May 2017 - SIPTA News - lists.sipta.org

[SIPTA] IP question on math.stackexchange

by Abrams

May 29, 2017

[SIPTA] Positions (2 PhD + 1 post-doctoral) at Compiègne University, France

by Sébastien Destercke

Dear all, The Heudiasyc Laboratory is looking for motivated candidates on different positions (2 PhD + 1 post-doctoral) with funded scholarships, all concerning the handling of severe uncertainties and all starting around september/october 2017: 1. PhD position on machine learning with structured outputs: "Learning and predicting graphs from limited information". Details in: https://www.hds.utc.fr/~sdesterc/dokuwiki/_media/thesis_graphs.pdf 2. PhD position on inverse problems, with focus on non-linear mechanical models: "Solving the inverse problem under severe uncertainty and with multiple information sources" Details in: https://www.hds.utc.fr/~sdesterc/dokuwiki/_media/thesis_meca.pdf 3. Post-doctoral position on designing reliable systems: "Designing safe systems under severe uncertainties" Details in: https://www.hds.utc.fr/~sdesterc/dokuwiki/_media/postdoc_reliability.pdf If interested, you can contact me by mail. Best regards Sebastien Destercke P.S.: please distribute this announcement to potentially interested and interesting candidates. -- ==================================== Sebastien Destercke, Ph. D. CNRS researcher in computer science. Université de Technologie de Compiegne U.M.R. C.N.R.S. 7253 Heudiasyc Avenue de Landshut F-60205 Compiegne Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 44 23 79 85 Fax: +33 (0)3 44 23 44 77 ====================================

May 10, 2017

[SIPTA] Belief scool, Xi'an, China - July 4-9, 2017

by Arnaud Martin

Dear Colleagues, The 4th summer school on belief functions and their applications will be held in Xi'an, China, during July 4-9, 2017. http://belief2017.nwpu.edu.cn/ BFAS board decides to give 12 student grants in the form of free registration. The deadline for the application has been extended to June 1st, 2017. We encourage the Master students and PhD students, who have done the good research work in the area of belief functions and the applications, to apply this grant. For this application, we need: - The student CV - A letter of motivation - An advisor support with the indication whether or not the student can fund his trip without this help Please send the required elements of application to the email of BFAS: bfas(a)bfasociety.org -- ======================================== Pr. Arnaud MARTIN Université de Rennes 1 / IUT de Lannion UMR 6074 IRISA Rue Edouard Branly BP 30219 22302 Lannion cedex, France Phone: +(33)2.96.46.94.60 ========================================

May 8, 2017

[SIPTA] A talk on IP (of interest for those in the Milan area)

by hykel hosni

The Centre for the Study of Social Action (CSSA) Seminars will host a talk by Gregory Wheeler (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) on *Mispriced gambles: What peers learn when they disagree* (Abstract below) All welcome! DATE: Tuesday 9th May at 2:30 PM PLACE: Aula Paci, Department of Philosophy, University of Milan, (via Festa del Perdono 7, 20122, Milano) For more information, please visit our website: http://www.cssa.unimi.it/ ABSTRACT: One criticism to the theory of imprecise probabilities (IP) is that there is no compelling example which mandates choosing an imprecise probability model over a precise probability one, but instead the appeal of the theory rests on intuitions about "Knighten" uncertainty that are inconclusive. This talk answers this criticism with a problem from the peer disagreement literature. The Preservation of Irrelevant Evidence (PIE) Principle maintains that a resolution strategy to peer disagreements should be able to preserve unanimous judgments of evidential irrelevance among the peers. It is well-known that no standard Bayesian resolution strategy satisfies the PIE Principle, and some -- such as Carl Wagner -- have argued so much the worse for PIE. In this paper we respond by giving a loss aversion argument in support of PIE and against Bayes. The upshot is that, given the choice between IP and Bayes, if you want PIE, you must renounce Bayes and choose IP. -- Hykel Hosni Associate Professor of Logic, Department of Philosophy University of Milan http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/~hosni/ Editor of The Reasoner http://thereasoner.org/ Secretary of the Italian Association for Logic and Applications http://www.ailalogica.it

May 2, 2017

[SIPTA] [ISIPTA ’17 & ECSQARU 2017] Call for participation - Lugano (Switzerland) July 10-14, 2017

by Alessandro Antonucci

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION http://isipta.idsia.ch http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch [THE EVENT] The Tenth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA ’17) and Fourteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2017) will be held jointly in Lugano (Switzerland), on July 10-14, 2017. Both the ISIPTA symposia and the ECSQARU conferences are biennial events to discuss theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty. While ISIPTA is especially focused on the field of imprecise probabilities, the scope of ECSQARU covers more generic qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms. The co location of the two events is intended to favor cross-fertilization among researches active in both communities. [ACCEPTED PAPERS] The list of accepted papers is already available: http://isipta.idsia.ch/accepted-papers-isipta (ISIPTA) http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch/accepted-papers-ecsqaru (ECSQARU) All the papers will be presented during oral sessions. [INVITED TALKS] Besides the technical sessions, the following invited talks will be presented: - “Evaluation methods of arguments: current trends and challenges” by Leila Amgoud - “Bayes+Hilbert=quantum mechanics” by Alessio Benavoli - “Encounters with imprecise probabilities” by Jim Berger - “Symbolic and quantitative representations of uncertainty: an overview” by Didier Dubois - “Learning from imprecise data” by Eyke Hüllermeier [LUGANO] Lugano is the largest city in the Italian speaking canton of Ticino which shares borders with Italy. It is one of the popular tourist destinations of Switzerland. Both Lake Lugano and the surrounding mountains provide an excellent view and a wide variety of outdoor activities. Lugano is also home to a number of historic buildings and museums. More information available here: http://www.luganoturismo.ch/en [REGISTRATION] The registration page is already active: http://www2.idsia.ch/cms/isipta-ecsqaru/registration/ Please contact Alessandro Antonucci (alessandro(a)idsia.ch) for any additional information. _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch skype: alessandro.antonucci tel: +41 916108515 web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro _________________________________

May 2, 2017