISION MAKING

http://www.jaist.ac.jp/IUKM/IUKM2018/

March 15 - 17, 2018, Hanoi, VIETNAM

————————————————————————————————————— -The International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making (IUKM) aims to provide a forum for exchanges of research results, ideas for and experience of application among researchers and practitioners involved with all aspects of uncertainty management and application.

Previous symposia have been successfully held in Ishikawa, Japan (IUM 2010 - AISC 68), Hangzhou, China (IUKM 2011 - LNAI 7027), Beijing, China (IUKM 2013 - LNAI 8032), Nha Trang, Vietnam (IUKM 2015 - LNAI 9376), and Da Nang, Vietnam (IUKM 2016 - LNAI 9978). The sixth IUKM (2018) will take place in the capital of Hanoi, Vietnam, during 15-17 March, 2018, and be jointly organized by Hanoi National University of Education (HNUE), Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Belief Functions and Applications Society (BFAS). ————————————————————————————————————— Proposal for special sessions and workshops is encouraged and welcome. ————————————————————————————————————— Relevant topics for the IUKM 2018 Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Theory and Methodology

• Uncertainty formalisms: Bayesian probability, Dempster-Shafer theory, imprecise probability, random sets, rough sets, fuzzy sets and interval-based models
• Uncertainty modeling and management in big-data environments
• Learning and reasoning with uncertainty
• Information fusion and knowledge integration in uncertain environments
• Decision making under various types of uncertainty
• Aggregation operators for decision making
• Copulas for dependence modelling
• Granular and soft computing
• Computational intelligence

• Application

• Data mining and knowledge discovery
• Ontology engineering and Semantic Web
• Intelligent data analysis and modelling
• Agents and argumentation
• Natural language processing
• Medical informatics and bioinformatics
• Ranking and recommendation systems
• Big data and cloud computing
• Social network analysis and mining
• Sensor fusion
• System identification and modelling
• Diagnosis and reliability
• Decision support systems
• Kansei/affective engineering
• Service computing
• Engineering management
• Supply chain management
• Environmental management
• Economics and econometrics

PUBLICATION The authors are invited to submit their full papers by 15 Sept. 2017 (extended deadline). The submissions will be peer-reviewed for originality and scientific quality. As done in previous editions, the proceedings of IUKM 2018 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, and be available at the Symposium. Authors are requested to prepare their papers in the Springer LNAI format. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages and must be submitted electronically through the conference’s Easychair submission page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iukm2018).

IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission: 15 Sept. 2017 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 20 Nov., 2017 Final camera-ready and author registration: 15 Dec., 2017 Early non-author registration: 10 Jan. 2018 Symposium dates: 15-17 March, 2018

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