Call for Papers

The 2001 ECSQARU Conference will be devoted to methods for reasoning and decision making under uncertainty, including both qualitative and numeric methods, as applied to problems in artificial intelligence. We seek papers on fundamental theoretical issues, on representational issues, on computational techniques, and on applications of uncertain reasoning using traditional or alternative paradigms of uncertain reasoning.

Topics of Interest: Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

foundations of uncertainty concepts,
reasoning and decision making under uncertainty,
belief updating and inconsistency handling,
default reasoning, similarity-based reasoning,
empirical studies of reasoning strategies,
uncertainty in ill-defined environments,
automated planning and acting,
machine learning for uncertainty formalisms,
information fusion and pooling of uncertain evidence,
game theoritic agents,
algorithms for uncertain inference,
implementation of uncertainty systems, etc

Submission of Papers:
Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. We strongly encourage electronic submission of papers. To submit a paper electronically, send an Email message to both of the Program Co-Chairs (see email addresses below) that includes the following information (in this order):

Paper title (plain text),
Author names (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 send the first four items electronically to the Email addresses below, and 5 copies
of the complete paper to one of the Program Co-Chairs at the addresses listed below.

Instructions for preparing papers in proceedings format
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as a volume in the LNCS/LNAI series:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html

Hence we strongly recommend the authors to submit their paper in LNCS/LNAI format. Instructions for authors can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

If you are a LaTeX2e u ser, you can directly dowload the lncs macro-package
ftp://ftp.springer.de/ pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/

Papers length:
Submited papers should not be longer than 12 pages.

Important dates: The following is a provisional table:
       Submission of papers: March 30th, 2001
       Acceptance decision by: May 1st, 2001
       Camera ready copy due: June 1st, 2001

Inquiries:

Salem Benferhat
IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier
118 route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex 04, France
Tel: +33 5 61 55 85 51
Fax: +33 5 61 55 62 39
Email: benferhat@irit.fr Philippe Besnard
IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier
118 route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex 04, France
Tel: +33 5 61 55 81 23
Fax: +33 5 61 55 62 39
Email: besnard@irit.fr