From: wellman@engin.umich.edu (michael  wellman)
Subject: CFP: Conference on Uncertainty in AI
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 11:11:29 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

       NINTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON UNCERTAINTY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

                      July 9-11 1993, Washington DC

                               CALL FOR PAPERS

The ninth annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence is
devoted to methods for reasoning under uncertainty as applied to problems in
artificial intelligence.  The conference's scope covers the full range of
approaches to automated and interactive reasoning and decision making under
uncertainty, including both qualitative and numeric methods.  

We seek papers on fundamental theoretical issues, on computational techniques
for uncertain reasoning, and on the foundations of alternative paradigms of
uncertain reasoning.  Topics of interest include:

 -  Foundations of uncertainty concepts 
 -  Representations of uncertain knowledge and their semantics
 -  Knowledge acquisition
 -  Construction of uncertainty models from data
 -  Uncertainty in machine learning
 -  Automated planning and decision making under uncertainty
 -  Algorithms for uncertain inference
 -  Pooling of uncertain evidence
 -  Belief updating and inconsistency handling in uncertain knowledge bases 
 -  Explanation and summarization of uncertain information
 -  Control of reasoning and real-time architectures

This year, we hope to attract more contributions that emphasize real-world
applications of uncertain reasoning.  Questions of particular interest
include:

 - Why was it necessary to represent uncertainty in your domain?
 - What kind of uncertainties does your application address?
 - Why did you decide to use your particular uncertainty formalism?
 - What theoretical problems, if any, did you encounter?
 - What practical problems did you encounter?
 - Did users of your system find the results or recommendations useful?
 - Did the introduction of your system lead to improvements in reasoning
    or decision making?
 - What methods were used to validate the effectiveness of the systems?

Papers will be carefully refereed for originality, significance, technical
soundness, and clarity of exposition.  Papers may be accepted for presentation
in plenary or poster sessions.  Some key applications oriented work may be
presented both in a plenary session and in a poster session where more
technical details can be discussed.  All accepted papers will be included in
the published proceedings.  Outstanding student papers may be selected for
special distinction.

Five copies of each paper should be sent to one of the Program Co-Chairs by
February 5, 1993.  The first page should include a descriptive title, the
names, addresses, and student status of all authors, a brief abstract, and
salient keywords or other topic indicators.  Acceptance notices will be sent
by March 29, 1993.  Final camera-ready papers, incorporating reviewers'
suggestions, will be due approximately five weeks later.  There will be an
eight-page limit on proceedings papers, with a few extra pages available for
a fee.

Program Co-Chairs (paper submissions):

David Heckerman
Department of Computer Science, UCLA
Boelter Hall, Room 3531
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596
tel: (310) 825-2695, fax: (310) 825-2273
email: heckerman@cs.ucla.edu

Abe Mamdani
Deptartment of Electronic Engineering
Queen Mary & Westfield College
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
tel: +44-71-975-5341, fax: +44-81-981-0259
e-mail: e.h.mamdani@qmw.ac.uk

General Chair (conference inquiries):

Michael P. Wellman
Department of EECS, University of Michigan
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
tel: (313) 764-6894, fax: (313) 763-1260
email: wellman@engin.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai