CFP

                                Special Track
                                     on
    Imprecise and Indeterminate Probabilities in Artificial Intelligence

                                 FLAIRS 2002
                  The 15th International FLAIRS Conference

                             Pensacola, Florida
                      Crown Plaza Pensacola Grand Hotel
                               May 16-18, 2002

                          In cooperation with AAAI

Imprecise and indeterminate probabilities encompass the many mathematical
models of uncertainty that cannot be given sharp numerical boundaries. This
arises from information that is scare, vague, inconsistent, or incomplete.
There is little reason to assume that we can always obtain exact
point-valued probabilities, especially since we are modelling events that
are inherently uncertain. Statements such as "the probability of a power
outage is between 0.3 and 0.5" is more natural and realistic than their
"exact" counterparts such as "the probability of a power outage is 0.39482."

Research papers are solicited for the Special Track on Imprecise and
Indeterminate Probabilities in Artificial Intelligence, as part of the
FLAIRS-2002 conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,

   * Modelling and representation of imprecise and indeterminate
     information, using for instance
        o Belief functions
        o Choquet capacities
        o Comparative probability orderings
        o Convex sets of probability measures
        o Bayes' nets with imprecise probabilities
        o Interval-valued probabilities
        o Upper and lower expectations or previsions
   * Inference and decision making using imprecise and indeterminate
     probabilities
   * Comparative analyses and integration of approaches
   * Extending standard techniques for imprecise and indeterminate
     information

Paper Submission and Publication
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Full papers of a maximum of 5 pages (AAAI style) will be reviewed.
Formatting guidelines can be found at
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/authorinstructions.html

Electronic submission (postscript or PDF files preferred) should be sent to
Choh Man Teng at cmteng@ai.uwf.edu. Please also include in a plain text
message the following information: title, author(s), abstract, and a list of
keywords.

If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopies can be snail mailed to

     Choh Man Teng
     Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
     University of West Florida
     40 South Alcaniz Street
     Pensacola FL 32501 USA

The deadline for submission is October 28, 2001.

Accepted papers will appear as regular papers in the FLAIRS-2002 conference
proceedings published by AAAI Press. Selected papers will be considered for
publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Pattern
Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.

Important Dates
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Papers due: October 28, 2001
Notification of acceptance: January 3, 2002
Camera ready copies due: March 4, 2002
Conference: May 16-18, 2002

Organizing Committee
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Fabio Cozman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Gert de Cooman (Ghent University, Belgium)
Henry Kyburg, Jr. (University of Rochester, USA)
Isaac Levi (Columbia University, USA)
Serafin Moral (University of Granada, Spain)
Eric Neufeld (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Choh Man Teng (University of West Florida, USA)

For Further Information
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Conference web site: http://www.flairs.com
Imprecise and indeterminate probabilities special track web site:
http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/users/cmteng/flairs_iip.html