From: morgan@unix.SRI.COM (Morgan Kaufmann)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.math.stat
Subject: Announcement of Uncertainty 92 Proceedings Availability
Keywords: uncertainty, proceedings, book
Date: 17 Oct 92 01:08:34 GMT
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Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA




          Morgan Kaufmann announces the publication of

             UNCERTAINTY in ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
           Proceedings of the Eighth Conference (1992)

                           edited by 

            Didier Dubois (Universite Paul Sabatier)
           Michael P. Wellman (USAF Wright Laboratory)
           Bruce D'Ambrosio (Oregon State University)
         Phillipe Smets (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)


ISBN 1-55860-258-5, $ 44.95 U.S. $49.45 International  367 pages

The ability to reason about situations in which information is
incomplete or otherwise uncertain is recognized as crucial for
artificial intelligence systems. The annual conferences on
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence are the major forum for
presentation of research in this active and important area. The
proceedings of the eight conference (Stanford University) covers a
wide range of approaches to automated and interactive reasoning and
decision making under uncertainty, including both quantitative and
qualitative methods. The papers accepted for the proceedings have
been carefully refereed. Topics include foundations of uncertainty,
semantics of qualitative and quantitative uncertainty
representations, the roll of uncertainty in automated systems,
control of reasoning and planning under uncertainty, comparison and
integration of qualitative and quantitative schemes, knowledge
engineering tools and techniques for building approximate reasoning
systems, user interface-explanation and summarization of uncertain
information, and applications of approximate reasoning techniques.

These proceedings will be of interest to those applying AI
techniques in areas such as medicine (patient monitoring,
diagnosis, and treatment) industrial automation (monitoring and
control), and military C31 (situation assessment, planning and
scheduling), as well as researchers and students interested in
artificial intelligence and in representation of and automated
reasoning with uncertain knowledge.


Additional Titles of Interest from Morgan Kaufmann

Representations of Commonsense Knowledge
Ernest Davis (Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NYU)

Readings in Uncertainty Reasoning
Edited by Glenn Shafer (University of Kansas) and Judea Pearl
(University of California, Los Angeles)

Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of
Plausible Inference
Judea Pearl (University of California, Los Angeles)

Formulations of Tradeoffs in Planning Under Uncertainty
Michael P. Wellman

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc

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