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[SIPTA] PhD studentship on Belief Theory
by Fabio Cuzzolin Nov. 23, 2012

Nov. 23, 2012

Dear all, I have an opening for a PhD studentship in belief functions theory, could you please make me aware of strong candidates with strong math skills interested in the job. Deadline (for now) is December 5th. Best, Fabio The Department of Computing and Communications Technologies at Oxford Brookes University is pleased to announce that it is able to offer a Doctoral Bursary to a new PhD student in for full time study commencing in January 2013. The successful applicant will have course fees waived and will be awarded a bursary of £10,000 per annum for three years (with no inflation increase). The PhD project will be focus on decision making and estimation. These are central problems in most applied sciences, as both people and machines need to make inferences about the state of the external world, and take appropriate actions. Traditionally, the (uncertain) state of the world is assumed to be described by a probability distribution over a set of alternative, disjoint hypotheses. Sometimes, however, as in the case of extremely rare events (e.g., a volcanic eruption), few statistics are available to drive the estimation. Part of the data can be missing. Furthermore, under the law of large numbers, probability distributions are the outcome of an infinite process of evidence accumulation, drawn from an infinite series of samples: in all practical cases, instead, the available evidence only provides some sort of constraint on the unknown probabilities governing the process. All these issues have led to the recognition of the need for a coherent mathematical theory of uncertainty. Shafer’s theory of belief functions, in particular, allows us to express partial belief by providing lower and upper bounds to probability values. It is appealing because it addresses all the above mentioned issues; its rationale is neat and simple; it is a straightforward generalization of probability theory; it does not require abandoning the notion of event. The widespread influence of uncertainty at different levels explains why belief functions are being increasingly applied to fields as diverse as robotics, fault analysis, decision making, sensor fusion, machine vision, and many more. Mathematically, a belief function is a random set, i.e. a probability distribution on the power set (the collection of all subsets). Equivalent alternative interpretations can be given in terms of compatibility relations, inner measures, and sum functions. However, the necessary mathematical tools for prediction and estimation in this framework have only partially been developed yet, due to their inherent complexity: this is the case, in particular, for the generalization of the classical total probability theorem to belief functions. The aim of this studentship is to study the mathematical properties of belief functions, and give a contribution towards the development of crucial tools such as the total belief theorem. Informal requests: fabio.cuzzolin(a)brookes.ac.uk Formal applications: follow the instructions here: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFL096/phd-studentship/ and contact jheaton(a)brookes.ac.uk

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[SIPTA] Special Session on Imprecise Probabilities at FUSION 2013, Istanbul, 9 - 12 July 2013
by Benjamin Noack Nov. 15, 2012

Nov. 15, 2012

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[SIPTA] Invitation to track classification and clustering in ICMSAO 2013
by Zied Elouedi Nov. 12, 2012

Nov. 12, 2012

I am writing to cordially invite you to submit a paper to the track classification and clustering organized in The 5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’13) that will be held in April 28-30, 2013, Hammamet, TUNISIA (http://www.icmsao.org/) Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. All accepted and presented papers will be published in IEEEXplore (pending). Selected papers will be published in one or more special issues of reputed, abstracted, and indexed journals. For any questions please send me an email: zied.elouedi(a)gmx.fr Track: Classification and clustering http://icmsao13.trackchair.com/track/1085 Track Chair: Zied Elouedi University of Tunis, Tunisia Email: zied.elouedi(a)gmx.fr Deadline : December 1, 2012 best regards zied

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[SIPTA] Track "classification and classification" in ICMSAO 2013
by Zied Elouedi Nov. 7, 2012

Nov. 7, 2012

FYI -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A track on classification and clustering is organized in This is a track of The 5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’13) That will be held in April 28-30, 2013, Hammamet, TUNISIA Track: Classification and clustering http://icmsao13.trackchair.com/track/1085 Track Chair: Zied Elouedi University of Tunis, Tunisia Email: zied.elouedi(a)gmx.fr deadline : December 1, 2012 submissions of papers are well welcome for any questions please send me an email: zied.elouedi(a)gmx.fr

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[SIPTA] SIPTA Blog at http://www.sipta.org/blog/
by Erik Quaeghebeur Oct. 31, 2012

Oct. 31, 2012

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 Oct. 30, 2012

Oct. 30, 2012

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 Oct. 25, 2012

Oct. 25, 2012

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[SIPTA] 2nd CfP: Uncertain Reasoning 2013 - Special Track at FLAIRS-26
by Christoph Beierle Oct. 19, 2012

Oct. 19, 2012

[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 Oct. 8, 2012

Oct. 8, 2012

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[SIPTA] Post-doc Researcher in the area of robust estimation (IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland)
by Alessio Benavoli Sept. 14, 2012

Sept. 14, 2012

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