What Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence does

The Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (AUAI) is a US-domiciled, member-governed non-profit founded in 1985 to organize the annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) and promote research in knowledge representation, learning, and reasoning under uncertainty. Its core product is the UAI conference — an annual peer-reviewed international forum covering graphical models, probabilistic inference, causal inference, and decision making under uncertainty — held continuously for 41 years through 2025 (with the 42nd edition, UAI 2026, announced). Complementing the conference, AUAI publishes peer-reviewed conference proceedings (in-house via AUAI Press from 2004–2019, then via Proceedings of Machine Learning Research from 2020 onward), distributes hardcopy editions through a third-party reseller (Brightdoc), and maintains the Google Groups UAI mailing list as the community's primary email forum.

The underlying "platform" is scholarly in nature: a 41-volume archival corpus now openly indexed via PMLR and arxiv, an elected Board of Directors drawn from leading research institutions, and a recurring global conference rotation spanning North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America. AUAI does not sell software, host data infrastructure, or operate a training pipeline; its technical footprint is editorial and community-oriented rather than engineering-oriented. Sponsorship relationships with industry research labs (Microsoft Research, Google, IBM Research, Intel, Yahoo! Research Labs, Boeing, Hugin) historically support student travel and conference operations, supplementing registration-based revenue.

The business model is event-driven and membership-supported. Revenue is generated primarily through conference registration fees and proceedings sales, with industry sponsorship as a secondary stream; pricing is not publicly disclosed. AUAI serves two principal personas: AI researchers and academics (primary), and AI practitioners and industry researchers (secondary). The organization is governed by a three-person Board (Chair, Secretary, Treasurer) elected by the UAI Chairs' Council, with no parent company, external investment, or acquisition history.

Name

Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

Legal name

Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

Website

https://auai.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Short description

The Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (AUAI) is a US non-profit founded in 1985 that organizes the annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), publishes peer-reviewed proceedings, and maintains a research community mailing list for AI researchers studying reasoning under uncertainty.

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B2C

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Services

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Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Conference Registration: Revenue generated from conference registration fees for the annual UAI conference, which has been held every year since 1985.
2. Proceedings Sales: Hardcopy versions of UAI proceedings sold through Brightdoc. Most conference papers are available electronically through individual conference links and arxiv.

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Core offering

The Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (AUAI) is a non-profit scholarly organization that organizes the annual international Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) for presenting research on principled methods for reasoning under uncertainty within intelligent systems, covering representation, automated reasoning, learning, decision making, and knowledge acquisition. It also publishes the peer-reviewed UAI Proceedings (via PMLR since 2020) and operates the UAI Mailing List, a community discussion forum on Google Groups.

Product overview

The Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (AUAI) is a non-profit organization that primarily organizes the annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI). The organization also publishes UAI Proceedings containing peer-reviewed research and maintains a mailing list for community discussions. The conference has been held annually since 1985 and is the premier international forum for research in graphical models, probabilistic reasoning, and reasoning under uncertainty in AI systems.

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Products and services

• Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Annual international research conference serving as the premier forum for presenting new results on principled methods for reasoning under uncertainty within intelligent systems, covering representation, automated reasoning, learning, decision making, and knowledge acquisition under uncertainty; held each year at rotating global venues and targeted at academic researchers, graduate students, and industry research scientists.
• UAI Proceedings Annual peer-reviewed publication of accepted UAI conference papers on uncertainty in artificial intelligence; published open access since 2020 by PMLR and also available electronically via individual conference links and arxiv; hardcopy versions of older proceedings are sold through Brightdoc.
• UAI Mailing List Email discussion forum hosted on Google Groups (uai-list) for the UAI research community to discuss topics related to the representation and management of uncertain information, share announcements of new technical reports, journal articles, and public domain software, and discuss organizational matters related to the UAI conference and community.

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2020Since 2020, UAI proceedings have been published by Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), providing open access to conference papers.
• BrightdocminorOthersHardcopy versions of UAI proceedings can be purchased through Brightdoc.
• Microsoft ResearchcoreOthersSponsor for UAI conferences (e.g., UAI-2006, UAI-2005). Provides financial support for student travel grants and conference operations.
• IBM ResearchminorOthersConference sponsor for UAI-2006 and other years.
• GoogleminorOthersConference sponsor for UAI-2006 and UAI-2005.
• Yahoo! Research LabsminorOthersConference sponsor for UAI-2006 and UAI-2005.
• HuginminorOthersConference sponsor for UAI-2006. Hugin Expert A/S develops Bayesian network software.
• BoeingminorOthersConference sponsor for UAI-2006.
• IntelminorOthersConference sponsor for UAI-2006 and UAI-2005.
• Morgan Kaufmann PublisherscoreTechnology or IntegrationHistorical publishing partner for UAI proceedings from 1991 to 2003. Published conference proceedings distributed at conferences.

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Broad incumbents

• ACM SIGAI: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence — an established, broader AI professional society that operates conferences, publications, and awards. Comparable as a non-profit academic society running AI conferences and proceedings, but at much greater scale and breadth than AUAI's uncertainty-focused niche.

Emerging players

• International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA): Worldwide scientific society promoting Bayesian methods and Bayesian statistics, running conferences (e.g., ISBA World Meeting) on probabilistic inference and uncertainty quantification. Closely comparable in topical focus to UAI but emerges from statistics rather than AI/ML.

Regional players

• European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI / ECAI): European AI academic society that organizes the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI). Comparable as a non-profit regional AI association running a peer-reviewed conference and proceedings with overlapping audience, but geographically Europe-focused rather than AUAI's global rotation.

Direct peers

• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML): Flagship international ML research conference operating under a similar non-profit conference-organization model. Directly comparable to AUAI in scope (peer-reviewed ML research presentations, proceedings, and community programming) and target academic audience.
• Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS): Annual conference at the intersection of AI and statistical learning, with strong overlap on probabilistic modeling, Bayesian methods, and uncertainty reasoning. Highly comparable to AUAI in research scope and is the closest methodological cousin among ML conferences.
• NeurIPS Foundation: Non-profit foundation that organizes the annual Neural Information Processing Systems conference — the largest ML research venue. Directly comparable to AUAI in mission (operating a premier AI/ML research conference as a non-profit academic body) and audience (researchers in machine learning and probabilistic methods).
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): Biennial international AI research conference organized by a non-profit scientific body. Directly comparable to AUAI in operating model (peer-reviewed conference, proceedings, non-profit academic governance) and in targeting the broad AI research community.
• Conference on Learning Theory (COLT): Annual theoretical-machine-learning research conference organized on a similar academic non-profit model. Directly comparable to AUAI in operating model (annual peer-reviewed conference, proceedings) and partially overlapping research audience on probabilistic and statistical learning.
• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): Non-profit scientific society that organizes the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence — historically the largest general-AI research conference. Directly comparable to AUAI as a membership-driven non-profit AI association running a flagship AI conference and proceedings.

Others

• Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR): Open-access proceedings publisher for top ML conferences (including UAI since 2020). Comparable to AUAI as an adjacent ecosystem participant providing the publishing infrastructure UAI uses; not a competing conference but a direct operational partner.

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