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[SIPTA] Re: international econometric conference in Vietnam -- deadline extended to September 15
by Kreinovich 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

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[SIPTA] Re: econometric conference in Thailand: deadline extended to September 15
by Kreinovich 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

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[SIPTA] Re: deadline extended: Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence
by Kreinovich 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

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[SIPTA] Re: Extended deadline: Call for Papers: 8th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (ISRERM), Hannover, Germany, 4-7 Sept 2022
by Kreinovich 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

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[SIPTA] [IEEE DSS-2021] Call for Papers | Hybrid | Submission deadline: 15 Sep 2021
by Arnaud Martin 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

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[SIPTA] [vacancy] PhD position in Robust Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification
by Erik Quaeghebeur 27 Aug '21

27 Aug '21

Dear colleagues, We have an opening for a PhD position in Robust Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification at Eindhoven University of Technology: https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/phd-candidate-on-eaisi-%E2%80%93-damocles-ro… It is part of a multidisciplinary project that focuses on the modeling of physical systems (constitutive relations, to be more precise) using various approaches in the white box–black box spectrum. Our work package will approach the problem from a Bayesian modeling perspective and build in robustness using techniques developed in the imprecise probability field. Please disseminate to promising candidates in your neighborhood! Best regards, Erik -- https://ac.erikquaeghebeur.name

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[SIPTA] Causal expectation maximisation
by Marco Zaffalon 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

Dear Friends and Colleagues, We have a report showing that we can solve causal inference in very general terms, albeit approximately, via expectation maximisation. We have made it publicly available here, if you are interested: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02912. *** I would also like to share some information on causality-related events for those of you who may be interested (thanks to Alessandro Antonucci for helping to collect them): - CLeaR (deadline Oct. 22) https://www.cclear.cc/2022 - Why 2021 (deadline Sept. 18) https://why21.causalai.net - SI IEEE (deadline Oct. 22) https://cis.ieee.org/images/files/Publications/TNNLS/special-issues/CFP_TNN…. *** Finally, someone might be interested in this recent PhD thesis that proposes nice statistical tools to consider omitted variable bias in common regression valuation metrics + sensitivity analysis tools in linear models: https://escholarship.org/content/qt5bv3x35d/qt5bv3x35d.pdf. Wishing a happy and productive re-start of work to all, Marco

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[SIPTA] Call for participation: Reasoning Web Summer School (RW) 2021
by Ivan José Varzinczak 22 Aug '21

22 Aug '21

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[SIPTA] FW: 8th World Conference on Soft Computing, please notice a new URL www.wconsc2021.com
by Kreinovich 21 Aug '21

21 Aug '21

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[SIPTA] Fwd: [UAI] CFP Causal-ITALY International AIxIA Workshop on Causality, Deadline 24 Sept 2021
by Zaffalon Marco 03 Aug '21

03 Aug '21

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[SIPTA] Post Doc at LSE: Decision Making under Severe Uncertainty
by Thomas Augustin LMU 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

Dear Sipta-Followers, Let me bring your attention to an exciting post doc position in London at LSE. Details are available from https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/2076/0/308482/15539/research-officer-in-… Best wishes, Thomas

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[SIPTA] FW: another econometric conference: deadline extended
by Kreinovich 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

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[SIPTA] FW: Econometrics conference, deadline extended to August 31, 2021
by Kreinovich 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

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[SIPTA] Re: IEEE SSCI 2021: Submission deadline extension to 20th August
by Kreinovich 25 Jul '21

25 Jul '21

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[SIPTA] [news] Continual Semi-Supervised Learning @ IJCAI 2021 - Call for participation
by Fabio Cuzzolin 23 Jul '21

23 Jul '21

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[SIPTA] [UAI] IUKM 2022 Call for Papers [Ishikawa, Japan, March 18-20, 2022]
by Van-Nam HUYNH 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

[Apologies for cross-posting. Your help in circulating this call for papers to potentially interested parties is highly appreciated.] ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— CALL FOR PAPERS ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— IUKM 2022: The Ninth International Symposium on INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY in KNOWLEDGE MODELLING and DECISION MAKING Ishikawa, JAPAN, March 18-20, 2022 Conference website: https://www.jaist.ac.jp/IUKM/IUKM2022/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iukm2022 Submission deadline: October 25, 2021 ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— 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 Ninth International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making (IUKM 2022) will be held in a hybrid mode of both in-person and online during 18-20 March, 2022, and be jointly organized by Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) 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 October 25, 2021. 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 Easychair submission page. List of Topics Relevant topics for the IUKM 2022 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-based models Modelling uncertainty and inconsistency in big data Learning and reasoning with uncertainty Logics for reasoning under uncertainty Uncertainty modelling in 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 Ontology engineering and Semantic Web 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 2022 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, and be available at the Conference. _______________________________________________ General Chair: Masahiro Inuiguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Program Chair: Katsuhiro Honda (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan) Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Van-Nam Huynh (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Hideomi Gokon (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

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[SIPTA] See you soon at ISIPTA 2021?
by Jasper De Bock 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

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[SIPTA] Re: SCAN2020 abstract submission deadline extended to July 14th
by Kreinovich 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

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[SIPTA] ISIPTA 2021: Call for Virtual Participation
by Serafin Moral 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

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[SIPTA] Re: SCAN2020 abstract submission reminder
by Kreinovich 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

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[SIPTA] Re: CFP for AICI'2022
by Kreinovich 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

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[SIPTA] Re: FnPIG, the Fuzzy & Possibility Interest Group
by Kreinovich 19 Jun '21

19 Jun '21

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[SIPTA] Re: SC-AIS-2021 and MICAI 2021
by Kreinovich 17 Jun '21

17 Jun '21

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[SIPTA] FW: 10th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing REC 2023
by Kreinovich 17 Jun '21

17 Jun '21

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[SIPTA] Final Call for Papers: NMR 2021
by Richard Booth 17 Jun '21

17 Jun '21

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[SIPTA] SIPTA website - New blog post
by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

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[SIPTA] mark your calendars for 2023
by Kreinovich 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

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[SIPTA] Re: CfP SCAN2020 online
by Kreinovich 05 Jun '21

05 Jun '21

FYI, papers on verified computations related to imprecise probabilities are welcome too, especially papers that use interval techniques. -----Original Message----- From: Csendes Tibor <csendes(a)inf.u-szeged.hu> Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2021 9:18 AM The 19th International Symposium on Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Verified Numerical Computations will be held online between the 13th and 17th of September 2021 (Monday to Friday). The five plenary speakers will be Jay Mireles James, Fabienne Jézéquel, Kazuaki Tanaka, and the two Moore Prize winners to be announced. Those interested in presenting a contribution are asked to submit a short abstract (1 to 2 pages in PDF-format) using the LaTeX template. Submission of the abstract should be done no later than June 30, 2021 by easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scan2020 The accepted abstracts will be published in electronic form at the web-site of SCAN2020: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/scan2020/program and in a printed book of abstracts. At least one author of an accepted abstract must pay the registration fee to be published in the book of abstracts. The registration fee will be 100 Euro, that contains the volume of abstracts, the online conference environment, and other organization costs. We plan to have special issues of three scientific journals (among them Acta Cybernetica and Reliable Computing). Please share the information with your colleagues. We are looking forward to seeing you online! The Organizing Committee: Balázs Bánhelyi (chair), Tibor Csendes, Boglárka G.-Tóth, and Tamás Vinkó -- Dr. Csendes Tibor egyetemi tanár, Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Informatikai Intézet H-6701 Szeged, Pf. 652, Hungary csendes(a)inf.u-szeged.hu www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~csendes/ Tel.: +36 62 544 305, +36 30 314 1626, Fax: +36 62 546 397 Anagrammák: Consider best; Drei Cent Boss; Csend, esti bor...

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[SIPTA] [jobs] PhD studentships in Epistemic Artificial Intelligence @ Oxford Brookes
by Fabio Cuzzolin 28 May '21

28 May '21

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[SIPTA] 2nd Call for Papers: NMR 2021
by Richard Booth 26 May '21

26 May '21

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[SIPTA] International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing 2021 and 2023
by Kreinovich 19 May '21

19 May '21

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[SIPTA] 1st Call for Papers: NMR 2021
by Richard Booth 05 May '21

05 May '21

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[SIPTA] Organized Session CMStatistics 2021
by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ 02 May '21

02 May '21

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[SIPTA] FW: A Request
by Kreinovich 02 May '21

02 May '21

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[SIPTA] Reasoning Web Summer School 2021
by Ivan José Varzinczak 01 May '21

01 May '21

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2021 - last call for papers - final submission deadline
by frederic.pichon 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

========================================================================= 6th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) Dates: October 15th-19th, 2021 Location: Shanghai, China (online participation also possible) Final submission deadline: May 9th, 2021 Notification: June 25th, 2021 Final version: July 15th, 2021 Further information: https://www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/events/belief2021/ ========================================================================= 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 modelling epistemic uncertainty. These early contributions have been the starting points of many important developments, including the transferable belief model and the theory of hints. The theory of belief functions is now well established as a general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, and has well understood connections to other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories. It has been applied in diverse areas such as machine learning, information fusion and risk analysis. The BELIEF conferences (sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society https://www.bfasociety.org/) are dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory. The first edition of this conference series was held in Brest, France, in 2010. Later editions were held in Compiègne, France in 2012, Oxford, UK in 2014, Prague, Czech Republic in 2016, and again in Compiègne, France in 2018. The Sixth International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) will be located in Shanghai, China, on October 15-19, 2021, together with the 2021 International Conference on Cognitive analytics, Granular computing, and Three-way decisions (CCGT). It will be held both onsite and online due to the COVID-19 situation (see Venue and Registration below for details). Submission and Proceedings ========================== The proceedings of the BELIEF 2021 conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume 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. Previous BELIEF proceedings can be found on SpringerLink. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. IJAR Special issue ================== Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2021 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 (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reas…) IJAR Best Paper Award ===================== Thanks to the continued support of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, the best papers presented at the conference will be distinguished by the IJAR Best Paper Award. The prize will consist of a certificate and 1000 euros, which will be split between the winners. Invited speakers ================ We are very happy to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give an invited talk at the conference: - Associate Prof. Chunlai Zhou (Renmin University, China), title of the talk: "Basic Utility Theory for Belief Functions" - Prof. Deqiang Han (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), title of the talk: "Learning-based Modelized Methods for Evidence Combination" - Prof. Zengjing Chen (Shandong University, China), title of the talk: "A Central Limit Theorem for Sets of Probability Measures" - Prof. Van-Nam Huynh (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), title of the talk: "Machine Learning coupled with Evidential Reasoning for User Preferences" Tutorials ========= The program of this edition of the BELIEF conference will include tutorials from experts on belief functions and their applications. Confirmed tutorials: - "Generalized Dempster-Shafer theory based on random fuzzy sets" (Prof. Thierry Denoeux, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France) - "Introduction to information fusion in belief function theory" (Prof. Frédéric Pichon, Université d’Artois, Béthune, France). Venue and Registration ====================== To accommodate for the uncertainties surrounding travel possibilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, participants have two options to attend the conference: either online or onsite. The onsite event will take place at the Gu Cun Park Hotel (No.4788 Hu Tai Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai). The registration fee for the onsite participants will include the following items: - Full attendance to the two conferences (BELIEF/CCGT), including keynote talks and tutorials - Online BELIEF 2021 conference proceedings - Gala dinner - Welcome reception - Conference bag - Coffee breaks and lunches We expect most keynote talks to be given onsite (and tutorials to be given online). Online participants will be able to join and participate to the onsite event via an online platform. They will benefit from a discounted registration fee, which will include the following items: - Full attendance to the two conferences (BELIEF/CCGT), including keynote talks and tutorials - Online BELIEF 2021 conference proceedings Students (BFAS Grants) ====================== The onsite and online student registration fees will be reduced in comparison to the standard onsite and online registration fees. Furthermore, the Belief functions and Applications Society (BFAS) is offering a number of grants to allow students with limited funding opportunities to present their work at the conference. The grant covers the registration fee (online or onsite fee depending on the chosen mode of participation by the student). Candidates should send the following information: - CV - recommendation letter from supervisor - copy of paper accepted at BELIEF 2021 to the secretary of BFAS, Dr. Anne-Laure Jousselme (anne-laure.jousselme(a)cmre.nato.int) ============================================================ BELIEF-CCGT Conference co-chairs Thierry Denoeux (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), Duoqian Miao (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, Canada). BELIEF 2021 Program Committee co-chairs Zhunga Liu (liuzhunga(a)nwpu.edu.cn, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), Frédéric Pichon (frederic.pichon(a)univ-artois.fr, Université d'Artois, Béthune, France). BELIEF 2021 Steering committee Eric Lefevre (Université d'Artois, France), Zhunga Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), David Mercier (Université d'Artois, France), Frédéric Pichon (Université d'Artois, France), Zhihua Wei (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Xiaodong Yue (Shanghai University, China) BELIEF 2021 Organization chair Xiaodong Yue, Shanghai University, China The organizers would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested participants of this conference.

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[SIPTA] [jobs] Research fellow in Epistemic Artificial Intelligence
by Fabio Cuzzolin 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

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[SIPTA] ISIPTA 2021: Call for Posters (deadline 15 May)
by Serafin Moral 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

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[SIPTA] IPMU 2022 Announcement
by Davide Elio Ciucci 19 Apr '21

19 Apr '21

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[SIPTA] imprecise-probability tag at math.stackexchange
by Abrams 10 Apr '21

10 Apr '21

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2021 - call for papers - extended submission deadline
by frederic.pichon 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

========================================================================= 6th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) Dates: October 15th-19th, 2021 Location: Shanghai, China (online participation also possible) Extended submission deadline: April 30th, 2021 Notification: June 16th, 2021 Final version: July 7th, 2021 Further information: https://www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/events/belief2021/ ========================================================================= 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 modelling epistemic uncertainty. These early contributions have been the starting points of many important developments, including the transferable belief model and the theory of hints. The theory of belief functions is now well established as a general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, and has well understood connections to other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories. It has been applied in diverse areas such as machine learning, information fusion and risk analysis. The BELIEF conferences (sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society https://www.bfasociety.org/) are dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory. The first edition of this conference series was held in Brest, France, in 2010. Later editions were held in Compiègne, France in 2012, Oxford, UK in 2014, Prague, Czech Republic in 2016, and again in Compiègne, France in 2018. The Sixth International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) will be located in Shanghai, China, on October 15-19, 2021, together with the 2021 International Conference on Cognitive analytics, Granular computing, and Three-way decisions (CCGT). It will be held both onsite and online due to the COVID-19 situation (see Venue and Registration below for details). Submission and Proceedings ========================== The proceedings of the BELIEF 2021 conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume 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. Previous BELIEF proceedings can be found on SpringerLink. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. IJAR Special issue ================== Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2021 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 (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reas…) IJAR Best Paper Award ===================== Thanks to the continued support of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, the best papers presented at the conference will be distinguished by the IJAR Best Paper Award. The prize will consist of a certificate and 1000 euros, which will be split between the winners. Invited speakers ================ We are very happy to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give an invited talk at the conference: - Associate Prof. Chunlai Zhou (Renmin University, China), title of the talk: "Basic Utility Theory for Belief Functions" - Prof. Deqiang Han (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), title of the talk: "Learning-based Modelized Methods for Evidence Combination" - Prof. Zengjing Chen (Shandong University, China), title of the talk: "A Central Limit Theorem for Sets of Probability Measures" - Prof. Van-Nam Huynh (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), title of the talk: "Machine Learning coupled with Evidential Reasoning for User Preferences" Tutorials ========= The program of this edition of the BELIEF conference will include tutorials from experts on belief functions and their applications. Confirmed tutorials: - "Generalized Dempster-Shafer theory based on random fuzzy sets" (Prof. Thierry Denoeux, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France) - "Introduction to information fusion in belief function theory" (Prof. Frédéric Pichon, Université d’Artois, Béthune, France). Venue and Registration ====================== To accommodate for the uncertainties surrounding travel possibilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, participants have two options to attend the conference: either online or onsite. The onsite event will take place at the Gu Cun Park Hotel (No.4788 Hu Tai Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai). The registration fee for the onsite participants will include the following items: - Full attendance to the two conferences (BELIEF/CCGT), including keynote talks and tutorials - Online BELIEF 2021 conference proceedings - Gala dinner - Welcome reception - Conference bag - Coffee breaks and lunches We expect most keynote talks to be given onsite (and tutorials to be given online). Online participants will be able to join and participate to the onsite event via an online platform. They will benefit from a discounted registration fee, which will include the following items: - Full attendance to the two conferences (BELIEF/CCGT), including keynote talks and tutorials - Online BELIEF 2021 conference proceedings Students (BFAS Grants) ====================== The onsite and online student registration fees will be reduced in comparison to the standard onsite and online registration fees. Furthermore, the Belief functions and Applications Society (BFAS) is offering a number of grants to allow students with limited funding opportunities to present their work at the conference. The grant covers the registration fee (online or onsite fee depending on the chosen mode of participation by the student). Candidates should send the following information: - CV - recommendation letter from supervisor - copy of paper accepted at BELIEF 2021 to the secretary of BFAS, Dr. Anne-Laure Jousselme (anne-laure.jousselme(a)cmre.nato.int) ============================================================ BELIEF-CCGT Conference co-chairs Thierry Denoeux (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), Duoqian Miao (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, Canada). BELIEF 2021 Program Committee co-chairs Zhunga Liu (liuzhunga(a)nwpu.edu.cn, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), Frédéric Pichon (frederic.pichon(a)univ-artois.fr, Université d'Artois, Béthune, France). BELIEF 2021 Steering committee Eric Lefevre (Université d'Artois, France), Zhunga Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), David Mercier (Université d'Artois, France), Frédéric Pichon (Université d'Artois, France), Zhihua Wei (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Xiaodong Yue (Shanghai University, China) BELIEF 2021 Organization chair Xiaodong Yue, Shanghai University, China The organizers would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested participants of this conference.

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[SIPTA] FW: Information Update Regarding IEEE SSCI 2021
by Kreinovich 03 Apr '21

03 Apr '21

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[SIPTA] [jobs] Research fellow in Epistemic Artificial Intelligence - May 3
by Fabio Cuzzolin 31 Mar '21

31 Mar '21

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[SIPTA] Re: Call for papers: Symposium on “Optimization, Uncertainty and Probability”, IMECE2021- International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Virtual Conference, November 1-4, 2021
by Kreinovich 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2021 - Third call for papers
by frederic.pichon 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

========================================================================= 6th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) Dates: October 15th-19th, 2021 Location: Shanghai, China (online participation also possible) Submission deadline: April 15th, 2021 Notification: May 31st, 2021 Final version: June 30th, 2021 Further information: https://www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/events/belief2021/ ========================================================================= 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 modelling epistemic uncertainty. These early contributions have been the starting points of many important developments, including the transferable belief model and the theory of hints. The theory of belief functions is now well established as a general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, and has well understood connections to other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories. It has been applied in diverse areas such as machine learning, information fusion and risk analysis. The BELIEF conferences (sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society https://www.bfasociety.org/) are dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory. The first edition of this conference series was held in Brest, France, in 2010. Later editions were held in Compiègne, France in 2012, Oxford, UK in 2014, Prague, Czech Republic in 2016, and again in Compiègne, France in 2018. The Sixth International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) will be located in Shanghai, China, on October 15-19, 2021, together with the 2021 International Conference on Cognitive analytics, Granular computing, and Three-way decisions (CCGT). It will be held both onsite and online due to the COVID-19 situation (see Venue and Registration below for details). Submission and Proceedings ========================== The proceedings of the BELIEF 2021 conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume 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. Previous BELIEF proceedings can be found on SpringerLink. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. IJAR Special issue ================== Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2021 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 (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reas…) Invited speakers ================ We are very happy to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give an invited talk at the conference: - Associate Prof. Chunlai Zhou (Renmin University, China), title of the talk: "Basic Utility Theory for Belief Functions" - Prof. Deqiang Han (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), title of the talk: "Learning-based Modelized Methods for Evidence Combination" - Prof. Zengjing Chen (Shandong University, China), title of the talk to be announced - Prof. Van-Nam Huynh (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), title of the talk to be announced Tutorials ========= The program of this edition of the BELIEF conference will include tutorials from experts on belief functions and their applications. Confirmed tutorials: - "Generalized Dempster-Shafer theory based on random fuzzy sets" (Prof. Thierry Denoeux, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France) - "Introduction to information fusion in belief function theory" (Prof. Frédéric Pichon, Université d’Artois, Béthune, France). Venue and Registration ====================== To accommodate for the uncertainties surrounding travel possibilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, participants have two options to attend the conference: either online or onsite. The onsite event will take place at the Gu Cun Park Hotel (No.4788 Hu Tai Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai). The registration fee for the onsite participants will include the following items: - Full attendance to the two conferences (BELIEF/CCGT), including keynote talks and tutorials - Online BELIEF 2021 conference proceedings - Gala dinner - Welcome reception - Conference bag - Coffee breaks and lunches We expect most keynote talks to be given onsite (and tutorials to be given online). Online participants will be able to join and participate to the onsite event via an online platform. They will benefit from a discounted registration fee, which will include the following items: - Full attendance to the two conferences (BELIEF/CCGT), including keynote talks and tutorials - Online BELIEF 2021 conference proceedings Students ======== The onsite and online student registration fees will be reduced in comparison to the standard onsite and online registration fees. Furthermore, the Belief functions and Applications Society (BFAS) is offering a number of grants to allow students with limited funding opportunities to present their work at the conference. The grant covers the registration fee (online or onsite fee depending on the chosen mode of participation by the student). Candidates should send the following information: - CV - recommendation letter from supervisor - copy of paper accepted at BELIEF 2021 to the secretary of BFAS, Dr. Anne-Laure Jousselme (anne-laure.jousselme(a)cmre.nato.int) ============================================================ BELIEF-CCGT Conference co-chairs Thierry Denoeux (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), Duoqian Miao (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, Canada). BELIEF 2021 Program Committee co-chairs Zhunga Liu (liuzhunga(a)nwpu.edu.cn, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), Frédéric Pichon (frederic.pichon(a)univ-artois.fr, Université d'Artois, Béthune, France). BELIEF 2021 Steering committee Eric Lefevre (Université d'Artois, France), Zhunga Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), David Mercier (Université d'Artois, France), Frédéric Pichon (Université d'Artois, France), Zhihua Wei (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Xiaodong Yue (Shanghai University, China) BELIEF 2021 Organization chair Xiaodong Yue, Shanghai University, China The organizers would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested participants of this conference.

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[SIPTA] FYI: Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing REC'2021 will be fully online
by Kreinovich 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

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[SIPTA] FW: update on the 2021 World Congress of International Fuzzy Systems Association
by Kreinovich 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

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[SIPTA] FW: CoProD'21 call for papers
by Kreinovich 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

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[SIPTA] [jobs] Research fellow in Epistemic Artificial Intelligence (March 28)
by Fabio Cuzzolin 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

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[SIPTA] Re: Deadline of workshop proposals soon
by Kreinovich 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

FYI, imprecise probabilities are one of the highlighted topics -----Original Message----- From: Cassio de Campos Sent: Monday, March 1, 2021 10:29 AM https://www.auai.org/uai2021/call_for_workshops Submission deadline: March 8, 2021, 23:59 UTC We invite submissions of workshop proposals for the UAI 2021 conference. Workshops will be held virtually on July 30th following the main conference. Each workshop will be allocated half a day, starting at 6am or 6pm US Pacific Time. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for research topics that are relevant to the UAI community, with emphasis on the discussion of open problems and challenges. Workshop organisers will be in charge of arranging participation, content, and moderation of the workshops. Requirements A significant portion of the workshops should be dedicated to contributed content. Workshop organisers can decide whether contributions will consist of full papers or (extended) abstracts. We encourage workshop organisers to consider diversity aspects when creating the lists of invited speakers and panellists. In particular, we welcome the inclusion of early-career researchers. In addition to the aspects above, proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria: • Relevance to the UAI audience • Potential impact • Quality & clarity of the proposal • Organisers' relevant expertise The workshops should comply with the following requirements • Call for papers/abstracts: Before April 15th • Paper/abstract submission deadline: Between May 15th and May 31st • Paper/abstract notification: Before June 30th Submission Instructions Important dates: • Submission deadline: March 8, 2021, 23:59 UTC (this is a strict deadline) • Notification: April 2, 2021 Proposals should be in single column A4 or letter .pdf format, with font size 11 or greater, and no longer than two pages (excluding organisers’ details and bibliographic references). Proposals should be sent to the following email address: uai2021workshopchair(a)gmail.com. Proposals should contain • Workshop title • A description of the topics to be covered and an explanation of why the workshop is of interest to the UAI audience • A short description of the planned activities (talks, posters, panels) • An indicative list of invited speakers and panelists, specifying who is confirmed and who is unconfirmed • A brief description of the history of the workshop, if it previously took place, and of similar past workshops at other major AI/ML conferences in the last 2 years • List of organisers with email addresses and webpage URL (or a short bio for organisers who do not have a webpage) Silvia Chiappa UAI 2021 Workshop Chair uai2021workshopchair(a)gmail.com https://www.auai.org/uai2021/

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[SIPTA] FW: Special Issue: Reliable Modeling, Simulation, Identification, Control and State Estimation for Dynamic Systems with Uncertainty
by Kreinovich 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

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[SIPTA] Uncertainty and Risk meeting
by cohens＠maths.ox.ac.uk 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

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[SIPTA] CFP: IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2021
by Cristina Rottondi 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

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[SIPTA] important terminological observation: the word "subjective" considered harmful
by Kreinovich 20 Feb '21

20 Feb '21

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2021 Autumn: early registration March 3
by IRDTA 14 Feb '21

14 Feb '21

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[SIPTA] Re: 8th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (ISRERM), Hannover, Germany, 4-7 Sept 2022
by Kreinovich 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

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[SIPTA] ISIPTA 2021: Deadline Extension
by Serafin Moral 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

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[SIPTA] Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at Flairs 34 - Last Call for Papers (deadline February 16)
by Antonucci Alessandro 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

*** Apologies for multiple postings *** [UR @ FLAIRS 34] LAST CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the 34th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) May 16-19, 2021 - North Miami Beach, Florida (US) FLAIRS 34 will have a safe physical conference to the extent possible, and provide an option for online presentation for those who cannot attend the physical conference. Paper submission deadline: February 16, 2021 Conference website: http://www.flairs-34.info Special track website: http://idsia.ch/~alessandro/flairs ::: Call for Papers ::: Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote cross fertilisation among the different approaches for uncertain reasoning, and in this way foster the development of new ideas and paradigms. The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR '21 Special Track at the 34th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) is the 26th in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'21 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. 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 - Modelling 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 - Inference and learning with graphical models of uncertainty (e.g., Bayesian networks) - Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making - Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process - Temporal reasoning and uncertainty; non-monotonic reasoning; similarity-based reasoning - Conditional logics, description logic, logic programming - Argumentation - Belief change and merging - 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 (e.g., machine learning, computer vision and animation) All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track. ::: Program Committee ::: : Track Chairs : - Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) - Kamal Premaratne (University of Miami, US) : PC Members : Mohand Said Allili (Université du Québec en Outaouais) Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) Ameur Bensefia (Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates) Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada) Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada) Sebastien Destercke (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Lluis Godo (Spanish National Research Council, Spain) Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) Christophe Gonzales (LIS, France) Ilyes Jenhani (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia) 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) Jhonatan S. Oliveira (University of Regina, Canada) Rafael Peñaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Lalintha Polpitya (Mathworks, US) Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, US) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) Karima Sedki (University of Paris 13, France) Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) Karim Tabia (Artois University, France) Choh Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, US) Thanuka Wickramarathne (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, US) Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada) ::: Other Information ::: FLAIRS 34 will be held in North Miami Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found here. Feel free to write the organizers (alessandro(a)idsia.ch, kamal(a)miami.edu, benferhat(a)cril.fr) for any further information about the special track. ::: Submission ::: Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by February 16, 2021. For FLAIRS-34, the 2021 conference, the reviewing is a double-blind process. Author names and affiliations must be omitted on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. The papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can also be accessed through the main conference web site. There are two kinds of submissions: full paper (up to 6 pages) to be presented by the author in a 20 minute oral presentation; short paper (up to 4 pages) to be presented in a poster session. Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS-34 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-34.

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[SIPTA] Virtual conference on epistemic uncertainty
by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

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[SIPTA] IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC'2021, 2022, 2023, 2024: mark your calendars
by Kreinovich 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

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[SIPTA] Re: ViCE Virtual Conference on Epistemic Uncertainty in Engineering
by Kreinovich 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

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[SIPTA] Postdoc Position: The Bayesian Approach to Robust Argumentation Machines, Munich
by Thomas Augustin 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Dear SIPTA-list members, I'd like to inform you that Stephan Hartmann from the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy invites applications for a postdoc position. The project uses Bayesian Belief Networks for large-scale applications in the context of robust argumentation machines. For more information see https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/news/post_doc_rob_arg_2021/ind… Stephan and his team are also quite open to IP, providing a very interesting working environment. Best wishes, Thomas -- -- Prof. Dr. Thomas Augustin Studiendekan / Dean of Studies AG Method(olog)ische Grundlagen der Statistik und ihre Anwendungen / Foundations of Statistics and Their Applications Institut für Statistik / Department of Statistics Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München/ LMU Munich Ludwigstr. 33/II D-80539 München; Germany Tel. +49(0) 89/2180 3520 Fax. +49(0) 89/2180 5044 augustin(a)stat.uni-muenchen.de http://www.foundstat.statistik.uni-muenchen.de/index.html (new!) http://www.foundstat.statistik.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/forschung_int/inde… (new!) http://www.foundstat.statistik.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/publikationen/arte… (new!)

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[SIPTA] CFP: IFIP WG 7.3 Performance conference
by Cristina Rottondi 21 Jan '21

21 Jan '21

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[SIPTA] Lecturer job at Heudiasyc + PhD proposal (uncertainty propagation)
by Sébastien Destercke 21 Jan '21

21 Jan '21

Dear all, A small mail to inform you that we have two positions opening: * We will open a permanent lecturer position this year in our team, for which strong profiles in uncertainty reasoning and/or statistical learning are welcomed. Although it is possible to teach in english, the usual teaching language here is french. Just let me know if you want more information. * We have a PhD proposal on (espistemic) uncertainty propagation in problems of 3D satellite image reconstruction (used, e.g., to map towns or track ice melting progression). You can check the details there: https://recrutement.cnes.fr/en/annonce/1100115-050-uncertain-and-incomplete… So, if you have strong candidates that could be interested, or are interested yourself, do not hesitate to contact me. -- ==================================== Sebastien Destercke, Ph. D. CNRS researcher in computer science. Université de Technologie de Compiegne U.M.R. C.N.R.S. 7253 Heudiasyc Avenue de Landshut F-60205 Compiegne Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 44 23 79 85 Fax: +33 (0)3 44 23 44 77 ====================================

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[SIPTA] UAI 2021 - Call for Papers
by Cassio de Campos 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

UAI 2021 - Call for Papers The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) is one of the premier international conferences on research related to learning and reasoning in the presence of uncertainty. UAI 2021 will be held fully online from 27 to 30 July 2021. We invite papers that describe novel theory, methodology and applications related to artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics. Papers will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact and clarity of writing. More detailed information can be found on the conference website: https://www.auai.org/uai2021/ All accepted papers will be presented in poster sessions and spotlight presentations in a single plenary track to ensure good visibility. 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). Important dates: February 19, 2021 (23:59 UTC): Paper submission deadline April 14-20, 2021: Author response period May 12, 2021: Author notification We are looking forward to building an exciting program and will do our best to leverage the advantages that an online conference can create. If you have any particular positive or negative experience that you would like to share with us, please do not hesitate to write us an email. Very soon there will be a call for workshop proposals too, stay tuned. Cassio de Campos and Marloes Maathuis UAI 2021 Program Chairs uai2021programchairs(a)gmail.com

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[SIPTA] ISIPTA 2021 2nd CFPs: Deadline Approaching
by Serafin Moral 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

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[SIPTA] Re: Call for Papers: Applications and Systems Track (KR 2021)
by Kreinovich 17 Jan '21

17 Jan '21

FYI, applications involving probabilistic techniques are among the highlighted topics -----Original Message----- From: Thanh Dinh Sent: Friday, January 15, 2021 7:46 PM CALL FOR PAPERS *Applications and Systems Track* of the 18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2021) November 6-12, 2021, Hanoi, Vietnam https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de/ ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submission of title and abstract: March 24, 2021 Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2021 Author response period: May 24-26, 2021 Notification: June 15, 2021 Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2021 Conference dates: November 6-12, 2021 ------------------ Description ------------------ Systems and applications incorporating Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) have made tremendous progress over the last decades and become more and more pervasive in scientific, industrial and everyday life. Popular knowledge representation formalisms range from databases, ontologies, classical, probabilistic and non-monotonic logics to natural language, offering rich means to describe a variety of static as well as dynamic phenomena. Automated reasoning systems harness machine learning, combinatorial search and optimization methods, planning, proving, design and diagnosis techniques to provide powerful tools for analyzing and deriving conclusions from complex input data. Novel, general and interdisciplinary approaches are thus vital contributions at the intersection of science, industry and society, aiming to enhance the capabilities and outreach of KR principles and technologies. This year, for the second time, KR 2021 will host a track on "Applications and Systems". This track aims at providing researchers and industrial practitioners with a dedicated forum for presentation and discussion of new ideas, research experience and emerging results on topics related to applications of KR formalisms and automated reasoning systems. This track provides the opportunity for fostering meaningful connections between researchers from both practical and theoretical areas of AI and, at the same time, offers participants the possibility to learn about progress made on these topics, share their own views and elaborate about approaches that could lead to effective cross-fertilisation among research in challenging KR applications and new innovative systems for solving them. ------------------ Expected Contributions ------------------ The Applications and Systems Track at KR 2021 invites submissions of papers on all aspects of the development, deployment, and evaluation of KR systems to solve significant and challenging application problems, including * case studies, including suitable descriptions of the problem setting, data and tools used, and “lessons learnt”, * use cases, including task specifications, related tasks/approaches, challenges, and a sketch of possible KR solution, * benchmarks, including suitable descriptions of the dataset, reasoning tasks, and ideally some “solution set” or gold standard, * system descriptions, including descriptions of the algorithm, implementation and empirical evaluation on a suitable dataset. We welcome the above kinds of papers on a wide range of topics, including classic KR tools/techniques as well as their usage for solving or supporting tasks in a range of areas, for example: * Computational Biology * Computer Vision and Image/Video Recognition * Creative Computing * Cybersecurity and Blockchain * Data Analytics * Databases and Query Answering * Diagnosis and Explanation * Game Theory and Social Choice * Intelligent Transportation and Logistics * Intelligent User Interfaces * Internet of Things * Machine Learning * Natural Language Processing * Digital Forensics * Robotics and Human Robot Collaboration * Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs * Software Engineering * System Design We welcome submissions talking about interdisciplinary applications of KR, for example in economics, education, life sciences, medicine, and pharmacology. ------------------ Submission Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria ------------------ The Applications and Systems Track will allow contributions of both regular papers (9 pages) and short papers (4 pages), excluding references, prepared and submitted according to Authors Guidelines for KR 2021. The track emphasizes applications of KR and development of KR systems, and welcomes contributions showcasing the impact of KR research as well as driving future research by presenting challenging data, use cases and problems together with observations and insights gained. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed by PC members, who are active in applications of KR and/or development of KR systems. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, including criteria such as originality, soundness, relevance, significance, quality of presentation, and understanding of the state of the art. In this track, the selection process of the highest quality papers will further apply the following criteria: - (for case studies) quality of the evaluation and significance of the “lessons learnt” - (for use cases) importance and novelty of these use cases for KR - (for system descriptions) quality of the empirical evaluation and its reporting - (for benchmarks) reusability, coverage, and complexity of the datasets ------------------ Chairs ------------------ Martin Gebser (University of Klagenfurt & Graz University of Technology, Austria) Martin.Gebser(a)aau.at Uli Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Uli.Sattler(a)manchester.ac.uk

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2021 - Second call for papers
by frederic.pichon 16 Jan '21

16 Jan '21

============================================================ 6th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) Dates: October 15th-19th, 2021 Location: Shanghai, China Submission deadline: April 15th, 2021 Notification: May 31st, 2021 Final version: June 30th, 2021 Further information: https://www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/events/belief2021/ ============================================================ 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 modelling epistemic uncertainty. These early contributions have been the starting points of many important developments, including the Transferable Belief Model and the Theory of Hints. The theory of belief functions is now well established as a general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, and has well understood connections to other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories. The BELIEF conferences (sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society https://www.bfasociety.org/) are dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory. The first edition of this conference series was held in Brest, France, in 2010, the second edition in Compiègne, France, in 2012, the third edition in Oxford, UK, in 2014, the fourth edition in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2016, and the fifth edition in Compiègne, France, in 2018. The Sixth International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) will be located in Shanghai, China, on October 15-19, 2021, together with the 2021 International Conference on Cognitive analytics, Granular computing, and Three-way decisions (CCGT). It will be held totally or partially online depending on the evolution of the COVID-19 situation. Submission and Proceedings ======================= The proceedings of the BELIEF 2021 conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume 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. Previous BELIEF proceedings can be found on SpringerLink. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. IJAR Special issue ============== Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2021 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. Invited speakers ============= We are very happy to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give an invited talk at the conference: - Prof. Zengjing Chen (Shandong University, China) - Prof. Deqiang Han (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) - Prof. Van-Nam Huynh (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) - Associate Prof. Chunlai Zhou (Renmin University, China) Tutorials ============= The program of this edition of the BELIEF conference will include tutorials from experts on belief functions and their applications. More to be announced soon. ============================================================ BELIEF-CCGT Conference co-chairs Thierry Denoeux (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), Duoqian Miao (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, Canada). BELIEF 2021 Program Committee co-chairs Zhunga Liu (liuzhunga(a)nwpu.edu.cn, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), Frédéric Pichon (frederic.pichon(a)univ-artois.fr, Université d'Artois, France). BELIEF 2021 Steering committee Eric Lefevre (Université d'Artois, France), Zhunga Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), David Mercier (Université d'Artois, France), Frédéric Pichon (Université d'Artois, France), Zhihua Wei (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Xiaodong Yue (Shanghai University, China) BELIEF 2021 Organisation chair Xiaodong Yue, Shanghai University, China The organisers would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested participants of this conference.

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[SIPTA] New book: the geometry of uncertainty
by Fabio Cuzzolin 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

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[SIPTA] SSCI'2022: mark your calendars
by Kreinovich 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

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[SIPTA] FW: CALL FOR PAPER ESREL 2021 from 19 to 23 september 2021 in Angers, France
by Kreinovich 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

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[SIPTA] Re: UNCECOMP 2021 - Happy New Year! Reminder for Abstract Submission
by Kreinovich 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

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[SIPTA] Re: UAI 2021 - Call for Papers
by Kreinovich 24 Dec '20

24 Dec '20

Imprecise probabilities are one of the highlighted topics -----Original Message----- From: UAI2021 Programchairs Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 12:53 AM The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) is one of the premier international conferences on research related to learning and reasoning in the presence of uncertainty. UAI 2021 will be held fully online from 27 to 30 July 2021. We invite papers that describe novel theory, methodology and applications related to artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics. Papers will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact and clarity of writing. More detailed information can be found on the conference website: https://www.auai.org/uai2021/ Important dates: February 19, 2021 (23:59 UTC): Paper submission deadline April 14-20, 2021: Author response period May 12, 2021: Author notification We are looking forward to building an exciting program and will do our best to leverage the advantages that an online conference can create. If you have any particular positive or negative experience that you would like to share with us, please do not hesitate to write us an email. Soon there will be a call for workshop proposals too, stay tuned. Cassio de Campos and Marloes Maathuis UAI 2021 Program Chairs uai2021programchairs(a)gmail.com

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[SIPTA] Re: CFP: 16th European Conf on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2021)
by Kreinovich 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

FYI, probabilistic uncertainty is one of the highlighted topics. -----Original Message----- From: Nic Wilson Sent: Monday, December 21, 2020 4:31 AM CALL FOR PAPERS The Sixteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty ECSQARU 2021 http://ecsqaru.utia.cas.cz/ September 21-24, 2021, Prague (Czechia) The biennial ECSQARU conferences constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty, with a focus on bringing symbolic and quantitative aspects together. Contributions come from researchers interested in advancing the scientific knowledge and from practitioners using uncertainty techniques in real-world applications. The scope of the ECSQARU conferences encompasses fundamental issues, applications, representation, inference, learning, and decision making in qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms. Previous ECSQARU events have been held in Marseille (1991), Granada (1993), Fribourg (1995), Bonn (1997), London (1999), Toulouse (2001), Aalborg (2003), Barcelona (2005), Hammamet (2007), Verona (2009), Belfast (2011), Utrecht (2013), Compiègne (2015), Lugano (2017), and Belgrade (2019) SCOPE For ECSQARU 2021 we invite submissions of original papers on topics which include but are not limited to: - Algorithms for uncertain inference - Applications of uncertain systems - Argumentation systems - Automated planning and acting under uncertainty - Belief functions - Belief change & merging - Classification & clustering - Decision theory & decision graphs - Default reasoning - Description logics with uncertainty - Foundations of reasoning under uncertainty - Fuzzy sets & fuzzy logic - Game theory - Hybrid Reasoning - Imprecise probabilities - Inconsistency handling - Information fusion - Learning for uncertainty formalisms - Logics for reasoning under uncertainty - Markov decision processes - Possibility theory & possibilistic logic - Preferences - Probabilistic graphical models - Probabilistic logics - Qualitative uncertainty models - Rough sets - Uncertainty & data PROCEEDINGS In accordance with the previous conferences, it is planned that the proceedings of ECSQARU 2021 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. SUBMISSIONS Authors are requested to prepare their conference papers in the LNCS/LNAI format. Submitted papers must be original and not under review in a journal or another venue with formally published proceedings. They will be evaluated by peer reviews based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference to present their work: at least one author of each paper must register for the conference. Submitted papers must be at most 12 pages in the Springer LNCS/LNAI format. Submissions will be through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsqaru2021 IMPORTANT DATES May 1, 2021 - abstract submission deadline May 5, 2021 - paper submission deadline June 14, 2021 - author notification July 5, 2021 - submission of final version July 5, 2021 - early registration & payment

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[SIPTA] SIPTA School January dates
by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ 19 Dec '20

19 Dec '20

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[SIPTA] Position at Carlos III University of Madrid
by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ 16 Dec '20

16 Dec '20

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[SIPTA] Postdoc position on uncertainty quantification @ R2D - KU Leuven
by Matthias Faes 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

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[SIPTA] Re: IEEE SSCI 2021: First Call for Papers, Tutorials and Special Sessions
by Kreinovich 13 Dec '20

13 Dec '20

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[SIPTA] FW: JELIA 2021 CALL FOR PAPERS : Submission Deadlines Extended
by Kreinovich 05 Dec '20

05 Dec '20

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[SIPTA] SIPTA School *online* - Registration is open
by De Angelis 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

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[SIPTA] Re: NAFIPS'2021 call for papers
by Kreinovich 29 Nov '20

29 Nov '20

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[SIPTA] IEEE Series of Symposia on Computational Intelligence SSCI 2021: mark your calendars
by Kreinovich 29 Nov '20

29 Nov '20

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[SIPTA] SMPS2020 Conference postponed to 2022
by Kreinovich 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

FYI -----Original Message----- From: SMPS2020 Dear colleagues, As you certainly know, the undesirable circumstances in connection with the COVID-19 have not improved enough with respect to the ones we had some months ago, causing the delay in organizing the 10th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (formerly SMPS’2020). The uncertain situation and the way it is still affecting Spain (organizing such an edition) and most of countries in Europe, America, and so on, have moved us, in agreement with Core SMPS Group, to decide to stop with the former and even the second plannings for the conference. As we have already commented, because of the nature of this conference, we have discarded to consider a virtual version. It seems much better to postpone it waiting for the moment in which uncertainty only concerns our research topics (hopefully in 2022). We will inform you all in a more accurate way in due time. Thank you for your understanding and support! Take care! -- Luis A. García-Escudero Alfonso Gordaliza Agustín Mayo-Íscar Universidad de Valladolid (IMUVa), Spain General Chairs SMPS2020

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2021 Spring: early registration December 16
by IRDTA 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

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[SIPTA] SIPTA School *online*
by De Angelis 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

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[SIPTA] [Flairs-34] Last Call For Papers for Uncertain Reasoning Special Track
by Alessandro Antonucci 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at Flairs 34 - First Call for Papers *** Apologies for multiple postings *** [UR @ FLAIRS 34] CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the 34th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) May 16-19, 2021 - North Miami Beach, Florida (US) Paper submission deadline: November 17, 2020 Conference website: http://www.flairs-34.info Special track website: http://idsia.ch/~alessandro/flairs ::: Call for Papers ::: Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote cross fertilisation among the different approaches for uncertain reasoning, and in this way foster the development of new ideas and paradigms. The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR '21 Special Track at the 34th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) is the 26th in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'21 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. 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 - Modelling 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 - Inference and learning with graphical models of uncertainty (e.g., Bayesian networks) - Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making - Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process - Temporal reasoning and uncertainty; non-monotonic reasoning; similarity-based reasoning - Conditional logics, description logic, logic programming - Argumentation - Belief change and merging - 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 (e.g., machine learning, computer vision and animation) All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track. ::: Program Committee ::: : Track Chairs : - Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) - Kamal Premaratne (University of Miami, US) : PC Members : Mohand Said Allili (Université du Québec en Outaouais) Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) Ameur Bensefia (Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates) Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada) Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada) Sebastien Destercke (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) Christophe Gonzales (LIS, France) Ilyes Jenhani (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Technology Dortmund, Germany) Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, US) Rafael Peñaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Lalintha Polpitya (Mathworks, US) Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, US) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) Karim Tabia (Artois University, France) Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada) ::: Other Information ::: FLAIRS 34 will be held in North Miami Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found here. Feel free to write the organizers (alessandro(a)idsia.ch, kamal(a)miami.edu, benferhat(a)cril.fr) for any further information about the special track. ::: Submission ::: Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 17, 2020. For FLAIRS-34, the 2021 conference, the reviewing is a double-blind process. Author names and affiliations must be omitted on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. The papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can also be accessed through the main conference web site. There are two kinds of submissions: full paper (up to 6 pages) to be presented by the author in a 20 minute oral presentation; short paper (up to 4 pages) to be presented in a poster session. Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS-34 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-34.

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[SIPTA] [UR' 21 @ Flairs-34] Call For Papers (deadline Nov 17)
by Alessandro Antonucci 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at Flairs 34 - First Call for Papers *** Apologies for multiple postings *** [UR @ FLAIRS 34] CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the 34th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) May 16-19, 2021 - North Miami Beach, Florida (US) Paper submission deadline: November 17, 2020 Conference website: http://www.flairs-34.info Special track website: http://idsia.ch/~alessandro/flairs ::: Call for Papers ::: Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote cross fertilisation among the different approaches for uncertain reasoning, and in this way foster the development of new ideas and paradigms. The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR '21 Special Track at the 34th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) is the 26th in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'21 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. 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 - Modelling 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 - Inference and learning with graphical models of uncertainty (e.g., Bayesian networks) - Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making - Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process - Temporal reasoning and uncertainty; non-monotonic reasoning; similarity-based reasoning - Conditional logics, description logic, logic programming - Argumentation - Belief change and merging - 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 (e.g., machine learning, computer vision and animation) All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track. ::: Program Committee ::: : Track Chairs : - Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) - Kamal Premaratne (University of Miami, US) : PC Members : Mohand Said Allili (Université du Québec en Outaouais) Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) Ameur Bensefia (Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates) Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada) Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada) Sebastien Destercke (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) Christophe Gonzales (LIS, France) Ilyes Jenhani (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Technology Dortmund, Germany) Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, US) Rafael Peñaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Lalintha Polpitya (Mathworks, US) Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, US) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) Karim Tabia (Artois University, France) Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada) ::: Other Information ::: FLAIRS 34 will be held in North Miami Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found here. Feel free to write the organizers (alessandro(a)idsia.ch, kamal(a)miami.edu, benferhat(a)cril.fr) for any further information about the special track. ::: Submission ::: Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 17, 2020. For FLAIRS-34, the 2021 conference, the reviewing is a double-blind process. Author names and affiliations must be omitted on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. The papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can also be accessed through the main conference web site. There are two kinds of submissions: full paper (up to 6 pages) to be presented by the author in a 20 minute oral presentation; short paper (up to 4 pages) to be presented in a poster session. Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS-34 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-34.

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[SIPTA] Re: Call for Papers: UNCECOMP 2021- MS2 on “Uncertainty Quantification under limited data”
by Kreinovich 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2021 - First call for papers
by frederic.pichon 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

============================================================ 6th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) Dates: October 15th-19th, 2021 Location: Shanghai, China Submission deadline: April 15th, 2021 Notification: May 31st, 2021 Final version: June 30th, 2021 Further information: https://www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/events/belief2021/ ============================================================ 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 modelling epistemic uncertainty. These early contributions have been the starting points of many important developments, including the Transferable Belief Model and the Theory of Hints. The theory of belief functions is now well established as a general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, and has well understood connections to other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories. The BELIEF conferences (sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society https://www.bfasociety.org/) are dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory. The first edition of this conference series was held in Brest, France, in 2010, the second edition in Compiègne, France, in 2012, the third edition in Oxford, UK, in 2014, the fourth edition in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2016, and the fifth edition in Compiègne, France, in 2018. The Sixth International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) will be located in Shanghai, China, on October 15-19, 2021, together with the 2021 International Conference on Cognitive analytics, Granular computing, and Three-way decisions (CCGT). It will be held totally or partially online depending on the evolution of the COVID-19 situation. Submission and Proceedings ======================= The proceedings of the BELIEF 2021 conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume 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. Previous BELIEF proceedings can be found on SpringerLink. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. IJAR Special issue ============== Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2021 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. Tutorials ============= The program of this edition of the BELIEF conference will include tutorials from experts on belief functions and their applications. More to be announced soon. ============================================================ BELIEF-CCGT Conference co-chairs Thierry Denoeux (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), Duoqian Miao (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, Canada). BELIEF 2021 Program Committee co-chairs Zhunga Liu (liuzhunga(a)nwpu.edu.cn, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), Frédéric Pichon (frederic.pichon(a)univ-artois.fr, Université d'Artois, France). BELIEF 2021 Steering committee Eric Lefevre (Université d'Artois, France), Zhunga Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), David Mercier (Université d'Artois, France), Frédéric Pichon (Université d'Artois, France), Zhihua Wei (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Xiaodong Yue (Shanghai University, China) BELIEF 2021 Organisation chair Xiaodong Yue, Shanghai University, China The organisers would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested participants of this conference.

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2021 Spring: early registration November 14
by IRDTA 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

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[SIPTA] 2nd CFP: IJAR Special Issue on 'Probability and Statistics: Foundations and History. In honor of Glenn Shafer'
by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

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[SIPTA] congratulations on World Statistics Day
by Kreinovich 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

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[SIPTA] [UR' 21 @ Flairs-34] First Call For Papers
by Alessandro Antonucci 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at Flairs 34 - First Call for Papers *** Apologies for multiple postings *** [UR @ FLAIRS 34] CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the 34th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) May 16-19, 2021 - North Miami Beach, Florida (US) Paper submission deadline: November 19, 2020 Conference website: http://www.flairs-34.info Special track website: http://idsia.ch/~alessandro/flairs ::: Call for Papers ::: Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote cross fertilisation among the different approaches for uncertain reasoning, and in this way foster the development of new ideas and paradigms. The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR '21 Special Track at the 34th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) is the 26th in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'21 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. 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 - Modelling 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 - Inference and learning with graphical models of uncertainty (e.g., Bayesian networks) - Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making - Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process - Temporal reasoning and uncertainty; non-monotonic reasoning; similarity-based reasoning - Conditional logics, description logic, logic programming - Argumentation - Belief change and merging - 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 (e.g., machine learning, computer vision and animation) All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track. ::: Program Committee ::: : Track Chairs : - Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) - Kamal Premaratne (University of Miami, US) : PC Members : To be announced. ::: Other Information ::: FLAIRS 34 will be held in North Miami Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found here. Feel free to write the organizers (alessandro(a)idsia.ch, kamal(a)miami.edu, benferhat(a)cril.fr) for any further information about the special track. ::: Submission ::: Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 17, 2020. For FLAIRS-34, the 2021 conference, the reviewing is a double-blind process. Author names and affiliations must be omitted on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. The papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can also be accessed through the main conference web site. There are two kinds of submissions: full paper (up to 6 pages) to be presented by the author in a 20 minute oral presentation; short paper (up to 4 pages) to be presented in a poster session. Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS-34 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-34. --- Alessandro Antonucci Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA) Galleria 2 - Via Cantonale CH-6928, Manno-Lugano (Switzerland) alessandro(a)idsia.ch www.idsia.ch/~alessandro -- This message was scanned by SUPSI mail-scanner and is believed to be clean.

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[SIPTA] 2021 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC'2021
by Kreinovich 17 Oct '20

17 Oct '20

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[SIPTA] LATA 2020 & 2021: extended submission deadline October 26
by IRDTA 16 Oct '20

16 Oct '20

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[SIPTA] [Call for Participation] Translating V. P. Kuznetsov's 1991 "Interval Statistical Models"
by Erik Quaeghebeur 13 Oct '20

13 Oct '20

Dear SIPTA members, This is a call to participate in the project to collectively translate Vladimir P. Kuznetsov's 1991 “Interval Statistical Models”. If you are interested, please read on and reply to me at e.quaeghebeur(a)tue.nl to indicate your degree of interest. *** Kuznetsov's 1991 “Interval Statistical Models” is an early text in the domain of imprecise probabilities <http://www.sipta.org/index.php?id=kuznetsov>. It is currently only available in Russian. Some years ago, SIPTA was allowed to make the text freely available <http://www.sipta.org/index.php?id=res#kuz>. SIPTA also has been given the right to create a translation of the text. A project to enable such a collective translation of the book has been set up under the umbrella of SIPTA, initiated by Enrique Miranda and myself. With the help of some others, we have done a first effort, to show that a full translation is feasible, given time and persistence. The current state can be found at <https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.php/s/hAgjxS8SyGhxmUt>. The end goal is a publishable translation, but the effort may prove useful long before that goal is reached. Everyone can contribute and is encouraged to participate. People that know Russian are obviously very valuable as translators or translation-correctors. However, many tasks do not require knowing Russian (beyond Google translate): transcribing math, recreating figures in TikZ, looking for translation grants, recruiting native Russian speakers, project management, etc. We track individuals' contributions, so that everyone involved can be given due credit. The project is housed on GitHub, as a (currently) private organization. SIPTA members interested in just having a look or participating should send their GitHub user name to me at e.quaeghebeur(a)tue.nl in reply to this message. I will give you access and initiate follow-up steps in case you express an interest to participate. (Please have patience if I do not act or reply promptly; as a side project, I plan the limited time I can spend on it.) In case you want to participate, but strongly prefer not to go through GitHub, contact me as well. If you already know in which way you prefer to contribute, please say how in your mail. *** We look forward to your expressions of interest! Best regards, Erik -- This message was scanned by SUPSI mail-scanner and is believed to be clean.

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2021 Spring: early registration October 15
by IRDTA 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

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[SIPTA] CFP - IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2020
by Cristina Rottondi 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

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[SIPTA] DeepLearn 2021 Winter: early registration October 8
by IRDTA 05 Oct '20

05 Oct '20

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[SIPTA] Fwd: Faculty Positions In Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, and Statistics
by Thomas Augustin 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

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