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UAI 2006
22nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
July 13th - July 16th, 2006
Cambridge, MA, USA
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~csp/uai2006
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IMPORTANT DATES:
Thursday, March 9, 2006, noon EST Abstract submission
Thursday, March 16, 2006, noon EST Full paper submission
Thursday, March 16, 2006, noon EST Student paper certification
Friday, May 5, 2006, noon EST Author notification
Sunday, May 21, 2006, noon EST Camera ready copy of accepted papers
FURTHER INFORMATION:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~csp/uai2006pc-chairs at ics.uci.edu
CONFERENCE DETAILS:
Since 1985, the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
(UAI) has been the primary international forum for presenting new
results on the use of principled methods for reasoning under uncertainty
within intelligent systems. The scope of UAI is wide, including, but not
limited to, representation, automated reasoning, learning, decision
making and knowledge acquisition under uncertainty.
The UAI 2006 conference will be held at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), Cambridge Massachusetts. The main technical session
will be on July 14-16, and will be preceded with a tutorial program on
July 13. The conference is collocated with AAAI 2006 that follows
immediately after UAI 2006.
PAPER SUBMISSION:
We encourage submissions that report on theoretical or methodological
advances in representation, automated reasoning, learning, decision
making and knowledge acquisition under uncertainty. Submissions
reporting on other work relevant to uncertainty within intelligent
systems are also welcome, as are submissions that report on intelligent
systems in which uncertainty plays a key role.
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated on the basis of
originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of
exposition. Papers submitted for review should represent original,
previously unpublished work. A submitted paper should not be under
review by any other conference or scientific journal at the time it is
submitted to UAI-2006 nor at any time during UAI-2006's reviewing period.
UAI-2006 requires electronic submission of papers and abstracts
according to instructions that will be posted on the conference home
page. If authors have special circumstances that prevent electronic
submission, arrangements can be made directly with the program co-chairs
listed below. Authors are required to submit a title and a short
abstract a week before the paper submission deadline. Submitted papers
must be prepared according to the UAI-2006 proceedings format and must
be no more than eight (8) pages long, including figures and
bibliography. Papers that deviate from these guidelines will be rejected
without review. The conference home page contains format information and
provides access to style files and templates.
Accepted papers will be presented at the conference in either plenary or
poster sessions. At least one of the paper's authors should be present
at the conference to present the work. All accepted papers will be
included in the Proceedings of the Twenty Second Conference on
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. The program committee will
select papers for special distinction in two categories at UAI-2006: a
"Best Paper" award, and an "Outstanding Student Paper" award. The
conference home page will contain instructions for certifying student
status with regards to the latter award.
ORGANIZATION:
General Conference Chair
Fahiem Bacchus, University of Toronto, Canada
Program Co-chairs
Rina Dechter, University of California, Irvine, USA
Thomas Richardson, University of Washington, USA
Senior Program Committee
Salem Benferhat, CRIL, France
Craig Boutilier, U Toronto, Canada
Adnan Darwiche, UCLA, USA
Nir Friedman, Hebrew U, Israel
Dan Geiger, Technion , Israel
Lise Getoor, U Maryland, USA
Zoubin Ghahramani, U College London, UK
Robert Givan, Purdue U, USA
Joe Halpern, Cornell U, USA
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, USA
Anthony Hunter, U College London, UK
David McAllester, TTI Chicago, USA
Chris Meek, Microsoft Research, USA
Ron Parr, Duke U, USA
David Poole, U British Columbia, Canada
Peter Spirtes, Carnegie Mellon U, USA
Jin Tian, Iowa State U, USA
Linda Van Der Gaag, Utrecht U, Netherlands
Max Welling, UC Irvine, USA
