The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR'2013 Special Track at the 26th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-26) is the 18th in the series. As the past tracks, UR'2013 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty.

All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. We anticipate that, as in previous years, the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) will publish a special issue devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track.

Call For Papers

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'2013 Special Track at the 26th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-26) is the 18th in the series. As the past tracks, UR'2013 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty.

Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

• 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
• Nonmonotonic reasoning
• Conditional Logics
• Argumentation
• Belief change and Merging
• Similarity-based reasoning
• Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery
• Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment
• Practical applications of uncertain reasoning

All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. We anticipate that, as in previous years, the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) will publish a special issue devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track.

Program Committee

Track Chairs

Christoph Beierle	University of Hagen, Germany
Souhila Kaci	University of Montpellier 2, France

PC Members

Xiangdong An	York U., Canada
Christoph Beierle	U. Hagen, Germany
Richard Booth	U. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Cory Butz	U. of Regina, Canada
Fabio Cuzzolin	Oxford Brookes U., UK
Sylvie Doutre	U. of Toulouse, France
Marek Druzdzel	U. Pittsburgh, USA
Love Ekenberg	Stockholm U., Sweden
Konstantinos Georgatos	CUNY, USA
Lluis Godo	IIIA, Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Kevin Grant	U. Lethbridge, Canada
Souhila Kaci	U. of Montpellier 2, France
Gabriele Kern-Isberner	U. Dortmund, Germany
Pawan Lingras	Saint Mary's U., Canada
Weiru Liu	Queen's U. Belfast, UK
Tsai-Ching Lu	HRL Laboratories, USA
Anders Madsen	HUGIN Expert, Denmark
Cristina Manfredotti	U. of Copenhagen, Denmark
Nicholas Mattei	NICTA and U. of New South Wales, Australia
Malek Mouhoub	U. Regina, Canada
Eric Neufeld	U. Saskatchewan, Canada
Thomas Nielsen	Aalborg U., Denmark
Laurent Perrussel	IRIT - Universite de Toulouse, France
Eugene Santos	Dartmouth College, USA
Guillermo Simari	Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Paul Snow	New Hampshire, USA
Luis Enrique Sucar	NIAOE, Mexico
Choh-Man Teng	Inst. For Human & Machine Cognition, USA
Dan Wu	U. of Windsor, Canada
Yang Xiang	U. Guelph, Canada
Changhe Yuan	Queens College, City U. of New York, USA

Travel Information

FLAIRS 2013 will be held in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found at http://www.flairs-26.info/.

Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 19, 2012. For FLAIRS-26, the 2013 conference, the reviewing is a double blind process. Fake author names and affiliations must be used on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. The papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system (http://ww.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flairs26), which can also be accessed through the main conference web site (http://www.flairs-26.info). Note: Do not use a fake name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information is hidden from reviewers.

Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions.

The proceedings of FLAIRS-26 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-26.

Submission of papers.	November 19, 2012
Notification of acceptance.	January 21, 2013
Camera-ready versions due.	February 25, 2013
FLAIRS-24 conference held.	May 22-24, 2013

TBA

TBA

UR Track Co-Chairs:

Christoph Beierle	University of Hagen, Germany
Souhila Kaci	University of Montpellier 2, France

Questions regarding the Uncertain Reasoning Special Track should be addressed to the UR Track co-chairs.

FLAIRS-26 Chairs:

Conference Chair	Philip McCarthy, The University of Memphis, USA
Program Co-Chairs	Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Hampton University, USA G. Michael Youngblood, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Special Tracks Coordinator:	Bill Eberle, Tennessee Technological University, USA

FLAIRS-2013 conference web page: http://www.flairs-26.info/

Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com

PC Members

Xiangdong An	York U., Canada
Christoph Beierle	U. Hagen, Germany
Richard Booth	U. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Cory Butz	U. of Regina, Canada
Fabio Cuzzolin	Oxford Brookes U., UK
Sylvie Doutre	U. of Toulouse, France
Marek Druzdzel	U. Pittsburgh, USA
Love Ekenberg	Stockholm U., Sweden
Konstantinos Georgatos	CUNY, USA
Lluis Godo	IIIA, Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Kevin Grant	U. Lethbridge, Canada
Souhila Kaci	U. of Montpellier 2, France
Gabriele Kern-Isberner	U. Dortmund, Germany
Pawan Lingras	Saint Mary's U., Canada
Weiru Liu	Queen's U. Belfast, UK
Tsai-Ching Lu	HRL Laboratories, USA
Anders Madsen	HUGIN Expert, Denmark
Cristina Manfredotti	U. of Copenhagen, Denmark
Nicholas Mattei	NICTA and U. of New South Wales, Australia
Malek Mouhoub	U. Regina, Canada
Eric Neufeld	U. Saskatchewan, Canada
Thomas Nielsen	Aalborg U., Denmark
Laurent Perrussel	IRIT - Universite de Toulouse, France
Eugene Santos	Dartmouth College, USA
Guillermo Simari	Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Paul Snow	New Hampshire, USA
Luis Enrique Sucar	NIAOE, Mexico
Choh-Man Teng	Inst. For Human & Machine Cognition, USA
Dan Wu	U. of Windsor, Canada
Yang Xiang	U. Guelph, Canada
Changhe Yuan	Queens College, City U. of New York, USA