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[SIPTA] FW: Call for papers: Mini Symposium "Efficient and Realistic Uncertainty Quantification" at APCOM 2013 (Singapore)
by Kreinovich 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

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[SIPTA] ISIPTA 13 - deadline extension to 12/02
by ISIPTA2013 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

============================================================================= ISIPTA '13 - CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENSION (12th February) ============================================================================= Your help with circulating this announcement locally is much appreciated. Apologies for multiple postings. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ISIPTA '13 8th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications Tuesday 2 to Friday 5 July 2013 Compiegne, France http://www.sipta.org/isipta13 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear colleague(s), Given the simultaneity of other conference deadlines and to popular demand, we have decided to extend the deadline to submit full papers to ISIPTA to the 12th February 2013. The ISIPTA meetings are one of the primary international forums to present and discuss new results on the theories and applications of imprecise probability. This year, it will be held at the Université de Technologie de Compiegne from July 2 to July 5, 2013. Topics of interest include lower and upper expectations or previsions, interval valued probabilities, sets of probability measures, belief functions, Choquet capacities, fuzzy measures, comparative probability orderings, possibility measures, plausibility measures, and sets of desirable gambles. Imprecise probability models are needed in inference and decision problems where the relevant information is scarce, vague or conflicting, and where preferences may be incomplete. For further details about (pre)registration, paper submission, program committee, scientific and social program visit the ISIPTA '13 web site at http://www.sipta.org/isipta13/. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 12 February 2013. Posters only abstract submission deadline: 21 April 2013 Symposium: July 2-5, 2013. IJAR SPECIAL ISSUE Following the conference, a selection of extended paper from the conference will appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. IJAR YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD AND POSTER PRIZES We invite applications for the "IJAR Young Researcher Award", which is granted by the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR), elsevier. The award is open to Master students, PhD students and young post-doc researchers who received their PhD after ISIPTA'11 and who have demonstrated excellence in research on imprecise probabilities (Career stage is taken into account in the judgment). In addition to this award, best poster prizes will be awarded at the end of the conference. STEERING COMMITTEE Fabio Cozman (Sao paulo University, Brazil) Thierry Denoeux (Université de Technologie de Compiegne, France) Sébastien Destercke (Université de Technologie de Compiegne, France) Thomas Fetz (Innsbruck University, Austria) Serafin Moral (Granada University, Spain) Teddy Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Matthias Troffaes (Durham University, UK) QUESTIONS If you have any questions about the symposium and/or about related events, please send an email to isipta13(a)hds.utc.fr, or at the following address: Sébastien Destercke, Université de Technologie de Compiegne, Centre de recherche de Royallieu, 60200 Compiègne, France. For more information about SIPTA, the international organisation responsible for organizing both the ISIPTA meetings and the SIPTA Schools on Imprecise Probabilities, please consult the SIPTA web site at http://www.sipta.org. The ISIPTA 2013 steering committee

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Re: [SIPTA] NII Shonan Meetings - Call for seminar proposal
by Kreinovich 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

FYI -----Original Message----- From: Soichiro Hidaka NII SHONAN MEETINGS: CALL FOR PROPOSAL (1) Objective NII Shonan Meetings, following the well-known Dagstuhl Seminars, aim to promote informatics and informatics research at an international level, by providing yet another world's premier venue for world-class scientists, promising young researchers, and practitioners to come together in Asia to exchange their knowledge, discuss their research findings, and explore a cutting-edge informatics topics. The meetings are held in Shonan Village Center (near Tokyo), which offers a combination of facilities for conferences, trainings, lodging in a resort-like setting. The friendly and open atmosphere is to promote a culture of communication and exchange among the meeting participants. The NII International Meetings are managed by National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan. (2) Scope and Style NII Shonan Meetings follow the style of the Dagstuhl Seminars. A meeting usually lasts for four days (Monday to Thursday) or shorter. It is initiated by at most three organizers (one from Asia), established leaders in their field, representing the different communities invited to the Seminar, preferably from different institutions. NII invites on their behalf about 25 to 35 researchers of international standing from academia and industry. Like Dagstuhl Seminars, an NII Shonan Meeting typically does not come with a fixed program. Instead, the pace and the program are guided by topics and presentations that evolve through discussions. In particular, NII does not require participants to submit a paper for presentation, or to give a presentation at all. On the contrary, NII encourages to present new ideas and work in progress. All administrate work of a meeting will be supported by the NII team in the preparation phase and during the seminars themselves, so that the organizers can focus on choosing research topics and selecting active researchers for the meeting. (3) Proposal Submissions NII invites international standing scientists to submit proposals for international meetings (with about 25-35 participants) on any topics of informatics. The proposal should clearly motivate the topic of your seminar and include the following items: - Meeting Title - Organizers (at most three, 1-page CV for each) - Proposed Dates for the Meeting - Description of the Meeting (1-2 pages, in English) - Invitation list (Position/First Name/Middle Name/Last Name/Affiliation/Email/Gender/URL/research list) The proposal should be submitted via the following EasyChair page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nim1 The proposal will be reviewed by the Academic Committee. Once the proposal is approved, our staff will help to organize the seminar. We welcome proposal submission anytime through a whole year, although submission is closed in June 15th, September 15th and December 15th. Notification of acceptance is only made after about 40 days of each closing day. (4) Locations and Expenses The meetings are held in Shonan Village Center (near Tokyo), whose nearest train station can be accessed by a direct train from Narita International Airport, and offers a combination of facilities for conferences, trainings, lodging in a resort-like setting. http://www.shonan-village.co.jp/svc/ The following rates cover overnight accommodation (single room) and full board (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) per day: - Meeting organizers: free - Participants from academia: 8,000 Yen/day - Participants from industry: 15,000 Yen/day - Accompanied persons to participants: 7,500 Yen/day (Meal charge is not included.) (5) Organization Organization Committee: Yoh'ichi Tohkura (NII): Chair Zhenjiang Hu (NII) Akiko Aizawa (NII) Hiroshi Hosobe (NII) Hiroyuki Kato (NII) Soichiro Hidaka (NII) Academic Committee: Zhenjiang Hu (NII): Chair Akiko Aizawa (NII) Ken'ichi Kawarabayashi (NII) Masaru Kitsuregawa (Univ. of Tokyo) Jeff Kramer (Imperial College London) Katsumi Inoue (NII) Kae Nemoto(NII) Bashar Nuesibeh (Lero/Open Univ.) Yoichi Sato (Univ. of Tokyo) Shin'ichi Satoh (NII) Satoshi Sekine (New York Univ./Rakuten Inst. of Tech.) Akihiko Takano (NII) (6) Inquiry Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by sending an email to shonan(a)nii.ac.jp More information about NII Shonan Meetings is available at the following website: http://www.nii.ac.jp/shonan/ ============================================================ Soichiro Hidaka National Institute of Informatics E-mail: hidaka(a)nii.ac.jp URL : http://research.nii.ac.jp/~hidaka ============================================================

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Re: [SIPTA] Fuzz-IEEE 2013 paper submission deadline extended to JAN 26, 2013
by Kreinovich 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

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[SIPTA] Workshop: SIMRIDE 2013 - 2nd Announcement
by Matthias Troffaes 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Dear friends & colleagues, Durham is organising a workshop on simulation and decision making - see announcement below. Contributions linking imprecise probability to simulation are obviously also very welcome. Registration has just been opened. Cheers, Matthias --- Workshop: SIMRIDE 2013 - 2nd Announcement [Apologies for cross-posting] Website: http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/simride2013/ Registration (deadline: 18 Feb 2013): https://www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/details/?id=176 The Department of Mathematical Sciences and the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham University, organise a workshop on uncertainty quantification and data assimilation in numerical simulation of physical systems for risk-informed decision making; in short, simulation for risk-informed decisions, or SIMRIDE. The workshop will run from Monday 18 March until Thursday 21 March 2013. Key to solving many large industrial scale problems is assimilation of data along with real-time simulation of a physical system, combined with uncertainty quantification to allow risk-informed decisions to be made. Often these systems are highly non-linear and require vast computing power, which presents a serious challenge to assimilation of data in real-time, and to quantify uncertainty bounds resulting from model uncertainty and measurement error. A major aim of SIMRIDE is to facilitate the link between industry and academia. The workshop will consist of talks by people from both camps, with ample time for discussion in a relaxed environment. The themes of each day are as follows: * Monday: Risk & Decision (keynote by Simon Blake, ECS, UK) * Tuesday: Extreme Events (keynote by David Randell, Shell, UK) * Wednesday: Simulation (keynote by Michael Goldstein, Maths, Durham) * Thursday: Energy (keynote by Robert Jeffers, Idaho National Laboratory, US) A list of currently confirmed speakers and titles of talks is at: http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/simride2013/programme.ht… There will be a formal workshop dinner on Tuesday 19 March. Everyone, including PhD students, is welcome to participate and/or to present their views. Registration for the first 25 places on this workshop is free, as these places are funded by an EPSRC grant. Once these places have been used up, a fee of around 150 GBP will be charged. Registration covers coffee & biscuits during breaks, buffet lunch, the workshop dinner and conference materials. You can register via the following website: https://www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/details/?id=176 The deadline for registration is 18 February 2013. If you require any further information, then please do not hesitate to contact one of the organisers. Best wishes, Matthias Troffaes (matthias.troffaes(a)gmail.com) Grant Ingram (g.l.ingram(a)durham.ac.uk)

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Re: [SIPTA] 3rd International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making, Beijing, 12-14 July, 2013
by Kreinovich 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

FYI, please note that imprecise probabilities are explicitly mentioned as one of the topics ________________________________________ From: farhan khawar [farhan.khawar(a)gmail.com] 2nd Round IUKM 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IUKM2013 3rd International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making Beijing, 12-14 July, 2013 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2nd Round of Call of Papers for IUKM 2013 is announced and submissions are still open. Important dates: -------------------- -Paper Submission (Full Paper): 24 February 2013 -Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2013 -Final Paper Submission: 15 April 2013 -Authors' Registration: 1 June 2013 -IUKM 2013 Conference Dates: 12-14 July 2013 Website: http://icmll.buaa.edu.cn/IUKM2013/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Following IUM 2010 in Ishikawa(Japan) and IUKM 2011 in Hangzhou(China), IUKM 2013 will be held at Beihang University, Beijing ,China between 10th and 12th of May 2013.IUKM 2013 aims to bring together worlds' specialists in the field of uncertainty management who will have an opportunity to debate throughout the conference and exchange research results, ideas as well as their experience towards developing applications. Objectives: -------------- Solving complex practical problems often requires the integration of data and knowledge from different relevant sources and further takes uncertainty and impreciseness into account. This gives rise to the demand for innovative methodologies and efficient techniques of managing and integrating various types of data and knowledge with uncertainty/imprecision so as to ultimately improve the solution to any such complex problems in practice. This symposium aims to provide a forum for exchanges of research results, ideas for and experience of application among researchers and practitioners involved with all aspects of uncertainty management and application. Its objectives are outlined as follows: -to bring together researchers working on uncertainty formalisms in information and knowledge systems; -to attract researchers working in social sciences (economics, business, management and environmental sciences) who are interested in applying uncertainty-related tools and techniques; -to bring together researchers and practitioners in order to foster the collaboration on research and application involving uncertainty management; and -to present and discuss open research problems and novel applications. Topics: --------- IUKM2013 calls for papers that report original research results on (but are is limited to) the following topics: Theory and Methodology: -Uncertainty formalisms: Bayesian probability, Dempster-Shafer theory, imprecise probability,random sets, rough sets, fuzzy sets and interval methods; logics for uncertainty reasoning -Information fusion and knowledge integration in uncertain environments -Decision making under various types of uncertainty -Aggregation operators -Copulas for dependence modelling -Granular and soft computing -Type-2 Fuzz set Applications: -Data mining and knowledge discovery -Ontology engineering and Semantic Web -Software engineering -Medical informatics and bioinformatics -Ranking and recommendation systems -Kansei engineering and evaluation -Engineering management -Supply chain management -Management of services -Environmental and economics sciences -Social Network Analysis -Social Network Mining Abstract and Paper Submission: --------------------------------------- Electronic abstract and paper should be submitted through the IUKM 2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iukm2013. If you can't login the submission system, please try to submit through email: Email: iukm2013(a)gmail.com (.pdf and .doc) The proceedings of IUKM 2013 will be published by Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence from Springer and will be indexed by EI, DBLP. The Best Paper Award of IUKM 2013 is sponsored by Elsevier and after the Symposium, the authors of the best ranked papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for consideration in a special issue of International Journal of Approximate Reasoning from Elsevier. Best Regards, Farhan Khawar IUKM 2013 Conference Secretary

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[SIPTA] FW: IFSA/NAFIPS 2013
by Kreinovich 29 Dec '12

29 Dec '12

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[SIPTA] Progic 2013: Combining probability and logic to solve philosophical problems, Munich, 17-18 Sept. 2013
by Niki Pfeifer 26 Dec '12

26 Dec '12

Call for papers --------------- Progic 2013: The Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic "Combining probability and logic to solve philosophical problems" Workshop website: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/ Introduction ------------ The Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (progic 2013) continues the progic workshop series (www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/progic.htm) Progic 2013 takes place on September 17 and 18, 2013. The workshop location is the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, which is located at the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich. The workshop is financially supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and hosted by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. Progic 2013 focuses on "Combining probability and logic to solve philosophical problems". Topics include but are not restricted to -) acceptability -) argument strength -) belief revision -) conditionals -) conditionalization -) counterfactuals -) information -) probability logic Scholars who combine probability and logic to elaborate new solutions to philosophical problems are invited to submit an extended abstract (two pages) for presentation at the workshop (40 min. talk, 10 min. discussion). Contributors should indicate if they are prepared to submit a paper to the progic 2013 special issue in the Journal of Applied Logic. Invited speakers are Igor Douven (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen), Alan Hájek (School of Philosophy, Australian National University), Kevin T. Kelly (Center for Formal Epistemology, Carnegie Mellon University), Hannes Leitgeb (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich), and Peter Milne (Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling). Invited talks ------------- -) Igor Douven: Conditionals and closure. Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#douven -) Alan Hájek: Probabilities of counterfactuals and counterfactual probabilities. Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#hajek -) Kevin T. Kelly and Hanti Lin: Qualitative reasoning that tracks Jeffrey conditioning. Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#kelly -) Hannes Leitgeb Belief: and stable probability. Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#leitgeb -) Peter Milne: Information, confirmation, and conditionals. Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#milne Important dates --------------- Deadline for extended abstracts: April 15, 2013 Notification of acceptance of extended abstracts: May 1, 2013 Deadline for full papers: September 1, 2013 Workshop dates: September 17-18, 2013 Notification of acceptance of full papers: November 15, 2013 Deadline for final versions of full papers: December 15, 2013 The extended abstracts (max. two pages) should be sent in PDF format to niki(dot)pfeifer(at)lrz(dot)uni-muenchen(dot)de Local organizer --------------- Niki Pfeifer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) Steering committee ----------------- Jeff Helzner (Department Philosophy, Columbia University) Niki Pfeifer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) Jan-Willem Romeijn (Department of Philosophy, University of Groningen) Gregory Wheeler (Centre for Research in Artificial Intelligence, New University of Lisbon) Jon Williamson (Department of Philosophy & Centre for Reasoning, University of Kent) -- Dr.Dr. Niki Pfeifer www.pfeifer-research.de Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany)

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[SIPTA] REGISTRATION - BFAS Spring School on Belief Functions Theory and Applications
by Arnaud Martin 22 Dec '12

22 Dec '12

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[SIPTA] Workshop: SIMRIDE 2013 - 1st Announcement
by Matthias Troffaes 21 Dec '12

21 Dec '12

Dear SIPTA colleagues, Durham is organising a workshop on simulation and decision making - see announcement below. Contributions linking imprecise probability to simulation are obviously also very welcome. Registration is not open yet, but if you are interested, please drop me an email. Cheers, Matthias --- [Apologies for cross-posting] http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/simride2013/ The Department of Mathematical Sciences and the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham University, organise a workshop on uncertainty quantification and data assimilation in numerical simulation of physical systems for risk-informed decision making; in short, simulation for risk-informed decisions, or SIMRIDE. The workshop will run from Monday 18 March until Thursday 21 March 2013. Key to solving many large industrial scale problems is assimilation of data along with real-time simulation of a physical system, combined with uncertainty quantification to allow risk-informed decisions to be made. Often these systems are highly non-linear and require vast computing power, which presents a serious challenge to assimilation of data in real-time, and to quantify uncertainty bounds resulting from model uncertainty and measurement error. A major aim of SIMRIDE is to facilitate the link between industry and academia. The workshop will consist of talks by people from both camps, with ample time for discussion in a relaxed environment. The themes of each day are as follows: * Monday: Risk & Decision (keynote by Simon Blake, ECS, UK) * Tuesday: Extreme Events (keynote by David Randell, Shell, UK) * Wednesday: Simulation (keynote by Michael Goldstein, Maths, Durham) * Thursday: Energy (keynote by Robert Jeffers, Idaho National Laboratory, US) A list of currently confirmed speakers and titles of talks is at: http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/simride2013/programme.ht… There will be a formal workshop dinner on Tuesday 19 March. Everyone, including PhD students, is welcome to participate and/or to present their views. Registration for the first 25 places on this workshop is free, as these places are funded by an EPSRC grant. Once these places have been used up, a fee of around 150 GBP will be charged. Registration covers coffee & biscuits during breaks, buffet lunch, the workshop dinner and conference materials. If you require any further information, then please do not hesitate to contact one of the organisers. Best wishes, Matthias Troffaes (matthias.troffaes(a)gmail.com) Grant Ingram (grant.ingram(a)durham.ac.uk)

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