- SIPTA News - lists.sipta.org

SUM 2024 - Call with EXTENDED DEADLINE (11 July)
by sdesterc 21 Jun '24

21 Jun '24

***Apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please disseminate to potentially interested colleagues.*** Dear colleagues, Due to various requests, we have decided to extend the SUM 2024 submission deadline to the 11 July. Please find below the main information regarding the conference. ========================================= Conference announcement + key dates ***EXTENDED*** ========================================= The 16th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2024) will be held in Palermo, Italy from November 27-29, 2024. See: https://sum2024.unipa.it/ Key dates (CET 23:59): Abstract Submission (optional but useful to organizers): June 24, 2024 Paper Submission: July 11, 2024 Notification: August 31, 2024 Camera-ready copies: September 15, 2024 Conference: Nov. 27-29, 2024 ============= Description ============= Established in 2007, the SUM conferences are annual events which aim to gather researchers with a common interest in managing and analyzing imperfect information from a wide range of fields, such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Databases, Information Retrieval and Data Mining, the Semantic Web and Risk Analysis, and with the aim of fostering collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas from the different communities. An originality of the SUM conferences is their care for dedicating a large space of their program to tutorials covering a wide range of topics related to uncertainty management. Each tutorial provides a 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 of 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 2024 solicits original papers in the following three categories: - Long papers (at most 14 pages, references excluded): technical papers reporting original research or survey papers - Short papers (between 4 and 7 pages, references excluded): 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 (2 pages) of recently published work in a relevant journal or top-tier conference All SUM submissions must be formatted according to the LNCS/LNAI guidelines:https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-pro… Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sum2024 ============= Publication ============= Accepted long (at most 14 pages) and short papers (2-7 pages) will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 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 (2 pages) 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). ========================================================================================= Organization ========================================================================================= Sébastien Destercke (Université de technologie de Compiègne), PC Co Chair Maria Vanina Martinez (IIIA-CSIC), PC Co Chair Giuseppe Sanfilippo, (University of Palermo), General/Local Chair

1 0

Today's SIPTA seminar: Eyke Hüllermeier, "the Challenge of Quantifying Epistemic Uncertainty in Machine Learning"
by Jasper De Bock 14 Jun '24

14 Jun '24

Dear colleagues, In case you hadn’t heard yet: the next SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP) is less than two hours away. These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and are 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 zoom link for today's seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/86257697233 For this seminar, we are very happy to have Eyke Hüllermeier as our speaker. Eyke Hüllermeier is a full professor at the Institute of Informatics at LMU Munich, Germany, where he heads the Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. His research interests are centered around methods and theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence, with a specific focus on machine learning and reasoning under uncertainty. He has published more than 300 articles on these topics in top-tier journals and major international conferences, and several of his contributions have been recognized with scientific awards. Professor Hüllermeier is President of the European Association for Data Science (EuADS) and Editor-in-Chief of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, one of the leading journals in the field of AI. Today at 15:00 CEST:paris time (up to 17:00 CEST, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), he will talk about "the Challenge of Quantifying Epistemic Uncertainty in Machine Learning”. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars<http://sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars>. The zoom link for attending the seminar is also available on that same page. So please 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=tUlb6ybqfpI&list=PLXsgvF2_g5Ht-BYPWsSjcunA3… See you at the seminar! Sébastien, Enrique and Jasper

1 0

Scalable Uncertainty Mangement 2024 (November 27-29, Palermo): second call for paper
by sdesterc 06 Jun '24

06 Jun '24

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this mail. =================================== Conference announcement + key dates =================================== The 16th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2024) will be held in Palermo, Italy from November 27-29, 2024. See: https://sum2024.unipa.it/ Key dates (CET 23:59): Abstract Submission (optional but useful to organizers): June 17, 2024 Paper Submission: June 24, 2024 Notification: August 31, 2024 Camera-ready copies: September 15, 2024 Conference: Nov. 27-29, 2024 ============= Description ============= Established in 2007, the SUM conferences are currently bi-annual events which aim to gather researchers with a common interest in managing and analyzing imperfect information from a wide range of fields, such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Databases, Information Retrieval and Data Mining, the Semantic Web and Risk Analysis, and with the aim of fostering collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas from the different communities. An originality of the SUM conferences is their care for dedicating a large space of their program to tutorials covering a wide range of topics related to uncertainty management. Each tutorial provides a 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 of 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 2024 solicits original papers in the following three categories: - Long papers (at most 14 pages, references excluded): technical papers reporting original research or survey papers - Short papers (between 4 and 7 pages, references excluded): 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 (2 pages) of recently published work in a relevant journal or top-tier conference All SUM submissions must be formatted according to the LNCS/LNAI guidelines:https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-pro… Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sum2024 ============= Publication ============= Accepted long (at most 14 pages) and short papers (2-7 pages) will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 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 (2 pages) 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). ========================================================================================= Organization ========================================================================================= Sébastien Destercke (Université de technologie de Compiègne), PC Co Chair Maria Vanina Martinez (IIIA-CSIC), PC Co Chair Giuseppe Sanfilippo, (University of Palermo), General/Local Chair

1 0

Call for Contributions - WSCL @ ECAI 2024 Workshop (Last Reminder)
by Andrea Campagner 04 Jun '24

04 Jun '24

(Apologies for multiple postings) Call for Contributions Weakly Supervised and Cautious Learning (WSCL) Bridging machine learning and uncertainty management Workshop Information Co-located with the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain Dates: 19-20th October 2024 Website: https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/wscl2024/ In recent years, machine learning (ML) has been increasingly applied in a variety of settings, with promise to analyze huge and heterogeneous volumes of data, improve decisional accuracy, and ease human labor. These systems have been predominantly built based on the supervised learning paradigm, which relies on the availability of huge amounts of data, assumed to be reliably labeled by human experts. However, with this increasing interest has also come the realization that the real-world is often far from the idealized perfection assumed in the supervised paradigm: data can be missing or noisy; supervision can be costly to obtain or have veracity issues; human users could fail at appropriating technologies based on ML, due to the incapability of ML models at reliably conveying their uncertainty. As a result, recently, increasing interest has been devoted to the development of techniques capable of dealing with these issues. These include uncertainty quantification and cautious learning, where the ML models convey to the users their uncertainty to improve reliability and reduce cognitive biases; as well as weakly supervised learning and its variants, such as incomplete supervision, where only a subset of training data is labeled; imprecise supervision, where the training data is coarse-grained labeled; and inaccurate supervision, where the labels are not always true. At the same time, due to the inherently multidisciplinary nature of these issues, there has been an increasingly deepened dialogue between ML and neighboring scientific fields, such as knowledge and uncertainty representation, as well as human-computer interaction, crowd-sourcing and active learning. The aim of this workshop is to explore how machine learning and related methods can handle weak supervision and provide more cautious and reliable support in the presence of data imperfection, as well as encourage broad discussion between ML researchers and experts in neighboring related fields whose underlying principles and foundations are central to allow the functioning of systems built on ML in less than perfect real-world settings. Topics of Interest We invite all researchers in AI and neighboring disciplines interested in the interplay between Machine Learning and Uncertainty to submit their work to WSCL workshop, which will be held during 19-20 October 2024, as a satellite event to the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024). We welcome submissions on topics related to both weakly supervised learning and uncertainty quantification. More generally, the topics of interest include: ● Weakly supervised learning (including, learning from noisy data, multi-instance learning, learning from imprecise data, ...); ● Uncertainty quantification (including, probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning, conformal prediction, three-way decision, set-valued approaches, possibilistic and evidential machine learning, ...); ● Uncertainty management and non-standard theories of uncertainty (including, foundations of probability theory, rough sets, fuzzy sets and possibility theory, evidence theory and belief functions, imprecise probabilities and credal sets, ...); ● Conformal prediction and related methods (including, Venn prediction, online learning, compression models, algorithmic information theory); ● Human-AI interaction and uncertainty communication; ● Active learning; ● Crowd-sourcing and data perspectivism Submission Instructions We will welcome three types of submissions: ● full original papers (up to 7 pages); ● extended abstracts (up to 4 pages); ● already published work. Each accepted submission, irrespective of the type, will be assigned an oral presentation slot. Also, articles rejected at the main track of the ECAI 2024 conference, but relevant to the topics of interest of the workshop, may be transferred at the WSCL workshop based on the ECAI reviews. Contributions should be submitted through the chairingtool platform, available at the following link: https://chairingtool.com/conferences/WSCL24/MainTrack/ Original submissions (both full papers and extended abstracts) should be formatted according to the ECAI formatting instructions, using the ECAI 2024 template and formatting requirements specified by ECAI. The purpose of workshop presentations is to get early feedback on new ideas and to stimulate discussions between researchers interested in weakly supervised and cautious learning. As such, there will be no formal proceedings, but we may post accepted papers on the workshop website for the benefit of the workshop participants if the authors agree to this (and the paper has not already been published). Also, depending on the number of accepted contributions we may decide on organizing a special issue on a relevant scientific journal. Key Dates ● Submission deadline: 30th June 2024 ● Accept/Reject communications: 18th July 2024 ● Early registration deadline: 15th August 2024 ● Workshop date: 19-20th October 2024 Organizers ● Andrea Campagner, IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi Sant’Ambrogio (Milan, Italy), andrea.campagner(a)unimib.it (primary contact person) ● Davide Ciucci, University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy), davide.ciucci(a)unimib.it ● Sébastien Destercke, Heudyasic Laboratory, CNRS (Compiègne, France), sebastien.destercke(a)hds.utc.fr ●Luciano Sànchez, University of Oviedo(Oviedo,Spain), luciano(a)uniovi.es

1 0

SIPTA school 2024: last call for registrations
by Floris Persiau 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

Dear interested researchers, young(er) and old(er), Only 1 month remains to register for the SIPTA school 2024 (deadline 30 June 2024). So, whether you want to find out why there is more to uncertainty than probabilities, deepen your knowledge on imprecise probabilities, or see how these more general uncertainty models are used and applied in a variety of fields, we urge you to enrol through our registration page<https://school24.sipta.org/registration/>. We recall from previous mails that the school takes place from Monday 12 to Friday 16 August 2024 in the wonderful city of Ghent, Belgium. At the moment, a late bird fee of € 125 applies. In return, you’ll get lectures from leading experts in the field, free lunches and coffee breaks, an easy-going pizza night, and a kayak excursion on the canals of Ghent. More information can of course be found on https://school24.sipta.org/. Be there or be square<https://imgur.com/gallery/be-there-be-square-Y2wfm>, Floris & Alexander

1 0

[job] PhD in probabilistic ML @ TU Eindhoven
by Cassio de Campos 22 May '24

22 May '24

Dear all, We are currently looking for a PhD candidate in probabilistic machine learning; please forward the information below to any parties you think might be interested! We are particularly interested in imprecise probability related topics. best regards, cassio. --- Are you interested in working on foundational issues of robustness and reliability of probabilistic AI? Are you motivated to translate your theoretical results to real-world problems in healthcare? Then come join us as our next PhD-candidate in the Uncertainty in AI group! The Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) group is a growing group embedded in the Data and AI (DAI) cluster at the Eindhoven University of Technology (https://dai.win.tue.nl) In the DAI cluster, we aim at developing foundations of AI for the present and the future. This includes the design of new AI methods, development of AI algorithms, and tools with a view at expanding the reach of AI and its generalization abilities. In particular, we study foundational issues of robustness, safety, trust, reliability, tractability, scalability, interpretability, and explainability of AI. The UAI group is looking for a highly motivated and skilled PhD candidate to work in the area of probabilistic machine learning. The position is fully funded for a term of four years. The research direction will be determined together with the successful candidate and in line with the NWO Perspectief Project Personalised Care in Oncology (www.personalisedcareinoncology.nl) The research topics may include, but are not restricted to: * Probabilistic graphical models (Markov, Bayesian, credal networks) * Causality: Theory and application * Cautious AI, including imprecise probabilities * Robust stochastic processes * Tractable models and decision-making * Online/continual learning with evolving data Job requirements * Master’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field * Excellent analytical and mathematical skills * Affinity with developing theoretical results * Excellent algorithmic skills (including realizing it via coding) * Excellent academic writing and presentation skills * Proficiency in English (written and spoken) * Desire to conduct excellent research and publish in high quality conferences and journals * Independent thinker and self-responsibility * Ability and desire to collaborate and work in teams * Ability and desire to support teaching and to co-supervise bachelor and master students For more information and applying (deadline 23 June 2024), please see https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/phd-in-probabilistic-machine-learning-108125… If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me! Best, dr. Thomas Krak t.e.krak [at]tue.nl Assist. Prof. in UAI group Eindhoven University of Technology

1 0

New post on the SIPTA blog
by Van Camp, Arthur 15 May '24

15 May '24

Dear IP enthusiasts, Just over one month after the previous update, the SIPTA blog<https://sipta.org/blog/> has another new blogpost. You can learn more about Loïc Adam's doctoral research<https://sipta.org/blog/thesis-loic/> on learning preferences under severe uncertainty. Kind regards, Arthur Van Camp

1 0

PhD Position at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the area of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
by Van Camp, Arthur 08 May '24

08 May '24

PhD Position at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the area of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Deadline: 2 June 2024 The Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Group (https://uai.win.tue.nl) at Eindhoven University of Technology has an open position for a PhD student. The employment is full time for five years, with an intermediate evaluation (go/no-go) after nine months. The PhD research's more specific area is imprecise probability theory. The research focuses on bringing the theory of choice functions to applications. This project allows for doing fundamental research, with the aim of advancing the theory towards applications. The candidate should hold a master's degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field. Further details about this position, and a link to the application system, can be found at https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/phd-in-uncertainty-in-artificial-intelligenc…. Applications should be submitted by 2 June 2024 or earlier. For further information, please contact Arthur Van Camp (a.van.camp(a)tue.nl<mailto:a.van.camp@tue.nl>).

1 0

Call for Contributions - WSCL @ ECAI 2024 Workshop
by Davide Elio Ciucci 06 May '24

06 May '24

Call for Contributions Weakly Supervised and Cautious Learning (WSCL) Bridging machine learning and uncertainty management Workshop Information Co-located with the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain Dates: 19-20th October 2024 Website: https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/wscl2024/ In recent years, machine learning (ML) has been increasingly applied in a variety of settings, with promise to analyze huge and heterogeneous volumes of data, improve decisional accuracy, and ease human labor. These systems have been predominantly built based on the supervised learning paradigm, which relies on the availability of huge amounts of data, assumed to be reliably labeled by human experts. However, with this increasing interest has also come the realization that the real-world is often far from the idealized perfection assumed in the supervised paradigm: data can be missing or noisy; supervision can be costly to obtain or have veracity issues; human users could fail at appropriating technologies based on ML, due to the incapability of ML models at reliably conveying their uncertainty. As a result, recently, increasing interest has been devoted to the development of techniques capable of dealing with these issues. These include uncertainty quantification and cautious learning, where the ML models convey to the users their uncertainty to improve reliability and reduce cognitive biases; as well as weakly supervised learning and its variants, such as incomplete supervision, where only a subset of training data is labeled; imprecise supervision, where the training data is coarse-grained labeled; and inaccurate supervision, where the labels are not always true. At the same time, due to the inherently multidisciplinary nature of these issues, there has been an increasingly deepened dialogue between ML and neighboring scientific fields, such as knowledge and uncertainty representation, as well as human-computer interaction, crowd-sourcing and active learning. The aim of this workshop is to explore how machine learning and related methods can handle weak supervision and provide more cautious and reliable support in the presence of data imperfection, as well as encourage broad discussion between ML researchers and experts in neighboring related fields whose underlying principles and foundations are central to allow the functioning of systems built on ML in less than perfect real-world settings. Topics of Interest We invite all researchers in AI and neighboring disciplines interested in the interplay between Machine Learning and Uncertainty to submit their work to WSCL workshop, which will be held during 19-20 October 2024, as a satellite event to the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024). We welcome submissions on topics related to both weakly supervised learning and uncertainty quantification. More generally, the topics of interest include: ● Weakly supervised learning (including, learning from noisy data, multi-instance learning, learning from imprecise data, ...); ● Uncertainty quantification (including, probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning, conformal prediction, three-way decision, set-valued approaches, possibilistic and evidential machine learning, ...); ● Uncertainty management and non-standard theories of uncertainty (including, foundations of probability theory, rough sets, fuzzy sets and possibility theory, evidence theory and belief functions, imprecise probabilities and credal sets, ...); ● Conformal prediction and related methods (including, Venn prediction, online learning, compression models, algorithmic information theory); ● Human-AI interaction and uncertainty communication; ● Active learning; ● Crowd-sourcing and data perspectivism Submission Instructions We will welcome three types of submissions: ● full original papers (up to 7 pages); ● extended abstracts (up to 4 pages); ● already published work. Each accepted submission, irrespective of the type, will be assigned an oral presentation slot. Also, articles rejected at the main track of the ECAI 2024 conference, but relevant to the topics of interest of the workshop, may be transferred at the WSCL workshop based on the ECAI reviews. Contributions should be submitted through the chairingtool platform, available at the following link: https://chairingtool.com/conferences/WSCL24/MainTrack/ Original submissions (both full papers and extended abstracts) should be formatted according to the ECAI formatting instructions, using the ECAI 2024 template and formatting requirements specified by ECAI. The purpose of workshop presentations is to get early feedback on new ideas and to stimulate discussions between researchers interested in weakly supervised and cautious learning. As such, there will be no formal proceedings, but we may post accepted papers on the workshop website for the benefit of the workshop participants if the authors agree to this (and the paper has not already been published). Also, depending on the number of accepted contributions we may decide on organizing a special issue on a relevant scientific journal. Key Dates ● Submission deadline: 30th June 2024 ● Accept/Reject communications: 18th July 2024 ● Early registration deadline: 15th August 2024 ● Workshop date: 19-20th October 2024 Organizers ● Andrea Campagner, IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi Sant’Ambrogio (Milan, Italy), andrea.campagner(a)unimib.it <mailto:andrea.campagner@unimib.it> (primary contact person) ● Davide Ciucci, University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy), davide.ciucci(a)unimib.it <mailto:davide.ciucci@unimib.it> ● Sébastien Destercke, Heudyasic Laboratory, CNRS (Compiègne, France), sebastien.destercke(a)hds.utc.fr <mailto:sebastien.destercke@hds.utc.fr> ●Luciano Sànchez, University of Oviedo(Oviedo,Spain), luciano(a)uniovi.es <mailto:luciano@uniovi.es>

1 0

CFP: 8th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2024), Belfast, UK, Sept 2-4, 2024
by Thierry Denoeux 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

****** Call for Papers ****** https://bfasociety.org/Belief2024/ <https://antiphishing.vadesecure.com/v4?f=S1Zkd042VWdrZG5qQUxxWkcxtM9e_ll4Bo…> The 8th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2024) New Dates: September 2nd-4th, 2024 (updated) Location: Belfast, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK * April 30, 2024: Paper submission deadline (extended) * May 31, 2024: Author notification * June 30, 2024: Camera-ready copy due ================================================================ Keynote speakers: Professor Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Professor Prakash P. Shenoy, University of Kansas, United States Professor Frederic Pichon, Artois University, France ================================================================ Early Bird Registration Open Until: 22nd July 2024 Early Bird Registration: £325 (€380) Regular Registration: £375 (€440) Early Bird Student Registration: £225 (€265) Student Registration: £275 (€325) ================================================================ The theory of belief functions, also referred to as evidence theory or Dempster-Shafer theory, was first introduced by Arthur P. Dempster in the context of statistical inference, and was later developed by Glenn Shafer as a general framework for modeling epistemic uncertainty generalizing Bayesian probability theory. These early contributions have been the starting points of many important theoretical and practical developments. The theory of belief functions is now well established as a general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, and with applications in machine learning, statistical inference, information fusion, knowledge representation, risk analysis, etc. It has well understood connections with other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories. The biennial BELIEF conferences (sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society https://www.bfasociety.org/ <https://antiphishing.vadesecure.com/v4?f=S1Zkd042VWdrZG5qQUxxWkcxtM9e_ll4Bo…>) 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); in Compiègne, France (2012); in Oxford, UK (2014); in Prague, Czech Republic (2016); in Compiègne, France (2018); in Shanghai, China (2021); and in Paris, France (2022). The Eighth International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2024) will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, on September2nd-4th, 2024. To support cross-fertilization among researchers working in different subfields of AI and related disciplines, tutorials and special sessions will be proposed and dedicated to the links between machine learning and uncertain reasoning, including topics such as quantification of prediction uncertainty, fusion rules for ensemble learning, belief propagation over 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 belie functions and other AI methods or uncertainty theories, along with relevant applications, are welcome. =========== Proceedings =========== Proceedings of the previous editions of BELIEF have been published by Springer-Verlag as volumes of 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. The Springer-Verlag has confirmed that the BELIEF2024’s proceedings will be continually published in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI). ================== IJAR Special issue ================== Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2024 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 2024 Program Committee co-chairs ======================================= Dr Yaxin Bi (y.bi(a)ulster.ac.uk <mailto:y.bi@ulster.ac.uk>), Ulster University, UK Dr Anne-Laure Jousselme (anne-laure.jousselme(a)csgroup.eu <mailto:anne-laure.jousselme@csgroup.eu>), CS Group, France ---------- Prof. Thierry Denoeux Université de technologie de Compiègne Institut universitaire de France Rue Roger Couttolenc, CS 60319 60203 Compiègne cedex, France https://www.hds.utc.fr/~tdenoeux

1 0