text_combined: david mcallester swpenzhphjtticorg uai 2008 24th conference uncertainty artificial intelligence july 9th july 12th 2008 helsinki finland httpuai2008cshelsinkifi 24th conference uncertainty artificial intelligence uai 2008 take place july 912 2008 helsinki finland uai 2008 colocated colt 2008 takes place time uai colt 2008 preceded icml 2008 location joint uaiicmlcolt workshoptutorial day july 9th encourage submissions report theoretical methodological advances modeling inference learning decision making uncertainty submissions reporting novel insightful applications techniques within intelligent systems also strongly encouraged examples application areas include limited computational biology computer vision speech processing computational linguistics information retrieval medical systems multiagent systems sensor networks important dates wednesday february 27 2008 midnight gmt abstract submission friday february 29 2008 midnight gmt full paper submission monday march 3 2008 midnight gmt student paper certification monday april 21 2008 midnight gmt author notification sunday may 11 2008 midnight gmt camera ready copy accepted papers paper submission details uai 2008 requires electronic submission papers abstracts according instructions posted conference home page authors special circumstances prevent electronic submission arrangements made directly program cochairs listed authors required submit title short abstract two days paper submission deadline submitted papers must prepared according uai 2008 proceedings format must eight 8 pages long including figures bibliography papers deviate guidelines rejected without review conference home page contain format information provide access style files templates submitted paper review conference scientific journal time submitted uai 2008 time reviewing period uai 2008 presentation proceedings awards accepted papers presented conference either plenary poster sessions least one papers authors present conference present work accepted papers included proceedings twenty fourth conference uncertainty artificial intelligence program committee select papers special distinction two categories uai 2008 best paper award outstanding student paper award conference home page contain instructions certifying student status regards latter award organization general conference chair ronald parr duke university program cochairs david mcallester toyota technological institute chicago ttichicago petri myllymäki university helsinki senior program committee jeff bilmes university washington wray buntine nicta max chickering microsoft research fabio cozman university sao paulo adnan darwiche ucla nando de freitas university british columbia nir friedman hebrew university joe halpern cornell university david heckerman microsoft research tommi jaakkola mit henry tirri nokia reserch center kevin murphy university british columbia andrew ng stanford university thomas nielsen aalborg university ann nicholson monash university prakash shenoy university kansas peter spirtes carnegie mellon university jin tian iowa state university ben taskar university pennsylvania linda van der gaag utrecht university nb joint call uaiicmlcolt workshop proposals found httpwwwcsrutgersedumlittmantopicsicml08html fri 08 aug 2008 042941 0600 uai uai call papers