February 2018 - SIPTA News - lists.sipta.org

[SIPTA] Fwd: Opportunity to contribute to IMEKO world congress

by Marco De Angelis

Feb. 20, 2018

[SIPTA] Basic Interval Standard

by Kreinovich

FYI, since interval-valued probabilities are an important case of imprecise probabilities, it may be of interest to imprecise probability folks that IEEE has a standard on interval computations. There is a more detailed standard, but for most applications, the basic standard will be sufficient. -----Original Message----- From: Ralph Baker Kearfott [mailto:rbk5287(a)louisiana.edu] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2018 10:57 AM Basic Interval Standard has been published. Its official name is: "IEEE Std 1788.1-2017 - IEEE Standard for Interval Arithmetic (Simplified)" It will be an active standard for 10 years (after which it may be reaffirmed or revised). A web page for it is: https://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/1788.1-2017.html Baker P.S. Here is the info from the standard webpage: Description: This standard is a simplified version and a subset of the IEEE Std 1788TM-2015 for Interval Arithmetic and includes those operations and features of the latter that in the editors' view are most commonly used in practice. IEEE Std 1788.1-2017 specifies interval arithmetic operations based on intervals whose endpoints are IEEE Std 754TM-2008 binary64 floating-point numbers and a decoration system for exception-free computations and propagation of properties of the computed results. A program built on top of an implementation of IEEE Std 1788.1-2017 should compile and run, and give identical output within round off, using an implementation of IEEE Std 1788-2015, or any superset of the former. Compared to IEEE Std 1788-2015, this standard aims to be minimalistic, yet to cover much of the functionality needed for interval computations. As such, it is more accessible and will be much easier to implement, and thus will speed up production of implementations.

Feb. 18, 2018

[SIPTA] math.stackexchange question about upper transition operator definition

by Abrams

Feb. 16, 2018

[SIPTA] Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM2018)

by Ciucci Davide

Feb. 12, 2018

[SIPTA] Call for papers: SMPS/BELIEF 2018 joint conferences

by Sébastien Destercke

====================================================================== Joint SMPS/BELIEF 2018, 17th-21th September 2018 5th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2018) and 9th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS 2018) Dates: September 17th-21th, 2018 Location: Compiègne, France Submission deadline: March 15th, 2018 Notification: April 30th, 2018 Final version: May 30th, 2018 Further information: https://smpsbelief2018.hds.utc.fr/ ====================================================================== The BELIEF and SMPS conferences are biennial events concerning the modeling of uncertainty. The BELIEF conferences are sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society (BFAS) and are focused on the theory of belief functions, while the scope of SMPS covers the application of all approaches to uncertainty (including fuzzy and rough sets, imprecise probabilities, etc.) to statistics and data analysis. The co-location of the two events is intended to favor cross-fertilization among researchers active in both communities. A single registration will be required to attend the whole event. Submissions and Proceedings ============================ The proceedings of the BELIEF 2018 and SMPS 2018 conferences will appear as separate volumes, both published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS/LNAI format, indexed by ISI Web of Science; EI Engineering Index; ACM Digital Library; dblp; Google Scholar; IO-Port; MathSciNet; Scopus; Zentralblatt MATH. Two types of paper are accepted: - Long papers that should be at most 8 pages long and present original contributions with significant results, or detailed position papers. - Short papers that should be 4 pages long and present for example more preliminary works, innovative applications, short position papers. In addition, we accept abstract-only contributions, that will be presented as posters during the conference. Note that those contributions will not be included in the proceedings. IJAR Special issues ==================== Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2018/ SMPS 2018 conferences will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible inclusion in special issues of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. Invited speakers ================== We are very happy to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give an invited talk at the conference: - Thomas Augustin (Ludwig Maximilians Universität München) - Scott Ferson (University of Liverpool) - Ryan Martin (North Carolina State University) ====================================================================== The Conference co-chairs Thierry Denoeux (https://www.hds.utc.fr/~tdenoeux) and Sébastien Destercke (https://www.hds.utc.fr/~sdesterc) Contact: tdenoeux(a)hds.utc.fr, sebastien.destercke(a)hds.utc.fr We would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested participants of these conferences.

Feb. 1, 2018