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[SIPTA] Fwd: FW: Nordic Risk Conference
by Matthias Troffaes Aug. 28, 2015

Aug. 28, 2015

The call below may be of interest to those who work on or have an interest in risk modelling. I'm told that imprecise probability is also very welcome. Cheers, Matthias ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nordic Chapter news [mailto:ullrika.sahlin(a)cec.lu.se] Sent: den 28 augusti 2015 11:41 To: Ullrika Sahlin <ullrika.sahlin(a)cec.lu.se> Subject: Nordic Risk Conference Please forward this call to your networks! The Nordic Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis in Europe and Lund University Centre of Risk Assessment and Management (LUCRAM) invite academics, practitioners and policy makers to participate in the 1st Nordic Chapter Risk Conference on the theme The Future of Risk Analysis in the Nordic Countries on November 16-17th 2015 in Lund, Sweden. The aim of the conference is to strengthen and vitalise risk research and education on risk in the Nordic region. There will be plenty of room for contributed talks (15 minutes including discussion) and for posters. Informal meetings are encouraged, and there will be ample space provided at different locations in the exhibition halls of the conference venue. The possibility to submit abstracts (maximum 300 words) for 15 minute presentations is now open. Full papers are not required and contributions from scientists as well as practitioners are encouraged. Submit your abstract by sending an email to Riskconf2015(a)lucram.lu.se. Indicate if you aim for a poster or an oral presentation! Important dates: Deadline for submission of abstracts 27 September Notification of acceptance 7 October Deadline early bird registration 18 October Deadline late bird registration 8 November Conference 16-17 November For more information, please visit the conference webpage www.lucram.lu.se/event/nordic-chapter-2015-risk-conference We are looking forward to see you in Lund ~Ullrika Sahlin on behalf of LUCRAM

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[SIPTA] CFP IJAR Special issue on Statistical and Computational methods for genomics and integrative genomics
by Cassio P. de Campos Aug. 27, 2015

Aug. 27, 2015

Dear SIPTA members, Please consider the call for papers below and forward to anybody you think might be interested. kind regards, cassio. --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Approximate Reasoning Special issue on Statistical and Computational methods for genomics and integrative genomics http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reaso… Background and Scope: In the last decade, the advent of microarray and next-generation sequencing technologies has created the need of statistical and computational methodologies specifically developed for dealing with these types of data and novel biomedical research goals. Genomic data measure quantities (such as, gene-expression, copy number, genotype, methylation) at several thousands or millions of positions along the genome, resulting in an enormous amount of information from which to extract the relevant content. They are usually noisy and subject to uncertainties due to non-biological variations, which must be taken into account during the modelling and inferential processes. Many other issues arise when the field of application regards the study of complex genetic diseases, since patients can be highly heterogeneous and several different lesions may alter the same biological pathway. Moreover, the number of patients is usually small with respect to the number of variables, which brings another facet to the problem. Approaches that try to overcome all these difficulties rely on biological assumptions and integrate established knowledge and multiple types of data. Data integration may comprise not only different genomic data, but also clinical and other patient information. Combining all this information by an accurate biological and statistical modelling may allow us to achieve reliable biomedical discoveries. Inferential and computational issues must be also considered, as data have very high dimension and computational resources are limited. Papers are sought on theoretical and practical considerations involving statistical and computational approaches to address problems and data from the biomedical domain, including but not limited to: Next generation sequencing data Microarray data Data integration in genomics Genetic network modelling and inference Gene pattern discovery Disease classification and prediction Biomarker discovery Computational biology General methodological and algorithmic developments are also welcome as long as they have a clear applicability to the biomedical domain. If unsure about the fit of your intended paper or for any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact the guest editors. Important Dates: Deadline for expression of interest to submit a paper (suggested): September 15, 2015. Deadline for first submission: October 15, 2015 Reviews available: December, 2015 Expected online publication: April, 2016 Submission and Review Process: Authors should prepare their papers according to the Guide for Authors of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (http://ees.elsevier.com/ija/) All submissions must be made electronically through the Elsevier's EES submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ija/ with the Article Type 'SI: Statistical genomics'. All papers will be peer-reviewed following the IJAR review guidelines. Guest Editors: Paola M.V. Rancoita University Centre for Statistics for the Biomedical Sciences Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy http://www.unisr.it/persona.asp?id=8888&linguacv=english Cassio P. de Campos School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Queen's University Belfast, UK http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~c.decampos/

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[SIPTA] FW: 6th World Conference on Soft Computing: mark your calendars
by Kreinovich Aug. 20, 2015

Aug. 20, 2015

FYI ________________________________________ From: reformat(a)ualberta.ca Subject: FW: 6th World Conference on Soft Computing: mark your calendars 6th World Conference on Soft Computing Berkeley, May 22-25 2016 http://www.wconsc-2016.org Call for Papers Aims and Scope 6th World Conference on Soft Computing, Berkeley 2016, aims to bring togpether researchers, engineers and practitioners to present the latest achievements and innovations in the multiple areas of soft computing, to discuss thought-provoking developments and challenges, to consider potential future directions. One of the objectives of the conference is to encourage participation by young researchers; to this end student papers will be given special consideration. Important Dates Regular Paper Submission December 5, 2015 Notification of Acceptance January 25, 2016 Final Paper Submission February 19, 2016 Early Registration February 19, 2016 Special Session Proposals November 15, 2016 Special Session Final Paper Submission (by organizer) February 19, 2016 Topics Theories and Methods: Information Theory, Uncertainty, Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods, Evidence and Possibility Theory, Utility Theory, Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic, Approximate Reasoning, Non-classical Logics, Default Reasoning, Belief Revision, Argumentation, Uncertainty in Cognition, Graphical Models, Knowledge Acquisition, Information Fusion and Aggregation, Knowledge Representation, Ontologies, Decision Support, Cognitive Modeling, Game Theory, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Granular Computing, Computing with Words, Human-Centric Computing, Rough Sets, Evolutionary Computation, Neural Networks, Hybrid Architectures Applications and Tools: Intelligent and Multi-agent Systems, Information Processing and Retrieval, Intelligent Data Analysis, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Database and Information Systems, Intelligent Search, Internet and Semantic Web, Social Networks and Trust, Multi-Media, Control and Robotics, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Medicine and Bioinformatics, Finance, Software Engineering, Industrial Engineering, e-Commerce, Security Special Sessions Proposals for special sessions focusing on fundamental theories and innovative applications of soft computing are welcome. Submission of proposals should include a short description of the session, its relevance to the conference, and a list of potential contributors. Special sessions will be open to all participants. Organizers of Special Sessions will be responsible for a reviewing process. Student Participation Student participation is highly encouraged, be it submitting and presenting a paper, attending the conference, or volunteering at the conference. STUDENT REGISTRATION is FREE. The Program Committee will select the best student papers prior to the conference. These papers will be presented at a special session during the conference. The student author of the best paper (based on both the written submission and the oral presentation, to be selected during this session) will receive an award. Committees Honorary Chair Lotfi A. Zadeh (University of California, Berkeley, USA) General Co-Chairs Ali M. Abbasov (Minister of Communication and Information Technology of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan) Ronald R. Yager (Iona College, New York, USA) Program Committee Co-Chairs Janusz Kacprzyk (Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, USA) Marek Z. Reformat (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) Organizing Co-Chairs Shahnaz N. Shahbazova (Azerbaijan Technical University, Azerbaijan) (shahbazova(a)gmail.com) Marek Z. Reformat (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) (marek.reformat(a)ualberta.ca)

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2016: early registration deadline 26 August
by GRLMC Aug. 9, 2015

Aug. 9, 2015

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[SIPTA] The second workshop on Advanced Methodologies for Bayesian, Networks (AMBN 2015)
by Giorgio Corani Aug. 7, 2015

Aug. 7, 2015

Dear All, I forward the call for papers of a conference on Bayesian networks, to be hold in Japan in November. *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The second workshop on Advanced Methodologies for Bayesian Networks (AMBN 2015), Nov. 16-18, 2015, Yokohama, Japan. http://ambn2015.bayesnet.org Submission Deadline: September 1, 2015 ********************************************* ・ Probabilistic Reasoning using graphical models ・ Combination of Probabilistic Reasoning and Logic in graphical models ・ Learning graphical models ・ Discovery and Inference of Causality ・ Advanced Application of graphical models ・ Statistical Physics Approaches to graphical models This conference invites the leading researchers: Russell Almond (Florida State University, USA) Aapo Hyvarinen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Changhe Yuan (Queens College/CUNY, USA) Cassio P. de Campos (Queens University, UK) Shohei Shimizu (Osaka university, Japan) Besides the general sessions, the following special sessions will be held: 1. Finding an optimal Bayesian network structure from data (Session Chairs: Brandon Malon & Changhe Yuan) 2. Genome analysis based on Bayesian networks (Session Chairs: Cassio de Campos & Seiya Imoto) 3. Causal Discovery (Session Chairs: Shohei Shimizu & Aapo Hyvarinen) The acceptd papers will be published in Springer LNAI, and a subset of the paper will be considered for publication at Springer New Generation Computing Journal. We sincerely wait for your submisson to the conference in Japan. AMBN 2015 Program co-Chairs: Joe Suzuki (Osaka Univ., Japan) & Maomi Ueno (Univ. of Electro Com.,Japan)

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[SIPTA] 2nd Announcement: 8th WPMSIIP in Munich, 1st September to 6th September, !!one day moved!!
by Plass Aug. 4, 2015

Aug. 4, 2015

Dear SIPTA list member, first of all: The 8th WPMSIIP organized jointly by the Department of Statistics of the LMU and the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) will start one day later, at Tuesday the 1st of September, and accordingly will end at Sunday, the 6th of September. We are happy to inform you about the tentative programme: Tuesday: Philosophical topics, Dilation (day organizers: Gregory Wheeler, Seamus Bradley) Wednesday: Imprecise observations (day organizers: Thomas Augustin, Georg Schollmeyer, Julia Plass) and small excursion Thursday: Open topics (day organizers: Christoph Jansen, Paul Fink, Thomas Augustin) Friday: Graphical models (day organizers: Eva Endres, Jasper De Bock, Barbara Osimani) Saturday: Reliability and risk (day organizers: Frank Coolen, Gero Walter) Sunday: excursion At every day there are still slots available! Any contribution ranging from a presentation to a 5-minute discussion is more than welcome; just write a brief e-mail to wpmsiip2015(a)stat.uni-muenchen.de In the old WPMSIIP tradition the workshop is kept very informal to stimulate the exchange of premature ideas. For further information, please visit the website of WPMSIIP 2015: http://www.statistik.lmu.de/institut/ag/agmg/research/wpmsiip_2015/index.ht… If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us: wpmsiip2015(a)stat.uni-muenchen.de We hope to see you in Munich!! Kind regards, Christoph and Julia, on behalf of the WPMSIIP group and the local organizers -- Julia Plaß, M.Sc. Department of Statistics Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Ludwigstr. 33, 80539 Munich

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Re: [SIPTA] The New VV&UQ Journal
by Kreinovich July 23, 2015

July 23, 2015

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Re: [SIPTA] SSCI'2016
by Kreinovich July 22, 2015

July 22, 2015

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[SIPTA] interesting discussion on use of imprecisely known probabilities in earthquake prediction
by Kreinovich July 20, 2015

July 20, 2015

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2015: extended submission deadline 27 July
by GRLMC - URV July 19, 2015

July 19, 2015

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: July 27 ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************************** ************ 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2015 Mieres, Spain December 15-17, 2015 Organized by: European Centre for Soft Computing Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2015/ **************************************************************************** ************ AIMS: TPNC is a conference series intending to cover the wide spectrum of computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature. TPNC 2015 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. The conference aims at attracting contributions to nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information processing in nature. VENUE: TPNC 2015 will take place in Mieres, in the north of Spain. The city is the heart of the coal mining industry in the country, today declining. The venue will be the European Centre for Soft Computing: http://www.softcomputing.es/ SCOPE: Topics include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical contributions to: amorphous computing bacterial foraging cellular automata chaos and dynamical systems based computing evolutionary computing membrane computing neural computing optical computing swarm intelligence artificial chemistry artificial immune systems artificial life complex adaptive systems self-organizing systems computing with DNA nanocomputing physarum computing quantum computing and quantum information reaction-diffusion computing computing with words developmental systems fractal geometry gene assembly in unicellular organisms granular computation intelligent systems rough/fuzzy computing in nature synthetic biology - Applications of natural computing to: algorithms bioinformatics control cryptography design economics graphics hardware human-computer interaction knowledge discovery learning logistics medicine natural language processing optimization pattern recognition planning and scheduling programming robotics telecommunications web intelligence A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions. STRUCTURE: TPNC 2015 will consist of: - invited talks - invited tutorials - peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: (to be completed) John A. Smolin (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights), tba Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse), Stigmergic Interactions and 3D Nest Construction in Ant Colonies PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Hussein Abbass (University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia) Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK) Humberto Bustince (Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain) Pei-Chann Chang (Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan) Shyi-Ming Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan) Óscar Cordón (University of Granada, Spain) Swagatam Das (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India) Gianni Di Caro (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Lugano, Switzerland) Tharam Dillon (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) Agoston E. Eiben (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) János Fodor (Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary) Fernando Gomide (University of Campinas, Brazil) Maoguo Gong (Xidian University, Xi'an, China) Salvatore Greco (Universiy of Catania, Italy) Jin-Kao Hao (University of Angers, France) Francisco Herrera (University of Granada, Spain) Robert John (University of Nottingham, UK) Fakhri Karray (University of Waterloo, Canada) László T. Kóczy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Rudolf Kruse (University of Magdeburg, Germany) José A. Lozano (University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain) Jianquan Lu (Southeast University, Nanjing, China) Vittorio Maniezzo (University of Bologna, Italy) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, chair) Ujjwal Maulik (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India) Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, Slovenia) Radko Mesiar (Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia) Risto Miikkulainen (University of Texas, Austin, USA) Tal Mor (Technion, Haifa, Israel) Vilém Novák (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) Sankar K. Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India) Günther Palm (Ulm University, Germany) Linqiang Pan (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China) Lech Polkowski (Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland) Dan Ralescu (University of Cincinnati, USA) Friedrich Simmel (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) Vicenç Torra (University of Skövde, Sweden) José Luis Verdegay (University of Granada, Spain) David Wolpert (Santa Fe Institute, USA) Ronald R. Yager (Iona College, New Rochelle, USA) Shengxiang Yang (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) Xin-She Yang (Middlesex University, London, UK) Hao Ying (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA) Mingsheng Ying (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Qingfu Zhang (City University of Hong Kong, China) William Zhu (Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou, China) Marek Żukowski (University of Gdansk, Poland) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Luis Magdalena (Mieres, co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2015 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2015/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: July 27, 2015 (23:59h, CET) - EXTENDED - Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 28, 2015 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 4, 2015 Early registration: September 4, 2015 Late registration: December 1, 2015 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: March 17, 2016 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: TPNC 2015 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: European Centre for Soft Computing Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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