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Introduction to uncertainty formalisms / A. Hunter and S. Parsons -- A review of uncertainty handling formalisms / S. Parsons and A. Hunter -- Using uncertainty management techniques in medical therapy planning : a decision-theoretic approach / P. Magni, R. Bellazzi and F. Locatelli -- An ordinal approach to the processing of fuzzy queries with flexible quantifiers / P. Bosc, L. Li~Otard and H. Prade -- Using uncertainty techniques in radio communication systems / K. van Dam -- Handling imperfect knowledge handling in Milord II for the identification of marine sponges / M. Domingo, L. Godo and C. Sierra -- Qualitative risk assessment fulfills a need / P. Krause ... [et al.] -- Information retrieval and Dempster-Shafer's theory of evidence / M. Lalmas -- Uncertainty measures associated with fuzzy rules for connection admission control in ATM networks / M.F.N. Ramalho -- Handling uncertainty in control of autonomous robots / A. Saffiotti -- Some problems in trying to implement uncertainty techniques in automated inspection / D. Wilson ... [et al.] -- Correlation using uncertain and temporal information / J. Bigham -- Arguing about beliefs and actions / J. Fox and S. Parsons -- Analysis of multi-interpretable ecological monitoring information / F. Brazier, J. Engelfriet and J. Treur -- A local handling of inconsistent knowledge and default bases / S. Benferhat and L. Garcia -- The XRay system : an implementation platform for local query-answering in default logics / P. Nicolas and T. Schaub -- Model-based diagnosis : a probabilistic extension / A. Tawfik and E. Neufeld -- Background to and perspectives on possibilistic graphical models / J. Gebhardt and R. Kruse -- How much does an agent believe : an extension of modal epistemic logic / S.K. Das -- Safety logics / J. Bell and Z. Huang -- Modelling uncertainty with propositional assumption-based systems / R. Haenni