Call for papers
The IPMU conference is organized every two years with the aim of bringing together scientists working on information processing and the management of the many aspects of uncertainty.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the 21st IPMU Conference, we invite researchers to submit original research contributions (theoretical, methodological, applications) on a specific topic within the scope of the conference which includes (but is not limited to) the following topics:
Theory, Methods and Tools:
- Measures of Information and Uncertainty
- Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods
- Evidence, Possibility and Utility Theories
- Imprecise Probabilities
- Fuzzy, Rough, Intuitionistic, etc., Sets and operators
- Fuzzy Logic and other non-classical Logics
- Multiple Criteria Decision Methods
- Aggregation Methods
- Knowledge Acquisition, Representation and Reasoning
- Graphical Models
- Machine Learning
- Evolutionary Computation
- Neural Networks
- Data Analysis and Data Science
Application Fields:
- Big Data
- Smart Cities
- Image Processing
- Intelligent Systems and Information Processing
- Logistics, Transportation and Routing
- Information Retrieval and Fusion
- Agents
- E-Health, Medicine and Bioinformatics
- Finance
- Fuzzy Optimization
Submission Instructions
Regular Papers
The proceedings of IPMU 2026 regular papers will be published by Springer in the series Communications in Computer and Information Science (https://link.springer.com/series/7899), indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.
- Deadline for regular paper submission: 12 January 2026.
- Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ instructions and use the proceedings template, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. The LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers.
- The length of a submission is 12-14 pages in the LNCS/CCIS one-column page format. The paper must be written in English and submitted in PDF via the EasyChair system, at the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ipmu2026
- In EasyChair authors can choose one of the proposed special sessions or the general track of IPMU 2026.
- In EasyChair authors should point out if one of the authors is an early career researcher (no more than 4 years from the Ph.D. defense) to be considered for best early career researcher awards.
- All figures are printed in black and white, unless a special arrangement has been made for colored figures. Colored figures remain in color in the online version. Please make sure that any colored figures are equally comprehensible in black and white. Figures and Tables should be cross referred in the text.
- Authors interested in publishing their paper Open Access should consult Springer's page.
- One full registration will allow acceptance of one regular paper. Each additional accepted paper associated with the same registration will be subject to an additional fee.
Short Papers
IPMU will also accept short papers of 2-6 pages. Accepted short papers will not be published by Springer. A separate volume, with its own DOI, containing the accepted works, will be published in open access. Authors may opt to not include their work in this volume.
- Deadline for short paper submission: 12 January 2026.
- Short papers should be prepared using the LaTeX template used for regular papers that are available on Overleaf.
- Short papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF via the EasyChair system, at the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ipmu2026
- Short papers can be submitted to one of the proposed special sessions or the general track of IPMU2026.
- In EasyChair authors should take care to select the checkbox marking the submission as a short paper.
Conference Proceedings
The proceedings of IPMU 2026 will be published in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series, by Springer.
If you are interested in Open Access or Open Choice, please refer to the webpage for prices and additional information.
Previous IPMU Proceedings are on SpringerLink: https://link.springer.com/conference/ipmu
Best paper awards
- Best paper award by Springer
- IJAR best paper award by Elsevier
