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[SIPTA] CfP: ISIPTA '15, 20-24 July 2015, Pescara, Italy

by Serena Doria

*ISIPTA '15 CALL FOR PAPERS* 9th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications 20-24 July 2015 Pescara, Italy Website with up-to-date information on all aspects of the conference: http://www.sipta.org/isipta15 Scientific program contact: isipta15(a)easychair.org Local organization contact: isipta15(a)unich.it *Important Dates* 30 Jan - Paper abstracts & preliminary papers due 13 Feb - Review-ready papers due 31 Mar - Conference hotel pre-reservation deadline 08 Apr - Paper notification 17 Apr - Poster-only abstracts due 06 May - Poster-only notification 29 May - Early-bird registration deadline (?350 full; ?200 student) *Scope & Symposium Format* ISIPTA is the primary international forum to present and discuss new results related to imprecise probability. We welcome both theoretical and applied original contributions. In this edition, we especially welcome papers connecting imprecise probabilities with related research in fields such as economics, philosophy, sociology, and engineering. There will be no parallel sessions. Each paper that is accepted is presented both (i) in a plenary session, meant for a short introduction and a sketch of the context and relevance; and (ii) in a poster session, where ample time is given for in-depth explanation and discussion. The poster-only track provides a second, free format presentation option. It is also open for preliminary results, challenges, etc. *New: non-proceedings papers* To adapt to different publication cultures in different fields, we introduce a new option: the non-proceeding papers. Authors may request that their contribution is not published in the proceedings in case this precludes later publication of an expanded journal version. The PC Board will decide on a case-by-case basis. If accepted, a one-page abstract will be published in the proceedings, and the paper must be freely available on-line (e.g., as a working paper). *Already Confirmed Invited Speakers* Massimo Marinacci, AXA-Bocconi Chair in Risk Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy Itzhak Gilboa, Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel & HEC, Paris, France *Special Issue* After the conference, a special issue with a selection of the accepted papers will be published in an expanded version in the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. *Steering Committee* T. Augustin (LMU München, Germany) + PC Board G. de Cooman (Ghent University, Belgium) S. Doria (University G. d'Annunzio, Italy) + Local Organization E. Miranda (University of Oviedo, Spain) + PC Board E. Quaeghebeur (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) + PC Board T. Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) We look forward to your contribution and to seeing you in Pescara!

Oct. 30, 2014

[SIPTA] PhD Scholarship available - Real-time Action Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction - deadline October 31 2014

by Fabio Cuzzolin

Oct. 27, 2014

[SIPTA] CFP: 3rd International Symposium on Learning and Data Sciences (SLDS 2015)

by Gert de Cooman

Oct. 22, 2014

Re: [SIPTA] Statistics

by Michael Beer

Hi Marco & all, thanks, that's very interesting and valuable ! Also, if papers have an application component in engineering, MSSP is particularly interested and open. This is why the EiC asked me to edit this SI recently. They are happy to break the ice and this way lead onto new grounds ! Best wishes Michael > Dear Friends in Imprecise Probability, > > Recently Alessio Benavoli and I have published a paper in Statistics, a journal from Taylor & Francis group; the paper is concerned with using prior near-ignorance in the multivariate exponential family. You can access the paper following this link: http://ipg.idsia.ch/publications.php#benavoli2014b. > > Apart from a certain pride and self-promotion, the other reason why I am writing this email to the list is to advertise the name of the journal to our community. > > As some of you will be aware, publishing an imprecise probability paper in a traditionally oriented statistical journal can be horribly tough; this is the case even if we use the traditional statistical language and take all the possible care to prevent criticism. I am thinking in particular of the papers that have the potential to affect the statistical practice rather than the purely theoretical papers. So to me it is good news that there exist some statistical journals (at least one) for which we are complete outsiders, that can eventually accept our papers. This is not to say that it will be easy, just possible. In fact in our case it has been quite difficult to convince the skeptical reviewers to make the paper go through. > > If you have had a good experience with some statistical journal of the above type, you could consider sharing such information through this list as well, so as we all can be aware about the possible venues (as opposed to the impossible ones) for our statistical papers. > > All the best wishes, > Marco > _______________________________________________ > SIPTA mailing list > SIPTA(a)idsia.ch > http://mailman2.ti-edu.ch/mailman/listinfo/sipta

Oct. 8, 2014

[SIPTA] Statistics

by Marco Zaffalon

Dear Friends in Imprecise Probability, Recently Alessio Benavoli and I have published a paper in Statistics, a journal from Taylor & Francis group; the paper is concerned with using prior near-ignorance in the multivariate exponential family. You can access the paper following this link: http://ipg.idsia.ch/publications.php#benavoli2014b. Apart from a certain pride and self-promotion, the other reason why I am writing this email to the list is to advertise the name of the journal to our community. As some of you will be aware, publishing an imprecise probability paper in a traditionally oriented statistical journal can be horribly tough; this is the case even if we use the traditional statistical language and take all the possible care to prevent criticism. I am thinking in particular of the papers that have the potential to affect the statistical practice rather than the purely theoretical papers. So to me it is good news that there exist some statistical journals (at least one) for which we are complete outsiders, that can eventually accept our papers. This is not to say that it will be easy, just possible. In fact in our case it has been quite difficult to convince the skeptical reviewers to make the paper go through. If you have had a good experience with some statistical journal of the above type, you could consider sharing such information through this list as well, so as we all can be aware about the possible venues (as opposed to the impossible ones) for our statistical papers. All the best wishes, Marco

Oct. 8, 2014

[SIPTA] Open positions in Queen's University Belfast

by Cassio P. de Campos

Dear all, There are some open positions here at Queen's University Belfast. Usually these positions are either permanent (with initial probation) or are tracks to become permanent. The links follow below. While I note that I am not part of the hiring committee, if anyone wants further information, just drop me a message and I will be glad to help. Best regards, cassio. - http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/QUBJobVacancies/FeaturedJobs/QueensUniversityRes… This first link doesn't mention statistics, computer science, data sciences, but I know that a person in such field will be considered as long as their work can have applications to one of those listed areas. - http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJP691/lecturer-senior-lecturer-reader/ - http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJP290/doctoral-fellow/

Oct. 6, 2014

[SIPTA] LATA 2015: extended submission deadline 16 October

by GRLMC

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: October 16 ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************************************** 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2015 Nice, France March 2-6, 2015 Organized by: CNRS, I3S, UMR 7271 Nice Sophia Antipolis University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/ **************************************************************************************** AIMS: LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2015 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas. VENUE: LATA 2015 will take place in Nice, the second largest French city on the Mediterranean coast. The venue will be the University Castle at Parc Valrose. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: algebraic language theory algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata networks automata, concurrency and Petri nets automatic structures cellular automata codes combinatorics on words computational complexity data and image compression descriptional complexity digital libraries and document engineering foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML fuzzy and rough languages grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) grammatical inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series string and combinatorial issues in bioinformatics string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata unconventional models of computation weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2015 will consist of: invited talks peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Paola Inverardi (L’Aquila), Synthesis of Protocol Adapters Johann A. Makowsky (Technion, Haifa), Hankel Matrices for Graph Parameters and Graph Grammars Giancarlo Mauri (Milano Bicocca), Complexity Classes for Membrane Systems Andreas Podelski (Freiburg), Automated Program Verification Antonio Restivo (Palermo), The Shuffle Product: New Research Directions PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Andrew Adamatzky (West of England, Bristol, UK) Andris Ambainis (Latvia, Riga, LV) Franz Baader (Dresden Tech, DE) Rajesh Bhatt (Massachusetts, Amherst, US) José-Manuel Colom (Zaragoza, ES) Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux, FR) Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, HU) Aldo de Luca (Naples Federico II, IT) Susanna Donatelli (Turin, IT) Paola Flocchini (Ottawa, CA) Enrico Formenti (Nice, FR) Tero Harju (Turku, FI) Monika Heiner (Brandenburg Tech, Cottbus, DE) Yiguang Hong (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP) Sanjay Jain (National Singapore, SG) Maciej Koutny (Newcastle, UK) Antonín Kučera (Masaryk, Brno, CZ) Thierry Lecroq (Rouen, FR) Salvador Lucas (Valencia Tech, ES) Veli Mäkinen (Helsinki, FI) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, ES, chair) Filippo Mignosi (L’Aquila, IT) Victor Mitrana (Madrid Tech, ES) Ilan Newman (Haifa, IL) Joachim Niehren (INRIA, Lille, FR) Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE) Arlindo Oliveira (Lisbon, PT) Joël Ouaknine (Oxford, UK) Wojciech Penczek (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL) Dominique Perrin (ESIEE, Paris, FR) Alberto Policriti (Udine, IT) Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (Connecticut, Storrs, US) Jörg Rothe (Düsseldorf, DE) Frank Ruskey (Victoria, CA) Helmut Seidl (Munich Tech, DE) Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku, Sendai, JP) Bernhard Steffen (Dortmund, DE) Frank Stephan (National Singapore, SG) Paul Tarau (North Texas, Denton, US) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL) Jacobo Torán (Ulm, DE) Frits Vaandrager (Nijmegen, NL) Jaco van de Pol (Twente, Enschede, NL) Pierre Wolper (Liège, BE) Zhilin Wu (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN) Slawomir Zadrozny (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL) Hans Zantema (Eindhoven Tech, NL) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Sébastien Autran (Nice) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Enrico Formenti (Nice, co-chair) Sandrine Julia (Nice) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Christophe Papazian (Nice) Julien Provillard (Nice) Pierre-Alain Scribot (Nice) Bianca Truthe (Giessen) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2015 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of the Journal of Computer and System Sciences (Elsevier, 2013 JCR impact factor: 1.0) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from July 21, 2014 to March 2, 2015. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: October 16, 2014 (23:59 CET) – EXTENDED – Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 25, 2014 Early registration: November 25, 2014 Late registration: February 16, 2015 Submission to the journal special issue: June 6, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 2015 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Nice Sophia Antipolis University Rovira i Virgili University --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com

Oct. 5, 2014