CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Eighth International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2014)

http://nmis.isti.cnr.it/~straccia/sum2014/

September 15-17, 2014 University of Oxford, United Kingdom

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the eighth edition of the International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2014). The conference has been held annually since 2007 in College Park (USA), Napoli (Italy), Toulouse (France), Dayton (USA), and Marburg (Germany).

A large amount of available data nowadays includes uncertain, imprecise, and inconsistent information. The possibility of integrating and exploiting these data calls for sound and efficient techniques for managing uncertainty and handling inconsistency. These issues, which have been traditionally addressed within the Artificial Intelligence community, already play a key role in fields like databases or the semantic Web.

The goal of this conference is therefore to exploit and strengthen the connection between the Artificial Intelligence and Database communities. It aims at bringing together all researchers interested in the management of and reasoning with substantial and complex kinds of uncertain data.

PROGRAM & REGISTRATION

The list of accepted papers is available at

http://nmis.isti.cnr.it/~straccia/sum2014/accepted_papers.php

The program includes three invited speakers:

• Anthony Hunter (Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK)

• Jens Lehmann (Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany)

• Dan Olteanu (Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK)

Details at: http://nmis.isti.cnr.it/~straccia/sum2014/invited_speakers.php

The social program includes a banquet in Oriel College (est. 1324) and a tour of the Bodleian Library, which is the main research library of the University of Oxford and one of the oldest in Europe (originated in the 1400s).

The registration page is at

http://nmis.isti.cnr.it/~straccia/sum2014/registration.php

Early registration fee: GBP 285 (until July 11)

Accommodation at conference venue (St. Anne's College) is available to book together with registration at 75 GBP per night (en suite bathroom, with breakfast) only until July 11.

ORGANIZATION

General Chairs: Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, UK)

Program Chairs: Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Andrea Cali (University of London, Birkbeck College, UK)

Program Committee: http://nmis.isti.cnr.it/~straccia/sum2014/program_committee.php

Local Organization Chairs: Maria Vanina Martinez (University of Oxford, UK) Gerardo I. Simari (University of Oxford, UK)