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Subject: Call for Papers -- Uncertainty in AI 1995
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                             First Call for Papers



                          ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON

                     UNCERTAINTY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE



                                   UAI-95

                      August 18-20, 1995, Montreal, Quebec


Reasoning under uncertainty is pervasive in all areas of Artificial
Intelligence. In effect, the UAI conference is a forum for advances
in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty.
Contributions come both from researchers interested in advancing the
technology and from practitioners who are using uncertainty techniques
in applications.


Topics of Interest
------------------

The 1995 Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence will be
devoted to methods for reasoning under uncertainty as applied to problems
in artificial intelligence.  The conference's scope covers the full range
of approaches to automated and interactive reasoning and decision making
under uncertainty, including both qualitative and numeric methods.

We seek papers on fundamental theoretical issues, on representational
issues, on computational techniques, and on applications of uncertain
reasoning using traditional and alternative paradigms of uncertain
reasoning.  Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Methods and Techniques
  * foundations of uncertainty concepts,
  * representation languages for uncertain knowledge,
  * knowledge acquisition,
  * construction of uncertainty models from data,
  * uncertainty in machine learning,
  * automated planning and acting,
  * uncertainty in ill-defined environments,
  * decision making under uncertainty,
  * algorithms for uncertain inference,
  * empirical studies of reasoning strategies,
  * pooling of uncertain evidence,
  * belief updating and inconsistency handling,
  * summarization of uncertain information,
  * control of reasoning and real-time architectures. 

Applications
  Questions of particular interest include:
  * Why was it necessary to represent uncertainty in your domain?
  * What kind of uncertainties does your application address?
  * Why did you decide to use your particular uncertainty formalism?
  * What theoretical problems, if any, did you encounter?
  * What practical problems did you encounter?
  * Did users of your system find the results or recommendations useful?
  * Did your system lead to improvements in reasoning or decision making?
  * What methods were used to validate the effectiveness of the system?
  * What did you learn about what was or was not effective in your domain?

Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.  Papers may
be accepted for presentation in plenary or poster sessions.  Some key
applications-oriented work may be presented both in a plenary session and
in a poster session where more technical details can be discussed.
All accepted papers will be included in the published proceedings.
Outstanding student papers may be selected for special distinction.


World Wide Web: Information about UAI-95 is also available through WWW at

     http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/ai/uai95/


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Submission of Papers
--------------------

Submitted papers must be at most 20 pages of 12pt Latex article style or
equivalent (about 4500 words). 
We strongly encourage electronic submission of papers.  To submit a paper 
electronically, send an Email message to

         uai95-submissions@cs.washington.edu

that includes the following information (in this order):

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


Deadlines
---------

All material must be received by 5PM local time               March 1, 1995
Notification will be by Email on or before                    April 24, 1995
Camera-ready copy due                                         May 24, 1995


Proceedings
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There will be an eight-page limit on proceedings papers, with two extra pages
available for a fee.


Inquiries
---------

General Chair (conference inq.):

David Poole
Department of Computer Science
2366 Main Mall, Room 201
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Tel: (604) 822 6254
Fax: (604) 822 5485
Email: poole@cs.ubc.ca

Local Chair (arrangements inq.):

Marco Ramoni
McGill Cognitive Science Centre
1110 Pine Avenue West, Room 201
McGill University
Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1A3
Tel: (514) 398 7331
Fax: (514) 398 7246
Email: marco@psych.mcgill.ca

Program Co-Chairs (paper submissions):

Philippe Besnard
IRISA
Campus de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes Cedex
France
Tel: +33 9984 7318
Fax: +33 9984 7171
Email: besnard@irisa.fr

Steve Hanks
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, FR-35
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Tel: (206) 543 4784
Fax: (206) 543 2969
Email: hanks@cs.washington.edu


Program Committee
-----------------

Stig Andersen            Petr Hajek                  Simon Parsons
Fahiem Bacchus           David Heckerman             Judea Pearl
Mark Boddy               Eric Horvitz                Mark Peot
Craig Boutilier          Uffe Kjaerulff              David Poole
Jack Breese              Daphne Koller               Henri Prade
Wray Buntine             Paul Krause                 Greg Provan
Greg Cooper              Rudolf Kruse                Eugene Santos Jr.
Bruce D'Ambrosio         Jerome Lang                 Romano Scozzafava
Adnan Darwiche           Kathryn Laskey              Ross Shachter
Tom Dean                 Steffen Lauritzen           Prakash Shenoy
Marek Druzdel            Paul Lehner                 Soloman Shimony
Robert Fung              John Lemmer                 Philippe Smets
Hector Geffner           Tod Levitt                  Sampath Srinivas
Dan Geiger               David Madigan               Milan Studeny
Lluis Godo               Abe Mamdani                 Michael Wellman
Robert Goldman           Ramon Lopez de Mantaras     Nic Wilson
Moises Goldszmidt        Serafin Moral               Michael Wong
Adam Grove               Eric Neufeld                Yang Xiang
Peter Haddawy            Gerhard Paass               Nevin Zhang

