SUM 2020: The 14th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management Bolzano, Italy, September 23-25, 2020 |
Conference website | https://sum2020.inf.unibz.it/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sum2020 |
Submission deadline | June 5, 2020 |
Established in 2007, the SUM conferences are annual events which aim to gather researchers with a common interest in managing and analyzing imperfect information from a wide range of fields, such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Databases, Information Retrieval and Data Mining, the Semantic Web and Risk Analysis, and with the aim of fostering collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas from the different communities. An originality of the SUM conferences is their care for dedicating a large space of their program to tutorials covering a wide range of topics related to uncertainty management. Each tutorial provides a survey of one of the research areas in the scope of the conference.
The 14th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2020) will be held in Bolzano, Italy from September 23-25, 2020.
We want to reassure authors that we are monitoring the coronavirus situation and exploring contingency plans for a virtual conference should there a physical conference not be possible. Regardless, the proceedings will go ahead and will be published this year.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Long papers (14 pages): technical papers reporting original research or survey papers
- Short papers (8 pages): papers reporting promising work-in-progress, system descriptions, position papers on controversial issues, or survey papers providing a synthesis of some current research trends
- Extended abstracts (2 pages) of recently published work in a relevant journal or top-tier conference
All SUM submissions must be formatted according to the LNCS/LNAI guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
List of Topics
We solicit papers on the management of large amounts of complex kinds of uncertain, incomplete, or inconsistent information. We are particularly interested in papers that focus on bridging gaps, for instance between different communities, between numerical and symbolic approaches, or between theory and practice. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Imperfect information in databases
- Methods for modeling, indexing, and querying uncertain databases
- Top-k queries, skyline query processing, and ranking
- Approximate, fuzzy query processing
- Uncertainty in data integration and exchange
- Uncertainty and imprecision in geographic information systems
- Probabilistic databases and possibilistic databases?
- Data provenance and trust
- Data summarization
- Very large datasets
- Imperfect information in information retrieval and semantic web applications
- Approximate schema and ontology matching
- Uncertainty in description logics and logic programming
- Learning to rank, personalization, and user preferences
- Probabilistic language models
- Combining vector-space models with symbolic representations
- Inductive reasoning for the semantic web
- Imperfect information in artificial intelligence
- Statistical relational learning, graphical models, probabilistic inference
- Argumentation, defeasible reasoning, belief revision
- Weighted logics for managing uncertainty
- Reasoning with imprecise probability, Dempster-Shafer theory, possibility theory
- Approximate reasoning, similarity-based reasoning, analogical reasoning
- Planning under uncertainty, reasoning about actions, spatial and temporal reasoning
- Incomplete preference specifications
- Learning from data
- Risk analysis
- Aleatory vs. epistemic uncertainty
- Uncertainty elicitation methods
- Uncertainty propagation methods
- Decision analysis methods
- Tools for synthesizing results
Committees
Program Co Chairs
- Jesse Davis
- Karim Tabia
Organizing committee
- Rafael Penaloza Nyssen
Venue
The conference will be held in Bolzano, Italy and will take part in the context of the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge:
https://summerofknowledge.inf.unibz.it/
See: https://sum2020.inf.unibz.it/
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to jesse [dot] davis [at] kuleuven [dot] be or karim [dot] tabia [at] univ-artois [dot] fr