vicenc torra ogrcjfiiiacsices apologies multiple postings submission deadline february 1st 2007 4th int conf modeling decisions artificial intelligencemdai 2007 kitakyushu japan august 1618 2007 httpwwwmdaicatmdai2007 aims goals decision making processes information fusion tools large currently embedded artificial intelligence applications consequence systems based decision making fusion techniques becoming pervasive currently use kind environments entertainment gadgets safetycritical risk management software mdai modeling decisions artificial intelligence conferences initiated barcelona 2004 tsukuba 2005 tarragona 2006 aim providing forum researchers discussing models decision information fusion aggregation operators well computational methods criteria model selection determination publication proceedings accepted papers published lnailncs series springerverlag distributed conference links lnai 3131 3558 3885 proceedings mdai 2004 2005 2006 found httpwwwmdaicat besides papers according evaluation referees suitable lnai merits published separate conference proceedings cdroms isbn deadlines submission deadline february 1 2007 acceptance notification march 28 2007 final version accepted papers april 14 2007 conference august 1618 2007 topics interest include limited methods tools information fusion aggregation operators knowledge integration utility decision theory model operator selection learning methods parameter determination machine learning statistical learning soft computing optimization methods applications information privacy security multiagent systems data mining autonomous robots entertainment computing subjective evaluation medicine bioinformatics information access general chair yuji yoshida u kitakyushu japan program cochairs vicenc torra iiiacsic catalonia spain yasuo narukawa toho gakuen japan local organizing committee chairs satoru kumamoto eiju hirowatari u kitakyushu japan program committee g beliakov australia u bodenhofer austria j dujmovic usa j domingoferrer spain b h far canada grabisch france e herreraviedma spain k hirota japan inuiguchi japan j kacprzyk poland jl marichal luxemburg r meo italy r mesiar slovak republic miyamoto japan murofushi japan ng hong kong china onisawa japan g pasi italy c sierra spain r r yager usa n zhong japan venue kitakyushu httpwwwcitykitakyushujppageenglish thu 07 aug 2008 145713 0100 uai 2nd cfp mdai 2007