The full version of this Call for Papers is available.
Important Note: Submission to this special issue is open to all and is not restricted to attendees of the post-ILPS'94 WUDDS Workshop
Objectives Most real-life applications require an ability to represent, manage and reason with uncertain knowledge. Examples include diagnostic applications; data mining; image, scientific, and genome databases; and legal and military applications. Numerous formalisms for dealing with uncertainty have been studied over the years, several of which are in the context of logic programming and deductive databases. A special issue of the Theoretical Computer Science Journal will be devoted to papers describing original research of very high quality, in all aspects of uncertainty in database systems and in deductive systems such as logic programming. The research described must have adequate theoretical depth together with a clear indication of the usefulness and applicability of the results to practice.
Topics See the full version of this Call for a detailed list.
Submissions should be no more than about 30 doublespaced pages (each page having about 40 lines of text with about 75 characters per line). Papers must be original and must not have been previously published or simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers will be reviewed based on their merit, originality and technical quality, relevance to the special issue theme, and the extent to which they will advance the frontiers of knowledge in this area. In addition, the traditional standards of quality control refereeing for TCS will apply. The approximate publication date targeted is Spring 1996.
Submit 4 copies of a full paper no later than March 15, 1995, to:
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan -- TCS Special Issue
Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, LB 941 - 11,
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8
laks@cs.concordia.ca - phone: +1 514 8483018; fax: +1 514 8482830
Dates: subm: Mar 15, '95; notif: Aug. 15, '95; final: Oct. 15, '95.