Uncertain Reasoning (UR)
Uncertain Reasoning (UR)
Special Track at
the 29th International FLAIRS Conference
the 29th International FLAIRS Conference
May 16-18, 2016
Key Largo, Florida, USA
The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR'2016 Special Track at the 29th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-29) is the 21st in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'2016 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 in the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track.
Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR)
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'2016 Special Track at the 29th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-29) is the 21st in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'2016 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
- Practical applications of uncertain reasoning
All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. A special issue in the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track.
Program Committee
Track Chairs
| Robert E. Mercer | The University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| Salem Benferhat | University of Artois, France |
PC Members
| Leila Amgoud | University of Toulouse, France |
| Xiangdong An | York University, Canada |
| Ofer Arieli | The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| Christoph Beierle | University of Hagen, Germany |
| Cory Butz | University of Regina, Canada |
| Martine Ceberio | University of Texas at El Paso, USA |
| Claudia D'Amato | University of Bari, Italy |
| Sylvie Doutre | University of Toulouse, France |
| Marek Druzdzel | University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Love Ekenberg | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Lluis Godo | IIIA, Spanish National Research Council, Spain |
| Christophe Gonzales | University of Paris 6, France |
| Gabriele Kern-Isberner | Technical University of Dortmund, Germany |
| Vladik Kreinovich | University of Texas at El Paso, USA |
| Anders Madsen | HUGIN Expert, Denmark |
| Nicholas Mattei | NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia |
| François Modave | University of Florida, USA |
| Eric Neufeld | University of Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Odile Papini | University of Aix-Marseille, France |
| Laurent Perrussel | University of Toulouse, France |
| Eugene Santos | Dartmouth College, USA |
| Steven Schockaert | Cardiff University, UK |
| Paul Snow | University of New Hampshire, USA |
| Luis E. Sucar | National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics, Mexico |
| Karim Tabia | University of Artois, France |
| Ahmed Tawfik | Microsoft Research Cairo, Egypt |
| Choh-Man Teng | Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA |
| Andrea Tettamanzi | University of Nice, France |
| Matthias Thimm | University of Koblenz, Germany |
| Serena Villata | INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France |
| Dan Wu | University of Windsor, Canada |
| Yang Xiang | University of Guelph, Canada |
| Changhe Yuan | Queens College, USA |
Travel Information
FLAIRS 2016 will be held in Key Largo, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found at http://www.flairs-29.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 16, 2015. For FLAIRS-29, the 2016 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=flairs29), which can also be accessed through the main conference web site (http://www.flairs-29.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-29 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-29.
Dates
| Submission of papers: | November 16, 2015 |
| Notification of acceptance: | January 18, 2016 |
| Camera-ready versions due: | February 22, 2016 |
| FLAIRS-29 conference: | May 16-18, 2016 |
Accepted Papers
Program
Invited speaker:
- Christophe Gonzales (University of Paris 6, France): Learning Uncertainty Models for Non-stationary Processes
List of accepted full papers
- Multiplicative Factorization of Multi-Valued NIN-AND Tree Models. Yang Xiang and Yiting Jin
- Testing Independencies in Bayesian Networks with i-Separation. Cory Butz, Andre Dos Santos, Jhonatan Oliveira and Christophe Gonzales
- Bayesian Network Inference with Simple Propagation. Cory Butz, Jhonatan Oliveira, Andre Dos Santos and Anders Madsen
- A Noisy-OR Model for Continuous Time Bayesian Networks. Logan Perreault, Shane Strasser, Monica Thornton and John Sheppard
- A formal model of plausibility monitoring in language comprehension. Maj-Britt Isberner and Gabriele Kern-Isberner
- Dialectical Characterization of Consistent Query Explanation with Existential Rules. Abdallah Arioua and Madalina Croitoru
- A Collective Defence Against Grouped Attacks for Weighted Abstract Argumentation Frameworks. Stefano Bistarelli, Fabio Rossi and Francesco Santini
- Minimal Tolerance Pairs for System Z-like Ranking Functions for First-Order Conditional Knowledge Bases. Christoph Beierle, Tobias Falke, Steven Kutsch and Gabriele Kern-Isberner
- Bayesian Networks with Conditional Truncated Densities. Santiago Cortijo and Christophe Gonzales
- Causes for Query Answers from Databases, Datalog Abduction and View-Updates: The Presence of Integrity Constraints. Leopoldo Bertossi and Babak Salimi
- Negated Min-based Possibilistic Networks. Salem Benferhat, Faiza Haned and Zeddigha Ismahane
List of accepted short papers
- Propositional Probabilistic Reasoning at Maximum Entropy Modulo Theories. Marco Wilhelm, Gabriele Kern-Isberner and Andreas Ecke
- Causal Probabilistic Graphical Models for Decoding Effective Connectivity in functional Near InfraRed Spectroscopy. Samuel Antonio Montero-Hernández, Felipe Orihuela-Espina, Javier Herrera-Vega and Luis Enrique Sucar
For detailed information on the schedule see FLAIRS-29.
People
UR Track Co-Chairs
| Robert E. Mercer | The University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| Salem Benferhat | University of Artois, France |
Questions regarding the Uncertain Reasoning Special Track should be addressed to the UR Track co-chairs.
FLAIRS-29 Chairs
| Conference Chair | William (Bill) Eberle, Tennessee Technological University, USA |
| Program Co-Chairs |
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA
Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University, USA |
| Special Tracks Coordinator | Vasile Rus, University of Memphis, USA |
FLAIRS-2016 conference web page: http://www.flairs-29.info/
Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com
PC Members
| Leila Amgoud | University of Toulouse, France |
| Xiangdong An | York University, Canada |
| Ofer Arieli | The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| Christoph Beierle | University of Hagen, Germany |
| Cory Butz | University of Regina, Canada |
| Martine Ceberio | University of Texas at El Paso, USA |
| Claudia D'Amato | University of Bari, Italy |
| Sylvie Doutre | University of Toulouse, France |
| Marek Druzdzel | University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Love Ekenberg | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Lluis Godo | IIIA, Spanish National Research Council, Spain |
| Christophe Gonzales | University of Paris 6, France |
| Gabriele Kern-Isberner | Technical University of Dortmund, Germany |
| Vladik Kreinovich | University of Texas at El Paso, USA |
| Anders Madsen | HUGIN Expert, Denmark |
| Nicholas Mattei | NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia |
| François Modave | University of Florida, USA |
| Eric Neufeld | University of Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Odile Papini | University of Aix-Marseille, France |
| Laurent Perrussel | University of Toulouse, France |
| Eugene Santos | Dartmouth College, USA |
| Steven Schockaert | Cardiff University, UK |
| Paul Snow | University of New Hampshire, USA |
| Luis E. Sucar | National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics, Mexico |
| Karim Tabia | University of Artois, France |
| Ahmed Tawfik | Microsoft Research Cairo, Egypt |
| Choh-Man Teng | Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA |
| Andrea Tettamanzi | University of Nice, France |
| Matthias Thimm | University of Koblenz, Germany |
| Serena Villata | INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France |
| Dan Wu | University of Windsor, Canada |
| Yang Xiang | University of Guelph, Canada |
| Changhe Yuan | Queens College, USA |
