-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: 2nd International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) Datum: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:34:21 +0100 Von: Thomas Lukasiewicz Thomas.Lukasiewicz@kr.tuwien.ac.at Antwort an: Thomas.Lukasiewicz@kr.tuwien.ac.at Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com
CALL FOR PAPERS
Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008)
October 1-3, 2008 Napoli, Italy
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/sum08/
Originally, managing uncertainty and inconsistency has especially been explored in Artificial Intelligence. During the recent years, especially with the availability of massive amounts of data in different repositories and the possibility of integrating and exploiting these data, technologies for managing uncertainty and inconsistency have started to play a key role in databases and the Web. One of the most prominent such technologies is probably the PageRank algorithm standing behind Google's web search. Techniques for handling uncertainty and inconsistency are expected to play a similarly important role in the context of the Semantic Web.
The annual International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) has grown out of this very large interest on managing uncertainty and inconsistency in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, and AI. It aims at bringing together all those interested in the management of large volumes of uncertainty and inconsistency, irrespective of whether they are in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, or in AI.
The very successful First International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2007) was held in Washington DC, USA, October 10-12, 2007 (see http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sum2007/). The Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) will be held in Napoli, Italy, October 1-3, 2008.
Papers are solicited in all areas of massive uncertainty and inconsistency, including (but not restricted to) the topics listed below:
probability logic fuzzy logic annotated logic Bayesian models Markov models possibilistic logic paraconsistent logic semantics of uncertain data formal models of uncertain data reasoning with uncertain and inconsistent information managing uncertain and imprecise information spatio-temporal uncertainty management probabilistic databases inconsistent databases uncertainty and inconsistency in the Web uncertainty and inconsistency in the Semantic Web uncertain database algebras query optimization with uncertainty query caching for uncertain databases indexing methods for uncertainty uncertain aggregate queries uncertainty in view management skyline query processing top-k queries and ranking approximate query processing uncertainty in data integration and exchange uncertainty in data streams uncertainty in information retrieval data sharing and uncertainty approximate schema and ontology mapping similarity in ontology languages similarity search and extraction information extraction data mining and machine learning vision and uncertainty audio processing and uncertainty multimedia and uncertainty text and uncertainty mobile systems and uncertainty image, speech, multimedia, and text information retrieval mining image, speech, multimedia, and text data personalization and user preferences mining in social networks uncertainty and trust issues ranking in information retrieval matchmaking and negotiation recommender systems implemented systems commercial systems novel applications
We especially want to encourage submissions from uncertainty and inconsistency management in databases, as well as from uncertainty and inconsistency handling in the Web and the Semantic Web. We seek both theoretical and practical works.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (see http://www.springer.com/ comp/lncs/Authors.html). The length should not exceed 14 pages. Submissions which deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Submissions will especially be judged for originality and scientific quality.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2008 Paper submission deadline: May 22, 2008 Paper accept/reject decisions: July 1, 2008 Camera ready papers due: July 15, 2008 Last day for early registration fee: July 15, 2008
GENERAL CHAIR
Antonio Picariello (University of Napoli, Italy)
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Sergio Greco (University of Calabria, Italy) Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University, UK; TU Vienna, Austria)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Bir Bhanu (University of California-Riverside, USA) Fabio Gagliardi Cozman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Michael I. Dekhtyar (Tver State University, Russia) Debabrata Dey (University of Washington, USA) Juergen Dix (TU Clausthal, Germany) Francesco Donini (University of Tuscia, Italy) Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna, Austria) Nicola Fanizzi (University of Bari, Italy) Filippo Furfaro (University of Calabria, Italy) Avigdor Gal (Technion, Israel) John Grant (Towson University, USA) Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Eyke Huellermeier (University of Marburg, Germany) Edward Hung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Anthony Hunter (University College London, UK) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Dortmund, Germany) Christoph Koch (Cornell University, USA) Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia, Canada) Nicola Leone (University of Calabria, Italy) Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) Kathryn Blackmond Laskey (George Mason University, USA) Weiru Liu (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Serafin Moral (University of Granada, Spain) Simon Parsons (City University of New York, USA) Gabriella Pasi (University of Milan, Italy) Michael Pittarelli (State University of New York, USA) Henri Prade (IRIT, France) Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Luc de Raedt (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) Emad Saad (Abu Dhabi University, UAE) Domenico Sacca (ICAR-CNR, Italy) Maria Luisa Sapino (University of Torino, Italy) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland, USA) Maurice van Keulen (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Peter Vojtas (Charles University, Czech Republic) Nic Wilson (University College Cork, Ireland) Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA, USA)
INVITED SPEAKERS
Prabhakar Raghavan (Yahoo! Research, USA) Dan Suciu (University of Washington, USA)
TUTORIALS
Jan Chomicki (University at Buffalo, USA)
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information refer to the SUM 2008 web site at
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/sum08/
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