Return-Path: reitz Received: from lirmm.fr (clapas.lirmm.fr [193.49.105.10]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.6.9/8.6.4) with ESMTP id JAA22533 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 09:12:48 +0100 Message-Id: <199502070812.JAA22533@lirmm.lirmm.fr> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: reitz Subject: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 09:12:45 +0100 From: Philippe REITZ Subject: Bulletin-PRC-IA, vol. 4, no 4 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 11:30:25 +0100 From: Rene Quiniou =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= From: Philippe Besnard Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 12:32:05 +0100 Call for Papers ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON UNCERTAINTY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE UAI-95 August 18-20, 1995, Montreal, Quebec Reasoning under uncertainty is pervasive in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. In effect, the UAI conference is a forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty. Contributions come both from researchers interested in advancing the technology and from practitioners who are using uncertainty techniques in applications. Topics of Interest - ------------------ The 1995 Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence will be 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 representational issues, on computational techniques, and on applications of uncertain reasoning using traditional and alternative paradigms of uncertain reasoning. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Methods and Techniques * foundations of uncertainty concepts, * representation languages for uncertain knowledge, * knowledge acquisition, * construction of uncertainty models from data, * uncertainty in machine learning, * automated planning and acting, * uncertainty in ill-defined environments, * decision making under uncertainty, * algorithms for uncertain inference, * empirical studies of reasoning strategies, * pooling of uncertain evidence, * belief updating and inconsistency handling, * summarization of uncertain information, * control of reasoning and real-time architectures. Applications 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 your system lead to improvements in reasoning or decision making? * What methods were used to validate the effectiveness of the system? * What did you learn about what was or was not effective in your domain? Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of 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. World Wide Web: Information about UAI-95 is also available through WWW at http://www.irisa.fr/EXTERNE/manifestations/UAI95/ ================================= Submission of Papers - -------------------- Submitted papers must be at most 20 pages of 12pt Latex article style or equivalent (about 4500 words). We strongly encourage electronic submission of papers. To submit a paper electronically, send an Email message to uai95-submissions@cs.washington.edu that includes the following information (in this order): * Paper title (plain text) * Author names, including student status (plain text) * Surface mail and Email address for a contact author (plain text) * A short abstract including keywords or topic indicators (plain text) * Paper body (Postscript format) Authors unable to submit papers electronically should still send the first four items electronically to the Email address above, and 5 copies of the paper to one of the Program Co-Chairs at the addresses listed below. Deadlines - --------- All material must be received by 5PM local time March 1, 1995 Notification will be by Email on or before April 24, 1995 Camera-ready copy due May 24, 1995 Proceedings - ----------- There will be an eight-page limit on proceedings papers, with two extra pages available for a fee. Inquiries - --------- General Chair (conference inq.): David Poole Department of Computer Science 2366 Main Mall, Room 201 University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 Tel: (604) 822 6254 Fax: (604) 822 5485 Email: poole@cs.ubc.ca Local Chair (arrangements inq.): Marco Ramoni McGill Cognitive Science Centre 1110 Pine Avenue West, Room 201 McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1A3 Tel: (514) 398 7331 Fax: (514) 398 7246 Email: marco@psych.mcgill.ca Program Co-Chairs (paper submissions): Philippe Besnard IRISA Campus de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes Cedex France Tel: +33 9984 7318 Fax: +33 9984 7171 Email: besnard@irisa.fr Steve Hanks Department of Computer Science and Engineering, FR-35 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Tel: (206) 543 4784 Fax: (206) 543 2969 Email: hanks@cs.washington.edu Program Committee - ----------------- Stig Andersen Petr Hajek Simon Parsons Fahiem Bacchus David Heckerman Judea Pearl Mark Boddy Eric Horvitz Mark Peot Craig Boutilier Uffe Kjaerulff David Poole Jack Breese Daphne Koller Henri Prade Wray Buntine Paul Krause Greg Provan Greg Cooper Rudolf Kruse Eugene Santos Jr. Bruce D'Ambrosio Henry Kyburg Jr. Romano Scozzafava Adnan Darwiche Jerome Lang Ross Shachter Tom Dean Kathryn Laskey Prakash Shenoy Marek Druzdzel Steffen Lauritzen Soloman Shimony Didier Dubois Paul Lehner Philippe Smets Robert Fung John Lemmer Sampath Srinivas Hector Geffner Tod Levitt Milan Studeny Dan Geiger David Madigan Michael Wellman Lluis Godo Abe Mamdani Nic Wilson Robert Goldman Ramon Lopez de Mantaras Michael Wong Moises Goldszmidt Serafin Moral Yang Xiang Adam Grove Eric Neufeld Nevin Zhang Peter Haddawy Gerhard Paass