Aims and goals
The aim of the MDAI conference series is to provide a forum for researchers to discuss models for decision and information fusion (aggregation operators) and their applications to AI. In MDAI 2011, we encourage the submission of papers on decision making, information fusion, social networks, data mining, and related topics. Applications to privacy technologies as well as real world problems such as environmental problems are welcome.MDAI 2011 is the 8th MDAI conference. Previous conferences were celebrated in Barcelona, Tsukuba, Tarragona, Kitakyushu, Sabadell, Awaji Island, and Perpinyà.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 

Submission and Publication
Original technical contributions are sought. Contributions will be selected on the basis of their quality. Papersshould not exceed 12 pages in total (using LNCS/LNAI style).
Proceedings with accepted papers will be published in the LNAI/LNCS series (Springer-Verlag) and distributedat the conference, as done in previous conferences. See LNAI volumes 3131, 3558, 3885, 4617, 5285, 5861,6408. Besides, papers that according to the evaluation of the referees are not suitable for the LNAI but thathave some merits will be published in a CD-ROM proceedings (with ISBN) and scheduled in the MDAI program.

Extended version of selected best papers will be published in a special issue to be published at the International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Important Dates
Submission deadline EXTENDED: March, 4th 2011
Acceptance notification: April, 5th 2011
Final version: April, 20th 2011
Conference: July, 28th -30th 2011

General Chairs
Jianping Yin and Jun Long (NUDT, China)

Program Chairs
VicençTorra (IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia, Spain)
YasuoNarukawa (Toho Gakuen, Japan)

Advisory Board
B. Bouchon-Meunier, D. Dubois, L. Godo, K. Hirota,J. Kacprzyk, S. Miyamoto, M. Sugeno, R. R. Yager

Program Committee
GlebBeliakov, Ulrich Bodenhofer, TomasaCalvo,Marc Daumas, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, JozoDujmovic, Michel Grabisch, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Masahiro Inuiguchi, Hiroaki Kikuchi, IvanKojadinovic, Xinwang Liu, Xinjun Mao, Jean-Luc.Marichal, Rosa Meo, RadkoMesiar, Tetsuya Murai,Toshiaki Murofushi, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas,Michael Ng, Gabriella Pasi, LeszekRutkowski,Susanne Saminger-Platz, Aida Valls, ZeshuiXu,Yuji Yoshida, Gexiang Zhang, En Zhu

Organizing Chairs
Danlin Yao and Wentao Zhao

Contact
mdai@mdai.cat