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Download or read book Scalable Uncertainty Management written by Eyke Hüllermeier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, SUM 2012, held in Marburg, Germany, in September 2012. The 41 revised full papers and 13 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers cover topics in all areas of managing and reasoning with substantial and complex kinds of uncertain, incomplete or inconsistent information including applications in decision support systems, machine learning, negotiation technologies, semantic web applications, search engines, ontology systems, information retrieval, natural language processing, information extraction, image recognition, vision systems, data and text mining, and the consideration of issues such as provenance, trust, heterogeneity, and complexity of data and knowledge.

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