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 21st International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2026)

June 15th-19th, 2026, Rome, Italy

https://www.sbai.uniroma1.it/conferenze/ipmu2026/

The IPMU conference is organized every two years with the aim of bringing together scientists working on information processing and the management of the many aspects of uncertainty. It also serves as an ideal forum for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners in these and related areas.

The 2026 edition of IPMU will take place at the Faculty of Economics of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in the nearby of the University city of Rome and the main train stations (Termini and Tiburtina). It celebrates the 40th anniversary from the first edition of the conference that took place in Paris, France. The choice of Rome for this special occasion is not a case since Rome and Paris are exclusively and reciprocally twinned, starting from April 1956.

Sapienza University of Rome is one of the oldest universities of the world, being it funded in 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII, and is the largest university in Europe. Due to its strategic position, the Faculty of Economics allows to easily reach the plethora of monuments, historic hot-spots and wonderful sightseeing places that awarded to Rome the name of the Eternal city. Get ready for discussing cutting-hedge research on methods for the management of uncertainty and aggregation in one of the most beautiful cities of the world.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the 21st IPMU Conference, we invite researchers to submit original research contributions (theoretical, methodological, applications) on a specific topic within the scope of the conference which includes (but is not limited to) the following topics:

Theory, Methods and Tools:

Measures of Information and Uncertainty

Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods

Evidence, Possibility and Utility Theories

Imprecise Probabilities

Fuzzy, Rough, Intuitionistic, etc, Sets and operators

Fuzzy Logic and other non-classical Logics

Multiple Criteria Decision Methods

Aggregation Methods

Knowledge Acquisition, Representation and Reasoning

Graphical Models

Machine Learning

Evolutionary Computation

Neural Networks

Data Analysis and Data Science.

Application Fields:

Big Data

Smart Cities

Image Processing

Intelligent Systems and Information

Processing, Logistics, Transportation and Routing

Information Retrieval and Fusion

Agents

E-Health, Medicine and Bioinformatics

Finance

Fuzzy Optimization

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Regular Papers

The proceedings of IPMU 2026 regular papers will be published by Springer in the series Communications in Computer and Information Science (https://link.springer.com/series/7899), indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.

• Deadline for regular paper submission: 12 January 2026.

• Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ instructions and use the proceedings template, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. The LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers.

• The length of a submission is 12-14 pages in the LNCS/CCIS one-column page format. The paper must be written in English and submitted in PDF via the EasyChair system, at the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ipmu2026

• In EasyChair authors can choose one of the proposed special sessions or the general track of IPMU 2026.

• In EasyChair authors should point out if one of the authors is an early career researcher (no more than 4 years from the Ph.D. defense) to be considered for best early career researcher awards.

• All figures are printed in black and white, unless a special arrangement has been made for colored figures. Colored figures remain in color in the online version. Please make sure that any colored figures are equally comprehensible in black and white. Figures and Tables should be cross referred in the text.

• Authors interested in publishing their paper Open Access should consult Springer's page.

• One full registration will allow acceptance of one regular paper. Each additional accepted paper associated with the same registration will be subject to an additional fee.

Short Papers

IPMU will also accept short papers of 2-6 pages. Accepted short papers will not be published by Springer. A separate volume, with its own DOI, containing the accepted works, will be published in open access. Authors may opt to not include their work in this volume.

• Deadline for short paper submission: 12 January 2026.

• Short papers should be prepared using the LaTeX template used for regular papers that are available on Overleaf.

• Short papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF via the EasyChair system, at the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ipmu2026

• Short papers can be submitted to one of the proposed special sessions or the general track of IPMU2026.

• In EasyChair authors should take care to select the checkbox marking the submission as a short paper.

• Short papers will be included in the regular conference program and Book of Abstracts and will be presented orally.

• One full registration will allow acceptance of one short paper. Each additional accepted paper associated with the same registration will be subject to an additional fee.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

A number of student grants provided by EUSFLAT will be provided to support student participation at the conference. In addition, there shall be a number of awards for the best paper and best student paper at the conference. Information about these grants shall provided at the conference website in due course.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: January 12, 2026

Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2026

Camera-ready versions: March 1, 2026

Conference: June 15-19, 2026

Contact: ipmu2026@sbai.uniroma1.it

General Chair

Barbara Vantaggi (Italy)

Program Chairs

Giulianella Coletti (Italy)

Thierry Denoeux (France)

Anne Laurent (France)

Davide Petturiti (Italy)

Publication Chair

Enrique Miranda (Spain)

Special Session Chair:

Jesús Medina (Spain)

Social Media Chairs

Andrea Cinfrignini (Italy)

Silvia Lorenzini (Italy)

Executive Directors

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier (France)

Ronald R. Yager (USA)