Special Issue of the Twelfth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2013)

Abstract

This special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning is devoted to a selection of papers presented at the Twelfth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2013), which took place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on July 7th to July 10th, 2013.1 In total, 89 manuscripts were submitted to the conference. After a rigorous review process, 44 of the 89 submissions were accepted for presentation at the conference. Eight papers were selected for plenary presentation to do justice to their high quality. All accepted papers were published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science[1]. Based upon the scientific quality and the potential for extension of their contribution, the authors of nine papers were invited to submit a revised version of their paper to this special issue. Seven submissions were received from these nine invitations and went through the full reviewing process following the IJAR standards. Finally, six papers were accepted for publication in this special issue. The diversity of these six papers reflects the wide scope of the different approaches to reasoning under uncertainty covered by the community of ECSQARU. Three papers concern different aspects of a probabilistic approach, whereas the other three papers deal with non-probabilistic approaches.