Objectives and Topics

Solving complex practical problems often requires the integration of data and knowledge from different relevant sources and further takes uncertainty and impreciseness into account. This gives rise to the demand for innovative methodologies and efficient techniques of managing and integrating various types of data and knowledge with uncertainty/imprecision so as to ultimately improve the solution to any such complex problems in practice. The objectives of the Symposium are outlined as follows:
◾to bring together researchers working on uncertainty formalisms in information and knowledge systems;
◾to attract researchers working in social sciences (economics, business, management and environmental sciences) who are interested in applying uncertainty-related tools and techniques;
◾to bring together researchers and practitioners in order to foster the collaboration on research and application involving uncertainty management; and
◾to present and discuss open research problems and novel applications.

The topics of the Symposium include (but are not limited to) the following:

Theory and Methodology
◦Uncertainty formalisms: Bayesian probability, Dempster-Shafer theory, imprecise probability, random sets, rough sets, fuzzy sets and interval methods
◦Logics for reasoning under uncertainty
◦Information fusion and knowledge integration in uncertain environments
◦Decision making under various types of uncertainty
◦Aggregation operators for decision making
◦Copulas for dependence modelling
◦Granular and soft computing

Application
◦Data mining and knowledge discovery
◦Ontology engineering and Semantic Web
◦Intelligent data analysis and modelling
◦Medical informatics and bioinformatics
◦Ranking and recommendation systems
◦Kansei/affective engineering
◦Engineering management
◦Supply chain management
◦Environmental management
◦Service science
◦Economics and econometrics
◦Social network analysis and mining

Paper Submission and Publication

The authors are invited to submit their full papers by May 11, 2015. The submissions will be peer-reviewed for originality and scientific quality. As done in previous editions, the proceedings of IUKM 2015 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, and be available at the Symposium. Authors are requested to prepare their papers in the Springer LNAI format. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages and must be submitted electronically through the conference's Easychair submission page.

Symposium-Related Special Issues
After the Symposium, the authors of selected papers from IUKM 2015 will be invited to submit substantially extended and updated version of their work for possible inclusion in special issues of Annals of Operations Research and International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.