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.

All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be 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'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.

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, Description logic, Logic programming
• 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
• 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.

All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track.

Program Committee

Track Chairs

Leopoldo Bertossi	Carleton University, Canada
Karim Tabia	University of Artois, France

PC Members

Mohand Saïd Allili	Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada
Xiangdong An	York University, Canada
Alessandro Antonucci	Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), Switzerland
Ofer Arieli	The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel
Pablo Barceló	Universidad de Chile, Chile
Christoph Beierle	University of Hagen, Germany
Salem Benferhat	Artois University, France
Alexander Dekhtyar	California Polytechnic State University, USA
Sébastien Destercke	CNRS-Heudiasyc, France
Love Ekenberg	Stockholm University, Sweden
Lluis Godo	IIIA, Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Christophe Gonzales	University of Paris 6, France
Gabriele Kern-Isberner	Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
Benny Kimelfeld	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Evelina Lamma	Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy
Philippe Leray	Nantes University, France
Thomas Lukasiewicz	University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Nicholas Mattei	IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center, NY, USA
Robert Mercer	The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Farid Nouioua	University of Aix-Marseille, France
Odile Papini	University of Aix-Marseille, France
Rafael Peñaloza	Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Henri Prade	Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France
Andrea Pugliese	University of Calabria, Italy
Babak Salimi	University of Washington, USA
Steven Schockaert	Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Matthias Thimm	University of Koblenz, Germany
Guy Van Den Broeck	University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Travel Information

FLAIRS 2017 will be held in Marco Island, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found at http://www.flairs-30.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 21, 2016. For FLAIRS-30, the 2017 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 (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flairs30), which can also be accessed through the main conference web site (http://www.flairs-30.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-30 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-30.

Submission of papers:	Nov. 21, 2016
Notification of acceptance:	Jan. 23, 2017
Camera-ready versions due:	Feb. 27, 2017
FLAIRS-30 conference:	May 22-24, 2017

Invited speaker:

• Guy Van den Broeck (University of California, Los Angeles - UCLA, USA)
  Title: Open-World Probabilistic Databases
  Abstract: Large-scale probabilistic knowledge bases are becoming increasingly important in academia and industry alike. They are constantly extended with new data, powered by modern information extraction tools that associate probabilities with database tuples. In this talk, we revisit the semantics underlying such systems. In particular, the closed-world assumption of probabilistic databases, that facts not in the database have probability zero, clearly conflicts with their everyday use. To fix this discrepancy, we propose an open-world probabilistic databases semantics, which relaxes the probability of open facts to intervals. While still assuming a finite domain, this semantics can provide meaningful answers when some probabilities are not precisely known. For this open-world setting, we propose an efficient evaluation algorithm for unions of conjunctive queries. Our open-world algorithm incurs no overhead compared to closed-world reasoning and runs in time linear in the database size for tractable queries. All other queries are #P-hard, implying a data complexity dichotomy between linear time and #P. Finally, we discuss limitations and additional knowledge-representation layers that can further strengthen open-world reasoning about big uncertain data.

List of accepted papers

TBA

For detailed information on the schedule see FLAIRS-30.

UR Track Co-Chairs

Leopoldo Bertossi	Carleton University, Canada
Karim Tabia	University of Artois, France

Questions regarding the Uncertain Reasoning Special Track should be addressed to the UR Track co-chairs (bertossi@scs.carleton.ca and tabia@cril.univ-artois.fr).

FLAIRS-30 Chairs

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)
Special Tracks Coordinator	Keith Brawner, Army Research Laboratory, USA (keith.w.brawner.civ@mail.mil)

FLAIRS-2017 conference web page: http://www.flairs-30.info/

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

PC Members

Mohand Saïd Allili	Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada
Xiangdong An	York University, Canada
Alessandro Antonucci	Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), Switzerland
Ofer Arieli	The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel
Pablo Barceló	Universidad de Chile, Chile
Christoph Beierle	University of Hagen, Germany
Salem Benferhat	Artois University, France
Alexander Dekhtyar	California Polytechnic State University, USA
Sébastien Destercke	CNRS-Heudiasyc, France
Love Ekenberg	Stockholm University, Sweden
Lluis Godo	IIIA, Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Christophe Gonzales	University of Paris 6, France
Gabriele Kern-Isberner	Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
Benny Kimelfeld	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Evelina Lamma	Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy
Philippe Leray	Nantes University, France
Thomas Lukasiewicz	University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Nicholas Mattei	IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center, NY, USA
Robert Mercer	The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Farid Nouioua	University of Aix-Marseille, France
Odile Papini	University of Aix-Marseille, France
Rafael Peñaloza	Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Henri Prade	Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France
Andrea Pugliese	University of Calabria, Italy
Babak Salimi	University of Washington, USA
Steven Schockaert	Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Matthias Thimm	University of Koblenz, Germany
Guy Van Den Broeck	University of California, Los Angeles, USA