From October 12 to 17, 2008 the Dagstuhl Seminar 08421 Uncertainty Management in Information Systems was held in Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics. The abstracts of the working group reports, the plenary and session talks given during the seminar as well as those of the shown demos are put together in this paper.

Information Integration is among the most important fields in information management. The problem of integrating data from diverse, possibly heterogeneous data sources is ubiquitious. It arises in companies, scientific repositories, governments, monitoring, data streams, and also personal information management. Currently, the problem of information integration is attacked by a potpourri of dif...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 15101 “Bridging Information Visualization with Machine Learning”. This seminar is a successor to Dagstuhl seminar 12081 “Information Visualization, Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning” held in 2012. The main goal of this second seminar was to identify important challenges to overcome in order to build systems that integr...

Securing funding from prestigious national organizations and private foundations is essential for faculty members to show that their research on innovative educational issues is valuable and equivalent to that of their colleagues who perform regular research projects. In order to address this need, the minority Ph.D. project representing AfricanAmericans, Hispanic-Americans, and Native American...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 16461 “Assessing ICT Security Risks in Socio-Technical Systems”. As we progress from classic mechanical or electrical production systems, over ICT systems, to socio-technical systems, risk assessment becomes increasingly complex and difficult. Risk assessment for traditional engineering systems assumes the systems to be dete...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 15101 “Bridging Information Visualization with Machine Learning”. This seminar is a successor to Dagstuhl seminar 12081 “Information Visualization, Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning” held in 2012. The main goal of this second seminar was to identify important challenges to overcome in order to build systems that integr...

The specification, development and use of distributed information systems is an important research area with many practical applications. Examples for existing such systems are those owned by banks, airlines or governments. Moreover, the explosive growth of the Internet is evidence that a global information structure is developing, and expansion in the use of large distributed information syste...