CFP: SAS25 - Uncertainty

Every scientific results comes with uncertainties, even the most mundane decisions can have uncertain outcomes. Often uncertainty has a negative connotation and is in want of reduction. But we also use it for beneficiary purposes, for example by letting loved ones in the dark about our suffering. In our next SAS Conference we are interested in how uncertainty is conceptualized, quantified, transformed and coped with in science and society. We are especially interested in how uncertainty affects and is treated in computational contexts.

The conference is organized by the philosophy of computational sciences group at HLRS. We encourage submissions from areas outside philosophy and especially welcome scientists involved in interdisciplinary research.

We invite talks engaging with one of the following topics (non-exhaustive list):

• Are there different kinds of uncertainty?
• The relation of uncertainty to probability, statistics, and risk
• How is uncertainty measured in different scientific disciplines?
• Uncertainty of models and uncertainty in models
• What are the best ways to communicate uncertainty?
• What are the best ways to visualize uncertainty?
• Case studies of methods for uncertainty reduction.
• Values in uncertainty and uncertainty of values
• Trust and uncertainty

Accepted papers can be published (after peer-review) in an upcoming SAS25 Edition with Springer. For previous editions see https://www.hlrs.de/user-research/books.

The conference will take place from July 28th to July 30th 2025 at HLRS in Stuttgart. The conference fee is 100€.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 Words (excluding references) to [email protected] until May 1st 2025. Decisions on the acceptance of submissions will be made by the end of May 2025.