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[SIPTA] Fwd: Calls - Bayes by the Sea

by Serena Doria

*Call for Papers: Bayes By the Sea: “Formal Epistemology, Statistics, and Game Theory”, Ancona, The Marche –Italy, 30-31 August 2019. * Recent proposals for scientific reform highlight the need to develop an integrated approach towards scientific methodology, which accounts for the interaction of foundational, pragmatic, and strategic dimensions of evidence evaluation. The second edition of the Bayes By the Sea conference: “Formal Epistemology, Statistics, and Game Theory” aims to bring together philosophers of statistics and of the scientific method, methodologists and metascientists, as well as economists and game-theorists, in order to refresh the debate on the foundations of the sciences from new perspectives, with a special focus on scientific rationality, scientific misconduct, science economics, foundations of statistics and the scientific method, in diverse scientific ecosystems characterized by distinctive practices, structures, and institutions. A special attention will be devoted this year also to formal/conceptual tools of game theory/rational choice theory in representing and studying the interactions of agents operating in scientific ecosystems as strategic behavior of rational players, whose repeated interactions shape the current scientific practices. *Keynote Speakers:* *Peter Brössel (Bochum)* *Clelia Di Serio (Milan)* *Andrés Pereas (Maastricht)* *Jan Sprenger (Turin)* We welcome contributions from:* (Formal/Social) Epistemology, Philosophy and Foundations of Statistics, Metascience and Scientific Methodology, (Epistemic) Game Theory, Decision Theory, Science Economics, Law, and Ethics.* *Deadline for Paper/Poster Submission: 2nd July 2019.* Please submit a short abstract (max 500 words) via Easychair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bbs2>. Organisers: Stefano Bonzio (Univpm Ancona) William Peden (Univpm Ancona; Durham) Barbara Osimani (Univpm Ancona; LMU) Mantas Radzvilas (MCMP/LMU Munich) Todd Stambaugh (MCMP/LMU Munich; CUNY) Contact: *s.oreficini(a)staff.univpm.it <s.oreficini(a)staff.univpm.it>* The conference will be embedded in the *BBS Summer School (25 August – 1st September)* and school participants will also actively attend to the conference. We greatly enjoyed our conference last year (*2018 Edition*) and we look forward to a similar success this year! *Summer School: Bayes By the Sea: “Formal Epistemology, Statistics, and Game Theory: The Summer School!”, Ancona, The Marche –Italy, 25 August -1 September 2019. * The School aims to bring together international experts in such fields as philosophy of statistics, philosophy of science, game theory and social epistemology in order to address foundational questions in the sciences from new perspectives, with a special focus on formal models of social interactions and scientific inference. In particular, students will attend to both theoretical lectures held by distinguished scholars in the fields and classes offering tutorials on formal methods and tools, as well as extensive overviews on the school related topics. Each of the school threads will be covered by interactive group work, excercises and one-to-one sessions, which will provide attendees with the opportunity to deepen their proficiency in a particular topic of interest. In-depth *lectures* will be given on: *Bayesian Philosophy of Science, Foundations of Statistics, Bayesian Statistics, Social Epistemology, Epistemic Game Theory, and Game-Theoretic Probability.* *Lecturers:* *Peter Brössel (Bochum)* *Philip Dawid (Cambridge)* *Anna-Maria Asunta Eder (Cologne)* *Stephan Hartmann (Munich)* *Andrés Perea (Maastricht)* *Jan Sprenger (Turin)* Three distinct tutorials will be given by expert scholars, in order to offer students introductory overviews and hands-on classes on the topics, which they feel less familiar. - *Introduction to Imprecise Probability* (Serena Doria) - *Introduction to Bayesian Epistemology* (William Peden) - *Introduction to Game Theory* (Mantas Radzvilas) - *R for Bayesian Statistics* (Momme von Sydow). Tuition Fees (100 Euros) will include breakfast and lunch breaks, social activities, as well as participation to the *Bayes By the Sea Conference* (30-31 August), to which Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract for a contributing paper/poster. *Deadline for application: 2nd of July 2019*, APPLY HERE <https://www.bayesbytheseaschool.com/application> A rich calendar of *social activities* will complement the fun! Organisers: Stefano Bonzio (Univpm Ancona) William Peden (Univpm Ancona; Durham) Barbara Osimani (Univpm Ancona; LMU) Mantas Radzvilas (MCMP/LMU Munich) Todd Stambaugh (MCMP/LMU Munich; CUNY) Contact: *s.oreficini(a)staff.univpm.it <s.oreficini(a)staff.univpm.it>* ----- Fine messaggio inoltrato. -----

June 26, 2019

[SIPTA] DeepLearn 2019: regular registration July 19

by IRDTA

June 26, 2019

Re: [SIPTA] The 4th international conference on Intelligent Decision Science (IDS-2020)

by Kreinovich

June 24, 2019

[SIPTA] Fw: SUM 2019 -- Last Call for Papers!

by Kreinovich

FYI ________________________________________ From: Martin THEOBALD <martin.theobald(a)uni.lu> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2019 3:44 AM SUM 2019: the 13th international conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The thirteenth international conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2019) will be held in Compiègne (France), on December 16-18, 2019. The SUM conferences are annual events which gather researchers interested in dealing with imperfect information, in a wide range of fields such as artificial intelligence, databases, information retrieval, machine learning, and risk analysis, with the aim of fostering collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas from different communities. An originality of the SUM conferences is the care for dedicating a large part of their programs to tutorials covering a wide range of topics related to uncertainty management. Each tutorial provides a 45-minute survey of one of the research areas in the scope of the conference. Topics of interest: The scope of the conference covers a wide range of topics related to the management of large amounts of information, in particular information of a complex kind, uncertain, incomplete, or inconsistent. We are particularly interested in papers that focus on bridging gaps, for instance between different communities, between numerical and symbolic approaches, or between theory and practice. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Imperfect information in artificial intelligence * - Statistical relational learning, graphical models, probabilistic inference - Argumentation, defeasible reasoning, belief revision - Weighted logics for managing uncertainty - Reasoning with imprecise probability, Dempster-Shafer theory, possibility theory - Approximate reasoning, similarity-based reasoning, analogical reasoning - Planning under uncertainty, reasoning about actions, spatial and temporal reasoning - Incomplete preference specifications - Imperfect information in databases * Methods for modeling, indexing, and querying uncertain databases * - Top-k queries, skyline query processing, and ranking - Approximate, fuzzy query processing - Uncertainty in data integration and exchange - Uncertainty and imprecision in geographic information systems - Probabilistic databases and possibilistic databases - Data provenance and trust - Data summarization - Imperfect information in information retrieval and semantic web applications * Approximate schema and ontology matching * - Uncertainty in description logics and logic programming - Learning to rank, personalization, and user preferences - Probabilistic language models - Combining vector-space models with symbolic representations - Inductive reasoning for the semantic web * Risk analysis * - Aleatory vs. epistemic uncertainty - Uncertainty elicitation methods - Uncertainty propagation methods - Decision analysis methods - Tools for synthesizing results Invited keynotes: -Cassio P. de Campos (Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands): "Scalable reliable machine learning using sum-product networks" - Jérôme Lang (Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France): "Computational social choice (provisional title)" - Wolfgang Gatterbauer (Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA): "Algebraic approximations of the Probability of Boolean Functions (provisional title)" Important dates: - June 30th, 2019: submission deadline - Sept. 8th, 2019: notification of acceptance - Sept. 22nd, 2019: camera-ready copies - Dec. 16-18, 2019: conference Submission guidelines and proceedings: SUM 2019 solicits papers in the following three categories: - Long papers: technical papers reporting original research or survey papers - Short papers: papers reporting promising work-in-progress, system descriptions, position papers on controversial issues, or survey papers providing a synthesis of current research trends - Extended abstracts of recently published work in a relevant journal or top-tier conference Regular research papers should be at most 14 pages (including references, figures, and tables). Short papers should be between 4 and 7 pages. Extended abstracts should be at most 2 pages and must reference the originally published work. Accepted long and short papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Authors of an accepted long or short paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and one author is expected to give a presentation at the conference. Authors of accepted abstracts will be expected to present their work during the conference, but the extended abstracts will not be published in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings (they will be made available in a separate booklet). All submissions will be processed using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sum2019 Submissions must be formatted according to Springer's guidelines for LNCS authors, which can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Papers not respecting the formatting instructions or page limits may be rejected without review. Except for extended abstracts, submissions must be unpublished and must not be under submission elsewhere. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Organization committee: Yonatan Carlos Carranza Alarcon, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Sébastien Destercke, CNRS, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Marie-Hélène Masson, Université de Picardie Jules-Verne, France Benjamin Quost, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France (conference chair) David Savourey, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Program committee chairs: Nahla Ben Amor, Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis, Tunisia Martin Theobald, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Steering committee: Didier Dubois, IRIT-CNRS, France Lluis Godo, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Eyke Hüllermeier, Universität Paderborn, Germany Anthony Hunter, University College London, UK Henri Prade, IRIT-CNRS, France Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University, UK V. S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA

June 22, 2019

[SIPTA] Fw: The 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Xiamen, Dec. 6-9, 2019

by Kreinovich

June 22, 2019

[SIPTA] SLSP 2019: call for posters

by IRDTA

June 19, 2019

Re: [SIPTA] REC2020

by Kreinovich

June 8, 2019

[SIPTA] DeepLearn 2019: early registration June 22

by IRDTA

June 4, 2019

Re: [SIPTA] Extention of deadline submission of AICI 2020 !

by Kreinovich

June 1, 2019