February 2016 - SIPTA News - lists.sipta.org

[SIPTA] IEEE SMC'2016: a special satellite conference aimed at students and young professionals

by Kreinovich

Feb. 24, 2016

[SIPTA] FW: annual IEEE SMC Conference on Systems. Man, and Cybernetics, Budapest, Hungary, October 9-12, 2016

by Kreinovich

Feb. 18, 2016

[SIPTA] Kurt Weichselberger

by Thomas Augustin

Feb. 17, 2016

[SIPTA] 7th SIPTA Summer School on Imprecise Probability - 29 Aug-2 Sep 2016

by Matthias Troffaes

[All our apologies for cross-posting.] Seventh school of the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA), Aug 29 - Sep 2, 2016, Durham, UK. Pre-registration deadline: Friday 8 April 2016 http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/siptass16/registration.h… Are you interested in modelling severe uncertainty in your applications? Are you worried about the impact of the choice of prior in your Bayesian analysis? Are you interested in prior-data conflict and/or missing data? Do you want to learn how imprecise probability can help you making robust decisions under uncertainty? Then the SIPTA summer school is for you! The Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA) organizes the 7th edition of its school in Durham, UK, during Aug 29 - Sep 2 2016. The school will be held at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, close to the city centre of Durham. The aim of the SIPTA schools is to introduce interested students and researchers to the basics of imprecise probability topics, both theoretical and applied. Some of the best specialists in different aspects of imprecise probabilities lecture, during one week, on the main concepts and techniques in their area of expertise, in a friendly environment favouring interactions between participants. The topics covered this year will provide a general introduction to the latest developments in imprecise probability theory. There will also be a focus on applications of imprecise probabilities in risk analysis in engineering and environmental systems. Students will learn how to deal with situations where information is scarce, vague, or conflicting, and when a unique probability distribution may be hard to identify, from mathematical modelling to statistical inference and practical decision making. A basic understanding of probability and calculus are required (first year university level). A knowledge of Bayesian statistics is an advantage but is not required. Further information concerning registration, as well as a detailed programme, can be found on the website: http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/siptass16/index.html We are looking forward to meeting you in Durham. We also encourage you to circulate this announcement in your networks. Best regards, The organizing committee Matthias Troffaes Frank Coolen Gert de Cooman Olivier Strauss Andrea Wiencierz

Feb. 17, 2016

Re: [SIPTA] [SMPS 2016] - Extended Deadline

by Kreinovich

FYI -----Original Message----- From: SMPS 2016 [please distribute - apologies for multiple postings] THE DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 29, 2016 =========================================================== SMPS 2016 8th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics September 12 - 14, 2016 Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy http://www.sbai.uniroma1.it/smps2016 =========================================================== VENUE =========================================================== SMPS 2016 will be held in Rome, Italy. The conference venue will be San Pietro in Vincoli (Via Eudossiana, 18), in the historic center of Rome, directly overlooking the Coliseum and next to the ancient Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli, home to Michelangelo’s statue of Moses. =========================================================== SCOPE and TOPICS =========================================================== The scope of SMPS 2016 is to bring together experts working on and with Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics. SMPS 2016 invites submissions of papers dealing with a variety of topics in soft methods in probability and statistics, which include, but are not limited to: - Analysis of Censored Data - Analysis of Fuzzy Data - Random Sets - Fuzzy Random Variables - Fuzzy Regression Methods - Triangular Norms and Copulas - Imprecise Probabilities - Dempster-Shafer Theory - Robust Methods - Clustering and Classification - Graphical Models - Machine Learning - Heuristic Optimization - Soft Computing and Statistics - Statistical Software for Imprecise Data - Applications in Biology, Economics etc. =========================================================== PROCEEDINGS =========================================================== Papers accepted for presentation will be published in an edited volume of the series Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing from Springer-Verlag. Full papers of 5-8 pages written in English and fulfilling the instructions for authors should be submitted not later than February 29, 2016, camera-ready versions of the accepted papers not later than April 30, 2016 (tentative). For accepted contributions to be included in the sessions and proceedings of the conference, the payment of the conference fees should be made not later than May 20, 2016. After the Conference there will be a SPECIAL ISSUE of International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) dedicated to SMPS 2016. For this, all the selected papers will have to pass a regular review process. =========================================================== PLENARY SPEAKERS =========================================================== Ana Colubi (University of Oviedo, Spain) Thierry Denoeux (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Massimo Marinacci (Bocconi University, Italy) =========================================================== IMPORTANT DATES =========================================================== Paper submission deadline: February 29, 2016 Notification of paper acceptance: April 10, 2016 Revised paper due: April 30, 2016 Early registration deadline: May 20, 2016 =========================================================== ORGANIZATION =========================================================== General Chairs: - Maria Brigida Ferraro (Rome, Italy) - Paolo Giordani (Rome, Italy) - Barbara Vantaggi (Rome, Italy) Executive Board: - María Ángeles Gil (Oviedo, Spain) - Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski (Warsaw, Poland) - Olgierd Hryniewicz (Warsaw, Poland) Best regards, Maria Brigida Ferraro, Paolo Giordani, Barbara Vantaggi SMPS 2016 Chairs – Sapienza University of Rome =========================================================== http://www.sbai.uniroma1.it/smps2016 ===========================================================

Feb. 12, 2016

[SIPTA] FW: EUROMECH Conference on Multi-uncertainty and Multi-scale Methods and Applications

by Kreinovich

Feb. 11, 2016

[SIPTA] RuleML 2016 track: Rule- and Ontology-Based Data Access and Transformation

by Martin Giese

*Apologies for cross-postings* ------------------------------ RuleML 2016 Wednesday, 6 July – Saturday, 9 July, 2016, Stony Brook University, New York, USA http://2016.ruleml.org/ *** CALL FOR SPECIAL TRACK PAPERS: *** *** Rule- and Ontology-Based Data Access and Transformation *** http://2016.ruleml.org/calls/rule--and-ontology-based-data-access-and-trans… ------------------------- Ontologies and rule systems, isolated and in combination, have established themselves as viable approaches to a number of pressing IT problems: giving both humans and client software (e.g. data analysis) intuitive, domain-oriented, uniform access to data; integrating multiple data sets with heterogeneous schemas; migrating data from legacy systems, etc. This track solicits contributions on theoretical and practical aspects of rule- and ontology-based data access and transformation. TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to: * Logics and rule languages of particular interest to data access or transformation * Tractability and intractability results for rule- and ontology-based systems in the presence of large amounts of data * Interactions between rules and ontologies in the presence of large amounts of data * Rule- and ontology-based data integration * Rules & reasoning for Linked Data * Rule and ontology-driven user interfaces * Implementations of rule- and ontology-based data access and transformation systems systems * Reports on applications and lessons learnt IMPORTANT DATES: * Abstract submission: March 11, 2016 * Paper submission: March 18, 2016 * Author notification: May 4, 2016 * Camera ready: May 18, 2016 * Conference:: 6-9 July, 2016

Feb. 11, 2016

Re: [SIPTA] FW: World Conference on Soft Computing: deadline extended

by Kreinovich

Feb. 2, 2016