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[SIPTA] New and final deadline for SUM 2017: April 27
by Serafin Moral April 20, 2017

April 20, 2017

11th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management - Granada, Spain, October 4-6, 2017 New deadline for submissions: April 27, 2017 More information: http://idbis.ugr.es/sum2017/index.html Pivert Olivier and Serafín Moral Program Cochairs

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[SIPTA] Question & Answers about IP: Stack Exchange+SIPTA List
by Erik Quaeghebeur April 19, 2017

April 19, 2017

Dear SIPTA Community, *Executive summary* Post questions about IP on Stack Exchange sites such as <https://math.stackexchange.com/>, <https://stats.stackexchange.com/>, <https://cs.stackexchange.com/>, and <https://mathoverflow.net/> and notify this list with a link to the question, so that our community's experts can answer them there. [More in the ‘long version’ below. If you or someone in your network is active on a Stack Exchange site, please do read the ‘search for active SE users’ at the end.] *Long version* Our community can make good use of the popular Stack Exchange (SE) Question & Answer sites to educate about and promote imprecise probability. (About Stack Exchange: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Exchange>.) By answering questions related to imprecise probability theories and applications, we can help others get into the IP field and so make it more accessible, which over time may lead to a growth of our community. Although others may also be appropriate, there are a number of SE sites especially suited for questions related to IP: - Mathematics – https://math.stackexchange.com/ - Cross Validated – https://stats.stackexchange.com/ - Computer Science – https://cs.stackexchange.com/ - Math Overflow – https://mathoverflow.net/ What we propose is that we all post any questions we have on these sites and then post a link to this list, so that others in the community can answer the questions there. Also, encourage others such as junior researchers and students in and outside of your group to do so. This will make the questions and answers available in a search engine-friendly way. Multiple answers are possible and up-voting questions and answers as well; this is also something we should do, as a form of completeness and quality control. Information about our activities on SE will in the future be posted on the SIPTA site <http://sipta.org>, under ‘Sources of Information’. *Search for active SE users* We are looking for active SE users that have sufficient ‘reputation’ on a targeted Stack Exchange site to create new tags. This will allow for the creation of, for example, an ‘imprecise probability’ tag. Such tags will allow SIPTA members to easily find IP-related questions and also make it possible to automate posting links to questions on this list. So if you, or someone in your network has or may soon get tag creation rights, please contact us, so that we can coordinate and do this most effectively. Best regards, Erik Quaeghebeur & Sébastien Destercke

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[SIPTA] 10th WPMSIIP/2nd WUML 2017 - Compiègne, 11-15 September 2017
by Sébastien Destercke April 13, 2017

April 13, 2017

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[SIPTA] Postdoc positions: ERCIM Fellowship Programme - Application form open !
by Erik Quaeghebeur April 10, 2017

April 10, 2017

FYI: ERCIM offers postdoctoral fellowships in leading European computer science research institutions. Competitive bursaries. Simple online application procedure. Next deadline for application: 30 April. http://fellowship.ercim.eu/ -- http://ac.erikquaeghebeur.name

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[SIPTA] Appropriate forum for IP questions?
by Abrams April 7, 2017

April 7, 2017

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[SIPTA] Fw: SUM 2017 Deadline Extension -- Scalable Uncertainty Management
by Kreinovich April 1, 2017

April 1, 2017

FYI ________________________________________ From: Serafin Moral <smc(a)decsai.ugr.es> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 5:33 AM To: uai(a)engr.orst.edu Subject: [UAI] SUM 2017 Deadline Extension -- Scalable Uncertainty Management Deadline for submissions has been extended to April 17 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2017) Call for papers For updated information, please visit the conference web page at: http://idbis.ugr.es/sum2017/ The 11th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) will be held in Granada, Spain on October 4-6, 2017. The conference will bring together researchers who are working with imperfect information in fields such as artificial intelligence, databases, data mining, information retrieval, and risk analysis with the aim of fostering collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas from different communities. An originality of SUM is that it gives a large space to tutorials about a large 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 ******************** We solicit papers on the management of large amounts or complex kinds of uncertain, incomplete, or inconsistent information. 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 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 - Very large datasets - 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 - 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 - Learning from data - Risk analysis - Aleatory vs. epistemic uncertainty - Uncertainty elicitation methods - Uncertainty propagation methods - Decision analysis methods - Tools for synthesizing results ************************* Submission guidelines ************************* SUM 2017 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 some current research trends - Extended abstracts of recently published work in a relevant journal or top-tier conference Accepted long and short papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 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). Regular research papers should be at most 14 pages (including references, figures and tables). Short papers should be at most 7 pages. Extended abstracts should be at most 2 pages and should reference the originally published work. Submissions must be formatted according to Springer's guidelines for LNCS authors, which can be found athttp://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair. Papers not respecting the formatting instructions or page limits may be rejected without review. With the exception of 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. **************** IMPORTANT DATES **************** - Extended deadline for submissions: April 17, 2017 - Notification: May 22, 2017 - Camera-ready copies: June 12, 2017 - Conference: October 4-6, 2017

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[SIPTA] FW: Registration open: Fourth Bayesian, Fiducial and Frequentist Workshop (BFF4), May 1-3, Harvard University
by Glenn Shafer March 24, 2017

March 24, 2017

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[SIPTA] Extended dealine: Fusion 2017: special session on belief functions
by Arnaud Martin March 17, 2017

March 17, 2017

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[SIPTA] [ISIPTA 2017] Call for poster-only submissions
by Jasper De Bock March 10, 2017

March 10, 2017

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[SIPTA] Special Session on Uncertainty based Optimization in Engineering @ EUROPT 2017: Deadline approaching (March 15, 2017)
by Matthias Troffaes March 8, 2017

March 8, 2017

Dear SIPTA friends, The special session below at EUROPT might be of some interest to some of you - robustness and resilience are explicit aims of the session and imprecise probability approaches to optimisation in engineering problems would be most welcome there too. Note the unfortunate overlap with ISIPTA; still it would be good to have presence from our community there, so if you weren't planning to go to ISIPTA this year, perhaps EUROPT is worth considering. Kind regards, Matthias Begin forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ICElab <info(a)icelab.uk> Date: 2017-03-04 19:07 GMT+00:00 Subject: [icelab-announce] Special Session on Uncertainty based Optimization in Engineering @ EUROPT 2017: Deadline approaching (March 15, 2017) To: icelab-announce(a)lists.strath.ac.uk (we apologize for possible multiple copies of this message ) Dear Colleague, this is a gentle reminder that the deadline to submit your abstract for the sessions on “Uncertainty based Optimization in Engineering” within the framework of the 15th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, Montreal, Canada, 12-14 July 2017, is fast approaching (*Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2017*) . EUROPT website: https://www.gerad.ca/colloques/europt2017/ Special session website: http://utopiae.eu/about/utopiae-training/research/ ieee-computational-intelligence-in-aerospace-sciences/ieee-activities/ utopiae-activities/ *Important Dates* Abstract submission deadline: *March 15, 2017* Abstract acceptance: March 31, 2017 *Scope and Motivations* In an expanding world with limited resources and increasing uncertainty, optimization and uncertainty quantification become a necessity. Optimization can turn a problem into a solution, thus the main focus of this session is to promote the knowledge exchange on new approaches to treat uncertainty in complex engineering systems and use novel optimization techniques to efficiently deal with large scale problems with many objectives and uncertain quantities. It is generally recognised, in fact, that neglecting the impact of uncertainty on the design of any system or process can lead to unreliable design solutions. Common approaches that make use of safety margins to account for uncertainty in design and manufacturing are not adequate to fully capture the growing complexity of engineering systems and provide reliable, resilient and optimal solutions. *Topics* The sessions are open to everybody who wants to present recent and original results on any of the following topics: - Robust Optimization - Reliability based Design Optimization - Resilience based Design Optimization - Evolvable Optimization Under Uncertainty - Uncertainty based Multidisciplinary Design Optimization with applications to any engineering areas, in particular: - Aeronautics, Aerospace, and Space - Agriculture and Precision Farming - Automotive - Bio-Engineering - Civil and Structural Engineering - Electronics - Energy, including Renewable Energy - Offshores, Coastal and Marine Engineering and Operations - Transport and Logistics - Turbomachinery *Registration* Before May 1st, 2017: 200$ (students: 150$) After May 1st, 2017: 250$ (students: 180$) *Abstract Submission* Abstracts should be no longer than 100 words and should not contain mathematical notation. Updated info on submission and registration will be available at the Workshop page https://www.gerad.ca/colloques/europt2017/ *Sessions Organisers* Edmondo Minisci Lecturer, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization edmondo.minisci(a)strath.ac.uk<mailto:edmondo.minisci(a)strath.ac.uk> Annalisa Riccardi Lecturer, Computational Intelligence annalisa.riccardi(a)strath.ac.uk<mailto:annalisa.riccardi(a)strath.ac.uk> Massimiliano Vasile Professor, Space System Engineering massimiliano.vasile(a)strath.ac.uk<mailto:massimiliano.vasile(a)strath.ac.uk> Task Force “Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Sciences”, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK -- ICElab The Intelligent Computational Engineering Laboratory _______________________________________________ icelab-announce mailing list icelab-announce(a)lists.strath.ac.uk http://lists.strath.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/icelab-announce

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