The International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in
Knowledge-Based Systems IPMU is organized every two years with the aim of bringing together
scientists working on methods for the m- agement of uncertainty and aggregation of information
in intelligent systems. Since 1986 this conference has been providing a forum for the exchange
of ideas th between theoreticians and practitioners working in these areas. The 13 IPMU
conference took place in Dortmund Germany June 28 July 2 2010. This
volumecontains77papersselectedthrougharigorousreviewingprocess among 320 submissions from 36
countries. The contributions re?ect the richness of research in the ?eld of computational
intelligence and represent several - portant developments speci?cally focused on the following
sub?elds: (a) machine learning data mining and pattern recognition (b) uncertainty handling
(c) aggregation and fusion of information (d) logic and knowledge processing. We were
delighted that Melanie Mitchell (Portland State University USA)
NihkilR.Pal(IndianStatisticalInstitute) BernhardSch olkopf(MaxPlanckI- titute for Biological
Cybernetics Tubing en Germany) and Wolfgang Wahlster (German Research Center for Arti?cial
Intelligence Saarbruc ken) accepted our
invitationstopresentkeynotelectures.JimBezdekreceivedtheKamp edeF eriet Award grantedeverytwo
yearsonthe occasionofthe IPMUconference in view
ofhiseminentresearchcontributionstothehandlingofuncertaintyinclustering data analysis and
pattern recognition.
