August 2022 - SIPTA News - lists.sipta.org

congratulations to Michael Beer and possibility to join European Safety and Reliability Association

by Kreinovich, Vladik

Dear Colleagues, Our colleague Michael Beer from Germany - whose research is in uncertainty, including imprecise probabilities -- has just been elected Chair of the European Safety and Reliability Association ESRA https://esrahomepage.eu/ He will be the association chair for 2 years, with the possibility to be reelected for one more 2-year term. Congratulations to Michael! This organization sponsors annual conferences ESREL'XX. While this association is officially called European, it has been, in effect, a world-wide association, its conferences attract people from all over the world, and Michael - who has a lot of international contacts and collaborations - plans to actively continue enhancing the international status of his organization. The association accepts international institutions as members, the cost is only 115 Euros per year, and it brings discounts and other advantages -- see Michael's email below. Please contact Michael if your organization is interested in joining. I am sending him a copy of this message. From: Michael Beer [mailto:beer@irz.uni-hannover.de] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 12:02 AM my appointment is for the next 2y term and can be extended by another 2 years. I will use this position to interconnect communities in the field globally and to tie in more leading experts from the field worldwide. ESRA is accepting membership from international institutions. The membership is for the entire institution. The annual membership fee is only 115 Euros. In return, participants of the ESREL conferences from the member institution get a discount of usually 100 Euros on fees. That is, when 2+ participants from the institution attend, it already pays off. If 5 participants come, it counts down 500 Euros, which is about one free ticket. Furthermore, membership would involve you in the developments and give you a nice exposure in the community. Michael

Aug. 31, 2022

Fall 2022 topics course: Imprecise-Probabilistic Foundations of Statistics & Data Science

by Ryan Martin

Dear SIPTA community, This coming Fall 2022 semester (starting August 23rd), I'll be teaching an advanced special topics course for Statistics PhD students at North Carolina State University entitled "Imprecise-Probabilistic Foundations of Statistics & Data Science". It's a typical, in-person lecture course, but the lectures will be recorded and made publicly available so, in principle, anyone who is interested can -- and is welcome to -- follow along or even participate in a non-credit-earning capacity. The course website, with some information about what I plan to do, is here https://wordpress-courses2223.wolfware.ncsu.edu/st-790-001-fall-2022/ This is where the lecture videos and other relevant materials will be posted. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions. Sincerely, Ryan Martin Professor Department of Statistics North Carolina State University Email: rgmarti3(a)ncsu.edu Web: https://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~rmartin

Aug. 11, 2022

DA2PL 2022 - 2nd call for papers

by Sébastien Destercke

*** please disseminate this information to possibly interested persons *** ===========C A L L F O R P A P E R S============ DA2PL 2022: From Multiple Criteria Decision Aid to Preference Learning Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France November 17-18, 2022 https://da2pl.pre.utc.fr/ ======== AIM ======== DA2PL 2022 (From Multiple Criteria Decision Aid to Preference Learning) aims to bring together researchers from decision analysis and machine learning. It provides a forum for discussing recent advances and identifying new research challenges in the intersection of both fields, thereby supporting a cross-fertilisation of these disciplines. Following the five previous editions of this workshop, which took place in Mons in 2012, Paris in 2014, Paderborn in 2016, Poznan in 2018, and Trento (virtually) in 2020, DA2PL 2022 will be held at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France, the 17 and 18 november. =================== Keynote SPEAKERS =================== We are delighted to announce that the following persons have accepted to give a keynote speech at the conference: * Denis Bouyssou, Université Paris Dauphine, LAMSADE * Nicolas Usunier, Facebook AI research * Thomas Augustin, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich =================== AMAI special issue =================== We are also happy to announce that, in partnership with the journal "Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence", we will propose to authors of selected papers to submit an extended version of their submission to an AMAI special issue focusing on recent advances of preference handling. ================= Important dates ================= May 1st: submissions open September 15th: paper submission deadline (extended and final) October 10th: author notification November 3rd: Camera-ready version of papers November 17-18: Conference ======================== DA2PL 2022 vs COVID-19 ======================== We expect DA2PL to be mainly a physical event. We will provide a virtual option for participants wishing to be there remotely, but will request at least one full registration per submitted paper. ======== TOPICS ======== DA2PL 2022 solicits contributions to the usage of theoretically supported preference models and formalisms in preference learning as well as communications devoted to innovative preference learning methods in decision analysis and multicriteria decision aiding. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - quantitative and qualitative approaches to modelling preferences, user feedback and training data; - preference representation in terms of graphical models, logical formalisms, and soft constraints; - dealing with incomplete and uncertain preferences; - preference aggregation and disaggregation; - learning utility functions using regression-based approaches; - preference elicitation and active learning; - preference learning in combinatorial domains; - learning relational preference models and related regression problems; - classification problems, such as ordinal and hierarchical classification; - inducing monotonic decision models for preference representation; - comparison of different preference learning paradigms (e.g., monolithic vs. decomposition); - ranking problems, such as object ranking, instance ranking and label ranking; - complementarity of preference models and hybrid methods; - explanation of recommendations; - applications of preference learning, such as web search, information retrieval, electronic commerce, games, personalization, recommender systems, … ============= Submissions ============= Submissions must be written in English and formatted according to the electronic template that is available at https://da2pl.pre.utc.fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/70/2022/03/DA2PL22_templa… The page limit is 8 for full papers, although extended abstracts (maximum two pages) are welcome, too. As usual for DA2PL, submissions are NOT anonymous. According to the template, names of authors should be stated in the manuscript. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees. Submissions must be submitted through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=da2pl Following a successful experience from the latest editions, DA2PL will provide a special opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests. A special session at the conference will be devoted to PhD students, for presenting and discussing their ongoing research work. Therefore, we specifically encourage young researchers to submit their work (as full paper or extended abstract, depending on the maturity of the PhD project); the submission site will provide the option to mark a submission as a student paper. =========================== Organization and contacts =========================== General chairs Khaled Belahcene, Université de Technologie de Compiègne (khaled.belahcene(a)hds.utc.fr) Sébastien Destercke, Université de Technologie de Compiègne (sebastien.destercke(a)utc.fr)

Aug. 4, 2022

Call for online participation: "Reasoning and uncertainty: probabilistic, logical, and psychological perspectives" (Aug. 9-10, 2022)

by Niki Pfeifer

The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to bring together philosophers, probability theorists, logicians, artificial intelligence researchers, and psychologists to discuss selected problems in the broad domains of reasoning and uncertainty, including inferences about conditionals, inconsistency, and coherence, how to argue and make decisions rationally, and how to represent and manage uncertainty and incomplete knowledge. We also aim to discuss philosophical foundations and methodological questions concerning reasoning research. For example, whether and how combining conceptual, formal (like (non-classical) logic, (coherence-based) probability logic, artificial intelligence models), and empirical research methods may cross-fertilise reasoning research on normative and descriptive dimensions. Workshop website: https://go.ur.de/reasunc2022 Speakers Andrea Capotorti (University of Perugia, Italy) Nicole Cruz (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Chris Fermüller (TU Wien, Austria) Sabine Frittella (INSA Centre Val de Loire, France) Angelo Gilio (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Anthony Hunter (University College London, UK) Gianluigi Oliveri (University of Palermo, Italy) David Over (Durham University, UK) Romina Schmid (University of Regensburg, Germany) Leon Schöppl (University of Regensburg, Germany) Bart Verheij (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Organizers: Niki Pfeifer (University of Regensburg, Germany) Hans Rott (University of Regensburg, Germany) Giuseppe Sanfilippo (University of Palermo, Italy) The workshop will be held in presence. Because of COVID-19 restrictions, we offer the possibility for online participation. Please register (for free) here: https://forms.gle/B1iEiA8JGK8Y5v8M6 The Zoomlink for online participation will be sent to registered participants shortly before the workshop starts. --- Dr. Dr. Niki Pfeifer | Department of Philosophy, University of Regensburg | https://go.ur.de/np ---

Aug. 2, 2022