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2nd CFP ISIPTA’2023 (deadline extension!)
by Enrique Miranda Jan. 17, 2023

Jan. 17, 2023

*News: extended deadlines **** * * IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission of title and abstract: February 12, 2023 (extended, final deadline) * Paper submission deadline: February 19, 2023 (extended, final deadline) * Notification of paper acceptance: April 12, 2023 * Poster submission deadline: May 1, 2023 * Notification of poster acceptance: May 15, 2023 * Conference: 11-14 July 2013 Call for papers What if we told you that “There’s more to uncertainty than probabilities.” Curious? Then come to Oviedo, Spain, 11-14 July 2023, to attend the 13th edition of ISIPTA: the world’s main forum on imprecise probabilities. For more information, visit https://isipta23.sipta.org/ <https://isipta23.sipta.org/>. Not convinced yet? Then perhaps the following features can convince you: TOPIC: The symposium is open to contributions on all aspects of imprecise probability, including (but not limited to) sets of probability measures, partial preference orderings, game-theoretic probability, choice functions, interval probabilities, belief functions, and possibility theory. CONCEPT: Each accepted contribution is presented and discussed in two separate sessions. Presentations are short and plenary. Detailed explanations and discussions are face-to-face relying on whichever medium you prefer, so as tofavor interaction among participants (you can visit: http://www.sipta.org/ <http://www.sipta.org/index.php?id=cs> for links to the previous editions of all ISIPTA conferences). WHY ATTEND?The conference is an excellent opportunity to learn about the latest developments in imprecise probability in a friendly and cooperative atmosphere where interaction and confrontation of ideas are the primary objectives. The conference will take place in Oviedo, the capital of Asturias, a region in the north of Spain familiarly referred to as the Natural Paradise. In addition, Oviedo is the original starting point of the primary cultural route in Europe, the Way of St James, and is home to five pre-Romanesque monuments declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 1985 and 1998. SUBMISSIONS: 2 options are available * Papers (with a limit of 9 pages, excluding references); * Abstracts (1 page, for ongoing research) Submission should be done via easychair: https://easychair.org/ <https://easychair.org/> PLENARY SPEAKERS: We are proud to announce that the plenary speakers of ISIPTA 2023 shall be: * Gert de Cooman (Ghent University, Belgium). * Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford, United Kingdom). * Michel Grabisch (Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, France). TRIBUTE TO TERRENCE FINE: During ISIPTA 2023, we will pay tribute to Terrence Fine, one of the founding fathers of imprecise probability theory, who sadly passed away on January 31, 2021. More information shall be provided in due time. PROCEEDINGS:Papers will be published by PMLR (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research).After the conference, extended versions of selected conference contributions will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. FELLOWSHIPS: Artificial Intelligence Journal is funding 4 fellowships for PhD Students. More information on the conditions and applications will be given in due time. AWARDS: As in previous editions, there will be two types of awards: On the one hand, the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning will give the IJAR Young Researcher Award to a young researcher whose contributions to IP theory are outstanding. The award shall consist of a certificate and 1000 euros. More details shall be given soon. In addition, poster awards shall be given to those poster presentations of excellent quality. The award shall be supported by Wiley and Springer and will consist of a certificate and a book. Contact e-mail: isipta2023(a)uniovi.es <mailto:isipta2023@uniovi.es> Further information: https://isipta23.sipta.org/ <https://isipta23.sipta.org/> Twitter account:@isipta2023 The ISIPTA 2023 Steering Committee J. De Bock (Ghent University, Belgium) F.G. Cozman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) E. Miranda (University of Oviedo, Spain) I. Montes (University of Oviedo, Spain) E. Quaeghebeur (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) B. Vantaggi (Università La Sapienza of Rome, Italy) *

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Next sipta seminar: 13th january (Friday) at 3pm Paris time
by Sebastien Destercke Jan. 6, 2023

Jan. 6, 2023

Dear SIPTiAns and IP enthusiasts, We are delighted to announce our sixth SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP), and the first of this new year. These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and will be 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 sixth seminar will take place on the 13th of January (Friday), at 3pm Paris Time. The zoom link is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/89529523919 This sixth seminar will consist of a joint talk aiming at providing an overview of recent advances and challenges in a given field. For this, we are very happy to have three different speakers that will each give their view on the topic of Engineering in IP (during a 1 hour talk in total). We are very happy to have as our speakers Alice Cicirello, the founder and the Head of the Data, Vibration and Uncertainty Group at Tu Delft, Matthias Faes, Chair for Reliability Engineering at TU Dortmund, and Edoardo Pattelli, Professor in Risk and Uncertainty Quantification and the Head of the Centre for Intelligent Infrastructure at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at Strathclyde University. All of them have made impressive contributions as to how one can deal with imprecision and uncertainty in various engineering problems, with a very rich expertise in both theoretical and applied problems. We are very much looking forward listening to their thoughts about the state of IP in engineering! Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars. The zoom link for attending the seminar can also be found on that same page shortly before the event. So please mark your calendars on the 13th January, at 15:00 Paris Time, and 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 now online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdsFlLudLjo. See you at the seminar! Sébastien, Enrique and Jasper

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FW: UAI 2023
by Kreinovich, Vladik Dec. 29, 2022

Dec. 29, 2022

UAI 2023 - Call for Papers https://www.auai.org/uai2023/ The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI<https://auai.org/>) is one of the premier international conferences on research related to learning and reasoning in the presence of uncertainty. The conference has been held every year since 1985. The upcoming 39th edition (UAI 2023<https://auai.org/uai2023/>) will be an in-person conference with virtual elements taking place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA from 31 July to 4 August 2023. We invite papers that describe novel theory, methodology and applications related to artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics. Papers will be assessed in a rigorous double-blind peer-review process, based on the criteria of technical correctness, novelty, clarity of writing, and potential impact. Authors are strongly encouraged to make code and data available. All accepted papers will be presented in poster sessions and spotlight presentations (physically or remotely). Selected papers will have longer presentations and an assigned discussant to foster debate. All accepted papers will be published in a volume of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR)<http://proceedings.mlr.press/>. Deadlines and other relevant dates can be found under important dates<https://www.auai.org/uai2023/dates>. Important dates for authors: * 17 February 2023 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth, AoE): Paper submission deadline * 11-20 April 2023: Author response and discussion period * 8 May 2023: Author notification Papers should be submitted on OpenReview at https://openreview.net/group?id=auai.org/UAI/2023/Conference. We are looking forward to building an exciting program and we aim to make the most of the advantages that a hybrid conference can create. If you have any particular positive or negative experiences that you would like to share with us, please do not hesitate to email us. If you are interested in giving a tutorial or organising a workshop at UAI 2023, please contact the tutorial chairs (uai2023chairs+tutorials(a)gmail.com<mailto:uai2023chairs+tutorials@gmail.com>) or workshop chairs (uai2023chairs+workshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:uai2023chairs+workshop@gmail.com>) by 10 March 2023. Relevant dates: * 31 July: Tutorials * 1-3 August: Main conference * 4 August: Workshops Robin Evans and Ilya Shpitser UAI 2023 Program Chairs uai2023programchairs(a)gmail.com<mailto:uai2023programchairs@gmail.com>

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IUKM 2023 Call for Papers [Kanazawa, Japan, November 02-04, 2023]
by Van-Nam HUYNH Dec. 26, 2022

Dec. 26, 2022

[Apologies for cross-posting. Your help in circulating this call for papers to potentially interested parties is highly appreciated.] ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— CALL FOR PAPERS ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— IUKM 2023: The Tenth International Symposium on INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY in KNOWLEDGE MODELLING and DECISION MAKING Kanazawa, JAPAN, November 02-04, 2023 Conference website: https://www.jaist.ac.jp/IUKM/IUKM2023/ Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IUKM2023 Submission deadline: May 15, 2023 ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— The International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making (IUKM) 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. The Tenth International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making (IUKM 2023) will be held in Kanazawa, Japan during 02-04 November, 2023, and be jointly organized by Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), University of Science (Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam, and Osaka University, Japan. Submission Guidelines: All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The authors are invited to submit their full papers by May 15, 2023. The submissions will be peer-reviewed for originality and scientific quality. Authors are requested to prepare their papers in the Springer format. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages and must be submitted as PDF electronically through the conference's CMT submission page. List of Topics Relevant topics for the IUKM 2023 Symposium include (but are not limited to) the following: — Theory and Methodology • Uncertainty formalisms: Bayesian probability, Dempster-Shafer theory, imprecise probability, random sets, rough sets, fuzzy sets and interval methods • Modelling uncertainty and inconsistency in big data • Learning and reasoning with uncertainty • Logics for reasoning under uncertainty • Uncertainty modelling in machine learning and deep learning • Information fusion and knowledge integration in uncertain environments • Decision making under various types of uncertainty • Aggregation operators for decision making • Copulas for dependence modelling • Granular and soft computing • Computational intelligence — Application • Data mining and knowledge discovery • Multi-agent reinforcement learning • Ontology engineering and Semantic Web • Privacy preserving data analysis • Intelligent data analysis and modelling • Agents and argumentation • Natural language processing • Medical informatics and bioinformatics • Ranking and recommendation systems • Big data and cloud computing • Social network analysis and mining • Sensor fusion • System identification and modelling • Diagnosis and reliability • Decision support systems • Kansei/affective engineering • Service computing • Engineering management • Supply chain management • Environmental management • Economics and econometrics • Statistics and Applications ——————————————————————————————————————————— Publication As done in previous editions, the proceedings of IUKM 2023 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, and be available at the Conference. _______________________________________________ General Chairs: Masahiro Inuiguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Youji Kohda (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Program Chairs: Van-Nam Huynh (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Bac H. Le (University of Science, Vietnam National University (VNU)-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) Katsuhiro Honda (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)

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FW: invitation to a special issue
by Kreinovich, Vladik Dec. 22, 2022

Dec. 22, 2022

Special Issue of a Springer journal "Archive of Applied Mechanics" on Numerical analysis and design of structures including polymorphic uncertain data edited by Michael Kaliske, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA Numerical simulation of structures is currently often characterized by deterministic methods. Deterministic models of the reality indicate preciseness and safety, while, on contrary all available data and information are characterized by various types of uncertainty (variability, imprecision, incompleteness), which cannot be neglected. Polymorphic uncertainty comprehends all of these types of uncertainty and their combinations. The main focus of the special issue is the presentation of methods for the numerical analysis and design of structures under consideration of polymorphic data uncertainty. Engineering solutions are characterized by inherent robustness and flexibility as essential features for a faultless life of structures under uncertain and changing conditions. Implementing these features in a system requires comprehensive consideration of uncertainty in the model parameters, in environmental and human imposed loads as well as other types of intrinsic and epistemic uncertainties. Numerical design of structures should be robust with respect to (spatial and time dependent) uncertainties inherently present in material characteristics, boundary conditions etc. This requires in turn a reliable numerical analysis, assessment and prediction of the lifecycle of structures, taking explicitly into account the effect of unavoidable uncertainties (limited or dubious information, human factors, subjectivity and experience, linguistic assessment, imprecise measurement, unclear physics etc.). Recent developments of numerical methods in the field of "real world" engineering problems, which include a comprehensive consideration of uncertainty and associated efficient analysis techniques are requested. Contributions regarding respective advanced methods, such as stochastic analysis, interval analysis, fuzzy analysis, polymorphic uncertainty quantification, surrogate modeling, multi-fidelity simulation and high performance computing are explicitly invited. These may address the incorporation of dependencies within and between uncertain quantities as well as uncertainty models for spatial and temporal dependent quantities At https://www.springer.com/journal/419, you can find the submission system of the publisher. Please do not forget to indicate the special issue when submitting. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2023. We are looking forward to receiving your manuscripts. Michael Kaliske michael.kaliske(a)tu-dresden.de<mailto:michael.kaliske@tu-dresden.de> and Vladik Kreinovich vladik(a)utepo.edu<mailto:vladik@utepo.edu>

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a short update on isipta'2023
by Enrique Miranda Dec. 22, 2022

Dec. 22, 2022

Dear fellow Siptians, While we will be sending more detailed information after the holidays, I'd like to give a small update on the organisation of the upcoming ISIPTA. Further details can be found at our website https://isipta23.sipta.org/. You may also check our twitter @isipta2023 for regular updates. A few key points: -Our plenary speakers shall be Gert de Cooman (Ghent University), Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford) and Michel Grabisch (University Paris I). -We shall also make a hommage to the late Terry Fine. -There shall be a poster award and an IJAR young researcher award. The award committees are Ruobin Gong, Alexander Erreygers, Davide Petturiti and Raul Pérez-Fernández (poster award) and Inés Couso, Denis Mauá and Paolo Vicig (IJAR award). Further details shall be given around February. -There will be 4 fellowships to support the attendance of young students, funded by Artificial Intelligence. Details will be given after acceptance of papers/poster abstracts. -The deadline for abstract submission is January 29 and of paper submission, February 5. Looking forward to welcome you all in Oviedo in July! Best regards, Enrique Miranda

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[CFP] Uncertain Reasoning Special Track at The 36th International FLAIRS Conference (UR@FLAIRS-36)
by Kai Sauerwald Dec. 20, 2022

Dec. 20, 2022

*** Second Call for Papers *** ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Uncertain Reasoning (UR) Special Track at The 36th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-36) In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA May 14-17, 2023 Abstract submission deadline: February 6, 2023 Paper submission deadline: February 13, 2023 Notification: March 13, 2023 All accepted papers will be included in the FLAIRS proceedings published by Florida Online Journals Invited papers will be published in a special journal issue http://ur-flairs.github.io/2023/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call For Papers The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR Special Track at the 36th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-36) is the 28th in the series. Like the past tracks, UR seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. Topics of Interest 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 *Probabilistic graphical models of uncertainty such as: Bayesian networks, Markov random field, probabilistic circuits *Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision-making *Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process *Temporal reasoning and uncertainty *Non-monotonic reasoning *Conditional Logics *Argumentation *Belief change and merging *Similarity-based reasoning *Ontologies and description logics *Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery *Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment *Uncertain reasoning in data management *Practical applications of uncertain reasoning *Learning probabilistic models *Applications in computer vision and animation === Paper Submission and Publication === Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference while under review. Interested authors should format their papers according to FLAIRS-36 conference formatting guidelines. Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by February 13, 2023. The reviewing is a double blind process. Author names and affiliations must be omitted on submitted papers. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can be accessed through the main conference web site (http://www.flairs-36.info/) Authors should indicate the Uncertain Reasoning special track for submissions. All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of FLAIRS, which will be published by the Florida Online Journals. FLAIRS requires that there be at least one full author registration per paper. Instructions on the submission procedure are available at the UR website: http://ur-flairs.github.io/2023 We anticipate there will be a special issue devoted to extended versions of selected papers at the track. === Important Dates === Abstract submission due: Feb. 6, 2023 Paper submission due: Feb. 13, 2023 Author Notification: Mar. 13, 2023 === Program Committee === [ Track Chairs ] Kai Sauerwald University of Hagen, Germany Choh Man Teng Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA [ PC Members ] Mohand Said Allili (Université du Québec en Outaouais) Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) Christoph Beierle (FernUniversität in Hagen, Israel) Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) Stefano Bistarelli (University of Perugia, Italy) Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada) Martine Ceberio (University of Texas at El Paso, US) Lluis Godo (University of Barcelona, Spain) Christophe Gonzales (LIS, France) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Technology Dortmund, Germany) Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, US) Philippe Leray (University of Nantes, France) Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, US) Ralf Möller (University of Lübeck, Germany) Rafael Peñaloza Nyssen (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Eugene Santos (Dartmouth College, US) Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, US) Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) Karima Sedki (University of Paris 13, France) Karim Tabia (University of Artois, France) Carlo Taticchi (University of Perugia, Italy) === Travel Information === Additional information on the conference locale and travel planning can be found at http://www.flairs-36.info.

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CFP "Logics for the New AI Spring"
by hykel hosni Dec. 6, 2022

Dec. 6, 2022

Dear All, I'd like to draw attention to the following IJAR call for paper. We aim primarily at conceptual advance on the topic of the S.I. Best wishes, hykel ------------------------------------------------ Second call for papers ------------------------------------------------ *Logics for the new AI spring* The development of logics capable to perform human-like reasoning is one of the central objectives around which the logical community of Artificial Intelligence moved its first steps. Besides being a fundamental tool of knowledge representation and reasoning, logical tools are expected to play a key role in the future of AI especially owing to their ability to integrate symbolic and sub-symbolic AI. The scope of the special issue includes, but is not limited to the following topics: (1) Logical methods in symbolic AI; (2) Logical methods in machine learning; (3) Machine learning in a logical setting; (4) Reasoning and (interactive) decision making under uncertainty. *Guest editors:* *Dr. Tommaso Flaminio (Managing Guest Editor)*Instituto de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial (IIIA - CSIC) Email: tommaso(a)iiia.csic.es *Prof. Hykel Hosni*Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Milano Email: hykel.hosni(a)unimi.it *Manuscript submission information:* *Submission Guidelines:* Authors should prepare their manuscripts according to the "Instructions for Authors" guidelines of the *International Journal of Approximate Reasoning* outlined at the journal website: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reas… . *Submissions are expected to be written in LaTeX*. All papers will be peer-reviewed following a regular reviewing procedure. All manuscripts should be submitted electronically through Editorial Manager ® at https://www.editorialmanager.com/ija/default1.aspx. When submitting papers, please select Article Type as "VSI:Logics for AI spring". Important Dates: - Submission Deadline: 1st March 2023 - Editorial Acceptance Deadline" 31st July 2023 Keywords: Logic for AI; Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation; Symbolic AI; Hybrid systems. Learn more about the benefits of publishing in a special issue: https://www.elsevier.com/authors/submit-your-paper/special-issues

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Re: mark your calendars: IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics conferences
by Kreinovich, Vladik Nov. 28, 2022

Nov. 28, 2022

Dear Friends, At today's meeting of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society Board, it was decided that the 2025 IEEE SMC conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, on October 5-8, 2025. The next IEEE SMC conference SMC'2023 will be in Maui, Hawaii, October 1-4, 2023; deadline for special session proposals February 1, 2023; deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals and for papers March 30, 2023, see https://ieeesmc2023.org/ for details. IEEE SMC'2024 will be in Kuching City, Sarawak, Malaysia, on October 7-10, 2024. IEEE SMC'2026 will be in Seattle, Washington, October 11-14, 2026. Papers using imprecise probabilities are always welcome at this series of conferences, mark your calendars - and see you there!

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Next seminar: tomorrow at 3pm CET (Paris Time)
by Sébastien Destercke Nov. 28, 2022

Nov. 28, 2022

Dear all, Just a friendly reminder that our next SIPTA seminar is tomorrow, 3pm CET (Paris Time), and that Fabio Cozman will give us a talk about uncertainty in argumentation. See you there! The SIPTA seminar organizing committee.

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