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Re: [SIPTA] Fwd: Are there imprecise analogues of pseudo-random number generators?
by Gert De Cooman Nov. 15, 2018

Nov. 15, 2018

My reply to Alessandro, building on my previous message : Precise randomness is more than convergence of the sample mean for the sequence – which is what you use in your argument – it implies also convergence to the same limit of the sample mean for any (computably selected) subsequence. (This is the notion of computable stochasticity, which is still weaker than randomness, and therefore implied by it). It is easy to see that if the extreme points are visited in a computable fashion, we can computably select subsequences whose sample mean will converge to any of the extreme points. Or arbitrarily close to any convex mixture of them. So the sequence will then not be precisely random, contrary to what you suggest. Computable randomness (in the precise case) of a sequence is the stronger property that unless you use the exact precise probability as your model for betting on the sequence of digits, you can be made to lose an unbounded amount of money by someone who bets against you using some computable strategy. It is this (martingale-theoretic) characterisation of (computable) randomness that we generalise to the imprecise case in our paper. Every good wish, Gert Prof. Gert de Cooman Universiteit Gent (ELIS–IDLab) — Durham University (Department of Mathematical Sciences) Technologiepark - Zwijnaarde 914, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium t: +3292645653 — iMessage: +32496832628 e: gert.decooman(a)UGent.be w: users.ugent.be/~gdcooma > Op 13 nov. 2018, om 16:33 heeft Alessandro Antonucci <alessandro(a)idsia.ch> het volgende geschreven: > > Dear Marshall, > > For an imprecise subjectivist “the imprecision is in the eye of the > learner”. A non-stationary RNG can jump from one sampling distribution > to another but, again, this is done according to another > (second-order) distribution. The sample will be indistinguishable from > another one sampled from the marginal of that hierarchical model. The > imprecision level is basically a parameter of your learning algorithm > (e.g., s for the IDM, alpha for likelihood-based approachs), but not > something you might learn from your data. > > These are my two cents. > > Bests, > Alessandro > _________________________________ > > Alessandro Antonucci > IDSIA > Dalle Molle Institute > for Artificial Intelligence > Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) > CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH > > mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch > skype: alessandro.antonucci > tel: +41 916108515 > web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro > _________________________________ > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Michael Smithson <Michael.Smithson(a)anu.edu.au> > Date: mar 13 nov 2018 alle ore 14:55 > Subject: Re: [SIPTA] Are there imprecise analogues of pseudo-random > number generators? > To: <alessandro.antonucci(a)gmail.com> > > > Hi Marshall, > > It isn't clear to me what you want the long-run state to be. Do you > want p(1) to settle down to having, say, a uniform distribution on > [.6,.8]? Or for the relative frequency of 1's to end up strictly > confined between .6 and .8? Or are you thinking of having p(1) fixed > at .7 and some other random variable controlling the interval width > around .7 that eventually settles on a width of .2? Or ... ? > > Kind regards, > > --Mike > > ________________________________ > From: SIPTA <sipta-bounces(a)idsia.ch> on behalf of Abrams, Marshall > <mabrams(a)uab.edu> > Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2018 3:18:37 PM > To: sipta(a)idsia.ch > Subject: [SIPTA] Are there imprecise analogues of pseudo-random number > generators? > > I would like to ask a theoretical and practical question. (No > conference announcement here!) > > tl;dr: Are there imprecise analogues of pseudo-random number generators? > > If that question doesn't make sense, please feel free to read on, with > my thanks for doing so. (Sorry the following is so long; I was worried > that what I was asking would be unclear otherwise.) > > I am interested in imprecise chance, that is, objective imprecise > probability; this idea has been discussed in different ways by > Terrence Fine and his colleagues, Marco Cattaneo, Luke Glynn, Alan > Hajek, Suppes and Zanotti, Stephan Hartmann, Igor Gorban, and probably > others. > > In an agent-based model, (precise) chance can be modeled using a PRNG. > Can this be generalized to base an ABM on a model of imprecise chance? > I had thought this would be impossible, but now I am not so sure. A > good PRNG such as a Mersenne Twister is of course not truly chancy, > and its output even has low Kolmogorov complexity, but it's still a > good way to model chance in many contexts. Why couldn't imprecise > chance be modeled in an ABM using a deterministic algorithm as well? > > What would the output of a pseudo imprecise random number generator > (PIRNG) look like? > > Well, suppose one wrote a function that used a normal PRNG to generate > 0's and 1's with probability 0.7 for 1. Then over most large sets of > outputs, we would find the frequency of 1 to be close to 0.7, and as > we increased the size of such a set, the frequency would usually get > closer to 0.7 > > Similarly, using a PIRNG, one ought to be able to write a function > that generates 0's and 1's with (for example) an interval probability > of [0.6, 0.8] for 1. Then over most large lets of outputs, the > frequency of 1 should lie in or near [0.6, 0.8], and as we increased > the size of such a set, the frequency would remain near [0.6, 0.8] but > would usually wander without settling down to any precise value within > that interval. > > Are there known algorithms that might have this kind of behavior? Or > could this kind of behavior be simulated using PRNGs for sequences > that are not extremely long? i.e. maybe one can write a function > using a PRNG such that over the not-too-long-run, sequences would > appear to be imprecisely chancy, but they would eventually settle down > to precise values in the very very long run. That might be good > enough for some ABMs. > > Or am I just confused? (I think this is not unlikely.) > > Any suggestions about what sort of literature I should look at or what > kinds of keywords to search on would be welcome. > > [In some parts of Fierens, Rego, and Fine's "A frequentist > understanding of sets of measures" (2009), it sounds as if such a > class of algorithms might be described, at least in a loose, general > way, but if that is so, I have not understood the article well enough > to see how what's given there does so. Their model uses sequence > specified to be of intermediate Kolmogorov complexity, which itself > seems like a difficult thing to generate.] > > > Thank you! > > Marshall > > > Marshall Abrams, Associate Professor > Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham > Email: mabrams(a)uab.edu; Phone: (205) 996-7483; Fax: (205) 975-6610 > Mail: HB 414A, 900 13th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294-1260; Office: HB 418 > Website: http://members.logical.net/~marshall > > _______________________________________________ > SIPTA mailing list > SIPTA(a)idsia.ch > http://mailman2.ti-edu.ch/mailman/listinfo/sipta > _______________________________________________ > SIPTA mailing list > SIPTA(a)idsia.ch > http://mailman2.ti-edu.ch/mailman/listinfo/sipta

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Re: [SIPTA] Fwd: Are there imprecise analogues of pseudo-random number generators?
by Gert De Cooman Nov. 13, 2018

Nov. 13, 2018

Dear Marshall I refer to our paper about imprecise randomness (Computable randomness is inherently imprecise, De Cooman and De Bock) in the latest ISIPTA proceedings: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8531435/file/8531437.pdf In the paper we show that non-stationarity is indeed a source of imprecise randomness. We also prove a number of convergence results. All this for sequences of 0-1, which is the simplest case. We show, for instance, that alternating between a two un-fair coins with probabilities p and q for heads (in a deterministic fashion) will produce an imprecise random sequence of 0’s and 1’s with characterising probability interval [p,q]. The meaning of this is explained in the paper, but the underlying idea is that anyone using an interval betting model that does not include [p,q] - so for instance a precise r in this interval - can be made to lose an infinite amount of money in an infinite sequence of betting events on the digits in the sequence (using a computable strategy); and anywhere who uses a betting model that includes [p,q] is immune to such computable strategies. So this suggests an algorithm in the more general case: use an algorithm that visits the externe points of a credal set deterministically (eg, cyclically) , and for each visit to an extreme point, use the corresponding random generator to generate an outcome. Whether this also works in the case of more than two possible outcomes, still remains to be investigated, however. Best wishes, Gert > Op 13 nov. 2018, om 16:33 heeft Alessandro Antonucci <alessandro(a)idsia.ch> het volgende geschreven: > > Dear Marshall, > > For an imprecise subjectivist “the imprecision is in the eye of the > learner”. A non-stationary RNG can jump from one sampling distribution > to another but, again, this is done according to another > (second-order) distribution. The sample will be indistinguishable from > another one sampled from the marginal of that hierarchical model. The > imprecision level is basically a parameter of your learning algorithm > (e.g., s for the IDM, alpha for likelihood-based approachs), but not > something you might learn from your data. > > These are my two cents. > > Bests, > Alessandro > _________________________________ > > Alessandro Antonucci > IDSIA > Dalle Molle Institute > for Artificial Intelligence > Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) > CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH > > mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch > skype: alessandro.antonucci > tel: +41 916108515 > web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro > _________________________________ > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Michael Smithson <Michael.Smithson(a)anu.edu.au> > Date: mar 13 nov 2018 alle ore 14:55 > Subject: Re: [SIPTA] Are there imprecise analogues of pseudo-random > number generators? > To: <alessandro.antonucci(a)gmail.com> > > > Hi Marshall, > > It isn't clear to me what you want the long-run state to be. Do you > want p(1) to settle down to having, say, a uniform distribution on > [.6,.8]? Or for the relative frequency of 1's to end up strictly > confined between .6 and .8? Or are you thinking of having p(1) fixed > at .7 and some other random variable controlling the interval width > around .7 that eventually settles on a width of .2? Or ... ? > > Kind regards, > > --Mike > > ________________________________ > From: SIPTA <sipta-bounces(a)idsia.ch> on behalf of Abrams, Marshall > <mabrams(a)uab.edu> > Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2018 3:18:37 PM > To: sipta(a)idsia.ch > Subject: [SIPTA] Are there imprecise analogues of pseudo-random number > generators? > > I would like to ask a theoretical and practical question. (No > conference announcement here!) > > tl;dr: Are there imprecise analogues of pseudo-random number generators? > > If that question doesn't make sense, please feel free to read on, with > my thanks for doing so. (Sorry the following is so long; I was worried > that what I was asking would be unclear otherwise.) > > I am interested in imprecise chance, that is, objective imprecise > probability; this idea has been discussed in different ways by > Terrence Fine and his colleagues, Marco Cattaneo, Luke Glynn, Alan > Hajek, Suppes and Zanotti, Stephan Hartmann, Igor Gorban, and probably > others. > > In an agent-based model, (precise) chance can be modeled using a PRNG. > Can this be generalized to base an ABM on a model of imprecise chance? > I had thought this would be impossible, but now I am not so sure. A > good PRNG such as a Mersenne Twister is of course not truly chancy, > and its output even has low Kolmogorov complexity, but it's still a > good way to model chance in many contexts. Why couldn't imprecise > chance be modeled in an ABM using a deterministic algorithm as well? > > What would the output of a pseudo imprecise random number generator > (PIRNG) look like? > > Well, suppose one wrote a function that used a normal PRNG to generate > 0's and 1's with probability 0.7 for 1. Then over most large sets of > outputs, we would find the frequency of 1 to be close to 0.7, and as > we increased the size of such a set, the frequency would usually get > closer to 0.7 > > Similarly, using a PIRNG, one ought to be able to write a function > that generates 0's and 1's with (for example) an interval probability > of [0.6, 0.8] for 1. Then over most large lets of outputs, the > frequency of 1 should lie in or near [0.6, 0.8], and as we increased > the size of such a set, the frequency would remain near [0.6, 0.8] but > would usually wander without settling down to any precise value within > that interval. > > Are there known algorithms that might have this kind of behavior? Or > could this kind of behavior be simulated using PRNGs for sequences > that are not extremely long? i.e. maybe one can write a function > using a PRNG such that over the not-too-long-run, sequences would > appear to be imprecisely chancy, but they would eventually settle down > to precise values in the very very long run. That might be good > enough for some ABMs. > > Or am I just confused? (I think this is not unlikely.) > > Any suggestions about what sort of literature I should look at or what > kinds of keywords to search on would be welcome. > > [In some parts of Fierens, Rego, and Fine's "A frequentist > understanding of sets of measures" (2009), it sounds as if such a > class of algorithms might be described, at least in a loose, general > way, but if that is so, I have not understood the article well enough > to see how what's given there does so. Their model uses sequence > specified to be of intermediate Kolmogorov complexity, which itself > seems like a difficult thing to generate.] > > > Thank you! > > Marshall > > > Marshall Abrams, Associate Professor > Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham > Email: mabrams(a)uab.edu; Phone: (205) 996-7483; Fax: (205) 975-6610 > Mail: HB 414A, 900 13th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294-1260; Office: HB 418 > Website: http://members.logical.net/~marshall > > _______________________________________________ > SIPTA mailing list > SIPTA(a)idsia.ch > http://mailman2.ti-edu.ch/mailman/listinfo/sipta > _______________________________________________ > SIPTA mailing list > SIPTA(a)idsia.ch > http://mailman2.ti-edu.ch/mailman/listinfo/sipta

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[SIPTA] Fwd: Are there imprecise analogues of pseudo-random number generators?
by Alessandro Antonucci Nov. 13, 2018

Nov. 13, 2018

Dear Marshall, For an imprecise subjectivist “the imprecision is in the eye of the learner”. A non-stationary RNG can jump from one sampling distribution to another but, again, this is done according to another (second-order) distribution. The sample will be indistinguishable from another one sampled from the marginal of that hierarchical model. The imprecision level is basically a parameter of your learning algorithm (e.g., s for the IDM, alpha for likelihood-based approachs), but not something you might learn from your data. These are my two cents. Bests, Alessandro _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch skype: alessandro.antonucci tel: +41 916108515 web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro _________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Smithson <Michael.Smithson(a)anu.edu.au> Date: mar 13 nov 2018 alle ore 14:55 Subject: Re: [SIPTA] Are there imprecise analogues of pseudo-random number generators? To: <alessandro.antonucci(a)gmail.com> Hi Marshall, It isn't clear to me what you want the long-run state to be. Do you want p(1) to settle down to having, say, a uniform distribution on [.6,.8]? Or for the relative frequency of 1's to end up strictly confined between .6 and .8? Or are you thinking of having p(1) fixed at .7 and some other random variable controlling the interval width around .7 that eventually settles on a width of .2? Or ... ? Kind regards, --Mike ________________________________ From: SIPTA <sipta-bounces(a)idsia.ch> on behalf of Abrams, Marshall <mabrams(a)uab.edu> Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2018 3:18:37 PM To: sipta(a)idsia.ch Subject: [SIPTA] Are there imprecise analogues of pseudo-random number generators? I would like to ask a theoretical and practical question. (No conference announcement here!) tl;dr: Are there imprecise analogues of pseudo-random number generators? If that question doesn't make sense, please feel free to read on, with my thanks for doing so. (Sorry the following is so long; I was worried that what I was asking would be unclear otherwise.) I am interested in imprecise chance, that is, objective imprecise probability; this idea has been discussed in different ways by Terrence Fine and his colleagues, Marco Cattaneo, Luke Glynn, Alan Hajek, Suppes and Zanotti, Stephan Hartmann, Igor Gorban, and probably others. In an agent-based model, (precise) chance can be modeled using a PRNG. Can this be generalized to base an ABM on a model of imprecise chance? I had thought this would be impossible, but now I am not so sure. A good PRNG such as a Mersenne Twister is of course not truly chancy, and its output even has low Kolmogorov complexity, but it's still a good way to model chance in many contexts. Why couldn't imprecise chance be modeled in an ABM using a deterministic algorithm as well? What would the output of a pseudo imprecise random number generator (PIRNG) look like? Well, suppose one wrote a function that used a normal PRNG to generate 0's and 1's with probability 0.7 for 1. Then over most large sets of outputs, we would find the frequency of 1 to be close to 0.7, and as we increased the size of such a set, the frequency would usually get closer to 0.7 Similarly, using a PIRNG, one ought to be able to write a function that generates 0's and 1's with (for example) an interval probability of [0.6, 0.8] for 1. Then over most large lets of outputs, the frequency of 1 should lie in or near [0.6, 0.8], and as we increased the size of such a set, the frequency would remain near [0.6, 0.8] but would usually wander without settling down to any precise value within that interval. Are there known algorithms that might have this kind of behavior? Or could this kind of behavior be simulated using PRNGs for sequences that are not extremely long? i.e. maybe one can write a function using a PRNG such that over the not-too-long-run, sequences would appear to be imprecisely chancy, but they would eventually settle down to precise values in the very very long run. That might be good enough for some ABMs. Or am I just confused? (I think this is not unlikely.) Any suggestions about what sort of literature I should look at or what kinds of keywords to search on would be welcome. [In some parts of Fierens, Rego, and Fine's "A frequentist understanding of sets of measures" (2009), it sounds as if such a class of algorithms might be described, at least in a loose, general way, but if that is so, I have not understood the article well enough to see how what's given there does so. Their model uses sequence specified to be of intermediate Kolmogorov complexity, which itself seems like a difficult thing to generate.] Thank you! Marshall Marshall Abrams, Associate Professor Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham Email: mabrams(a)uab.edu; Phone: (205) 996-7483; Fax: (205) 975-6610 Mail: HB 414A, 900 13th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294-1260; Office: HB 418 Website: http://members.logical.net/~marshall _______________________________________________ SIPTA mailing list SIPTA(a)idsia.ch http://mailman2.ti-edu.ch/mailman/listinfo/sipta

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[SIPTA] Are there imprecise analogues of pseudo-random number generators?
by Abrams Nov. 13, 2018

Nov. 13, 2018

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[SIPTA] AlCoB 2019: 1st call for papers
by IRDTA Nov. 13, 2018

Nov. 13, 2018

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[SIPTA] FW: EUSFLAT 2019 - Call for papers
by Kreinovich Nov. 10, 2018

Nov. 10, 2018

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[SIPTA] FW: open position in computational science
by Kreinovich Nov. 8, 2018

Nov. 8, 2018

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[SIPTA] 2018 Lotfi A. Zadeh Pioneer Award
by Kreinovich Nov. 7, 2018

Nov. 7, 2018

Dear Friends, I have just learned that Ronald R. Yager was aearded the 2018 Lotfi A. Zadeh Pioneer Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. The award is given to honor a person with outstanding and pioneering contributions to academic and/or industrial research in systems science and engineering, human-machine systems, and/or cybernetics. Dr. Yager is a pioneer in many areas of fuzzy research. He also had published several pioneering seminal papers on interval-valued probabilities and other imprecise probability topics. Congratulations to Dr. Yager!

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[SIPTA] [UR @ FLAIRS 32] CALL FOR PAPERS
by Alessandro Antonucci Nov. 5, 2018

Nov. 5, 2018

*** Apologies for multiple postings *** Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at Flairs 32 - Call for Papers Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the 32nd Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-32) May 19-22, 2019 - Sarasota, Florida (US) Paper submission deadline: November 19, 2018 Conference website: http://www.flairs-32.info Special track website: http://w3.uqo.ca/allimo01/UR_2019/ur19.html ::: 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 fertilization 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 '19 Special Track at the 32nd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-32) is the 24th in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'19 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 - Modeling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities - Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning - 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; nonmonotonic 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 : - Mohand Said Allili (University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada) - Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) : PC Members : - Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) - Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada) - Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada) - Ameur Bensefia (Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE) - Martine Ceberio (University of Texas at El Paso, US) - Sebastien Destercke (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) - Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) - Lluis Godo (Spanish National Research Council, Spain) - Christophe Gonzales (LIP6, France) - Ilyes Jenhani (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia) - Amanda Hicks (University of Florida, US) - Sedki Karima (University of Paris 13, France) - Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technical University of Dortmund, Germany) - Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, US) - Rafael Peñaloza (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) - Philippe Leray (University of Nantes, France) - Lalintha G. Polpitiya (University of Miami, US) - Choh Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, US) - Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) - Karim Tabia (Artois University, France) - Barbara Vantaggi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) - Ronald Yager (Iona College, USA) ::: Other Information ::: FLAIRS 32 will be held in Sarasota, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found here. Feel free to write the organizers (alessandro(a)idsia.ch or MohandSaid.allili(a)uqo.ca) 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 19, 2018. For FLAIRS-32, the 2019 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. Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS-32 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-32. _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro _________________________________

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[SIPTA] Robotic 2019: early registration November 13
by IRDTA Nov. 2, 2018

Nov. 2, 2018

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[SIPTA] Postdoc position in Milan (deadline 9th November 2018)
by hykel hosni Oct. 31, 2018

Oct. 31, 2018

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[SIPTA] Extended Deadline: IJAR Special Issue on Robustness in Probabilistic Graphical Models
by Denis Mauá Oct. 30, 2018

Oct. 30, 2018

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[SIPTA] ISIPTA 2019: not just any other conference!
by Jasper De Bock Oct. 29, 2018

Oct. 29, 2018

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[SIPTA] Fw: CoProd information
by Kreinovich Oct. 19, 2018

Oct. 19, 2018

Papers related to imprecise probabilities are welcome at this series of workshops ________________________________________ Welcome to 12th International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision Making CoProD'2019 June 17, 2019 -- Lafayette, Louisiana CoProD'19 is the twelfth edition of CoProD http://coprod.constraintsolving.com/. It will be held in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA on June 17, 2018 (exact location TBA), right before the 2019 IFSA World Congress and NAFIPS Annual Conference IFSA/NAFIPS'2019 (June 18-22, 2019, Lafayette, Louisiana), see https://interval.louisiana.edu/IFSA-NAFIPS/ Constraint programming techniques are important components of intelligent systems. They constitute a declarative and efficient methodology to represent and solve many practical problems. They have been applied successfully to a number of fields, such as scheduling of air traffic, software engineering, networks security, chemistry, and biology. Despite the proved usefulness of these techniques, they are still under-utilized in real-life applications. One reason is the perceived lack of effective communication between constraint programming experts and domain practitioners about constraints, in general, and their use in decision making, in particular. Registration: Registration will be collected on site and will be about $30, to cover coffee breaks and room and equipment rental Objectives of CoProD: * To present advances in constraint solving, optimization, and related topics; * To develop a network of researchers interested in constraint techniques, in particular researchers and practitioners that use numeric and symbolic approaches (or a combination of them) to solve constraint and optimization problems; * To address the gap between the great capacity of these techniques and their limited use. CoProD aims at encouraging presentation and discussion of on-going work. In particular, please note that there is room for presentation of ideas, as opposed to results only. It also aims at facilitating networking opportunities as well as cross-fertilization between the approaches used in the different attending communities. Therefore, besides active researchers in decision making and constraint programming techniques, we expect to have a wide attendance and participation of domain scientists -- whose input is highly valued in this workshop. The previous editions of CoProD featured invited talks by highly recognized experts (listed in alphabetic order): * Purushotham Bangalore, CIS department, University of Alabama at Birmingham * Martin Berz, Michigan State University, USA •Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy * Alessandro Dal Palu, University of Parma, Italy * Rina Dechter, Information and Computer Sciences, University of California Irvine * Scott Ferson, Applied Bioinformatics, New York, USA * Juan Carlos Figueroa, Universidad Distrital de Bogota, Colombia * Patty Hough, Sandia National Lab, Livermore CA * Luc Jaulin, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Techniques Avancees (ENSTA) Bretagne, France * Kyoko Makino, Michigan State University, USA * Tiago Oliveira, National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan. * Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM * James Raynolds, College of Nanoscale and Engineering, SUNY Albany * Sigfried Rump, Hamburg University of Technology and Waseda University, Japan * Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan. * Bart Selman, CS department, Cornell University * Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, Università della Calabria, Italy * Sergey Shary, Novosibirsk State University * Young Jun Son, The University of Arizona, Tucson * Xiaobai Sun, Duke University * Alfredo Vaccaro, University of Sannio, Department of Engineering, Benevento, Italy * Leticia Velazquez, The University of Texas at El Paso * Francois Modave, Texas Tech Health Center, El Paso Proceedings / Publication: Papers accepted for the workshop will be published in the same Springer volume as all the papers from the IFSA/NAFIPS'2019 conference. Please follow the conference instructions (template, paper size, deadlines, etc.) when submitting your papers. Submission should be sent to us by email to mceverio(a)utep.edu and vladik(a)utep.edu. Participation / Submission: Participation is encouraged from people doing research in the area of decision making as well as from domain scientists. Submissions of ideas are also encouraged. Important dates: January 5: paper submission February 5: notification of acceptance March 5: camera-ready copy of papers due June 17: workshop Organizers: Martine Ceberio, the University of Texas at El Paso, mceberio(a)utep.edu Vladik Kreinovich, the University of Texas at El Paso, vladik(a)utep.edu

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Re: [SIPTA] call for papers: IFSA-NAFIPS 2019
by Kreinovich Oct. 19, 2018

Oct. 19, 2018

FYI, papers on fuzzy-valued imprecise probabilities are always welcome. This time, the conference has a strong emphasis on relation with interval techniques, so papers on interval-valued probabilities are also welcome. ________________________________________ From: Ralph Baker Kearfott <rbk5287(a)louisiana.edu> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 7:46 AM IFSA-NAFIPS 2019 Call for papers 2019 INTERNATIONAL FUZZY SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION WORLD CONGRESS and the 2019 NORTH AMERICAN FUZZY INFORMATION PROCESSING SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING Jun3 18-22, 2019 Lafayette, Louisiana Hosted by the North American association, this biennial event brings together participants from all national and regional fuzzy system associations. IFSA-NAFIPS 2019 will be hosted at the Wyndham Garden near Vermilion Bayou in Lafayette, Louisiana, the center of Cajun culture and cuisine. Topics will include implementation and applications of fuzzy information processing technology, associated mathematical analysis, comparison with alternative rough set, statistical, and interval techniques, and, generally, other topics related to fuzzy sets. Further information can be found at: https://interval.louisiana.edu/IFSA-NAFIPS/ This conference will be held a week before the New Orleans FUZZ-IEEE conference. New Orleans is 140 miles (225 kilometers) from Lafayette, a 2.5 hour drive, from Lafayette, and we plan to arrange post-conference charter buses from Lafayette to New Orleans. Participants will thus have leverage to double their professional and cultural experience. Deadlines (extended): Special session and workshop proposals: December 1, 2018 Paper submission: January 15, 2019 A number of special sessions have already been accepted, and keynote speakers have already agreed. Information concerning these will soon appear at https://interval.louisiana.edu/IFSA-NAFIPS/

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[SIPTA] Fw: 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2019), Hannover, 22 - 26 September 2019
by Kreinovich Oct. 18, 2018

Oct. 18, 2018

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2019: early registration October 15
by IRDTA Oct. 15, 2018

Oct. 15, 2018

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[SIPTA] IJAR- Special Issue on DM with imprecise information
by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ Oct. 5, 2018

Oct. 5, 2018

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[SIPTA] PyRational
by Alessio Benavoli Sept. 26, 2018

Sept. 26, 2018

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2019: early registration October 15
by IRDTA Sept. 26, 2018

Sept. 26, 2018

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Re: [SIPTA] [IUKM 2019] Extended Deadline of Paper Submission
by Kreinovich Sept. 25, 2018

Sept. 25, 2018

FYI -----Original Message----- From: Masahiro Inuiguchi [mailto:inuiguti(a)sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 4:22 AM Dear Colleagues, This message informs you that the deadline of paper submission of IUKM 2019 is extended to October 25, 2018. We would like to cordially invite you to submit papers to this symposium held in Todaiji-Temple (a part of world heritage), Nara, Japan from March 27 to 29, 2019 (Sakura season: we may have cherry blossoms). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Seventh International Symposium on INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY in KNOWLEDGE MODELLING and DECISION MAKING http://www-inulab.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/iukm2019/index.php MARCH 27 - 29, 2019, Todaiji Temple (a part of the world heritage), Nara, JAPAN Extended DEADLINE: October 25, 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 origin of this conference series started in 2010 at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan under the title of the International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty Management and Applications (IUM 2010). The name of the conference series was then changed to its current title at the second edition (IUKM 2011) held in October 2011 at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; and the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth editions were held in Beijing, China (IUKM 2013), Nha Trang, Vietnam (IUKM 2015), Da Nang, Vietnam (IUKM 2016) and Hanoi, Vietnam (IUKM 2018) respectively. The seventh International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making (IUKM 2019) will take place in Nara, Japan, during 27 - 29 March, 2019. The Symposium Site is located in Todaiji Temple, one of Japan's most famous and historically significant temples and a landmark of Nara. It is located on the left side just behind the Nandaimon Gate, a large wooden gate watched over by two statues of Nio Guardian Kings. The time of the Symposium taking place between 27-29 March is expected to be a good time for the cherry blossoms (Sakura) in Nara, Osaka, Kyoto and Kansai region, so as the symposium participants will be able to enjoy the beauty of SAKURA with Hanami, cherry blossom viewing at many beautiful sakura parks in Nara Park including Todaiji Temple during the symposium as well as many places in Kansai region after the symposium. Hoping to welcome many of you in Nara in late March 2019 in the wonderful place with a beautiful season of cherry blossoms ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposal for special sessions and workshops is encouraged and welcome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Relevant topics for the IUKM 2019 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 - Information fusion and knowledge integration in uncertain environments - Decision making under various types of uncertainty - Aggregation operators - 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 - Service computing - Economics and econometrics PUBLICATION The authors are invited to submit their full papers by September 25, 2018. The submissions will be peer-reviewed for originality and scientific quality. As done in previous editions, the proceedings of IUKM 2019 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, and be available at the Symposium. Authors are requested to prepare their papers in the Springer LNAI format. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages and must be submitted electronically through the conference's Easychair submission page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iukm2019) IMPORTANT DATES Extended Deadline for paper submission: 25 October 2018 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 30 November 2018 Final camera-ready and author registration: 20 December 2018 Early registration: 20 December 2018 Symposium dates: 27 March - 29 March 2019

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2018: call for participation
by IRDTA Sept. 18, 2018

Sept. 18, 2018

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[SIPTA] 2008 SIPTA Summer School site moving to sipta.org; request for checks and missing materials
by Erik Quaeghebeur Sept. 13, 2018

Sept. 13, 2018

Dear colleagues, The website of the SIPTA Summer School 2008 has been available at <http://www.lirmm.fr/SIPTASchool08/school.htm>, but to ensure long-term preservation, it is moving to <http://www.sipta.org/ssipta08/>. I would kindly like to request the following: 1. Please update links to this site on webpages you or your colleagues manage. 2. Please check the site (and compare to the one at the previous location) to see if something went wrong during the move (we are aware the videos are missing at both locations). 3. Please check whether you have local copies of missing materials (specifically, the videos). In case you come up with something for points 2. and 3. or any other relevant matter, please contact Fabio (in Cc) and myself by reply email. Posterity will be in your debt. After allowing some time for your input, we will inform the maintainers of the previous location that the move has been done. Then they can install a permanent redirect at the old address and, if they choose, later on remove it from their server. Best regards, Erik -- https://ac.erikquaeghebeur.name

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[SIPTA] LEaDing Fellows: 2y postdoc; call open until Oct 31st
by Erik Quaeghebeur Sept. 11, 2018

Sept. 11, 2018

Dear colleagues, There is a call open until October 31st for 2-year Postdoc positions at Leiden University, Leiden University Medical Centre, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus Medical Centre and Delft University of Technology (all in the Netherlands). More information at <http://leadingfellows.eu/>. Please disseminate to potential candidates in your network. Best regards, Erik -- https://ac.erikquaeghebeur.name

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[SIPTA] Fwd: [Random] I: Avviso di seminario
by Serena Doria Sept. 7, 2018

Sept. 7, 2018

----- Messaggio inoltrato da massimo.campanino(a)unibo.it ----- Data: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 15:03:00 +0000 Da: Massimo Campanino <massimo.campanino(a)unibo.it> Oggetto: [Random] I: Avviso di seminario A: "Random(a)fields.dm.unipi.it" <Random(a)fields.dm.unipi.it> Il giorno 20 settembre alle ore 14 nell'Aula Seminario 2 del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Bologna in piazza Porta S. Donato 5 il prof. Pietro Rigo del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Pavia terrà un seminario dal titolo: CLASSICAL VERSUS COHERENT CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES ABSTRACT: The standard (Kolmogorovian) notion of conditional probability is compared with the (de Finettian) notion based on the coherence principle. Each notion has both merits and drawbacks, and the talk aims to highlight them with special attention to the connection points. Various results, both old and new, are discussed and some open problems are mentioned. The talk is split into four parts. (i) Classical (Kolmogorovian) conditional probabilities; (ii) Disintegrability; (iii) Coherent (de Finettian) conditional probabilities; (iv) Some statistical implications. _______________________________________________ Random mailing list Per informazioni e per disiscriversi: https://fields.dm.unipi.it/listinfo/random Per contattare gli amministratori: random-admin(a)fields.dm.unipi.it Per inviare un messaggio alla mailing list: Random(a)fields.dm.unipi.it Archivio dei messaggi inviati: https://fields.dm.unipi.it/pipermail/random ----- Fine messaggio inoltrato. -----

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2018: poster submission deadline September 8
by IRDTA Sept. 4, 2018

Sept. 4, 2018

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2019: early registration September 18
by IRDTA Sept. 1, 2018

Sept. 1, 2018

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2019: early registration August 22
by IRDTA Aug. 13, 2018

Aug. 13, 2018

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2018: call for posters
by IRDTA Aug. 7, 2018

Aug. 7, 2018

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[SIPTA] Save the date: ISIPTA 2019, July 3-6, Ghent, Belgium
by Jasper De Bock Aug. 2, 2018

Aug. 2, 2018

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2018: call for posters
by IRDTA July 24, 2018

July 24, 2018

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[SIPTA] FW: IEEE SSCI 2018 Final Submission Deadline
by Kreinovich July 22, 2018

July 22, 2018

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[SIPTA] REC'2018 and REC'2020
by Kreinovich July 20, 2018

July 20, 2018

Dear Friends, The 8th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing REC'2018 (Liverpool, UH, July 16-18, 2018) has just finished. Many interesting talks dealt with probabilistic, interval, fuzzy, and other types of uncertainty in relation to engineering applications, papers are available at http://www.rec2018.uk Many thanks to Scott Ferson and the whole organizing team for their excellent organization, this was -- paraphrasing the Beatles, the most famous folks from Liverpool -- a BIG help from our friends. The next biannual conference will be in Sicily, Italy, in 2020, see you all there!

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[SIPTA] Fw: WCCI'2020: mark your calendars
by Kreinovich July 12, 2018

July 12, 2018

FYI, papers on fuzzy-valued probabilities are always welcome at FUZZ-IEEE conferences ****************************************** 2020 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence WCCI'2020 Glasgow, UK, July 19-24, 2020 http://wcci2020.org/ 2020 IEEE WCCI will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, UK -- one of Europe's most dynamic cultural capitals and the "World's Friendliest City" [Rough Guide 2015]. Steeped in culture, rich in history and alive with an excitement you can sense as you walk through its elegant Victorian streets, squares, parks and gardens. The Conference will be held at the prestigious Scottish Event Campus (SEC), which was a key venue for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014 https://www.sec.co.uk/ The World Congress combines three conferences: IJCNN 2020 The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) covers a wide range of topics in the field of neural networks, from biological neural networks to artificial neural computation. IEEE CEC 2020 The IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC) covers all topics in evolutionary computation from theory to real-world applications. FUZZ-IEEE 2020 The IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) covers all topics in fuzzy systems from theory to real-world applications. deadline for special sessions and workshops November 15, 2019 deadline for tutorials and competitions December 15, 2019 deadline for paper submissions January 15, 2020 paper acceptance notification March 15, 2020 final paper submission and early registration April 15, 2020

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[SIPTA] Fw: CFP for FUZZ-IEEE'2019
by Kreinovich July 12, 2018

July 12, 2018

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2019: early registration July 26
by IRDTA July 10, 2018

July 10, 2018

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Re: [SIPTA] IEEE SMC Thesis Grant Initiative 2018, deadline July 31, 2018
by Kreinovich July 9, 2018

July 9, 2018

Dear Friends, Please spread the word, students and young researchers on any topic related to systems, man, and cybernetics are eligible, deadline is July 31, see information below. Only members of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society are eligible, but this may be a great reason to join the society! Vladik ________________________________________ >From György EIgner <eigner.gyorgy(a)NIK.UNI-OBUDA.HU> Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2018 9:30 PM We would like to emphasize the Thesis Grant Initiative 2018 of SMC. We would like to ask your help to spread the information about this opportunity through your networks in order to advertise it and maximize to reaching people with our message. We established this program last year, it was a great success: we got many applications. I copied here the essence of the program, but it can be found here as well: http://thesisgrantinitiative.ieeesmc.hu/ **************************************** The System, Man, and Cybernetics Society happily presents the SMC Thesis Grants Initiative for 2018! The aim of this initiative is to recognize the outstanding Student, Graduated Student and Young Professional members of SMCS who, early in their career, contributed to major advancements of theory, technologies, and/or applications of systems science & engineering, human-machine systems, and/or cybernetics. Accomplishments include theoretical and technological advances, improvements in processes, or development of new products or procedures related to the fields of interest of the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. Further information can be found here: http://thesisgrantinitiative.ieeesmc.hu/ Thank you for helping to make this program successful! Best regards, Gyorgy Eigner M&SA Program Coordinator

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2018: call for posters
by IRDTA July 7, 2018

July 7, 2018

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Re: [SIPTA] [CFP] IUKM 2019
by Kreinovich July 6, 2018

July 6, 2018

FYI, papers related to imprecise probabilities are always welcome at these conferences ________________________________________ From: Masahiro Inuiguchi <inuiguti(a)sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp> Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2018 9:01 PM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Seventh International Symposium on INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY in KNOWLEDGE MODELLING and DECISION MAKING http://www-inulab.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/iukm2019/index.php MARCH 27 - 29, 2019, Todaiji Temple, Nara, JAPAN DEADLINE: September 25, 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 origin of this conference series started in 2010 at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan under the title of the International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty Management and Applications (IUM 2010). The name of the conference series was then changed to its current title at the second edition (IUKM 2011) held in October 2011 at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; and the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth editions were held in Beijing, China (IUKM 2013), Nha Trang, Vietnam (IUKM 2015), Da Nang, Vietnam (IUKM 2016) and Hanoi, Vietnam (IUKM 2018) respectively. The seventh International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making (IUKM 2019) will take place in Nara, Japan, during 27 - 29 March, 2019. The Symposium Site is located in Todaiji Temple, one of Japan's most famous and historically significant temples and a landmark of Nara. It is located on the left side just behind the Nandaimon Gate, a large wooden gate watched over by two statues of Nio Guardian Kings. The time of the Symposium taking place between 27-29 March is expected to be a good time for the cherry blossoms (Sakura) in Nara, Osaka, Kyoto and Kansai region, so as the symposium participants will be able to enjoy the beauty of SAKURA with Hanami, cherry blossom viewing at many beautiful sakura parks in Nara Park including Todaiji Temple during the symposium as well as many places in Kansai region after the symposium. Hoping to welcome many of you in Nara in late March 2019 in the wonderful place with a beautiful season of cherry blossoms ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposal for special sessions and workshops is encouraged and welcome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Relevant topics for the IUKM 2019 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 - Information fusion and knowledge integration in uncertain environments - Decision making under various types of uncertainty - Aggregation operators - 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 - Service computing - Economics and econometrics PUBLICATION The authors are invited to submit their full papers by September 25, 2018. The submissions will be peer-reviewed for originality and scientific quality. As done in previous editions, the proceedings of IUKM 2019 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, and be available at the Symposium. Authors are requested to prepare their papers in the Springer LNAI format. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages and must be submitted electronically through the conference's Easychair submission page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iukm2019) IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission: 25 September 2018 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 30 November 2018 Final camera-ready and author registration: 20 December 2018 Early registration: 20 December 2018 Symposium dates: 26 March - 29 March 2019

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[SIPTA] IJAR Special Issue: Robustness in Probabilistic Graphical Models
by Denis Mauá July 4, 2018

July 4, 2018

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Re: [SIPTA] IEEE SSCI 2018 deadline extended
by Kreinovich July 1, 2018

July 1, 2018

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[SIPTA] DeepLearn 2018: regular registration July 20
by IRDTA June 29, 2018

June 29, 2018

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[SIPTA] congratulations to Serafin Moral
by Kreinovich June 14, 2018

June 14, 2018

Dear Friends, I am happy to report that yesterday, during the banquet of the 17th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems IPMU'2018 (Cadiz, Spain, June 11–15, 2018), it was announced that the conference Best Paper award was given to our own Serafin Moral, a researcher who have contributed many interesting results to the area of imprecise probabilities. Congratulations to Dr. Moral!

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Re: [SIPTA] Paper Submission Due Date (June 30, 2018) for 2018 IEEE SSCI 2018
by Kreinovich June 13, 2018

June 13, 2018

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[SIPTA] Fw: IPMU'2020
by Kreinovich June 13, 2018

June 13, 2018

FYI, imprecise probabilities applications are always welcome ****************************************************** IPMU'2020 18th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems Lisbon, Portugal, June 15th – 19th https://ipmu2020.inesc-id.pt/ The IPMU conference is organized every two years with the focus of bringing together scientists working on methods for the management of uncertainty and aggregation. It also provides a forum for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners in these and related areas. The 2020 edition of IPMU will take place at Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal, located in a vibrant renovated area 10 minutes from downtown. Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world, and full of stories to tell. A city where you feel safe wandering around day or night, where you'll find hotels, restaurants and nightlife to suit every taste, budget and requirement. A city full of authenticity, where old customs and ancient history intermix with cultural entertainment and hi-tech innovation. Lisbon is ageless, but it loves company, being famous for its hospitality and the family-like way it welcomes visitors. Lisbon has been elected World's Leading City Break Destination at the 2017 World Travel Awards. Topics and Scope of the Conference Theory, Methods and Tools Uncertainty, Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods, Information Theory, Measures of Information and Uncertainty, Evidence and Possibility Theory, Utility Theory, Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic, Rough Sets, Multiple Criteria Decision Methods, Aggregation Methods, Knowledge Representation, Approximate Reasoning, Non-classical Logics, Default Reasoning, Belief Revision, Argumentation, Ontologies, Uncertainty in Cognition, Graphical Models, Knowledge Acquisition, Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation, Neural Networks, Data Analysis and Data Science. Application Fields Intelligent Systems and Information Processing, Decision Support, Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval and Fusion, Speech and Natural Language Processing, Image Processing, Multi-Media, Agents, Pattern Recognition, Medicine and Bioinformatics, Finance, Software Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Big Data. IPMU'2020 solicits original research contributions of theoretical and methodological nature as well as application-oriented work. IMPORTANT DATES Special session proposals: October 31st, 2019 Notification of acceptance special sessions: November 15th, 2019 Paper submission: January 15th, 2020 Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2020 Camera-ready paper submission: March 31st, 2020 Early/author registration: March 31st, 2020 Conference: June 15th-19th, 2020 Tutorials: June 15th, 2020 Executive Directors Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier (France) Ronald R. Yager (USA) General Chair Joao P. Carvalho (Portugal)

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[SIPTA] DeepLearn 2018: early registration June 24
by IRDTA June 12, 2018

June 12, 2018

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[SIPTA] Fw: IEEE SSCI 2018 - Submission Deadline 15th June 2018
by Kreinovich June 9, 2018

June 9, 2018

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[SIPTA] AlCoB 2018: call for participation
by IRDTA June 5, 2018

June 5, 2018

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[SIPTA] Joint SMPS/BELIEF conference: call for participation + abstract submission open
by Sébastien Destercke May 28, 2018

May 28, 2018

Dear colleagues, We would like to remind you of some information regarding the upcoming Joint SMPS/BELIEF 2018 conference, to be held in Compiègne (FRANCE), from 17th to 21th September. https://smpsbelief2018.hds.utc.fr * First, we still welcome abstract-only submissions till the 8th June. Accepted abstract will be presented at the conference (spotlight presentations and posters), giving the opportunity to discuss on-going, promising work. * Second, early registration can be done up to the 1st July, and includes attendance, proceedings of the two conferences as well as all social events. A number of student grants are available for participating students. Please contact the BFAS Secretary Dr. Anne-Laure Jousselme (Anne-Laure.Jousselme(a)cmre.nato.int) for information about these grants. * Third, we would like to remind you of our fantastic invited speakers: - Thomas Augustin (Ludwig Maximilians Universität München) - Scott Ferson (University of Liverpool) - Ryan Martin (North Carolina State University) The Conference co-chairs Thierry Denoeux (https://www.hds.utc.fr/~tdenoeux) and Sébastien Destercke (https://www.hds.utc.fr/~sdesterc) Contact: sebastien.destercke(a)hds.utc.fr, tdenoeux(a)hds.utc.fr

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[SIPTA] FW: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions, deadline is approaching
by Kreinovich May 27, 2018

May 27, 2018

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[SIPTA] DeepLearn 2018: early registration May 29
by IRDTA May 15, 2018

May 15, 2018

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[SIPTA] FW: econometric conference
by Kreinovich May 14, 2018

May 14, 2018

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[SIPTA] AlCoB 2018: call for posters
by IRDTA May 10, 2018

May 10, 2018

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[SIPTA] uncertainty of climate models
by Kreinovich May 3, 2018

May 3, 2018

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Re: [SIPTA] CFP CMMSE2018 special sesion
by Kreinovich May 2, 2018

May 2, 2018

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[SIPTA] Training School: Uncertainty in Engineering, Durham, 2-6 July
by COOLEN May 1, 2018

May 1, 2018

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[SIPTA] FW: Workshop on Uncertainty Modelling as a part of CSAC2018 Conference
by Kreinovich April 30, 2018

April 30, 2018

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Re: [SIPTA] Second announcement "Quantum Structures Kazan 2018"
by Kreinovich April 26, 2018

April 26, 2018

FYI, papers involving quantum-related imprecise probabilities are very welcome at this series of conferences. -----Original Message----- From: Mirko Navara [mailto:navara(a)cmp.felk.cvut.cz] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 1:49 AM The International Quantum Structure Association is pleased to announce that the next Biennial IQSA Conference will take place in Kazan, Russia, on July 16-20, 2018. The proposed arrival date is Sunday, July 10, and the date of departure is Saturday, July 16. Information on the conference is available at the website: http://iqsa2018.universityevents.ru/ Abstract Submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iqsa2018 Scope “IQSA-2018” is a major international conference integrating all fields of quantum mechanics and its applications. It provides an important opportunity for researchers to disseminate their results and to obtain feedback both from their peers and from senior members of the community. Owing to its interdisciplinary and foundational character, the objective of the conference is to encourage communication between researchers throughout the world whose research is related to: - quantum structures and their applications in physics, mathematics and philosophy - logico-algebraic structures, orthomodular structures - quantum mechanics - quantum measurements - quantum computation, quantum information, quantum communication - quantum probability - interdisciplinary applications of quantum structures - algebraic methods of quantum mechanics - interdisciplinary applications of quantum structures Dates February 1, 2018 registration and abstract submission will open May 31, 2018 deadline for registration July 15, 2018 recommended arriving day July 16, 2018 first official day July 20, 2018 last official day Local organizing committee: Ekaterina Turilova, Samig Haliullin Airat Bikchentaev Aleksandr Vasiliev Bulat Satrutdinov Jury Dedenev Previous Editions The conference continues the successful meetings held in: Gdansk 1990 Castiglioncello 1992 Prague 1994 Berlin 1996 Liptovsky Jan 1998 Cesenatico 2001 Vienna 2002 Denver 2004 Malta 2006 Brussels-Gdansk 2008 Boston 2010 Cagliari 2012 Olomouc 2014 Leicester 2016 For any query, please send a message to: iqsa.conf.2018(a)gmail.com

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[SIPTA] DeepLearn 2018: early registration May 3
by IRDTA April 26, 2018

April 26, 2018

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[SIPTA] FW: SMC2018 Call for Exhibitions
by Kreinovich April 25, 2018

April 25, 2018

FYI, re 2018 IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference (Miyazaki, Japan, October 7-10, 2018), a great opportunity to present your university or company to 700+ attendees from all over the world -----Original Message----- From: Tadahiko Murata Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 5:58 PM **** Call for Exhibitions at SMC2018 **** Currently we have started the call for exhibitions at SMC2018. http://www.smc2018.org/exhibition-guideline/ We accept exhibitions of companies and universities. For universities, we prepare their places free of charge! Please circulate this invitation to your colleagues. Application Deadline: May 31, 2018 E-mail to: exhibition(a)smc2018.org Notification of Acceptance: June 14, 2018 **** We really appreciate your support for SMC2018. Regards, Tadahiko __/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/ Social Simulation Laboratory, Kansai University Tadahiko Murata, Professor, Dr. murata(a)kansai-u.ac.jp www.res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp/~murata/?lang=en Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University Ryozenji, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-1095, Japan Skype ID: tadahiko_murata __/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/

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[SIPTA] wpmsiip accommodation
by Enrique Miranda April 24, 2018

April 24, 2018

Dear Siptians, This is just a reminder that, if you plan to attend the WPMSIIP workshop in Oviedo (http://bellman.ciencias.uniovi.es/~ssipta18/WPMSIIP.html) we can cover your accommodation at the student residence for 200 euros. In that case, you should pay the registration fee at https://intranetfuo.uniovi.es/en/web/intranet-fuo/congresos/taller_wpmsiip?… Of course, you are also free to book any other accommodation on your own, and in that case WPMSIIP is free as usual. The deadline for this early registration is May, 1; after that the fee will increase in 100 euros. If you have any questions or comments, you can contact either me or Ignacio Montes (imontes(a)uniovi.es). Looking forward to meeting you in Oviedo. Best regards, Enrique

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[SIPTA] Sofja Kovalevskaja Award for young research talents
by Thomas Augustin April 24, 2018

April 24, 2018

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[SIPTA] FW: Special Collection on Reliability Analysis and Design Optimization of Mechanical Systems
by Kreinovich April 23, 2018

April 23, 2018

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Re: [SIPTA] SUM2018 - New Extended Deadline
by Kreinovich April 23, 2018

April 23, 2018

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[SIPTA] SUM2018 - New Extended Deadline
by Ciucci Davide April 23, 2018

April 23, 2018

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[SIPTA] FW: Reliability Analysis in the Presence of Deep Uncertainties”
by Kreinovich April 22, 2018

April 22, 2018

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[SIPTA] Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference (FUR 2018) CfP
by Georgalos April 20, 2018

April 20, 2018

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[SIPTA] Fwd: Foundations of Risk and Utility 2018 Conference - second round submission deadline approaching
by Erik Quaeghebeur April 20, 2018

April 20, 2018

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Re: [SIPTA] SMC2018 Track on Soft Computing: extended submission due, April 21
by Kreinovich April 19, 2018

April 19, 2018

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[SIPTA] AlCoB 2018: call for posters
by IRDTA April 10, 2018

April 10, 2018

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[SIPTA] DeepLearn 2018: early registration April 7
by IRDTA April 2, 2018

April 2, 2018

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[SIPTA] HighPer 2018: early registration March 30
by IRDTA March 29, 2018

March 29, 2018

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[SIPTA] SUM2018 - Extended Deadline
by Ciucci Davide March 29, 2018

March 29, 2018

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[SIPTA] FW: SMC2018: extended submission due
by Kreinovich March 29, 2018

March 29, 2018

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[SIPTA] SIPTA school: final deadline on Arpil 3rd
by Enrique Miranda March 28, 2018

March 28, 2018

Dear SIPTA members, This is a small reminder that the deadline for application for the SIPTA summer school is approaching. The final deadline has been set for Tuesday, April 3rd. You can find the relevant information for the application at http://bellman.ciencias.uniovi.es/~ssipta18/ Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or comments. Best regards, Enrique

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Re: [SIPTA] FW: 12th International Conference of the Thailand Econometric Society (TES2019)
by Kreinovich March 27, 2018

March 27, 2018

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2018: 2nd call for papers
by IRDTA March 25, 2018

March 25, 2018

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[SIPTA] AlCoB 2018: call for posters
by IRDTA March 19, 2018

March 19, 2018

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Re: [SIPTA] IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference
by Kreinovich March 18, 2018

March 18, 2018

FYI, imprecise probabilities papers are always welcome ***************************************** From: Yutaka HATA <hata(a)sim.u-hyogo.ac.jp> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2018 9:27 PM IEEE SMC2018 Call for Paper Theme: The Making of a Human-Centered Cyber World The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Seagaia Convention Center, Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan, October 7-10, 2018 We are inviting Technical Papers to SMC 2018. Detailed information is available in the following website. http://smc2018.org Approved Special Sessions: http://www.smc2018.org/approved-special-sessions/ Paper Submission: http://www.smc2018.org/information-for-authors/ Important Days March 31, 2018 Submission due June 1, 2018 Notification of acceptance July 10, 2018 Author registration deadline July 20, 2018 Camera-ready deadline We hope to see you in Miyazaki! Sincerely, Yutaka HATA, SMC2018 Conference Chair

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[SIPTA] 2nd Cal for Abstracts: ECDA special session on imprecision in statistical learning: deadline April 1st
by Thomas Augustin March 14, 2018

March 14, 2018

Dear members of the sipta list, Might we direct your attention briefly once more to the Special Session on Statistical Learning with Imprecision we are organizing at ECDA 2018, 4 July - 6 July 2018, Paderborn, Germany? We think that this an excellent opportunity for members of our community to exchange ideas, also with members from other communities including more traditional data analysts. ECDA is quite an interesting general conference. The motto of this year is "Multidisciplinary Facets of Data Science" in a very broad sense. Please note that submitting an abstract by April 1st is sufficient to apply (, although there is an additional post conference proceedings option, see below.) Further information is available from: https://www.hds.utc.fr/~sdesterc/dokuwiki/_media/ecda2018_special_sess.pdf http://www.ecda2018.de When submitting the abstract, please make sure you mark it as a contribution to the special session. Of course, you also need to register for the conference, once your abstract is accepted. Full papers will be published as post-proceedings in the newly launched Journal "Archives of Data Science, Series A" after the conference. Submission to the post-proceedings is offered to all participants, but is not compulsory. Submitted papers will undergo a standard review process. The normal time slot for a talk in a session will be around 20-25 minutes. Best wishes, Sebastien Destercke and Thomas Augustin

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[SIPTA] IJAR Special Issue: Robustness in Probabilistic Graphical Models
by Denis Deratani Mauá March 14, 2018

March 14, 2018

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[SIPTA] INTECH 2018
by conference＠icdim.org March 14, 2018

March 14, 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS Eighth International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2018) Luton, UK August 15-17, 2018 www.dirf.org/intech Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE, UK & RI (IEEE Xplore Indexing) CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2011) was held at Sao Carlos in Brazil followed by the Second International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2012) at Casablanca in Morocco. The INTECH 2013 and INTECH 2014 were organized at London and Luton, UK respectively. The INTECH 2015 was organized by the Atlantic Research Centre for Information and Communication Technologies of the University of Vigo, Spain. The INTECH 2016 was at Dublin, Ireland followed by the INTECH 2017 at Luton, UK. The INTECH 2018 will be held at London, and it offers the opportunity for institutes, research centers, engineers, scientists and industrial companies to share their latest investigations, researches, developments and ideas in area of Innovative Computing Technology, which covers huge topics. The INTECH intends to address various innovative computing techniques involving various applications. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of computing technologies, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. This conference (INTECH 2018) will include presentations of contributed papers by invited keynote speakers. Conference papers will include innovative computing paradigms in the following topics: Network and Information Security Innovative Computing Systems and Applications in S & T domains such as – Algorithms Applied Information Systems Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Broadcasting Technology Cloud Computing Computational Intelligence Data and Network mining Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks Database Systems Digital Image/Video Processing E-Learning, e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government Electronics Environmental modeling and precision agriculture Fault Classification and Pattern Recognition Green Computing Grid computing Human-Computer Interaction Intelligent Condition Monitoring Mobile network and systems Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Payment Systems Peer-to-peer social networks Precision Farming Web Farming Signal Processing Soft Computing: Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems, optimization algorithms Software Engineering Intelligent Farming: Web farming, Web irrigation Ubiquitous Computing User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling Virtual Reality Visualization Web services WWW Applications and Technologies XML and other Extensible Languages The INTECH proceedings will also be indexed by dblp. All the papers will be reviewed and the accepted papers in the conference will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for indexing and will be indexed in many global databases.In addition, all the accepted papers (for Journals) will be published in the special issues journals after substantial revision and modification. Program Committees General Chairs Ezendu Ariwa, University of Bedfordshire, UK Saju Mohanan, Oman College of Higher Technology, Oman Ramiro Sámano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Program Chairs Jack Fernando Bravo-Torres, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Ecuador Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy Anabela Mesquita, Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administraç?o do Porto, Portugal Submissions at- http://dirf.org/intech/paper-submission/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: June 01, 2018 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: July 01, 2018 Camera Ready: August 01, 2018 Registration: August 01, 2018 Conference: August 15-17, 2018 Contact: intech @ dirf.org OR intech @ socio.org.uk ------------------------------------

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[SIPTA] SMPS/BELIEF 2018, submission deadline extension (6th April final deadline)
by Sébastien Destercke March 12, 2018

March 12, 2018

Dear Colleagues, Following multiple requests, we want to inform you that we have extended the submission deadline for the SMPS/BELIEF conference (https://smpsbelief2018.hds.utc.fr/) to be held in Compiègne in September, as follows: For papers (https://smpsbelief2018.hds.utc.fr/?page_id=66) * Submission of paper abstract: as soon as you can * Submission of paper: 6th April (Final deadline) * Authors notification: 4th May For Abstract-only contributions (not in the proceedings, poster presentation only): * Submission deadline: 30th May (unchanged) Note that these deadlines are firm, and will not be subject to further extensions. We also want to remind you some information of interest: * BFAS is offering ten students grant, covering the registration fees of the conference (https://smpsbelief2018.hds.utc.fr/?page_id=120) * Best paper prizes, sponsored by Elsevier, will be given to young researchers (who have defended their PhDs at most 2 years ago) * Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their submission to the IJAR journal (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reas…) Sébastien and Thierry

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[SIPTA] LATA 2018: call for participation
by IRDTA March 10, 2018

March 10, 2018

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[SIPTA] 11th WPMSIIP - Workshop on Principles and Methods of Statistical Inference with Interval Probability
by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ March 9, 2018

March 9, 2018

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[SIPTA] IJAR-Special Issue on Decision Making with Imprecise Information
by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ March 9, 2018

March 9, 2018

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[SIPTA] Bayesian, fiducial and frequentist conference (BFF5)
by Fabio Cuzzolin March 6, 2018

March 6, 2018

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[SIPTA] SIPTA school on imprecise probabilities- second announcement
by Enrique Miranda March 5, 2018

March 5, 2018

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[SIPTA] FW: ICDSIAI'2018 Second CFP
by Kreinovich March 2, 2018

March 2, 2018

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Re: [SIPTA] The Second International Econometric Conference of Vietnam ECONVN2019, 14-16 January 2019, Hochiminh City
by Kreinovich March 2, 2018

March 2, 2018

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[SIPTA] FW: IEEE SSCI 2018-Call for Papers
by Kreinovich March 1, 2018

March 1, 2018

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[SIPTA] SMPS/BELIEF 2018 conference: student grants and awards
by Sébastien Destercke March 1, 2018

March 1, 2018

Dear colleagues, The Belief functions and Applications Society (http://bfas.iut-lannion.fr/) is offering a number of grants to allow students with limited funding opportunities to present their work at the 5th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2018). The grants cover the registration fees. The BELIEF 2018 conference will take place in Compiègne, France, on September 17-21, 2018, in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS 2018). Conference homepage: https://smpsbelief2018.hds.utc.fr The current paper submission deadline is March 15, 2018. Authors of accepted papers will be notified on April 30, 2018. The deadline of the grant application is May 15, 2018. Candidates should send the following information: - CV - recommendation letter from supervisor - copy of paper accepted at BELIEF 2018 to the secretary of BFAS, Dr. Anne-Laure Jousselme (Anne-Laure.Jousselme(a)cmre.nato.int) The International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) will also offer best paper awards (with a prize of 1000 € for each conference) to students and early career researchers (who defended their PhD less than 2 years before the conference). The award ceremony will take place during the conference.’ Thierry Denoeux and Sebastien Destercke -- ==================================== 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] ECDA special session on imprecision in statistical learning
by Sébastien Destercke March 1, 2018

March 1, 2018

Dear colleagues, In the context of ECDA conference taking place in Paderborn, we are organizing a special session on imprecision in statistical learning. Informations about the special session and the conference can be respectively found at: https://www.hds.utc.fr/~sdesterc/dokuwiki/_media/ecda2018_special_sess.pdf http://www.ecda2018.de Here is some relevant information you might be interested in: -- To give a talk, you only need to send a title and abstract, i.e., no full paper is required. The abstract submission deadline is April 1st. When submitting the abstract, please make sure you mark it as a contribution to the special session. Of course, you also need to register for the conference, once your abstract is accepted. -- Full papers will be published as post-proceedings in the newly launched Journal "Archives of Data Science, Series A" after the conference. Submission to the post-proceedings is offered to all participants, but is not compulsory. Submitted papers will undergo a standard review process. -- The normal time slot for a talk in a session will be around 20-25 minutes. Best regards Sebastien Destercke and Thomas Augustin -- ==================================== 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] Fwd: Opportunity to contribute to IMEKO world congress
by Marco De Angelis Feb. 20, 2018

Feb. 20, 2018

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[SIPTA] Basic Interval Standard
by Kreinovich Feb. 18, 2018

Feb. 18, 2018

FYI, since interval-valued probabilities are an important case of imprecise probabilities, it may be of interest to imprecise probability folks that IEEE has a standard on interval computations. There is a more detailed standard, but for most applications, the basic standard will be sufficient. -----Original Message----- From: Ralph Baker Kearfott [mailto:rbk5287(a)louisiana.edu] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2018 10:57 AM Basic Interval Standard has been published. Its official name is: "IEEE Std 1788.1-2017 - IEEE Standard for Interval Arithmetic (Simplified)" It will be an active standard for 10 years (after which it may be reaffirmed or revised). A web page for it is: https://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/1788.1-2017.html Baker P.S. Here is the info from the standard webpage: Description: This standard is a simplified version and a subset of the IEEE Std 1788TM-2015 for Interval Arithmetic and includes those operations and features of the latter that in the editors' view are most commonly used in practice. IEEE Std 1788.1-2017 specifies interval arithmetic operations based on intervals whose endpoints are IEEE Std 754TM-2008 binary64 floating-point numbers and a decoration system for exception-free computations and propagation of properties of the computed results. A program built on top of an implementation of IEEE Std 1788.1-2017 should compile and run, and give identical output within round off, using an implementation of IEEE Std 1788-2015, or any superset of the former. Compared to IEEE Std 1788-2015, this standard aims to be minimalistic, yet to cover much of the functionality needed for interval computations. As such, it is more accessible and will be much easier to implement, and thus will speed up production of implementations.

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[SIPTA] math.stackexchange question about upper transition operator definition
by Abrams Feb. 16, 2018

Feb. 16, 2018

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[SIPTA] Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM2018)
by Ciucci Davide Feb. 12, 2018

Feb. 12, 2018

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[SIPTA] Call for papers: SMPS/BELIEF 2018 joint conferences
by Sébastien Destercke Feb. 1, 2018

Feb. 1, 2018

====================================================================== Joint SMPS/BELIEF 2018, 17th-21th September 2018 5th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2018) and 9th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS 2018) Dates: September 17th-21th, 2018 Location: Compiègne, France Submission deadline: March 15th, 2018 Notification: April 30th, 2018 Final version: May 30th, 2018 Further information: https://smpsbelief2018.hds.utc.fr/ ====================================================================== The BELIEF and SMPS conferences are biennial events concerning the modeling of uncertainty. The BELIEF conferences are sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society (BFAS) and are focused on the theory of belief functions, while the scope of SMPS covers the application of all approaches to uncertainty (including fuzzy and rough sets, imprecise probabilities, etc.) to statistics and data analysis. The co-location of the two events is intended to favor cross-fertilization among researchers active in both communities. A single registration will be required to attend the whole event. Submissions and Proceedings ============================ The proceedings of the BELIEF 2018 and SMPS 2018 conferences will appear as separate volumes, both published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS/LNAI format, indexed by ISI Web of Science; EI Engineering Index; ACM Digital Library; dblp; Google Scholar; IO-Port; MathSciNet; Scopus; Zentralblatt MATH. Two types of paper are accepted: - Long papers that should be at most 8 pages long and present original contributions with significant results, or detailed position papers. - Short papers that should be 4 pages long and present for example more preliminary works, innovative applications, short position papers. In addition, we accept abstract-only contributions, that will be presented as posters during the conference. Note that those contributions will not be included in the proceedings. IJAR Special issues ==================== Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2018/ SMPS 2018 conferences will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible inclusion in special issues 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: - Thomas Augustin (Ludwig Maximilians Universität München) - Scott Ferson (University of Liverpool) - Ryan Martin (North Carolina State University) ====================================================================== The Conference co-chairs Thierry Denoeux (https://www.hds.utc.fr/~tdenoeux) and Sébastien Destercke (https://www.hds.utc.fr/~sdesterc) Contact: tdenoeux(a)hds.utc.fr, sebastien.destercke(a)hds.utc.fr We would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested participants of these conferences.

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[SIPTA] Books by Igor Gorban
by Abrams Jan. 30, 2018

Jan. 30, 2018

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Re: [SIPTA] [IEEE SMC 2018] Call for Special Session Proposals
by Kreinovich Jan. 29, 2018

Jan. 29, 2018

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