[FOM] Inconsistency Robustness 2014: extension of submission deadline

[Carl Hewitt]

Call for Papers
Inconsistency Robustness 2014

http://ir14.org

At Stanford
3 days in summer of 2014 (Exact dates to be determined before the end of this year)

Overview

Inconsistency robustness is information system performance in the face of continually pervasive inconsistencies---a shift from the previously dominant paradigms of inconsistency denial and inconsistency elimination attempting to sweep them under the rug.



Particulars

This interdisciplinary symposium is conducted under the auspices of iRobustTM (http://irobust.org<http://irobust.org/>). The symposium is broadly based on theory and practice, addresses fundamental issues in inconsistency robustness is the follow-on symposium to Inconsistency Robustness 2011 (http://www.robust11.org<http://www.robust11.org/>).

    Submissions will be refereed by the program committee and those accepted will be published in the proceedings. The symposium program will consist of presentations of accepted refereed submissions, panel discussions, and invited lectures that will be video-recorded, edited, and posted on the Internet after the end of the symposium.

    Topics of Interest include:  affect and sentiment, argumentation, authority and accountability, classifications and ontologies, collaboration, design, discretion, education, efficiency, finance, history, innovation, judgment, language, organizational management, prediction, provenance, risk management, repair, social structure, scalability, and timeliness.



Important dates

*    October 31, 2013: Due date of extended abstracts and full technical papers.

o   Extended abstracts must be at least 4 pages and no more than 6 excluding references in at least 10 pt. font.

o   A hard limit on size will not be imposed because the proceedings will be produced electronically. So anything up to about 25K words would be possible. Of course, the length must be suitable to the subject matter.

    Refereed proceedings will be published in archival form. In addition, a PDF of the entire proceedings will be available to the public online without charge. Authors will retain copyright subject to the ability of Stanford to freely distribute.

*    February 28, 2014:  Notification of acceptance, conditional acceptance, or non-acceptance.



Submissions should be made via the EasyChair website at:

         https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ir14






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