Originally, managing uncertainty and inconsistency has especially been explored in Artificial Intelligence. During the recent years, especially with the availability of massive amounts of data in different repositories and the possibility of integrating and exploiting these data, technologies for managing uncertainty and inconsistency have started to play a key role in databases and the Web. Some of the most prominent such technologies are probably the ranking algorithms standing behind web search engines. Techniques for handling uncertainty and inconsistency are expected to play a similarly important role in the context of the Semantic Web.

The annual International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) has grown out of this very large interest on managing uncertainty and inconsistency in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, and AI. It aims at bringing together all those interested in the management of large volumes of uncertainty and inconsistency, irrespective of whether they are in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, or in AI.

The very successful First International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2007) was held in Washington DC, USA, Oct. 10-12, 2007. The Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) will be held in Naples, Italy, October 1-3, 2008.

The conference will take place at the Conference Center of the University of Naples Federico II in Via Partenope.

News

Special issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence with invited papers from SUM 2008 approved.
November 1, 2008

Proceedings published as LNCS/LNAI Volume 5291 by Springer, which is available online at SpringerLink.
October 1, 2008

Prabhakar Raghavan (Yahoo! Research, USA)
confirmed as invited speaker.
February 25, 2008

Jan Chomicki (State University of NY-Buffalo, USA)
confirmed as tutorialist.
February 25, 2008

Dan Suciu (University of Washington, USA)
confirmed as invited speaker.
January 1, 2008