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Thomas Dyhre Nielsen Nevin Lianwen Zhang (Eds.)

Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty 7th European Conference, ECSQARU 2003 Aalborg, Denmark, July 2-5, 2003 Proceedings

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors Thomas Dyhre Nielsen Aalborg University, Department of Computer Science Fredrik Bajersvej 7E, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark E-mail: [email protected] Nevin Lianwen Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Department of Computer Science Clear Water Bay Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

Since 1991, the European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU) has been a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning and decision making under uncertainty. The scope of ECSQARU is wide and includes, but is not limited to, fundamental issues, representation, inference, learning, and decision making in qualitative and numeric paradigms. The first ECSQARU conference (1991) was held in Marseilles, and since then it has been held in Granada (1993), Fribourg (1995), Bonn (1997), London (1999) and Toulouse (2001). This volume contains the papers that were presented at ECSQARU 2003, held at Aalborg University, Denmark, from July 2 to July 5, 2003. The papers went through a rigorous reviewing process: three program committee members reviewed each paper monitored by an area chair, who made a final recommendation to the