IPMU 2018 invites to submit previously unpublished research advances of theoretical and methodological nature as well as application-oriented work. The submissions cannot be under review or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Contributions will be selected upon their quality evaluated by at least three reviewers. Proposals for special sessions are welcome to be considered by the program committee.

Topics and scope of the conference

Theory, Methods and Tools: Uncertainty, Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods, Information Theory, Measures of Information and Uncertainty, Evidence and Possibility Theory, Utility Theory, Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic, Rough Sets, Multiple Criteria Decision Methods, Aggregation Methods, Knowledge Representation, Approximate Reasoning, Non-classical Logics, Default Reasoning, Belief Revision, Argumentation, Ontologies, Uncertainty in Cognition, Graphical Models, Knowledge Acquisition, Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation, Neural Networks, Data Analysis.

Application Fields: Intelligent Systems and Information Processing, Decision Support, Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval and Fusion, Image Processing, Multi-Media, Agents, Pattern Recognition, Medicine and Bioinformatics, Finance, Software Engineering, Industrial Engineering.

The conference proceedings will be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) with Springer. CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus.
CCIS volumes will also be submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings (Web-of-Science).

Submission dates:

• Special Session Proposals: September 15th, 2017
• Notification of Special Sessions accepted: September 30th, 2017
• Submission of full papers: November 22nd, 2017
• Notification of acceptance: February 1st, 2018
• Camera ready copies due: March 1st, 2018
• Conference: June 11th-15th, 2018

Martin Stepnicka