March 2026 - SIPTA News - lists.sipta.org

Reminder: SIPTA virtual talk at 3pm Paris time
by sdesterc March 20, 2026

March 20, 2026

Dear Siptians, This is just a small reminder that Arthur Van Camp will be talking in a bit less than one hour, at the following link: https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/82696376560 See you soon! -- ==================================== 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 ====================================

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SIPTA Summer School
by Eyke Hüllermeier March 20, 2026

March 20, 2026

To SIPTA community and interested researchers, We are pleased to announce that the SIPTA Summer School 2026 will take place in Munich, Germany, from Monday 27 July to Friday 31 July 2026. More information about the summer school, including the tentative program and practical details, is available on the website: https://www.ifi.lmu.de/kiml/en/school26/ Further information on registration, speakers, and additional organisational details will follow very soon. We will share updates both via this mailing list and on the homepage. We look forward to welcoming you in Munich and invite you to contact us at school26(a)sipta.org in case of any questions or suggestions. Best regards, Eyke Hüllermeier (on behalf of the summer school orga team) -- Prof. Dr. Eyke Hüllermeier Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Institute of Informatics University of Munich (LMU) https://www.ifi.lmu.de/kiml/en/

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Next SIPTA seminar the 20th of March: Arthur Van Camp on choice functions to model uncertainty
by sdesterc March 13, 2026

March 13, 2026

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce our upcoming SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP). These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion. They also provide an occasion for the community to meet, keep in touch and exchange between in-person events. The next seminar will take place on the 20th of March (Friday). The zoom link for this seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/82696376560 For this new seminar, we are very happy to have Arthur Van Camp as our speaker. Arthur Van Camp is currently is currently assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Group. His research focuses on cautious uncertainty models, with a particular interest on models using choice functions as their basic building tools. On the 20th of March, at 15:00 Paris time (up to 17:00, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), he will talk about "What is a good notion of independence for choice functions?”. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars. The zoom link for attending the seminar can be found on that same page. So please mark your calendars on the 20th of March, and join us for the occasion. And for those who missed the previous seminar and want to catch up, or simply want to see it again and again, it is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvDkbc0BuJU See you at the seminar! Sébastien, Enrique and Jasper

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[CFP] The 9th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2026)
by David Mercier March 13, 2026

March 13, 2026

********************************************************** The 9th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2026) https://www.bfasociety.org/Belief2026 Dates: October 19-21, 2026 Location: Nanjing, China * April 30, 2026: Paper submission deadline * June 15, 2026: Author notification * June 30, 2026: Camera-ready copy due ********************************************************** The Theory of belief functions, also referred to as Evidence theory or Dempster-Shafer theory is a well-established mathematical framework for reasoning and decision-making with uncertainty, with applications to machine learning, statistical inference, information fusion, knowledge representation, risk analysis, etc. It is an extension of probability theory and it has well understood connections with related frameworks such as random sets and imprecise probabilities. Recently, generalised evidence theory, based on random fuzzy sets, has been proposed as a unifying framework encompassing both Dempster-Shafer and possibility theories. The biennial BELIEF conferences (sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society) are dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory. Previous editions of this conference series were held in Brest, France (2010); Compiègne, France (2012); Oxford, UK (2014); Prague, Czech Republic (2016); Compiègne, France (2018); Shanghai, China (2021); Paris, France (2022), and Belfast, UK (2024). To support cross-fertilization among researchers working in different subfields of AI and related disciplines, tutorials and special sessions will be proposed, with emphasis on the links between machine learning, statistical inference and uncertain reasoning, including topics such as quantification of prediction uncertainty, fusion rules for ensemble learning, belief propagation in deep neural networks, links with explainable and symbolic AI, etc. Submissions of papers combining several of these topics, or more generally at the cross-road of belief functions and other AI methods or uncertainty theories, along with relevant applications, are welcome. Proceedings BELIEF 2026 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series and indexed by: ISI Web of Science; EI Engineering Index; ACM Digital Library; dblp; Google Scholar; IO-Port; MathSciNet; Scopus; Zentralblatt MATH. IJAR Special issue Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2026 conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. BELIEF 2026 Conference co-chairs Prof. Zhigang Su (zhigangsu(a)seu.edu.cn) Southeast University, China Prof. Thierry Denoeux (tdenoeux(a)utc.fr) Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France More information: https://www.bfasociety.org/Belief2026

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IPMU 2026 - Deadline for EUSFLAT Student Grants application
by Davide Petturiti March 6, 2026

March 6, 2026

****** PLEASE APOLOGIZE FOR MULTIPLE COPIES ****** ********************************************************** 21st International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2026) June 15th-19th, 2026, Rome, Italy https://www.sbai.uniroma1.it/conferenze/ipmu2026/ *********************************************************** We inform all interested colleagues that, in agreement with EUSFLAT, the deadline for EUSFLAT Student Grants application has been fixed to *25 March 2026*. We are pleased do recall that: · The EUSFLAT Board offers *5* student grants. *· *Each grant will cover *the early student registration fee.* Eligibility criteria and Application procedure are available here: https://www.sbai.uniroma1.it/conferenze/ipmu2026/student-grants.php Best regards, The IPMU 2026 Organizing Committee -- *Fai crescere le giovani ricercatrici e i giovani ricercatori*** *con il 5 per mille alla Sapienza* Scrivi il codice fiscale dell'Università *80209930587 **Cinque per mille <https://www.uniroma1.it/it/node/23149>*

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