ECSQARU 2025

The 18th European Conference on
Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty
23. - 26. September, 2025, Hagen, Germany

The 18th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2025) will be held in Hagen (Germany), on September 23-26, 2025. Co-Chairs of the conference are Kai Sauerwald and Matthias Thimm.

About ECSQARU

The biennial ECSQARU conferences (www.ecsqaru.org/) constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty, with a focus on bringing symbolic and quantitative aspects together. Contributions come from researchers interested in advancing the scientific knowledge and from practitioners using uncertainty techniques in real-world applications. The scope of the ECSQARU conferences encompasses fundamental issues, representation, inference, learning, and decision making in qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms.

Previous ECSQARU events have been held in Arras (2023), Prague (2021), Belgrade (2019), Lugano (2017), Compiegne (2015), Utrecht (2013), Belfast (2011), Verona (2009), Hammamet (2007), Barcelona (2005), Aalborg (2003), Toulouse (2001), London (1999), Bonn (1997), Fribourg (1995), Granada (1993), and Marseille (1991).

Poster

Call for papers

The first call for papers will disseminated in early 2025 on the usual channels. ECSQARU 2025 will welcome papers on the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty, e.g., the following topics:
  • Algorithms for uncertain inference)
  • Applications of uncertain systems
  • Argumentation
  • Acting under uncertainty
  • Belief functions
  • Belief change and belief merging
  • Classification and clustering
  • Decision theory and decision graphs
  • Default reasoning and non-monotonicity
  • Description logics with uncertainty
  • Foundations of reasoning under uncertainty
  • Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic
  • Game theory
  • Hybrid reasoning
  • Imprecise probabilities
  • Inconsistency handling
  • Information fusion
  • Learning for uncertainty formalisms
  • Logics for reasoning under uncertainty
  • Markov decision processes
  • Planning under uncertainty
  • Possibility theory and possibilistic logic
  • Preferences
  • Probabilistic graphical models
  • Probabilistic logics
  • Qualitative uncertainty models
  • Rough sets
  • Uncertainty and data

Call for workshops and tutorials

The first day of the conference (September 23) will host a workshop and tutorial programme and we invite applications for workshops and tutorials. Please see the Call for workshops and tutorials for more information.

Organization

Important dates

Workshop/Tutorial proposal: 23. January 2025
Conference: 23. - 26. September 2025

More information will follow at the end of the year.

Contacts

For any problem or information, please write to one of the organizers: Kai Sauerwald (firstname.second [at] fernuni-hagen.de) or Matthias Thimm (firstname.second [at] fernuni-hagen.de), FernUniversität in Hagen, 58084, Hagen, Germany.