ECSQARU 2027: The 19th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty Complesso Monumentale dello Steri Palermo, Italy, September 8-10, 2027

ECSQARU is a major international forum (www.ecsqaru.org/) for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty, with a distinctive focus on bringing symbolic and quantitative approaches together. Since its first edition in Marseille in 1991, the conference has brought together researchers advancing the foundations of the field and practitioners applying uncertainty techniques to real-world problems. Its scope spans fundamental issues, representation, inference, learning and decision making, across both qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms.

ECSQARU 2027 runs as a single track over three days, with three keynote lectures, so that the whole community follows the same programme.

Paper submissions will be managed through EasyChair. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series, and a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning is planned for extended versions of selected papers.

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must be original and not under review in a journal or another venue with formally published proceedings. They will be evaluated by peer review on the basis of originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of exposition. Reviewing is single blind.

Papers must be at most 12 pages excluding references, in the Springer LNCS/LNAI format: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

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The submission system opens on 4 January 2027. Abstract registration before paper submission is mandatory. Submissions are handled through EasyChair: [link]

Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference and present their work; at least one author of each paper must register.

BEST PAPER AWARD

Two Best Paper Awards of 500 euros each, where one is for young researcher, supported by Springer will be granted at the conference.

List of Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Acting under uncertainty
• Algorithms for uncertain inference
• Analogical reasoning
• Approximate reasoning
• Applications of uncertain systems
• Argumentation
• Bayesian networks and causal networks
• Belief functions
• Belief change and belief merging
• Classification and clustering
• Conditionals
• Decision theory and decision graphs
• Default reasoning and non-monotonicity
• Description logics with uncertainty
• Foundations of reasoning under uncertainty
• Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic
• Game theory
• Hybrid reasoning
• Imprecise probabilities
• Inconsistency handling
• Information fusion
• Learning for uncertainty formalisms
• Logics for reasoning under uncertainty
• Machine Learning
• Planning under uncertainty
• Possibility theory and possibilistic logic
• Preferences
• Probabilistic forecasting
• Probabilistic graphical models
• Probabilistic logics
• Qualitative uncertainty models
• Rough sets
• Statistical reasoning under uncertainty
• Subjective probability
• Symbolic reasoning
• Uncertainty and data

Committees

Program Chairs

• Nahla Ben Amor, University of Tunis, Tunisia
• Giuseppe Sanfilippo, University of Palermo, Italy

Steering Committee

• Giovani Casini, University of Pisa, Italy
• Sébastien Destercke, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France
• Lluís Godo, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain
• Weiru Liu, University of Bristol, UK
• Vanina Martinez, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain
• Silja Renooij, Utrecht University, the Nederlands
• Matthias Thimm, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

Publication

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of ECSQARU 2027 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series, a subseries of LNCS. As with previous editions, a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning is planned, where extended versions of selected papers will be published.

Venue

The conference will take place in Sala delle capriate, Complesso Monumentale Steri, University of Palermo, Piazza Marina 61, Palermo, Italy.

The conference venue is located in the heart of Palermo's historic center, within walking distance of many major landmarks and attractions.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to nahla.benamor@gmx.fr, giuseppe.sanfilippo@unipa.it

Sponsors

University of Palermo, Italy

PAMCS, Palermo Association of Mathematics and Computer Science

Springer, LNAI-LNCS

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Palermo