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Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at Flairs 32 - Call for Papers

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the 32nd Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-32)

May 19-22, 2019 - Sarasota, Florida (US)

Paper submission deadline: November 19, 2018

Conference website: http://www.flairs-32.info

Special track website: http://w3.uqo.ca/allimo01/UR_2019/ur19.html

::: Call for Papers :::

Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote cross fertilization among the different approaches for uncertain reasoning, and in this way foster the development of new ideas and paradigms.

The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR '19 Special Track at the 32nd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-32) is the 24th in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'19 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty.

Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

• Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies
• Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief function, vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics
• Modeling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities
• Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning
• Inference and learning with graphical models of uncertainty (e.g., Bayesian networks)
• Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making
• Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process
• Temporal reasoning and uncertainty; nonmonotonic reasoning; similarity-based reasoning
• Conditional logics, description logic, logic programming
• Argumentation
• Belief change and merging
• Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery
• Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment
• Uncertain reasoning in data management
• Practical applications of uncertain reasoning (e.g., machine learning, computer vision and animation)

All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track.

::: Program Committee :::

: Track Chairs :

• Mohand Said Allili (University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada)
• Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland)
• Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France)

: PC Members :

• Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel)
• Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada)
• Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada)
• Ameur Bensefia (Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE)
• Martine Ceberio (University of Texas at El Paso, US)
• Sebastien Destercke (University of Technology of Compiègne, France)
• Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)
• Lluis Godo (Spanish National Research Council, Spain)
• Christophe Gonzales (LIP6, France)
• Ilyes Jenhani (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia)
• Amanda Hicks (University of Florida, US)
• Sedki Karima (University of Paris 13, France)
• Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technical University of Dortmund, Germany)
• Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, US)
• Rafael Peñaloza (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
• Philippe Leray (University of Nantes, France)
• Lalintha G. Polpitiya (University of Miami, US)
• Choh Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, US)
• Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK)
• Karim Tabia (Artois University, France)
• Barbara Vantaggi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
• Ronald Yager (Iona College, USA)

::: Other Information :::

FLAIRS 32 will be held in Sarasota, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found here. Feel free to write the organizers (alessandro(a)idsia.ch or MohandSaid.allili(a)uqo.ca) for any further information about the special track.

::: Submission :::

Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 19, 2018.

For FLAIRS-32, the 2019 conference, the reviewing is a double blind process. Author names and affiliations must be omitted on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. The papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can also be accessed through the main conference web site.

Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS-32 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-32.

Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro