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                  Call for Papers:

            Uncertain Reasoning (UR) 2013
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                Special Track at the
     26th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-26)
             St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA
                  May 22-24, 2013
       http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/ur13/

The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR'2013 Special Track at the 26th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-26) is the 18th in the series. As the past tracks, UR'2013 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty.

Scopes

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
• Bayesian networks
• Graphical models of uncertainty
• Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making
• Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process
• Temporal reasoning and uncertainty
• Nonmonotonic reasoning
• Conditional Logics
• Argumentation
• Belief change and merging
• Similarity-based reasoning
• Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery
• Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment
• Practical applications of uncertain reasoning

Paper Submission and Publication

Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Full papers may be up to 6 pages, and poster papers up to 4 pages. Papers must be in AAAI format, and submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system. Instructions on the submission procedure are available at the UR'2013 website: http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/ur13/

All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by the AAAI. We anticipate that the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) will publish a special issue devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track.

Important Dates

Paper submission due: Nov. 19, 2012 Author Notification: Jan. 21, 2013 Camera Ready Copy Due: Feb. 25, 2013 Conference: May 22-24, 2013

Program Committee

[ Track Chairs ]

Christoph Beierle University of Hagen, Germany Souhila Kaci University of Montpellier 2, France

[ PC Members ] Xiangdong An York U., Canada Richard Booth U. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Cory Butz U. of Regina, Canada Fabio Cuzzolin Oxford Brookes U., England Sylvie Doutre U. Toulouse, France Marek Druzdzel U. Pittsburgh, USA Love Ekenberg Stockholm U., Sweden Konstantinos Georgatos CUNY, USA Lluis Godo IIIA, Spanish National Research Council, Spain Kevin Grant U. Lethbridge, Canada Gabriele Kern-Isberner U. Dortmund, Germany Pawan Lingras Saint Mary's U., Canada Weiru Liu Queen's U. Belfast, UK Tsai-Ching Lu HRL Laboratories, USA Anders Madsen HUGIN Expert, Denmark Cristina Manfredotti U. Milano-Bicocca, Italy Nicholas Mattei U. of Kentucky, USA Malek Mouhoub U. Regina, Canada Eric Neufeld U. Saskatchewan, Canada Thomas Nielsen Aalborg U., Denmark Laurent Perrussel IRIT - Universite de Toulouse, France Eugene Santos Dartmouth College, USA Guillermo Simari Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Paul Snow New Hampshire, USA Luis E. Sucar Inst. Astrophysics, Optics, Electronics, Mexico Choh-Man Teng Inst. For Human & Machine Cognition, USA Dan Wu U. Windsor, Canada Yang Xiang U. Guelph, Canada Changhe Yuan Queens College, City U. of New York, USA

Travel Information

FLAIRS 2013 will be held in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found at: http://www.flairs-26.info/