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[SIPTA] SIPTA Blog at http://www.sipta.org/blog/
by Erik Quaeghebeur 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Dear colleagues, The SIPTA Blog at http://www.sipta.org/blog/ has, after a bit of delay, received its second post and is now officially launched. Please go and have a look. The blog is edited by Fabio Cozman and Erik Quaeghebeur; our Executive Editor Sébastien Destercke provides support in the background. Everyone in the SIPTA Community can contribute! Contact one of the editors if you are interested in doing so. We see it as an electronic continuation of the Newsletter, so do not hesitate to send us contributions (reports on meetings, book or recent literature reviews, interviews, software presentations,...) or request an account in case you would like to make regular posts. Best regards, Fabio & Erik

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[SIPTA] open faculty positions at University of Texas at El Paso
by Kreinovich 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

This is not specifically about uncertainty, but maybe this fits your area of expertise or area of someone you know: http://www.cs.utep.edu/DeptCS/hiring/open-position2013.html The Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position for start of fall 2013. We seek candidates whose research focus is in security or big data, especially with interdisciplinary connections. Exceptional candidates in other areas will also be considered. We strongly encourage women and candidates from underserved groups to apply. http://www.admin.utep.edu/DesktopModules/DNN%20Faculty%20Job%20Board/MoreIn… POSITION DESCRIPTION: The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in coordination with the Cyber-ShARE Center of Excellence (www.Cyber-ShARE.utep.edu) is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to support the growth of the Center's interdisciplinary Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)-centered research efforts in Knowledge Representation and Semantic Web. Duties include teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students; conducting publishable research; grantsmanship; interdisciplinary collaboration at the Center; and department/university service. The ideal applicant should have extensive experience in working with interdisciplinary teams, a substantial record of scholarly work and professional service, the potential to secure external funding, experience in mentoring students, and the ability to contribute to the education and training of the next-generation of CI-savvy scientists and engineers. Anticipated appointment date is fall 2013.

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[SIPTA] what does IP say about US elections?
by Alessio Benavoli 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

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[SIPTA] 2nd CfP: Uncertain Reasoning 2013 - Special Track at FLAIRS-26
by Christoph Beierle 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

[Apologies for multiple copies] ******************************************************************** 2nd Call for Papers: Uncertain Reasoning (UR) 2013 ============================= Special Track at the 26th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-26) St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA May 22-24, 2013 http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/ur13/ The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR'2013 Special Track at the 26th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-26) is the 18th in the series. As the past tracks, UR'2013 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. Scopes ------ Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies - Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief function, vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics - Modeling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities - Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning - Bayesian networks - Graphical models of uncertainty - Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making - Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process - Temporal reasoning and uncertainty - Nonmonotonic reasoning - Conditional Logics - Argumentation - Belief change and merging - Similarity-based reasoning - Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery - Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment - Practical applications of uncertain reasoning Paper Submission and Publication --------------------------------- Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Full papers may be up to 6 pages, and poster papers up to 4 pages. Papers must be in AAAI format, and submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system. Instructions on the submission procedure are available at the UR'2013 website: http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/ur13/ All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by the AAAI. We anticipate that the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) will publish a special issue devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track. Important Dates --------------- Paper submission due: Nov. 19, 2012 Author Notification: Jan. 21, 2013 Camera Ready Copy Due: Feb. 25, 2013 Conference: May 22-24, 2013 Program Committee ----------------- [ Track Chairs ] Christoph Beierle University of Hagen, Germany Souhila Kaci University of Montpellier 2, France [ PC Members ] Xiangdong An York U., Canada Richard Booth U. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Cory Butz U. of Regina, Canada Fabio Cuzzolin Oxford Brookes U., England Sylvie Doutre U. Toulouse, France Marek Druzdzel U. Pittsburgh, USA Love Ekenberg Stockholm U., Sweden Konstantinos Georgatos CUNY, USA Lluis Godo IIIA, Spanish National Research Council, Spain Kevin Grant U. Lethbridge, Canada Gabriele Kern-Isberner U. Dortmund, Germany Pawan Lingras Saint Mary's U., Canada Weiru Liu Queen's U. Belfast, UK Tsai-Ching Lu HRL Laboratories, USA Anders Madsen HUGIN Expert, Denmark Cristina Manfredotti U. of Copenhagen, Denmark Nicholas Mattei NICTA and U. of New South Wales, Australia Malek Mouhoub U. Regina, Canada Eric Neufeld U. Saskatchewan, Canada Thomas Nielsen Aalborg U., Denmark Laurent Perrussel IRIT - Universite de Toulouse, France Eugene Santos Dartmouth College, USA Guillermo Simari Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Paul Snow New Hampshire, USA Luis E. Sucar Inst. Astrophysics, Optics, Electronics, Mexico Choh-Man Teng Inst. For Human & Machine Cognition, USA Dan Wu U. Windsor, Canada Yang Xiang U. Guelph, Canada Changhe Yuan Queens College, City U. of New York, USA Travel Information ------------------ FLAIRS 2013 will be held in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found at: http://www.flairs-26.info/ ********************************************************************

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[SIPTA] FW: Deadline Extension & List of Keynote Speakers
by Kreinovich 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

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[SIPTA] Post-doc Researcher in the area of robust estimation (IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland)
by Alessio Benavoli 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

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[SIPTA] CfP: Uncertain Reasoning 2013 - Special Track at FLAIRS-26
by Christoph Beierle 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

[Apologies for multiple copies] ******************************************************************** Call for Papers: Uncertain Reasoning (UR) 2013 ============================= Special Track at the 26th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-26) St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA May 22-24, 2013 http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/ur13/ The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR'2013 Special Track at the 26th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-26) is the 18th in the series. As the past tracks, UR'2013 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. Scopes ------ Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies - Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief function, vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics - Modeling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities - Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning - Bayesian networks - Graphical models of uncertainty - Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making - Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process - Temporal reasoning and uncertainty - Nonmonotonic reasoning - Conditional Logics - Argumentation - Belief change and merging - Similarity-based reasoning - Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery - Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment - Practical applications of uncertain reasoning Paper Submission and Publication --------------------------------- Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Full papers may be up to 6 pages, and poster papers up to 4 pages. Papers must be in AAAI format, and submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system. Instructions on the submission procedure are available at the UR'2013 website: http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/ur13/ All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by the AAAI. We anticipate that the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) will publish a special issue devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track. Important Dates --------------- Paper submission due: Nov. 19, 2012 Author Notification: Jan. 21, 2013 Camera Ready Copy Due: Feb. 25, 2013 Conference: May 22-24, 2013 Program Committee ----------------- [ Track Chairs ] Christoph Beierle University of Hagen, Germany Souhila Kaci University of Montpellier 2, France [ PC Members ] Xiangdong An York U., Canada Richard Booth U. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Cory Butz U. of Regina, Canada Fabio Cuzzolin Oxford Brookes U., England Sylvie Doutre U. Toulouse, France Marek Druzdzel U. Pittsburgh, USA Love Ekenberg Stockholm U., Sweden Konstantinos Georgatos CUNY, USA Lluis Godo IIIA, Spanish National Research Council, Spain Kevin Grant U. Lethbridge, Canada Gabriele Kern-Isberner U. Dortmund, Germany Pawan Lingras Saint Mary's U., Canada Weiru Liu Queen's U. Belfast, UK Tsai-Ching Lu HRL Laboratories, USA Anders Madsen HUGIN Expert, Denmark Cristina Manfredotti U. Milano-Bicocca, Italy Nicholas Mattei U. of Kentucky, USA Malek Mouhoub U. Regina, Canada Eric Neufeld U. Saskatchewan, Canada Thomas Nielsen Aalborg U., Denmark Laurent Perrussel IRIT - Universite de Toulouse, France Eugene Santos Dartmouth College, USA Guillermo Simari Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Paul Snow New Hampshire, USA Luis E. Sucar Inst. Astrophysics, Optics, Electronics, Mexico Choh-Man Teng Inst. For Human & Machine Cognition, USA Dan Wu U. Windsor, Canada Yang Xiang U. Guelph, Canada Changhe Yuan Queens College, City U. of New York, USA Travel Information ------------------ FLAIRS 2013 will be held in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found at: http://www.flairs-26.info/ ********************************************************************

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[SIPTA] WPMSIIP 2012: Final Announcement
by Marco Cattaneo 01 Sep '12

01 Sep '12

====================================================================== WPMSIIP 2012 (10-15 Sept 2012, Munich, Germany) --- Final Announcement ====================================================================== Dear friends and colleagues, The Working Group on Foundations of Statistics at the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, organizes a workshop on principles and methods of statistical inference with interval probability. This workshop is a follow-up to four earlier WPMSIIPs held in Durham (2008, 2010), Munich (2009), and Ljubljana (2011). The WPMSIIP workshop runs from Monday 10 September until Saturday 15 September 2012. Each of the five workdays is focused on a specific topic, while on Saturday 15 an excursion is planned. The major aim of the workshop is to stimulate discussion of ongoing research in imprecise/interval probability theories, providing a platform to discuss unsolved problems and to address unanswered questions. Therefore, especially the afternoons are structured very informally. For more information and a tentative programme, please visit: http://www.statistik.lmu.de/institut/ag/statsoz_neu/research/WPMSIIP_2012/ Everyone is welcome to participate and/or to present their views on one or more of the covered topics, on one or more days! We welcome any stimulating contribution, ranging from a presentation to a short informal statement. If you want to join the workshop, please contact Marco Cattaneo (cattaneo(a)stat.uni-muenchen.de) or the organisers of the specific day(s) that you would like to contribute to. Best wishes, The local organizing committee Thomas Augustin Marco Cattaneo Georg Schollmeyer Gero Walter Andrea Wiencierz

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[SIPTA] ISIPTA 2013: first call for papers
by Sébastien Destercke 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

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[SIPTA] PhD position: imprecise probabilities in stochastic modelling at Ghent University (Belgium)
by Gert de Cooman 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

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