The Fourteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch

The biennial ECSQARU conferences constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty. Contributions come from researchers interested in advancing the scientific knowledge and from practitioners using uncertainty techniques in real-world applications. The scope of the ECSQARU conferences encompasses fundamental issues, representation, inference, learning, and decision making in qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms. Previous ECSQARU events have been held in Marseille (1991), Granada (1993), Fribourg (1995), Bonn (1997), London (1999), Toulouse (2001), Aalborg (2003), Barcelona (2005), Hammamet (2007), Verona (2009), Belfast (2011), Utrecht (2013), and Compiègne (2015).

ECSQARU 2017 will be co-located with ISIPTA '17, the Tenth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications. The joint event will be held in Lugano (Switzerland), on July 10-14, 2017.

For ECSQARU 2017 we invite submissions of conference papers on topics which include but are not limited to:

• Algorithms for uncertain inference
• Applications of uncertain systems
• Argumentation systems
• Automated planning and acting under uncertainty
• Belief functions
• Belief revision & merging
• Classification & clustering
• Decision theory & decision graphs
• Default reasoning
• Description logics with uncertainty
• Foundations of reasoning under uncertainty
• Fuzzy sets & fuzzy logic
• Game theory
• Imprecise probabilities
• Inconsistency handling
• Information fusion
• Learning for uncertainty formalisms
• Logics for reasoning under uncertainty
• Markov decision processes
• Possibility theory & possibilistic logic
• Preferences
• Probabilistic graphical models
• Probabilistic logics
• Qualitative uncertainty models
• Rough sets
• Uncertainty & data

::: INVITED SPEAKERS :::

We are delighted of having the following invited speakers:

• Leila Amgoud (IRIT, France)
• Alessio Benavoli (IDSIA, Switzerland)
• Jim Berger (Duke University, USA)
• Didier Dubois (IRIT, France)
• Eyke Hüllermeier (Paderborn University, Germany)

::: PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSIONS :::

In accordance with the previous conferences, the proceedings of ECSQARU 2015 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Authors are requested to prepare their conference papers in the LNCS/LNAI format. Submitted papers will be evaluated by peer reviews based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference to present their work. The instructions for submission and the author kit are available here: http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch/submissions-ecsqaru/

::: IMPORTANT DATES :::

Tuesday, February 21, 2017: Paper submission deadline Tuesday, April 18, 2017: Author notification Friday, April 28, 2017: Camera-ready copy due

::: IJAR SPECIAL ISSUE AND SPRINGER YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD :::

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR). We also invite applications for the Springer Young Researcher Award. The prize, granted by Springer, will be awarded to one young researcher for excellent research in fields related to the ECSQARU scope. The award is open to Master students, PhD students and young post-doc researchers who have received their PhD in 2016 (or 2017). Applicants should have submitted a paper (not necessarily as first authors) to ECSQARU 2017. Applications should be received by the paper submission deadline (February 21, 2017).