Uncertain Reasoning (UR)
May 19-22, 2019
Sarasota, Florida, USA

The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR'19 Special Track at the 32nd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-32) is the 24th in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'19 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty.

All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track.

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR)
http://w3.uqo.ca/allimo01/UR/ur18.html
FLAIRS-32
Sarasota, Florida, USA
May 19-22, 2019

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'19 Special Track at the 32nd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-32) is the 24th in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'19 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
  • 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, Description logic, Logic programming
  • 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
  • Uncertain reasoning in data management
  • Practical applications of uncertain reasoning
  • Learning probabilistic models
  • Applications in computer vision and animation

All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track.

Program Committee

Track Chairs

Salem Benferhat      University of Artois, France
Alessandro Antonucci      IDSIA, Dalle Molle Institut for Artificial Intelligence , Switzerland
Mohand Said Allili University of Quebec in Outaouais (UQO), Canada

PC Members

Karim Tabia Artois University, France.
Cory Butz Universisy of Regina.
SEDKI Karima University of Paris 13.
Kreinovich Vladik University of Texas at El Paso, USA.
Ceberio Martine University of Texas at El Paso, USA.
Choh Man Teng Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA.
Ameur Bensefia Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE.
Ronald Yager Iona College, USA.
Hicks Amanda University of Florida, USA.
Ilyes Jenhani Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia.

Travel Information

FLAIRS-32 will be held in Sarasota, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found at http://www.flairs-32.info/.

Submission

Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 19, 2018. For FLAIRS-32, the 2019 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 (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flairs32), which can also be accessed through the main conference web site ( http://www.flairs-32.info ). Note: 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-32 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-32.

Dates
Submission of papers: Nov. 19, 2018
Notification of acceptance: Jan. 21, 2019
Camera-ready versions due: Feb. 25, 2019
FLAIRS-32 conference: May 19-22, 2019
Accepted Papers
Program

List of accepted papers

TBA

For detailed information on the schedule see FLAIRS-32.

People

UR Track Co-Chairs

Salem Benferhat      University of Artois, France
Alessandro Antonucci      IDSIA, Dalle Molle Institut for Artificial Intelligence , Switzerland
Mohand Said Allili University of Quebec in Outaouais (UQO), Canada

Questions regarding the Uncertain Reasoning Special Track should be addressed to the UR Track co-chairs ((benferhat@cril.fr, alessandro@idsia.ch and MohandSaid.allili@uqo.ca).

FLAIRS-32 Chairs

Conference Chair Vasile Rus, University of Memphis, USA (vrus@memphis.edu)
Program Co-Chairs Keith Brawner, Army Research Laboratory, USA (keith.w.brawner.civ@mail.mil)
Roman Barták, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (bartak@ktiml.mff.cuni.cz)
Special Tracks Coordinator Eric Bell, USA (Eric.Bell.FLAIRS32@gmail.com)

FLAIRS-32 conference web page: http://www.flairs-32.info/

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

PC Members

Karim Tabia Artois University, France.
Cory Butz Universisy of Regina.
SEDKI Karima University of Paris 13.
Kreinovich Vladik University of Texas at El Paso, USA.
Ceberio Martine University of Texas at El Paso, USA.
Choh Man Teng Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA.
Ameur Bensefia Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE.
Ronald Yager Iona College, USA.
Hicks Amanda University of Florida, USA.
Ilyes Jenhani Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia.