Uncertain Reasoning (UR)
May 23-25, 2012
Marco Island, Florida, USA

The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR'2012 Special Track at the 25th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-25) is the 17th in the series. As the past tracks, UR'2012 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty.

All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by the AAAI. As in previous years, our goal is to publish a selection of the best papers in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR).

The 25th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-25) will be held May 23-25, 2012 at the Marco Island Hilton.

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR)
http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~butz/ur12/
FLAIRS-25
Marco Island, Florida, USA
May 23-25, 2012

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'2012 Special Track at the 25th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-25) is the 17th in the series. As the past tracks, UR'2012 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
  • Graphical models of uncertainty
  • Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making
  • Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process
  • Temporal reasoning and uncertainty
  • Nonmonotonic and 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

Program Committee

Track Chairs

Cory Butz University of Regina, Canada
Christoph Beierle University of Hagen, Germany

PC Members

Xiangdong An York U., Canada
Salem Benferhat U. Artois, France
Fabio Cozman U. Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fabio Cuzzolin Oxford Brookes U., UK
Sylvie Doutre U. of Toulouse, France
Marek Druzdzel U. Pittsburgh, USA
Love Ekenberg Stockholm U., Sweden
Konstantinos Georgatos CUNY, USA
Kevin Grant U. Lethbridge, Canada
Souhila Kaci U. of Montpellier 2, France
Gabriele Kern-Isberner U. Dortmund, Germany
Kristian Kersting U. Bonn, Germany
Weiru Liu Queen's U. Belfast, UK
Tsai-Ching Lu HRL Laboratories, USA
Anders Madsen HUGIN Expert, Denmark
Cristina Manfredotti U. of Copenhagen, Denmark
Malek Mouhoub U. Regina, Canada
Eric Neufeld U. Saskatchewan, Canada
Thomas Nielsen Aalborg U., Denmark
Laurent Perrussel U. of Toulouse - IRIT, France
Eugene Santos Dartmouth College, USA
Paul Snow New Hampshire, USA
Luis Enrique Sucar NIAOE, Mexico
Choh-Man Teng Inst. For Human & Machine Cognition, USA
Dan Wu U. of Windsor, Canada
Yang Xiang U. Guelph, Canada
Changhe Yuan Mississippi State U., USA

Travel Information

FLAIRS 2012 will be held in Marco Island, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found at http://www.flairs-25.info/.

Submission

Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Full papers may be up to 6 pages, short papers may be up to 4 pages, and poster abstracts up to 250 words. Papers must be in AAAI format, and submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system.

Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. For FLAIRS-25, the 2012 conference, the reviewing is a double blind process. Fake author names and affiliations must be used 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 (http://ww.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flairs25), which can also be accessed through the main conference web site (http://www.flairs-25.info). Do not use a fake name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information is hidden from reviewers.

Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions.

The proceedings of FLAIRS-25 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI.

An author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-25.

Co-Chair submission policy

As for the general and other tracks, there is a specific procedure for reviewing the papers that might be submitted by one of the UR special track co-chairs.

One of the co-chair suggests 5 members from the UR PC list as possible reviewers. The FLAIRS-25 program co-chairs will pick reviewers from the 5 designated PC members and FLAIRS PC members; the FLAIRS-25 program co-chairs will also add 2 additional reviewers issued from the general PC.

Any submission from the UR co-chairs will not be considered for the intented special issue of the best UR papers.

Dates
Submission of papers: November 21, 2011
Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2012
Camera-ready versions due: February 20, 2012
FLAIRS-25 conference held: May 23-25, 2012
Accepted Papers
  • paper name author names (TBA)
Invited Speaker

We hope to secure an invited speaker for the UR track at FLAIRS-25.

People
UR Track Co-Chairs: Cory Butz, University of Regina, Canada
Christoph Beierle, University of Hagen, Germany

FLAIRS-25 Chairs:

Conference Chair H. Chad Lane, University of Southern California, USA
Program Co-Chairs Philip McCarthy, Computational Cognitive Linguistics, University of Memphis, USA
G. Michael Youngblood, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Special Tracks Coordinator: Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University USA

FLAIRS-2012 conference web page: http://www.flairs-25.info/

Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com

PC Members

Xiangdong An York U., Canada
Salem Benferhat U. Artois, France
Fabio Cozman U. Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fabio Cuzzolin Oxford Brookes U., UK
Sylvie Doutre U. of Toulouse, France
Marek Druzdzel U. Pittsburgh, USA
Love Ekenberg Stockholm U., Sweden
Konstantinos Georgatos CUNY, USA
Kevin Grant U. Lethbridge, Canada
Souhila Kaci U. Montpellier 2, France
Gabriele Kern-Isberner U. Dortmund, Germany
Kristian Kersting U. Bonn, Germany
Weiru Liu Queen's U. Belfast, UK
Tsai-Ching Lu HRL Laboratories, USA
Anders Madsen HUGIN Expert, Denmark
Cristina Manfredotti U. of Copenhagen, Denmark
Malek Mouhoub U. Regina, Canada
Eric Neufeld U. Saskatchewan, Canada
Thomas Nielsen Aalborg U., Denmark
Laurent Perrussel U. of Toulouse - IRIT, France
Eugene Santos Dartmouth College, USA
Paul Snow New Hampshire, USA
Luis Enrique Sucar NIAOE, Mexico
Choh-Man Teng Inst. For Human & Machine Cognition, USA
Dan Wu U. of Windsor, Canada
Yang Xiang U. Guelph, Canada
Changhe Yuan Mississippi State U., USA