A large amount of available data nowadays includes uncertain, imprecise and inconsistentinformation. The possibility ofintegratingandexploitingthese data calls for sound and e?cient techniques for managing uncertainty and handling inconsistency. These issues, which have been traditionally addressed within the arti?cial intelligence community, already play a key role in ?elds like databases or the semantic Web. The annual International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM), grown out of this large interest in uncertainty and inconsistency, aims at bringing together all those...

Vague language and corresponding models of inference and information processing is an important and challenging topic as witnessed by a number of recent monographs and collections of essays devoted to the topic. This volume collects fifteen papers, the majority of which originated with talks presented at the conference "Logical Models of Reasoning with Vague Information (LoMoReVI)," September 14-17, 2009, in ejkovice, that initiated a EUROCORES/LogICCC project with the same title. At least two features set the current volume apart from other texts: first, the interdisciplinary nature of the...