The deadline for submission of papers to IPMU'2000 is approaching. IPMU2000 -------- The 8th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems July 3 - 7, 2000 Madrid, Spain http://www.mat.upm.es/ipmu e-mail: ipmu@mat.upm.es The IPMU Conference is organized every two years with the aim of bringing together scientists working on various methods for the management of uncertainty in intelligent systems. This conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners using different methods to address the important issue of uncertainty. HONORARY PRESIDENT ------------------ Lotfi A. ZADEH (University of California at Berkeley, USA) CHAIRPERSONS ------------ Bernadette BOUCHON-MEUNIER (LIP6, CNRS, Université Paris VI, France) Julio GUTIERREZ-RIOS (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) Luis MAGDALENA (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) Enric TRILLAS (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) Ronald R. YAGER (Iona College, NY, USA) PLENARY LECTURERS ----------------- LOTFI A. ZADEH (University of California at Berkeley, USA) DAVID E. GOLDBERG (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) RICHARD JEFFREY (Princeton University, USA) RAMON LOPEZ DE MANTARAS (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Barcelona, SPAIN) TIME SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION INFORMATION ---------------------------------------- * November 15, 1999: Submission of papers. * February 15, 2000: Notification of acceptance. * March 31, 2000: Submission of final papers. * May 15, 2000: Deadline for early registration. * July 3-7, 2000: CONFERENCE. Authors should submit four copies of full papers (6-8 pages) written in English. Papers must include title and author's name(s) and affiliation(s) on top of the first page followed by an abstract. Fax or e-mail submissions are not accepted. Please indicate the corresponding author, with their e-mail where possible. Send papers to the CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT ADDRESS: Secretaría IPMU2000 Dept. Matemática Aplicada ETSI Telecomunicación Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid 28040 SPAIN TOPICS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST ----------------------------- Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods, Fuzzy Methods, Theory of Evidence, Belief Networks, Possibility theory, Chaos Theory, Measures of Information and Uncertainty, Rough Sets. Non-standard Logics, Non-monotonic Logics, Default Reasoning, Approximate Reasoning, Multivalued Logics, Temporal Reasoning, Belief Updating. Knowledge Acquisition and Representation, Machine Learning, Inductive Methods, Neural Networks, Databases, Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Uncertainty in Cognition. Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Control, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation, Hybrid Systems, Uncertainty in Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems, Multicriteria and Group Decision Making, Pattern Recognition, Clustering, Classification, Data Analysis, Image Processing, Fuzzy Processors, Multi-media Management, Financial Engineering, Intelligent agents, Diagnostic Systems, Fuzzy Systems Design. LOCATION -------- Madrid, a world-famous city where Nobody is a foreigner. The capital has always known how to be nice and amiable. Its forcefulness and personality turns Madrid into an unforgettable city, and its plentiful resources of interest to tourism -nature, art, history- are rounded off extraordinarily well by a series of cities in its surroundings which are full of sights of historic interest, some of which have been included by the UNESCO in the list of places considered "world heritage": Avila, Segovia, Toledo, as well as the Monastery of El Escorial or Alcala de Henares. Madrid has admirable parks and gardens, and a large number of museums, including those in the Avenue of Art, an itinerary unique in the entire world, which includes painting, sculpture, architecture and natural beauty, set in one of the most emblematic areas of Madrid; The Paseo del Prado. It includes three of the most important museums of Spain; the Prado Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. The cultural panorama of Madrid is marked today by a large number of public and private cultural institutions, banks and savings banks, universities and student residences that compete in converting the cultural spirit of Madrid into a reality that is tangible as well as multifarious.