FLAIRS '17

The 30th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS '17)

Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception, and robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote cross fertilization among the different approaches for uncertain reasoning, and in this way foster the development of new ideas and paradigms.

The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR'2017 Special Track at the 30th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference(FLAIRS-30) is the 22nd in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'2017 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty.

Topics:

• Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies
• Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief function, vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics
• Modeling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities
• Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning
• Bayesian networks
• Graphical models of uncertainty
• Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making
• Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process
• Temporal reasoning and uncertainty
• Non-monotonic reasoning
• Conditional logics, Description logic, Logic programming
• Argumentation
• Belief change and Merging
• Similarity-based reasoning
• Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge bdiscovery
• Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion,bdiagnosis, prediction, situation assessment
• Uncertain reasoning in data management
• Practical applications of uncertain reasoning

For next year we intend to bring closer together the areas of uncertainty management in AI and data management. We are particularly interested in submissions that can be of interest for both. The interaction of these two areas and research communities will be fruitful for the two of them, and beneficial to the broader area of data science in general.

Invited Speakers

• Thomas G. Dietterich - Oregon State University
• Jaiwei Han - University of Illinois
• James Allen - Institute for Human Machine Cognition

Conference Chair:

• Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA (irussell@hartford.edu)

Program Co-Chairs:

• Vasile Rus, University of Memphis, USA (vrus@memphis.edu)
• Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University, USA (markovz@ccsu.edu)

Program Committee

• Martin Atzmueller (University of Kassel, Germany)
• Juan Banda (Montana State University, USA)
• Roman Bartak (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
• Christoph Beierle (University of Hagen, Germany)
• Eric Bell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
• Ateet Bhalla (Independent Consultant)
• David Bisant (The Laboratory for Physical Science, USA)
• Justin Brunelle (Old Dominion University, USA)
• Richard Burns (West Chester University)
• Rebecca Caldwell (Winston-Salem State University, USA)
• Ricardo Calix (Purdue University Calumet, USA)
• Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale - CNR, Italy)
• Kai Cao (New York University, USA)
• M. Emre Celebi (Louisiana State University in Shreveport, USA)
• Chayan Chakrabarti (University of New Mexico, USA)
• Maher Chaouachi (University of Montreal, Canada)
• Soon Ae Chun (City University of New York, USA)
• Vincent Cicirello (Richard Stockton College, USA)
• Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA)
• Mark Core (University of Southern California, USA)
• Andrea Corradini (Designskole Kolding, Denmark)
• Richard Dapoigny (LISTIC/Polytech'Savoie, France)
• Sarah Jane Delany (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
• Belen Diaz-Agudo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
• Sylvie Doutre (IRIT - University of Toulouse 1, France)
• Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University and KTH, Sweden)
• Michael Floyd (Knexus Research, USA)
• Susan Fox (Macalester College, USA)
• Tzu-Keng Fu (New Technologies Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic)
• Mehmet H. Goker (Salesforce.com, USA)
• Vera Goodacre (George Mason University, USA)
• Rachel Green (Johns Hopkins University / Onyx Point, Inc., USA)
• Hyoil Han (Marshall University, USA)
• Larry Holder (Washington State University, USA)
• Manfred Huber (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
• Imene Jraidi (University of Montreal, Canada)
• Christel Kemke (University of Manitoba, Canada)
• Joseph Kendall-Morwick (University of Central Missouri, USA)
• Fazel Keshtkar (Southeast Missouri State, USA)
• Ziad Kobti (University of Windsor, Canada)
• Leila Kosseim (Concordia University, USA)
• Luc Lamontagne (Laval University, Canada)
• H. Chad Lane (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Ramoni Lasisi (Virginia Military Insititute, USA)
• Florence Le Priol (Universite Paris-Sorbonne, France)
• Maikel Leon Espinosa (University of Miami, USA)
• Xiaofei Lu (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Jeremy Ludwig (Stottler Henke Associates, Inc., USA)
• Cristina Manfredotti (University Pierre et Marie Curie, USA)
• Takunari Miyazaki (Trinity College, USA)
• Takunari Miyazaki (Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA)
• Malek Mouhoub (Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Regina, Canada)
• Chas Murray (Carnegie Learning, Inc., USA)
• Eric Neufeld (University of Saskatchewan, USA)
• Nobal B. Niraula (University of Memphis, TN, USA)
• Michael O'Mahony (University College Dublin, Ireland)
• Santiago Ontanon (Drexel University, USA)
• Anca Pascu (Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, France)
• Laurent Perrussel (IRIT - Universite de Toulouse, France)
• Max Petrenko (NTENT, USA)
• Wuillemin Pierre-Henri (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, France)
• Niels Pinkwart (Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Germany)
• Crystal Redman (Colorado State University, USA)
• Matthew Riebel (Department of Defense, USA)
• Antonio A. Sanchez-Ruiz (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
• Roberto Santana (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
• Eugene Santos (Dartmouth College, USA)
• Stephan Schulz (DHBW Stuttgart, Germany)
• Khaled Shaalan (Cairo University, Egypt)
• Fahad Shah (University of Central Florida, USA)
• Guillermo R.Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca, Argentina)
• David Stracuzzi (Arizona State University, USA)
• Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA)
• Choh Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA)
• Rosina Weber (Drexel University, USA)
• David Wilson (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
• Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada)
• Slawomir Zadrozny (Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)