[UAI] CFP - International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM-2007) Call for Papers

International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM-2007)

Oct 10-12, 2007
Washington DC area

http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sum2007/

There is now intense interest in both the Artificial Intelligence
community and in the Database community on managing uncertainty and
inconsistency in databases. However, researchers in AI may not
necessarily be aware of database concerns and conversely, database
researchers may not always be aware of AI concerns and past
contributions. The Scalable Uncertainty Modeling conference aims to
bring all those interested in the management of large volumes of
uncertainty together, irrespective of whether they are in databases
or in AI. Papers are solicited in all areas of massive uncertainty
including, but not restricted to, the topics listed below.

  * probability logic
  * semantics of uncertain data
  * formal models of uncertain data
  * reasoning with inconsistent and uncertain information
  * fuzzy logic
  * annotated logic
  * Bayesian models
  * Markov models
  * paraconsistent logic
  * uncertain DB algebras
  * query optimization with uncertainty
  * spatio-temporal uncertainty
  * caching for uncertain DBs
  * uncertain DB calculi
  * inconsistency management uncertainty and views
  * indexing methods for uncertainty
  * uncertain aggregate queries
  * multimedia and uncertainty
  * mobile uncertainty
  * implementations
  * applications
  * vision and uncertainty
  * audio processing and uncertainty
  * commercial systems
  * learning
  * data mining
  * data sharing and uncertainty
  * approximate schema mapping

The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer
Verlag in their Lecture Notes in AI Series. We solicit papers on all
topics in the area of scalable uncertainty management (including
ones not explicitly mentioned above). Research papers of 14 pages
maximum in the Springer Lecture notes in Computer Science format
(www.springer.com/lncs) are sought.

Important Dates:
Paper submission: May 10, 2007.
Paper accept/reject decisions: July 10, 2007.
Camera ready copies due:  July 25, 2007.

Conference General Chair:
Didier Dubois (Univ. Paul Sabatier, France)

Program Chairs:
Henri Prade (Univ. Paul Sabatier, France)
V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ. of Maryland, USA)

Publicity Chair:
Andrea Pugliese (Univ. of Calabria, Italy)

Program Committee:
Chitta Baral (Arizona State Univ., USA)
Leo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada)
Bir Bhanu (Univ. of California-Riverside, USA)
Val Breazu-Tannen (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
Rama Chellappa (Univ. Of Maryland, USA)
Laurence Cholvy (ONERA, France)
Jan Chomicki (State Univ. of NY-Buffalo, USA)
Amol Deshpande (Univ. of Maryland, USA)
Guy De Tre (Ghent Univ., Belgium)
Luc de Raedt (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
Michael Dekhtyar (Tver State Univ., Russia)
Debabrata Dey (Univ. Washington - Seattle, USA)
Juergen Dix (Tech. Univ. Clausthal, Germany)
Thomas Eiter (Tech. Univ.-Wien, Austria)
Ronald Fagin (IBM Almaden, USA)
Andrew Frank (Tech. Univ.-Wien, Austria)
Lise Getoor (Univ. of Maryland, USA)
John Grant (Towson State Univ, USA)
Eyke Huellermeier (Univ. Magdeburg, Germany)
Edward Hung (Hong Kong Polytechnic)
Anthony Hunter (Univ. College London, UK)
Michael Kifer (State Univ. of New York - Stonybrook, USA)
Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel)
Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary Univ. London, UK)
Weiru Liu (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (Univ. of British Columbia, Canada)
Thomas Lukasiewicz (Univ. of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
Serafin Moral (Univ. of Granada, Spain)
Nicola Leone (Univ. of Calabria, Italy)
Raymond Ng (Univ. of British Columbia, USA)
Mads Nygaard (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Tech., Norway)
Simon Parsons (Brooklyn Polytechnic)
Gabriella Pasi (Univ. of Milano, Italy)
Antonio Picariello (Univ. of Napoli, Italy)
Mike Pitarelli (State Univ. of NY - Utica, USA)
Andrea Pugliese (Univ. of Calabria, Italy)
Nick Roussopoulos (Univ. of Maryland, USA)
Emad Saad (Abu Dhabi Univ., UAE)
Daniel Sanchez (Univ. of Granada, Spain)
Maria-Luisa Sapino (Univ. of Torino, Italy)
Yufei Tao (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)
Nic Wilson (Cork Constraint Computation Center, Ireland)


