============================================================================== UAI 2007 23rd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence July 19th - July 22th, 2007 Vancouver BC, Canada http://www.cs.duke.edu/uai07/ ============================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES: Wednesday, February 28, 2007, noon EST Abstract submission Friday, March 2, 2007, noon EST Full paper submission Monday, March 5, 2007, noon EST Student paper certification Friday, May 4, 2007, noon EDT Author notification Sunday, May 27, 2007, noon EDT Camera ready copy of accepted papers NOTE: EST = GMT - 5, and EDT = GMT - 4. FURTHER INFORMATION: http://www.cs.duke.edu/uai07/ 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 2007 conference will be held at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. The main technical sessions will be on July 20-22, and will be preceded with a tutorial program and application workshop on July 19. The conference is collocated with AAAI 2007, which follows immediately after UAI 2007. 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 the novel and insightful application of these techniques within intelligent systems are also strongly encouraged. Examples of such applications include, but are not limited to, computational biology, computer vision, medical systems, multi-agent systems, self-managing computer systems, and sensor networks. 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 Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously unpublished work.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 2007 nor at any time during UAI 2007's reviewing period. UAI 2007 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 two days before the paper submission deadline. Submitted papers must be prepared according to the UAI 2007 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 will contain format information and provide 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 Third Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. The program committee will select papers for special distinction in two categories at UAI 2007: 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 Chairs Rina Dechter U.C. Irvine Thomas Richardson University of Washington Program Co-chairs Ronald Parr Duke University Linda van der Gaag Universiteit Utrecht Senior Program Committee Fahiem Bacchus University of Toronto Fabio Cozman University of Sao Paulo Adnan Darwiche UCLA Francisco Javier Diez UNED Nir Friedman Hebrew University Geoff Gordon CMU Carlos Guestrin CMU Joe Halpern Cornell David Heckerman Microsoft Kevin Leyton-Brown UBC David McAllester TTI Chris Meek Microsoft Kevin Murphy UBC Petri Myllymäki University of Helsinki Ann Nicholson Monash University Thomas Nielsen Aalborg University Andrew Ng Stanford University Prakash Shenoy University of Kansas Peter Spirtes CMU Jin Tian Iowa State University