The capability of reasoning with uncertain and/or incomplete information is a crucial feature both of human and machine intelligence. The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the Seventeenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS) Conference seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. This track was started in 1996 and has become an annual event at FLAIRS. In 2003 the track was merged with the Special Track on Imprecise and Indeterminate Probabilities.

Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning and imprecise probabilities are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies
• Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief functions, argumentation, rough sets, and probability logics
• Modelling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, using for instance: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities
• Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning
• Nonmonotonic reasoning
• Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making
• Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process
• Temporal reasoning and uncertainty
• Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery
• Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, and situation assessment
• Practical applications of uncertain reasoning

Paper Submission and Publication

Full papers of a maximum of 6 pages (AAAI style) will be reviewed. The papers should not identify the author(s) in any manner. AAAI formatting guidelines can be found at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/authorinstructions.pdf. The electronic submission system can be accessed from the conference web site http://www.flairs.com/flairs2004/.

The deadline for submission is October 24, 2003.

Accepted papers will appear as regular papers in the FLAIRS-2004 conference proceedings published by AAAI Press. Selected papers of FLAIRS-2004 will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools. In addition, we are arranging a special issue in the International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems devoted to extended and revised papers selected from the special track on uncertain reasoning.

Invited Speakers of FLAIRS-2004

Important Dates

Program Committee

Co-Chairs
Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Hagen, Germany)
Choh Man Teng (University of West Florida, USA)

Committee
Rania El Baida (IRIT, France)
Salem Benferhat (Université d'Artois, France)
Boris Brandherm (Saarland University, Germany)
Mats Danielson (Orebro University, Sweden)
Alex Dekhtyar (University of Kentucky, USA)
Love Ekenberg (Mid Sweden University, Stockholm University, KTH, Sweden)
Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky, USA)
Thomas Lukasiewicz (Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
Eric Neufeld (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Simon Parsons (City University of New York, USA)
Laurent Perrussel (IRIT/Université Toulouse 1, France)
Wilhelm Roedder (University of Hagen, Germany)
Eugene Santos, Jr. (University of Connecticut, USA)
Solomon Shimony (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
Michael Wong (University of Regina, Canada)
Dan Wu (University of Windsor, Canada)
Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada)

For Further Information

Gabriele Kern-Isberner
Department of Computer Science
FernUniversitaet Hagen
58084 Hagen, Germany
gabriele.kern-isberner @ fernuni-hagen.de

Choh Man Teng
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
University of West Florida
40 South Alcaniz Street
Pensacola FL 32501 USA
cmteng @ ai.uwf.edu