http://www.mdai.cat/mdai2018

The aim of the MDAI conference series is to provide a forum to discuss
new results on decision making, information fusion and data integration
and their applications to AI.

In MDAI 2018, we encourage the submission of papers on social networks,
data mining, data science and data privacy.

MDAI 2018 is the 15th MDAI conference. Previous conferences were celebrated in Barcelona (2004), Tsukuba (2005), Tarragona (2006), Kitakyushu (2007), Sabadell (2008), Awaji Island (2009), Perpinya (2010), Changsha (2011), Girona (2012), Barcelona (2013), Tokyo (2014), Skovde (2015), St Julia de Loria (2016), and Kitakyushu (2017).

MDAI is rated as a CORE B conference by the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia – CORE.

*Important Dates*

Submission deadline     March, 24th 2018
Acceptance notification June, 6th 2018
Final version           June, 22th 2018
Conference              October 15-18, 2018

*Submission and Publication*

Original technical contributions are sought. Contributions will be selected on the basis of their quality. Papers should not exceed 12 pages in total (using LNCS/LNAI style). Proceedings with accepted papers will be published in the LNAI/LNCS series (Springer-Verlag) and distributed at the conference, as done in previous MDAI conferences. Besides, papers, that according to the evaluation of the referees, are not suitable for the LNAI but that have some merits will be published in a USB proceedings and scheduled in the MDAI program. Submission directly for the USB is also possible (deadline on June 22nd).

*Topics*

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
A)      Methods and Tools:
        Information fusion
        Aggregation operators
        Rational decision making
        Decision making
        Machine learning and statistical learning
        Soft computing
        Optimization methods in AI and decision modeling
        Non-additive measures and integrals
B)      Applications:
        Data science
        Privacy and security
        Social networks
        Bibliometry
        Autonomous robots
        Entertainment computing
        Evaluation methods
        Bioinformatics
        Information access

*MDAI 2018 Organization*

General chairs:
      Isabel Aguilo (University Balearic Islands)
      Joan Torrens (University Balearic Islands)

Program co-chairs:
      Vicenc Torra (U. of Skovde, Sweden)
      Yasuo Narukawa (Toho Gakuen, Japan)

Advisory Board:
D. Dubois, L. Godo, K. Hirota, J. Kacprzyk, S. Miyamoto, M. Sugeno, R. R. Yager