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[SIPTA] Re: important terminological observation: the word "subjective" considered harmful

by Kornbrot

Feb. 18, 2021

[SIPTA] Re: important terminological observation: the word "subjective" considered harmful

by Gert De Cooman

Feb. 18, 2021

[SIPTA] Re: important terminological observation: the word "subjective" considered harmful

by Serena Doria

Dear all the term "subjective" for probability was introduced by Bruno de Finetti, and to understand the motivation it is necessary to understand the cultural environment in Italy in that period. In 1934 Luigi Pirandello received the Nobel Prize in Literature and his vision of life and knowledge affirmed that there was no 'single truth' but reality was what the individual subject perceived. And this is also evident from some of the best-known titles of his plays ( Cosi e' se vi pare, Uno nessuno centomila). de Finetti grows in this cultural context but gives to the term "subjective" a value more rigorous and "objective" through the concept of coherent betting. Personally, I do not believe that the term subjective is to be understood in a negative way because it highlights how the knowledge an individual has about a phenomenon depends on the information the subject has. For this reason, in the subjectivist approach to probability, the concept of conditional probability and conditioning events are fundamental to represent respectively partial knowledge and different information that individuals have. Best regards, Serena Doria "Kreinovich, Vladik" <vladik(a)utep.edu> ha scritto: > Dear Friends, > > We often talk and write about objective and subjective > probabilities, about objective and subjective measures of > uncertainty. However, at a recent conference on uncertainty, Yakov > Ben-Haim made an important observation -- based on his experience of > working on applications with colleagues from many different areas. > > His experience is that in many application areas, the word > "subjective" has a negative connotation: it means unjustified > estimates based on gut feeling only, prone to bias and wild > variations. > > Such gut-feeling-based estimations sometimes happen, but mostly, > when we talk about "subjective", we mean judgmental estimates, > estimates which are not just coming out of gut feeling, but which > can be usually provided with some justification. For example, if we > estimate to what extent someone is young (one of Zadeh's original > examples) we can usually explain the degree we assign to "youngness" > of an individual by referring to features which are present and > which are typical young age - and features of this individual which > are more typical for mature-age folks. > > For example, subjective probability often means simply probability > that is not coming from the analysis of frequency, but from expert > estimates. > > Yakov's recommendations is to use words like "judgmental" (or > "expert-based") instead of "subjective" in such situations, > especially when working on applications - and applications are the > main goal of uncertainty studies in the first place. >

Feb. 18, 2021

[SIPTA] important terminological observation: the word "subjective" considered harmful

by Kreinovich

Feb. 17, 2021

[SIPTA] BigDat 2021 Autumn: early registration March 3

by IRDTA

Feb. 14, 2021

[SIPTA] Re: 8th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (ISRERM), Hannover, Germany, 4-7 Sept 2022

by Kreinovich

Feb. 11, 2021

[SIPTA] ISIPTA 2021: Deadline Extension

by Serafin Moral

Feb. 4, 2021

[SIPTA] Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at Flairs 34 - Last Call for Papers (deadline February 16)

by Antonucci Alessandro

*** Apologies for multiple postings *** [UR @ FLAIRS 34] LAST CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the 34th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) May 16-19, 2021 - North Miami Beach, Florida (US) FLAIRS 34 will have a safe physical conference to the extent possible, and provide an option for online presentation for those who cannot attend the physical conference. Paper submission deadline: February 16, 2021 Conference website: http://www.flairs-34.info Special track website: http://idsia.ch/~alessandro/flairs ::: Call for Papers ::: Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote cross fertilisation among the different approaches for uncertain reasoning, and in this way foster the development of new ideas and paradigms. The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR '21 Special Track at the 34th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) is the 26th in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'21 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies - Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief function, vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics - Modelling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities - Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning - Inference and learning with graphical models of uncertainty (e.g., Bayesian networks) - Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making - Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process - Temporal reasoning and uncertainty; non-monotonic reasoning; similarity-based reasoning - Conditional logics, description logic, logic programming - Argumentation - Belief change and merging - Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery - Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment - Uncertain reasoning in data management - Practical applications of uncertain reasoning (e.g., machine learning, computer vision and animation) All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track. ::: Program Committee ::: : Track Chairs : - Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) - Kamal Premaratne (University of Miami, US) : PC Members : Mohand Said Allili (Université du Québec en Outaouais) Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) Ameur Bensefia (Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates) Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada) Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada) Sebastien Destercke (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Lluis Godo (Spanish National Research Council, Spain) Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) Christophe Gonzales (LIS, France) Ilyes Jenhani (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Technology Dortmund, Germany) Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, US) Philippe Leray (University of Nantes, France) Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, US) Jhonatan S. Oliveira (University of Regina, Canada) Rafael Peñaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Lalintha Polpitya (Mathworks, US) Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, US) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) Karima Sedki (University of Paris 13, France) Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) Karim Tabia (Artois University, France) Choh Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, US) Thanuka Wickramarathne (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, US) Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada) ::: Other Information ::: FLAIRS 34 will be held in North Miami Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found here. Feel free to write the organizers (alessandro(a)idsia.ch, kamal(a)miami.edu, benferhat(a)cril.fr) for any further information about the special track. ::: Submission ::: Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by February 16, 2021. For FLAIRS-34, the 2021 conference, the reviewing is a double-blind process. Author names and affiliations must be omitted on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. The papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can also be accessed through the main conference web site. There are two kinds of submissions: full paper (up to 6 pages) to be presented by the author in a 20 minute oral presentation; short paper (up to 4 pages) to be presented in a poster session. Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS-34 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-34.

Feb. 3, 2021

[SIPTA] Virtual conference on epistemic uncertainty

by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ

Feb. 1, 2021