Description
Since 1991, the European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Appr- ches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU) has been a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning and decision making under - certainty. 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 ?rst 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 ?nal recomm- dation to the program co-chairs. In addition to the regular presentations, the technical program for ECSQARU 2003 also included talks by three distingu- hedinvitedspeakers:DidierDubois,PhilippeSmetsandJeroenVermunt.Didier Dubois and Jeroen Vermunt also contributed to this volume with papers on the subjects of their talks.