Integrated Uncertainty Management and Applications

Solving practical problems often requires the integration of information and knowledge

from many different sources, taking into account uncertainty and impreciseness.

Typical situations are, for instance, when we need to simultaneously process

both measurement data and expert knowledge, where the former may be uncertain

and inaccurate due to randomness or error in measurements whilst the latter are

often vague and imprecise due to a lack of information or human’s subjective judgements.

This gives rise to the demand for methods and techniques of managing and

integrating various types of uncertainty within a coherent framework, so as to ultimately

improve the solution to any such complex problem in practice.

The 2010 International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty Management and

Applications (IUM’2010), which takes place at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science

and Technology (JAIST), Ishikawa, Japan, between 9th–11thApril, is therefore

conceived as a forum for the discussion and exchange of research results, ideas for

and experience of application among researchers and practitioners involved with all

aspects of uncertainty modelling and management.