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[SIPTA] [IEA/AIE'17] New submission deadline: Dec 15th, 2016.
by Karim Tabia 23 Nov '16

23 Nov '16

Following the requests from many potential authors, we are pleased to announce the new deadline for submitting papers for the "30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE'17). The deadline for submitting papers has been extended until December 15th, 2016. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The 30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/ieaaie2017/) June 27-30, 2017 Arras (near Paris, France) Scope: IEA/AIE 2017 continues the tradition of emphasizing applications of applied intelligent systems to solve real-life problems in all areas including engineering, science, industry, automation & robotics, business finance, medicine and biomedicine, bioinformatics, cyberspace, and human-machine interactions. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English of up to 10 single spaced pages, presenting the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art AI methodologies are also acceptable when they reflect lessons of unique value to the conference attendees. Shorter works, up to 6 pages, to be presented in 10 minutes, may be submitted as short papers representing work in progress or suggesting possible research directions. All paper submissions will be done electronically, as indicated in the instructions on the conference web site.All papers will be peer reviewed and final copies of papers for inclusion to the conference proceedings will be published in a bound volume by Springer-Verlag (formatting instructions are available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Topics of interest - Adaptive Control - Ambient Intelligence - Application to Design - Applications to Manufacturing - Argumentation Systems - Bayesian Networks - Autonomous Agents - Bio-informatics - Case-based Reasoning - Chance Discovery - Cognitive Modeling - Computer Animation - Computer Vision - Constraint Satisfaction - Conversational Informatics - Data Mining - Decision Support System - Description Logics - Distributed Problem Solving - Evolutionary Algorithms - Expert Systems - Financial Applications - Genetic Programming - Heuristic Search - Human Robot Interaction Integration Systems for Real Life Applications - Intelligent Interfaces - Intelligent Systems - Intelligent Systems in Education - Internet Applications - Interaction Planning and Scheduling - KBS Methodology - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Processing - Machine Learning - Meta-heuristics - Model-based Reasoning - Multi-Agent Systems - Natural Language Processing - Neural Networks - Non-Monotonic Logics - Planning and Scheduling - Reasoning under Uncertainty - SAT - Social Networks Applications - Soft Computing - Spatial Reasoning - Speech Recognition - Web Semantics and Ontologies Workshops - Ontologies and Logic Programming for Query Answering - Computer Animation and Artificial Intelligence Special Tracks - Intelligent Systems and mHealth for Health Outcomes - De Finettis heritage in uncertainty and decision making - Graphical models: from Theory to Applications - Agronomy and Artificial Intelligence - Conditionals and non-monotonic reasoning - Computational Intelligence in Databases - Novel approaches to ontological reasoning - Applications of Argumentation - Cognitive Vision - Integrated Vision and AI for Embodied Perception and Interaction - Anomaly Detection - AI & Games Invited speakers - Frederic CUPPENS (FR) - Leon VAN DER TORRE (LUX) - Jian J. ZHANG (UK) General chair Moonis ALI (US) Program co-chairs Salem BENFERHAT (FR) Karim TABIA (FR) Organization co-chairs Salem BENFERHAT (FR) Sylvain LAGRUE (FR) Special Session co-chairs Zied BOURAOUI (UK) Steven SCHOCKAERT (UK) Workshop co-chairs Jianbing MA (UK) Hongchuan YU (UK) Social events & Local arrangements co-chairs Nathalie CHETCUTI-SPERANDIO (FR) Karim TABIA (FR) Web co-chairs Fabien DELORME (FR) Amelie LEVRAY (FR) Publicity co-chairs Farid NOUIOUA (FR) Eric PIETTE (FR) International Advisor Committee Hamido FUJITA (JP) All IAC Members IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline (extended) : Dec 15, 2016 Notification of acceptance: Feb 6, 2017 Camera ready papers: Feb 25, 2017 Conference dates: Jun 27-30, 2017

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[SIPTA] [CFP] IEA/AIE'17: 30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering, Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (Arras, France)
by Karim Tabia 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

The 30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/ieaaie2017/) June 27-30, 2017 Arras (near Paris, France) Scope: IEA/AIE 2017 continues the tradition of emphasizing applications of applied intelligent systems to solve real-life problems in all areas including engineering, science, industry, automation & robotics, business finance, medicine and biomedicine, bioinformatics, cyberspace, and human-machine interactions. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English of up to 10 single spaced pages, presenting the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art AI methodologies are also acceptable when they reflect lessons of unique value to the conference attendees. Shorter works, up to 6 pages, to be presented in 10 minutes, may be submitted as short papers representing work in progress or suggesting possible research directions. All paper submissions will be done electronically, as indicated in the instructions on the conference web site.All papers will be peer reviewed and final copies of papers for inclusion to the conference proceedings will be published in a bound volume by Springer-Verlag (formatting instructions are available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Topics of interest - Adaptive Control - Ambient Intelligence - Application to Design - Applications to Manufacturing - Argumentation Systems - Bayesian Networks - Autonomous Agents - Bio-informatics - Case-based Reasoning - Chance Discovery - Cognitive Modeling - Computer Animation - Computer Vision - Constraint Satisfaction - Conversational Informatics - Data Mining - Decision Support System - Description Logics - Distributed Problem Solving - Evolutionary Algorithms - Expert Systems - Financial Applications - Genetic Programming - Heuristic Search - Human Robot Interaction Integration Systems for Real Life Applications - Intelligent Interfaces - Intelligent Systems - Intelligent Systems in Education - Internet Applications - Interaction Planning and Scheduling - KBS Methodology - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Processing - Machine Learning - Meta-heuristics - Model-based Reasoning - Multi-Agent Systems - Natural Language Processing - Neural Networks - Non-Monotonic Logics - Planning and Scheduling - Reasoning under Uncertainty - SAT - Social Networks Applications - Soft Computing - Spatial Reasoning - Speech Recognition - Web Semantics and Ontologies Workshops - Ontologies and Logic Programming for Query Answering - Computer Animation and Artificial Intelligence Special Tracks - Intelligent Systems and mHealth for Health Outcomes - De Finettis heritage in uncertainty and decision making - Graphical models: from Theory to Applications - Agronomy and Artificial Intelligence - Conditionals and non-monotonic reasoning - Computational Intelligence in Databases - Novel approaches to ontological reasoning - Applications of Argumentation - Cognitive Vision - Integrated Vision and AI for Embodied Perception and Interaction - Anomaly Detection - AI & Games Invited speakers - Frederic CUPPENS (FR) - Leon VAN DER TORRE (LUX) - Jian J. ZHANG (UK) General chair Moonis ALI (US) Program co-chairs Salem BENFERHAT (FR) Karim TABIA (FR) Organization co-chairs Salem BENFERHAT (FR) Sylvain LAGRUE (FR) Special Session co-chairs Zied BOURAOUI (UK) Steven SCHOCKAERT (UK) Workshop co-chairs Jianbing MA (UK) Hongchuan YU (UK) Social events & Local arrangements co-chairs Nathalie CHETCUTI-SPERANDIO (FR) Karim TABIA (FR) Web co-chairs Fabien DELORME (FR) Amelie LEVRAY (FR) Publicity co-chairs Farid NOUIOUA (FR) Eric PIETTE (FR) International Advisor Committee Hamido FUJITA (JP) All IAC Members IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: Nov 23, 2016 Notification of acceptance: Feb 6, 2017 Camera ready papers: Feb 25, 2017 Conference dates: Jun 27-30, 2017

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[SIPTA] [FLAIRS-30] Uncertain Reasoning special track - CFP
by Karim Tabia 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

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[SIPTA] [ECSQARU 2017] First CfP
by Alessandro Antonucci 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

The Fourteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch The biennial ECSQARU conferences constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty. 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, 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), and Compiègne (2015). ECSQARU 2017 will be co-located with ISIPTA '17, the Tenth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications. The joint event will be held in Lugano (Switzerland), on July 10-14, 2017. For ECSQARU 2017 we invite submissions of conference 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 revision & merging - Classification & clustering - Decision theory & decision graphs - Default reasoning - Description logics with uncertainty - Foundations of reasoning under uncertainty - Fuzzy sets & fuzzy logic - Game theory - 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 ::: INVITED SPEAKERS ::: We are delighted of having the following invited speakers: - Leila Amgoud (IRIT, France) - Alessio Benavoli (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Jim Berger (Duke University, USA) - Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) - Eyke Hüllermeier (Paderborn University, Germany) ::: PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSIONS ::: In accordance with the previous conferences, the proceedings of ECSQARU 2015 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Authors are requested to prepare their conference papers in the LNCS/LNAI format. Submitted papers 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. The instructions for submission and the author kit are available here: http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch/submissions-ecsqaru/ ::: IMPORTANT DATES ::: Tuesday, February 21, 2017: Paper submission deadline Tuesday, April 18, 2017: Author notification Friday, April 28, 2017: Camera-ready copy due ::: IJAR SPECIAL ISSUE AND SPRINGER YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD ::: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR). We also invite applications for the Springer Young Researcher Award. The prize, granted by Springer, will be awarded to one young researcher for excellent research in fields related to the ECSQARU scope. The award is open to Master students, PhD students and young post-doc researchers who have received their PhD in 2016 (or 2017). Applicants should have submitted a paper (not necessarily as first authors) to ECSQARU 2017. Applications should be received by the paper submission deadline (February 21, 2017).

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[SIPTA] [ISIPTA '17] First CfP
by Giorgio Corani 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

The Tenth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA ’17) FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS http://isipta.idsia.ch The ISIPTA conference is the primary international forum about theory and applications of imprecise probability. Imprecise probability is a generic term for the many mathematical and statistical models and methods, allowing us to measure chance or uncertainty without the restriction of sharp probabilities. The symposium is open to contributions on all aspects of imprecise probability. ISIPTA '17 will be co-located with ECSQARU 2017, the Fourteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty. The joint event will be held in Lugano (Switzerland), on July 10-14, 2017. ::: INVITED SPEAKERS ::: We are delighted of having the following invited speakers: - Leila Amgoud (IRIT, France) - Alessio Benavoli (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Jim Berger (Duke University, USA) - Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) - Eyke Hüllermeier (Paderborn University, Germany) ::: JMLR PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSIONS ::: For the first time, the ISIPTA '17 proceedings will be published in the Workshop and Conference proceedings series (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings) of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). The instructions for submission and the author kit are available here: http://isipta.idsia.ch/submissions-isipta/ The page limit is 12 pages in the JMLR style. Each submission will be reviewed by three referees. ::: IMPORTANT DATES ::: Tuesday, February 21, 2017: Paper submission deadline Tuesday, April 18, 2017: Author notification Friday, April 28, 2017: Camera-ready copy due ::: IJAR SPECIAL ISSUE AND YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD ::: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR). We also invite applications for the IJAR Young Researcher Award. The prize, granted by IJAR, will be awarded to one young researcher for excellent research in the area of imprecise probability. The award is open to Master students, PhD students and young post-doc researchers who have received their PhD in 2016 (or 2017). Applicants should have submitted a paper (not necessarily as first authors) to ISIPTA ’17. Applications should be received by the paper submission deadline (February 21, 2017).

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[SIPTA] special session on imprecise probabilities and non-additive measures at IFSA'2017
by Enrique Miranda 09 Nov '16

09 Nov '16

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[SIPTA] Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Statistical Machine Learning
by Fabio Cuzzolin 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

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[SIPTA] Special issue IJAR: VSI-SMPS2016
by Barbara Vantaggi 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

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[SIPTA] Fwd: [UAI] 2nd CfP: IMPERFECT DECISION MAKERS: ADMITTING REAL-WORLD RATIONALITY (2016 NIPS WS)
by Fabio Gagliardi Cozman 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

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[SIPTA] [CFP] Uncertain Reasoning (UR) Special Track at the 30th International FLAIRS Conference
by Karim Tabia 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Please find the call for papers for Uncertain Reasoning (UR) Special Track at the 30th International FLAIRS Conference at this Webpage: http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~bertossi/UR17/ur17.html Best regards, The UR17 special track co-chairs

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[SIPTA] PhD studentship on imprecise probability in offshore energy
by Matthias Troffaes 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Dear all, There's an exciting PhD studentship available in Durham to apply imprecise probabilistic methods to offshore asset management, in collaboration between the Durham Engineering and Mathematics departments, and an external research institute named the "Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult". Starting date can be as early as 1 October 2016, but this is flexible. More information here: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AON868/phd-studentship-offshore-transmission-syst… If you know of anyone interested, or if you want more information, please contact either myself or Behzad (in CC). Cheers, Matthias

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[SIPTA] FW: a new book
by Kreinovich 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

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Re: [SIPTA] Call for Papers: UNCECOMP 2017- MS7 on "Non Probabilistic Approaches for Uncertainty Representation and Analysis in Engineering”
by Kreinovich 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

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Re: [SIPTA] IEEE CISDA 2016 paper submission deadline extended to August 15
by Kreinovich 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

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Re: [SIPTA] Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions IEEE Symposium: deadline extended to August 15
by Kreinovich 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

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[SIPTA] FW: Extended SSCI 2016 Submission Deadline: August 15, 2016
by Kreinovich 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

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[SIPTA] FW: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Engineering Solutions: deadline July 18 is approaching!
by Kreinovich 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

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[SIPTA] PGM 2016: call for participation
by Giorgio Corani 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

==PGM 2016 PGM 2016 is the eight edition of the International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models. It will take place in Lugano (Switzerland) between the 6th and the 9th of September 2016. The site of the conference is http://pgm.idsia.ch. It welcomes contributions on all aspects of graphical models including probabilistic reasoning, decision making, learning and data mining. It welcomes both theoretical and applied contributions. ==Registration The early bird registration expires on July 22h. For more information see http://www2.idsia.ch/cms/pgm/registration/. ==Venue information The conference is located in Lugano, a lakeside city in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, a region of Switzerland well known for its warm climate and outstanding scenery. Some hotels make available rooms with discounted fees for the PGM participants. For more information see http://www2.idsia.ch/cms/pgm/venue/ ==Invited Speakers and Tutorials We are pleased to have three distinguished invited speakers. Guido Consonni is Professor of Statistics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. Prof. Consonni will give a talk titled "Bayesian Selection of Essential Graphical Models". Fabio G. Cozman is Professor at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Prof. Cozman will give a talk titled "The Finite Model Theory of Bayesian Networks: An Invitation". Adnan Darwiche is Professor and former Chairman of the Computer Science Department at UCLA. Prof. Darwiche will give a talk titled "Learning Arithmetic Circuits with Background Knowledge". ==Tutorials We will have two tutorials. "Computational Complexity of Bayesian Networks and Markov Random Fields", by Cassio P. de Campos, Reader at Queen’s University Belfast, UK and Johan Kwisthout, Senior staff member in the Artificial Intelligence Program at Radboud University, and postdoc in the Donders Center for Cognition. "Learning Sum-Product Networks", by Nicola Di Mauro, Professor at the University of Bari, Italy, and by Antonio Vergari, PhD student at the University of Bari. This tutorial is an ECCAI invited talk, supported by the ECCAI conference sponsorship program.

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[SIPTA] Deadline extended: CFP: ISWC Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW'16)
by Thomas Lukasiewicz 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2016) http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2016 In conjunction with the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016), Kobe, Japan October 17 or 18, 2016 ========================================================== You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October 17-21, 2016 Kobe, Japan. ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web / Linked Data community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty remains extremely limited. Thus, there is a continuing demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and developers, and the URSW workshop creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but limited history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. AUDIENCE The intended audience for this workshop includes the following * Researchers in uncertain reasoning technologies with interest in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Semantic Web and Linked Data developers and researchers * People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Ontology researchers and ontological engineers * Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web * Developers of tools designed to support semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protégé developers, OWL-API developers... TOPIC LIST We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web and Linked Data (including fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be just an initial guide. * Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web / Linked Data languages to enable representation of uncertainty * Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web / Linked Data languages * Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts * Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping * Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies * The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web * Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web / Linked Data * The role of uncertainty as it relates to web services and cloud computing * Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among web services * Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning with uncertainty; * The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web and Linked Data IMPORTANT DATES * July 15, 2016: Paper submissions due * July 31: Paper acceptance notification * August 7: Camera-ready papers due * Oct 17 or 18: 12th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web SUBMISSION DETAILS The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2016 Conference, and committed to attend the URSW Workshop. Submissions to the workshop are only accepted in electronic format and should be sent via the workshop's EasyChair submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2016 Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2016. For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including figures and references. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not exceed 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2016 conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop. PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings. Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while authors of accepted position papers will have a 10-minute slot to share their ideas. After each presentation, 5 minutes will be allocated to questions from the audience. Both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2016 conference. In addition, we are planning a journal special issue or Lecture Notes in Computer Science/ Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) volume with selected extended and revised versions of technical papers presented at URSW 2016. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Fernando Bobillo - University of Zaragoza, Spain * Rommel N. Carvalho - Brazil's Office of the Comptroller General / University of Brasília, Brazil * Davide Ceolin - VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA * Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy * Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy * Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA * Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA * Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK * Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK * Matthias Nickles - INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland * Michael Pool - Credit Suisse, USA

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[SIPTA] Final Call: KSEM 2016 - Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management Conference
by KSEM 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

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[SIPTA] FW: interesting lecture
by Kreinovich 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

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[SIPTA] CfP - IUKM 2016: Submission deadline extended
by Van-Nam HUYNH 19 Jun '16

19 Jun '16

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] Due to several requests for extension, we have decided to extend the deadline for submissions until July 10, 2016. We would appreciate it very much if you could kindly help to disseminate enclosed CFP in your working networks, and encourage your colleagues and students to submit their works to the conference. —————————————————————————————————————— NEW: Extended Submission Deadline: July 10, 2016 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fifth International Symposium on INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY in KNOWLEDGE MODELLING and DECISION MAKING http://www.jaist.ac.jp/IUKM/IUKM2016/ NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 2, 2016, Da Nang, VIETNAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -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. Previous symposia have been successfully held in Ishikawa, Japan (IUM 2010 - AISC 68), Hangzhou, China (IUKM 2011 - LNAI 7027), Beijing, China (IUKM 2013 - LNAI 8032) and Nha Trang, Vietnam (IUKM 2015 - LNAI 9376). The fifth IUKM (2016) will take place in the central coastal city of Da Nang, Vietnam, during November 30 - December 2, 2016. Da Nang is located on the Eastern Sea coast, midway between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and is the largest city of Central Vietnam. It is also in close proximity to several UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the Imperial City of Hue, the Old Town of Hoi An , and the archaeological site of My Son. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposal for special sessions and workshops is encouraged and welcome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Relevant topics for the IUKM 2016 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 - Logics for reasoning under 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 - Economics and econometrics PUBLICATION The authors are invited to submit their full papers by July 10, 2016 (extended deadline). The submissions will be peer-reviewed for originality and scientific quality. As done in previous editions, the proceedings of IUKM 2016 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=iukm2016) IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission: 10 July 2016 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 25 August 2016 Final camera-ready and author registration: 15 September 2016 Early registration: 10 October 2016 Symposium dates: 30 November - 2 December 2016 ————————————— ————————————— Honorary Co-Chairs Michio Sugeno (European Center for Soft Computing, Spain) Hung T. Nguyen (New Mexico State University, USA; Chiang Mai University, Thailand) Cong-Co Le (Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam) Sadaaki Miyamoto (Tsukuba University, Japan) General Co-Chairs Nguyen-Bao Le (Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam) Thierry Denoeux (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Program Co-Chairs Van-Nam Huynh (JAIST, Japan) Masahiro Inuiguchi (University of Osaka, Japan) Bac Le (University of Science, VNU-Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam)

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Re: [SIPTA] REC'2016 and REC'2018
by Kreinovich 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

Dear Friends, The 7th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing REC'2016 in Bochum, Germany, is over. Many many thanks to Steffen Freitag, Conference Chair, for the great organization. Scott Ferson kindly agreed to organize the next conference in Summer 2018 in Liverpool, UK. Imprecise probability, especially when applied to engineering problems, are always strongly present at this series of conferences.

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[SIPTA] RCRA 2016 Preliminary Call for Papers
by Andrea Formisano 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

[APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS] * ______________________________________________________________________ * The RCRA group (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) of the AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence) organizes the 23rd RCRA workshop: Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving problems with combinatorial explosion (RCRA 2016) workshop of the 15th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence http://www.aixia2016.unige.it/ Genova, November 28 - December 1, 2016 RCRA group web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/ Workshop web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2016 e-mail: rcra2016[AT]easychair[DOT]org * ______________________________________________________________________ * This event follows the series of the RCRA (Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning) annual meetings, held since 1994. The success of the previous events shows that RCRA is becoming a major forum for exchanging ideas and proposing experimentation methodologies for algorithms in Artificial Intelligence. * ______________________________________________________________________ * IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: September 8th, 2016 Notification of acceptance: October 10th, 2016 Final version of accepted original papers: October 31st, 2016 Early registration: TBA (early-registration for AI*IA 2016) Workshop day: November 28th, 2016 AIMS AND SCOPE Many problems in Artificial Intelligence show an exponential explosion of the search space. Although stemming from different research areas in AI, such problems are often addressed with algorithms that have a common goal: the effective exploration of huge state spaces. Many algorithms developed in one research area are applicable to other problems, or can be hybridized with techniques in other areas. Artificial Intelligence tools often exploit or hybridize techniques developed by other research communities, such as Operations Research. In recent years, research in Artificial Intelligence has more and more focused on experimental evaluation of algorithms, the development of suitable methodologies for experimentation and analysis, the study of languages and the implementation of systems for the definition and solution of problems. Scope of the workshop is fostering the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming from different areas, proposing benchmarks for new challenging problems, comparing models and algorithms from an experimental viewpoint, and, in general, comparing different approaches with respect to efficiency, problem modeling, and ease of development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experimental evaluation of algorithms for o knowledge representation o automated reasoning o planning o scheduling o machine learning o model checking o boolean satisfiability (SAT) o constraint programming o argumentation o temporal reasoning o combinatorial optimization o quantified boolean formulae and quantified constraints o modal logics o logic programming o answer set programming o ontological reasoning * Definition and construction of benchmarks * Experimentation methodologies * Metaheuristics * Algorithm hybridization * Static analysis of combinatorial problems * Languages and systems for definition and solution of problems * Comparisons between systems and algorithms * Application experiences (visualization, graphics, security, transports,...) WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Stefano Bistarelli University of Perugia, Italy * Andrea Formisano University of Perugia, Italy * Marco Maratea University of Genova, Italy WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE TBA HOST ORGANIZATION University of Genova, Italy SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit either original (full or short) papers, or papers that appear on conference proceedings. Publications showing negative results are welcome, provided that the approach was original and very promising in principle, the experimentation was well-conducted, the results obtained were unforeseeable and gave important hints in the comprehension of the target problem, helping other researchers to avoid unsuccessful paths. The authors are requested to clearly specify whether their submission is original or already published. A footnote in the first page would suffice. Workshop submissions must be in PDF format, do not exceed 15 (for full papers) or 8 (for short papers) pages, and should be written in LaTeX, using the LNCS style. RCRA 2016 uses EasyChair for the submission of contributions. Contributions must be submitted through this page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcra2016 All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. CONTACT In case of need, the workshop co-chairs can be contacted by sending an email to: rcra2016[AT]easychair[DOT]org PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published online, as an issue of the CEUR-WS workshop proceeding series, AI*IA sub-series. Moreover, as in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications) we are considering the possibility of having workshop post-proceedings appearing in a special issue of an international journal, provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. HISTORY OF THE RECENT WORKSHOP SERIES * RCRA 2015 as a workshop of AI*IA 2015, Ferrara, Italy http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2015 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae * RCRA 2014 as a workshop of SAT 2014, IJCAR 2014 and ICLP 2014, Vienna, Austria - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2014 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of AI Communications * RCRA 2013, Rome, Italy - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2013 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of JETAI * Previous editions: http://rcra.aixia.it/workshops

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[SIPTA] CFP: ISWC Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW'16)
by Thomas Lukasiewicz 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2016) http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2016 In conjunction with the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016), Kobe, Japan October 17 or 18, 2016 ========================================================== You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October 17-21, 2016 Kobe, Japan. ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web / Linked Data community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty remains extremely limited. Thus, there is a continuing demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and developers, and the URSW workshop creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but limited history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. AUDIENCE The intended audience for this workshop includes the following * Researchers in uncertain reasoning technologies with interest in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Semantic Web and Linked Data developers and researchers * People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Ontology researchers and ontological engineers * Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web * Developers of tools designed to support semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protégé developers, OWL-API developers... TOPIC LIST We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web and Linked Data (including fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be just an initial guide. * Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web / Linked Data languages to enable representation of uncertainty * Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web / Linked Data languages * Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts * Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping * Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies * The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web * Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web / Linked Data * The role of uncertainty as it relates to web services and cloud computing * Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among web services * Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning with uncertainty; * The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web and Linked Data IMPORTANT DATES * July 7, 2016: Paper submissions due * July 31: Paper acceptance notification * August 7: Camera-ready papers due * Oct 17 or 18: 12th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web SUBMISSION DETAILS The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2016 Conference, and committed to attend the URSW Workshop. Submissions to the workshop are only accepted in electronic format and should be sent via the workshop's EasyChair submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2016 Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2016. For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including figures and references. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not exceed 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2016 conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop. PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings. Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while authors of accepted position papers will have a 10-minute slot to share their ideas. After each presentation, 5 minutes will be allocated to questions from the audience. Both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2016 conference. In addition, we are planning a journal special issue or Lecture Notes in Computer Science/ Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) volume with selected extended and revised versions of technical papers presented at URSW 2016. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Fernando Bobillo - University of Zaragoza, Spain * Rommel N. Carvalho - Brazil's Office of the Comptroller General / University of Brasília, Brazil * Davide Ceolin - VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA * Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy * Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy * Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA * Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA * Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK * Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK * Matthias Nickles - INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland * Michael Pool - Credit Suisse, USA

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[SIPTA] Fully funded PhD position in data management and analysis - Rennes University - Lannion
by Arnaud Martin 28 May '16

28 May '16

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[SIPTA] Professorship of Data Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (Germany)
by Thomas Augustin 27 May '16

27 May '16

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[SIPTA] quantum mechanics
by Marco Zaffalon 27 May '16

27 May '16

Dear SIPTA fellows, If you are interested in the connection between quantum mechanics and (imprecise) probability, here is a new report: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.08177v1. Best, Marco

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[SIPTA] [UAI] IUKM 2016 -- Second call for papers
by Van-Nam HUYNH 24 May '16

24 May '16

[Apologies for cross-posting. Your help in circulating this call for papers to potentially interested parties will be highly appreciated.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- The Fifth International Symposium on INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY in KNOWLEDGE MODELLING and DECISION MAKING http://www.jaist.ac.jp/IUKM/IUKM2016/ NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 2, 2016, Da Nang, VIETNAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -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. Previous symposia have been successfully held in Ishikawa, Japan (IUM 2010 - AISC 68), Hangzhou, China (IUKM 2011 - LNAI 7027), Beijing, China (IUKM 2013 - LNAI 8032) and Nha Trang, Vietnam (IUKM 2015 - LNAI 9376). The fifth IUKM (2016) will take place in the central coastal city of Da Nang, Vietnam, during November 30 - December 2, 2016. Da Nang is located on the Eastern Sea coast, midway between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and is the largest city of Central Vietnam. It is also in close proximity to several UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the Imperial City of Hue, the Old Town of Hoi An , and the archaeological site of My Son. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposal for special sessions and workshops is encouraged and welcome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Relevant topics for the IUKM 2016 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 - Logics for reasoning under 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 - Economics and econometrics PUBLICATION The authors are invited to submit their full papers by June 20, 2016 (extended deadline). The submissions will be peer-reviewed for originality and scientific quality. As done in previous editions, the proceedings of IUKM 2016 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=iukm2016) IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission: 20 June 2016 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 25 August 2016 Final camera-ready and author registration: 15 September 2016 Early registration: 10 October 2016 Symposium dates: 30 November - 2 December 2016 Honorary Co-Chairs Michio Sugeno (European Center for Soft Computing, Spain) Hung T. Nguyen (New Mexico State University, USA; Chiang Mai University, Thailand) Cong-Co Le (Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam) General Co-Chairs Nguyen-Bao Le (Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam) Thierry Denoeux (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Program Co-Chairs Van-Nam Huynh (JAIST, Japan) Masahiro Inuiguchi (University of Osaka, Japan) Bac Le (University of Science, VNU-Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam)

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Re: [SIPTA] Preliminary Program REC 2016
by Kreinovich 20 May '16

20 May '16

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[SIPTA] PGM 2016: Call for Papers (Deadline Extended to June 3)
by Alessandro Antonucci 17 May '16

17 May '16

==Call for Papers PGM 2016 is the eight edition of the International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models. It will take place in Lugano (Switzerland) between the 6th and the 9th of September 2016. The site of the conference is http://pgm.idsia.ch. It welcomes contributions on all aspects of graphical models including probabilistic reasoning, decision making, learning and data mining. It welcomes both theoretical and applied contributions. Due to several requests the paper submission deadline has been extended to June 3, 2016. ==Important Dates Friday, June 3, 2016: Paper submssion (extended) deadline. Friday, July 1, 2016: Author notification. Friday, July 15, 2016: Camera-ready copy due. ==Submissions The instructions for submission and the author kit are available here: http://www2.idsia.ch/cms/pgm/submissions/ The page limit is 12 pages in the JMLR style. Each submission will be double-blind reviewed by three referees. It will be up to the authors to ensure the proper anonymization of their paper. ==JMLR Proceedings The conference proceedings will be published in the proceedings track (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings) of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). ==IJAR Special Issue Selected papers will be invited to be extended and then submitted to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR). ==Invited Speakers and Tutorials We are pleased to have three distinguished invited speakers. Guido Consonni is Professor of Statistics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. His current research topics are in the area of: model selection, graphical models and Bayesian networks, objective Bayesian analysis, models for high-dimensional data, hierarchical models. He is Chair of the Objective Bayes Section of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). Prof. Consonni will give a talk titled "Bayesian Selection of Essential Graphical Models". Fabio G. Cozman is Professor at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. He works with probabilistic reasoning and machine learning, with a special interest in formalisms that extend probability theory. He has served, among other activities, as Program and General Chair of the Conf. on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Area Chair (Machine Learning track) of the Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, and as member of the Editorial Board of the Artificial Intelligence Journal, as well as Associate Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and of the Journal of Approximate Reasoning. Prof. Cozman will give a talk titled "The Finite Model Theory of Bayesian Networks: An Invitation". Adnan Darwiche is Professor and former Chairman of the Computer Science Department at UCLA. His research focuses on the theory and practice of symbolic and probabilistic reasoning, with recent applications to machine learning. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and is an AAAI fellow. He is also author of "Modeling and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks", published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. Prof. Darwiche will give a talk titled "Learning Arithmetic Circuits with Background Knowledge". ==Tutorials We will have two tutorials. "Computational Complexity of Bayesian Networks and Markov Random Fields", by Cassio P. de Campos, Reader at Queen’s University Belfast, UK and Johan Kwisthout, Senior staff member in the Artificial Intelligence Program at Radboud University, and postdoc in the Donders Center for Cognition. "Learning Sum-Product Networks", by Nicola Di Mauro, Professor at the University of Bari, Italy, and by Antonio Vergari, PhD student at the University of Bari. This tutorial is an ECCAI invited talk, supported by the ECCAI conference sponsorship program. _________________________________ 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 _________________________________

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[SIPTA] [Random] Fwd: Announcement "The Mathematics of Disorder" University of Bonn (Germany)
by Serena Doria 16 May '16

16 May '16

----- Messaggio inoltrato da francesco.caravenna(a)unimib.it ----- Data: Mon, 16 May 2016 16:47:22 +0200 Da: Francesco Caravenna <francesco.caravenna(a)unimib.it> Oggetto: [Random] Fwd: Announcement "The Mathematics of Disorder" University of Bonn (Germany) A: Random(a)fields.dm.unipi.it Ricevo e inoltro. > Da: "Margherita Disertori" <disertori(a)iam.uni-bonn.de> > Oggetto: Announcement "The Mathematics of Disorder" University of > Bonn (Germany) > Data: 16 maggio 2016 16:41:42 GMT+02:00 > A: disertori(a)iam.uni-bonn.de > > Dear colleagues, > > It is our pleasure to announce the event "The Mathematics of Disorder" > that will take place at the University of Bonn 4-8 October 2016. > This five-days event is designed for young female graduate students > (Master and Ph.D.) and postdocs interested in the interplay between > probability and analysis, and their applications. > > This event will consist in the thematic school Young Women Academy > (4-6.10.2016) with three minicourses > > - Random matrices: Mylène Maïda (University of Lille) > - Random Schrödinger operators: Frédéric Klopp (University of Paris 6) > - Stochastic PDEs: Massimiliano Gubinelli (University of Bonn) > > followed by the workshop Young Women in Probability and Analysis > (6-8.10.2016) with lectures by: > > - Silke Rolles (TUM Munich) > - Sandrine Péché (University of Paris 7) > > This workshop will provide a platform for young female researchers to > present their work. > > Female participants are invited to submit an abstract for a > contributed talk or poster and apply for financial support. > All participants are encouraged to remain for the whole event. > > Please do not hesitate to share this announcement with your students > and colleagues. > > For further information please visit > http://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/disorderyw2016/ > > Best regards, > Margherita Disertori and Constanza Rojas-Molina > > > PS: we apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. > _______________________________________________ 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] Fwd: [Random] Fwd: Announcement "The Mathematics of Disorder" University of Bonn (Germany)
by Serena Doria 16 May '16

16 May '16

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[SIPTA] 7th SIPTA Summer School on Imprecise Probability - registration open until June 24th
by Matthias Troffaes 16 May '16

16 May '16

7th SIPTA Summer School on Imprecise Probability [All our apologies for cross-posting.] Seventh school of the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA), Aug 29 - Sep 2, 2016, Durham, UK. Although the official registration deadline has expired, there are still a few places left, therefore we will still accept students on a one-by-one basis until Friday June 24th 2016 or until all places run out. To register please follow the instructions here: http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/siptass16/registration.h… -- Are you interested in modelling severe uncertainty in your applications? Are you worried about the impact of the choice of prior in your Bayesian analysis? Are you interested in prior-data conflict and/or missing data? Do you want to learn how imprecise probability can help you making robust decisions under uncertainty? Then the SIPTA summer school is for you! The Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA) organizes the 7th edition of its school in Durham, UK, during Aug 29 - Sep 2 2016. The school will be held at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, close to the city centre of Durham. The aim of the SIPTA schools is to introduce interested students and researchers to the basics of imprecise probability topics, both theoretical and applied. Some of the best specialists in different aspects of imprecise probabilities lecture, during one week, on the main concepts and techniques in their area of expertise, in a friendly environment favouring interactions between participants. The topics covered this year will provide a general introduction to the latest developments in imprecise probability theory. There will also be a focus on applications of imprecise probabilities in risk analysis in engineering and environmental systems. Students will learn how to deal with situations where information is scarce, vague, or conflicting, and when a unique probability distribution may be hard to identify, from mathematical modelling to statistical inference and practical decision making. A basic understanding of probability and calculus are required (first year university level). A knowledge of Bayesian statistics is an advantage but is not required. The last day of the school overlaps with the WPMSIIP workshop, and will give all participants the possibility to present their work in a seminar, with discussion time. We plan for several leading researchers to be present for the discussions, and we also expect that some of the topics the students work on will be of further interest to the WPMSIIP workshop. Further information concerning registration, as well as a detailed programme, can be found on the website: http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/siptass16/index.html For more information on the WPMSIIP workshop, please see: http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/wpmsiip2016/index.html We are looking forward to meeting you in Durham. We also encourage you to circulate this announcement in your networks. Best regards, The organizing committee Matthias Troffaes Gert de Cooman Olivier Strauss Andrea Wiencierz

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[SIPTA] CFP: ISWC Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW'16)
by Thomas Lukasiewicz 09 May '16

09 May '16

========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2016) http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2016 In conjunction with the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016), Kobe, Japan October 17 or 18, 2016 ========================================================== You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October 17-21, 2016 Kobe, Japan. ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web / Linked Data community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty remains extremely limited. Thus, there is a continuing demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and developers, and the URSW workshop creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but limited history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. AUDIENCE The intended audience for this workshop includes the following * Researchers in uncertain reasoning technologies with interest in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Semantic Web and Linked Data developers and researchers * People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Ontology researchers and ontological engineers * Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web * Developers of tools designed to support semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protégé developers, OWL-API developers... TOPIC LIST We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web and Linked Data (including fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be just an initial guide. * Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web / Linked Data languages to enable representation of uncertainty * Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web / Linked Data languages * Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts * Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping * Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies * The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web * Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web / Linked Data * The role of uncertainty as it relates to web services and cloud computing * Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among web services * Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning with uncertainty; * The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web and Linked Data IMPORTANT DATES * July 7, 2016: Paper submissions due * July 31: Paper acceptance notification * August 7: Camera-ready papers due * Oct 17 or 18: 12th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web SUBMISSION DETAILS The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2016 Conference, and committed to attend the URSW Workshop. Submissions to the workshop are only accepted in electronic format and should be sent via the workshop's EasyChair submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2016 Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2016. For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including figures and references. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not exceed 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2016 conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop. PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings. Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while authors of accepted position papers will have a 10-minute slot to share their ideas. After each presentation, 5 minutes will be allocated to questions from the audience. Both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2016 conference. In addition, we are planning a journal special issue or Lecture Notes in Computer Science/ Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) volume with selected extended and revised versions of technical papers presented at URSW 2016. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Fernando Bobillo - University of Zaragoza, Spain * Rommel N. Carvalho - Brazil's Office of the Comptroller General / University of Brasília, Brazil * Davide Ceolin - VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA * Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy * Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy * Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA * Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA * Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK * Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK * Matthias Nickles - INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland * Michael Pool - Credit Suisse, USA

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[SIPTA] CfP - Knowledge Science, Engineering & Management (KSEM) Conference, 5-7 October 2016
by KSEM 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

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[SIPTA] PGM 2016 Call for Papers
by Giorgio Corani 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

==Call for Papers PGM 2016 is the eight edition of the International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models. It will take place in Lugano (Switzerland) between the 6th and the 9th of September 2016. The site of the conference is http://pgm.idsia.ch. It welcomes both theoretical and applied contributions regarding probabilistic graphical models. ==Important Dates May 20, 2016: Paper submission deadline June 10, 2016: Author notification June 24, 2016: Camera-ready copy due September 6-9, 2016: Conference ==Submissions instructions The instructions for submission and the author kit are available here: http://www2.idsia.ch/cms/pgm/submissions/ The page limit is 12 pages in the JMLR style. Each submission will be double-blind reviewed by three referees. ==JMLR Proceedings The conference proceedings will be published in the proceedings track (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings/) of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). ==IJAR Special Issue Selected papers will be invited to be extended to constitute a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR). ==Invited Speakers We are pleased to have three distinguished invited speakers. Guido Consonni is Professor of Statistics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. His current research topics are in the area of: model selection, graphical models and Bayesian networks, objective Bayesian analysis, models for high-dimensional data, hierarchical models. He is Chair of the Objective Bayes Section of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). Fabio G. Cozman is Professor at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. He works with probabilistic reasoning and machine learning, with a special interest in formalisms that extend probability theory. He got a PhD in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, and has served, among other activities, as Program and General Chair of the Conf. on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Area Chair (Machine Learning track) of the Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, and as member of the Editorial Board of the Artificial Intelligence Journal, as well as Associate Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and of the Journal of Approximate Reasoning Adnan Darwiche is Professor and former Chairman of the Computer Science Department at UCLA. His research focuses on the theory and practice of symbolic and probabilistic reasoning, with recent applications to machine learning. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and is an AAAI fellow. He is also author of "Modeling and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks," published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. ==Tutorials We will have two tutorials. "Computational Complexity of Bayesian Networks and Markov Random Fields", by Cassio P. de Campos (Reader at Queen’s University Belfast, UK) and Johan Kwisthout (Lecturer at Radboud University, Artificial Intelligence Department, Netherlands). "Learning Sum-Product Networks", by Nicola Di Mauro, Professor at the University of Bari, Italy, and by Antonio Vergari, PhD student at the University of Bari. This tutorial is an ECCAI invited talk, supported by the ECCAI conference sponsorship program.

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Re: [SIPTA] SMC 2016 - Call for Demo Papers
by Kreinovich 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

FYI, contributions related to imprecise probabilities are always welcome at this series of conferences -----Original Message----- From: SMC2016 [mailto:ieeesmc2016(a)gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 1:31 AM Dear Colleagues: The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to report up-to-the-minute research and innovations, demonstrate state-of-the-art systems, and exchange ideas and advances in all aspects of systems science and engineering, human machine systems, and cybernetics. The goal of the Demo Papers category is to promote applied research and applications, as well as bridge collaboration between industrial and academic members of the SMC community. Demo papers are intended to provide a platform for participants to demonstrate their technological advancements. Authors are invited to submit demo papers (maximum 2-page two-column format extended summary + at most 1 GB short demo video). Submission of Demo Papers and Video IEEE format guidelines and instructions for submitting demo papers (two-column format) will be available on the Paper Submission pages of the SMC2016 website. Please upload your short demo video via ftp website and use the "corresponding" paper number to entitle your demo film. Ftp website: 140.118.207.106 User name: SMC2016 Password: ieeesmc2016 The maximum size for video attachments is 1 GB. The accepted video format includes MPEG1, MPEG2, AVI, FLV, RM, and RMVB. Presentation of Demos at SMC2016 Authors who are selected for the Demo Papers Session will be provided a table to display their demo in the Exhibition location. No additional equipment is to be supported from the organizing committee. Authors are responsible to set up their own demos. Security services for safeguarding equipment in the Exhibition location will be available during the conference. For any question, please do not hesitate to contact: Demo Papers Session Chairs Prof. Yo-Ping Huang Department of Electrical Engineering National Taipei University of Technology email: yphuang(a)ntut.edu.tw

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[SIPTA] Documentation page back online!
by Sébastien Destercke 09 Apr '16

09 Apr '16

Dear Siptians, We are happy to let you know that the SIPTA documentation page is back online at the following address: http://www.sipta.org/index.php?id=doc The goal of this page is to provide introductory or review documents about different aspects of imprecise probabilities. We would like to update and complement its current content as much as possible. Any person willing to contribute to this page, either by providing links to interesting (open access) review papers or by writing original contributions is encouraged to do so. Please send your proposals directly to the executive editor (sebastien.destercke(a)hds.utc.fr). With our best regards The executive committee.

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[SIPTA] 9th WPMSIIP 2016 - Durham, 2-6 September 2016
by COOLEN F.P.A. 08 Apr '16

08 Apr '16

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[SIPTA] 7th SIPTA Summer School on Imprecise Probability - extended pre-registration deadline
by Matthias Troffaes 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

[All our apologies for cross-posting.] Seventh school of the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA), Aug 29 - Sep 2, 2016, Durham, UK. The pre-registration deadline has been exteded to: Friday 22 April 2016 http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/siptass16/registration.h… Are you interested in modelling severe uncertainty in your applications? Are you worried about the impact of the choice of prior in your Bayesian analysis? Are you interested in prior-data conflict and/or missing data? Do you want to learn how imprecise probability can help you making robust decisions under uncertainty? Then the SIPTA summer school is for you! The Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA) organizes the 7th edition of its school in Durham, UK, during Aug 29 - Sep 2 2016. The school will be held at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, close to the city centre of Durham. The aim of the SIPTA schools is to introduce interested students and researchers to the basics of imprecise probability topics, both theoretical and applied. Some of the best specialists in different aspects of imprecise probabilities lecture, during one week, on the main concepts and techniques in their area of expertise, in a friendly environment favouring interactions between participants. The topics covered this year will provide a general introduction to the latest developments in imprecise probability theory. There will also be a focus on applications of imprecise probabilities in risk analysis in engineering and environmental systems. Students will learn how to deal with situations where information is scarce, vague, or conflicting, and when a unique probability distribution may be hard to identify, from mathematical modelling to statistical inference and practical decision making. A basic understanding of probability and calculus are required (first year university level). A knowledge of Bayesian statistics is an advantage but is not required. Further information concerning registration, as well as a detailed programme, can be found on the website: http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/siptass16/index.html We are looking forward to meeting you in Durham. We also encourage you to circulate this announcement in your networks. Best regards, The organizing committee Matthias Troffaes Frank Coolen Gert de Cooman Olivier Strauss Andrea Wiencierz

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[SIPTA] associate prof. position in Telecom Lille
by klein 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

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[SIPTA] PGM 2016 Call for Papers (deadline May 20)
by Alessandro Antonucci 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

PGM 2016 is the eight edition of the International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models. It will take place in Lugano (Switzerland) between the 6th and the 9th of September 2016. The conference website is http://pgm.idsia.ch. It welcomes contributions on all aspects of graphical models including probabilistic reasoning, decision making, learning and data mining. Both theoretical and applied contributions are welcome. The deadline for submissions is May 20, 2016. ::: PROCEEDINGS ::: The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings track (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings/) of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). Submission instructions and the author's kit are available at http://www2.idsia.ch/cms/pgm/submissions The page limit is 12 pages in the JMLR (single-column) style. Each submission will be double-blind reviewed by three referees. ::: IJAR Special Issue ::: Selected papers will be invited to be extended and then submitted to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR). ::: INVITED SPEAKERS ::: We are pleased to have three distinguished invited speakers. Guido Consonni is Professor of Statistics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. His current research topics are in the area of: model selection, graphical models and Bayesian networks, objective Bayesian analysis, models for high-dimensional data, hierarchical models. He is Chair of the Objective Bayes Section of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). Fabio G. Cozman is Professor at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. He works with probabilistic reasoning and machine learning, with a special interest in formalisms that extend probability theory. He has served as Program and General Chair of the Conf. on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Area Chair of the Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and of the Journal of Approximate Reasoning, as well as of the Artificial Intelligence Journal. Adnan Darwiche is Professor and former Chairman of the Computer Science Department at UCLA. His research focuses on the theory and practice of symbolic and probabilistic reasoning, with recent applications to machine learning. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and is an AAAI fellow. He is also author of "Modeling and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks", published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. ::: TUTORIALS ::: We will have two tutorials. "Computational Complexity of Bayesian Networks and Markov Random Fields", by Cassio P. de Campos, Reader at Queen’s University Belfast, UK, and Johan Kwisthout, senior staff member in the Artificial Intelligence Program at Radboud University, The Netherlands. "Learning Sum-Product Networks", by Nicola Di Mauro, Professor at the University of Bari, Italy, and by Antonio Vergari, PhD student at the University of Bari. This tutorial is an ECCAI invited talk, supported by the ECCAI conference sponsorship program. ::: DEADLINES ::: May 20, 2016: Paper submission deadline June 10, 2016: Author notification June 24, 2016: Camera-ready copy due September 6-9, 2016: Conference _________________________________ 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 _________________________________

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[SIPTA] Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader/Professor in Data Science and/or Intelligent Autonomous Systems at Queen's U Belfast
by Cassio P. de Campos 24 Mar '16

24 Mar '16

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader/Professor in Data Science and/or Intelligent Autonomous Systems Queen's University Belfast - School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANH172/lecturer-senior-lecturer-reader-professor-… Contract Type: Permanent Anticipated interview date: May/June 2016 Closing date: Monday 18 April 2016 We seek to recruit a highly qualified candidate for an academic post to commence in 2016 or 2017 who can build and grow innovative, mission-led research programmes. The candidate should also demonstrate an ability to inspire students and facilitate motivational learning within core undergraduate and specialist postgraduate curricula. The School is undergoing rapid expansion, as part of major investment from the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS). Delivering against Queen's Vision2020 and beyond, EPS focuses on solving Global Challenges by enabling new forms of interdisciplinary research and education. The investment of EPS in EEECS capitalises on the establishment of the Institute of Electronics, Communication and Information Technology (ECIT), one of Queens four Global Research Institutes (GRIs). ECIT was awarded a 2015 Queen's Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education and is recognised for world-leading research excellence. Further EPS investment includes the establishment of a Pioneer Research Programme (PRP) on Intelligent Autonomous Manufacturing Systems (i-AMS), to support research with high impact potential in this area. We are seeking a candidate who can enhance ECIT's international reputation in the following key disciplines: Data Science & Intelligent Autonomous Systems. An opportunity is available at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader or Professor level. The successful candidate will benefit from additional resources such as studentships, engineering and commercial support and will have access to state of the art facilities, including a transformative £14 million Computer Science building opening in September 2016. Further details on our key disciplines and other candidate information are available at: http://www.ecit.qub.ac.uk/Aboutus/Recruitment/ Informal enquiries may be directed to Professor Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Head of School of EEECS, email: eeecs-hos(a)qub.ac.uk Anticipated interview date: May/June 2016 Closing date: Monday 18 April 2016 Apply online at www.qub.ac.uk/jobs. For further information or assistance contact the Personnel Department, Queen's University Belfast, BT7 1NN. Telephone (028) 9097 3044 or email on personnel(a)qub.ac.uk. The University is committed to equality of opportunity and to selection on merit. It therefore welcomes applications from all sections of society and particularly welcomes applications from people with a disability.

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[SIPTA] RuleML 2016 track on Rule- and Ontology-Based Data Access and Transformation
by Andrea Cali 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

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[SIPTA] WELCOME TO SMC 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: October 9-12 Budapest, Hungary,
by Kádár Péter - T-Online 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2016 - 2nd Call for Papers
by Václav Kratochvíl 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

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[SIPTA] RuleML 2016 track on Rule- and Ontology-Based Data Access and Transformation
by Andrea Cali 12 Mar '16

12 Mar '16

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[SIPTA] Fw: Call for papers: TES 2017
by Kreinovich 12 Mar '16

12 Mar '16

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[SIPTA] FW: 6th WORLD CONFERENCE ON SOFT COMPUTING: May 22-25, 2016 -- deadline extended
by Kreinovich 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

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[SIPTA] FW: Lecturer in Statistics - The University of Texas at El Paso
by Kreinovich 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

FYI -----Original Message----- POSITION DESCRIPTION: The Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso seeks to fill full-time lecturer positions beginning Fall 2016. This non-tenure-track position carries a 9-month salary of $43,000 for a teaching load of fifteen credits hours each semester with the primary duty of teaching freshmen and sophomore level Statistics (especially) and Mathematics courses. Good communication skills and excellence in teaching are essential. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: The minimum qualifications for the position consist of a Master's degree in Statistics and at least 18 graduate semester hours in Mathematics. UTEP and El Paso Located on the culturally vibrant U.S.-Mexico border, UTEP is a doctoral research university with over 23,000 students. The University's rapidly growing research portfolio in the sciences, engineering, health fields, and other areas brings in nearly $80 million per year in research expenditures, ranking UTEP in the top three of UT System academic institutions. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Review of applications will begin immediately, and applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Candidates must submit: 1) a letter of interest, 2) a curriculum vita, and 3) complete contact information for at least three references. Applications should be submitted electronically as a single PDF file with the subject line "UTEP Math Lecturer Search" to: Joan Staniswalis PhD Search Committee Chair Department of Mathematical Sciences The University of Texas at El Paso 500 West University Ave. El Paso, TX 79968-0514 Email: lecturersearch(a)math.utep.edu

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[SIPTA] IEEE SMC'2016: a special satellite conference aimed at students and young professionals
by Kreinovich 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

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[SIPTA] FW: annual IEEE SMC Conference on Systems. Man, and Cybernetics, Budapest, Hungary, October 9-12, 2016
by Kreinovich 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

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[SIPTA] Kurt Weichselberger
by Thomas Augustin 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

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[SIPTA] 7th SIPTA Summer School on Imprecise Probability - 29 Aug-2 Sep 2016
by Matthias Troffaes 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

[All our apologies for cross-posting.] Seventh school of the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA), Aug 29 - Sep 2, 2016, Durham, UK. Pre-registration deadline: Friday 8 April 2016 http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/siptass16/registration.h… Are you interested in modelling severe uncertainty in your applications? Are you worried about the impact of the choice of prior in your Bayesian analysis? Are you interested in prior-data conflict and/or missing data? Do you want to learn how imprecise probability can help you making robust decisions under uncertainty? Then the SIPTA summer school is for you! The Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA) organizes the 7th edition of its school in Durham, UK, during Aug 29 - Sep 2 2016. The school will be held at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, close to the city centre of Durham. The aim of the SIPTA schools is to introduce interested students and researchers to the basics of imprecise probability topics, both theoretical and applied. Some of the best specialists in different aspects of imprecise probabilities lecture, during one week, on the main concepts and techniques in their area of expertise, in a friendly environment favouring interactions between participants. The topics covered this year will provide a general introduction to the latest developments in imprecise probability theory. There will also be a focus on applications of imprecise probabilities in risk analysis in engineering and environmental systems. Students will learn how to deal with situations where information is scarce, vague, or conflicting, and when a unique probability distribution may be hard to identify, from mathematical modelling to statistical inference and practical decision making. A basic understanding of probability and calculus are required (first year university level). A knowledge of Bayesian statistics is an advantage but is not required. Further information concerning registration, as well as a detailed programme, can be found on the website: http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/siptass16/index.html We are looking forward to meeting you in Durham. We also encourage you to circulate this announcement in your networks. Best regards, The organizing committee Matthias Troffaes Frank Coolen Gert de Cooman Olivier Strauss Andrea Wiencierz

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Re: [SIPTA] [SMPS 2016] - Extended Deadline
by Kreinovich 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

FYI -----Original Message----- From: SMPS 2016 [please distribute - apologies for multiple postings] THE DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 29, 2016 =========================================================== SMPS 2016 8th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics September 12 - 14, 2016 Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy http://www.sbai.uniroma1.it/smps2016 =========================================================== VENUE =========================================================== SMPS 2016 will be held in Rome, Italy. The conference venue will be San Pietro in Vincoli (Via Eudossiana, 18), in the historic center of Rome, directly overlooking the Coliseum and next to the ancient Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli, home to Michelangelo’s statue of Moses. =========================================================== SCOPE and TOPICS =========================================================== The scope of SMPS 2016 is to bring together experts working on and with Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics. SMPS 2016 invites submissions of papers dealing with a variety of topics in soft methods in probability and statistics, which include, but are not limited to: - Analysis of Censored Data - Analysis of Fuzzy Data - Random Sets - Fuzzy Random Variables - Fuzzy Regression Methods - Triangular Norms and Copulas - Imprecise Probabilities - Dempster-Shafer Theory - Robust Methods - Clustering and Classification - Graphical Models - Machine Learning - Heuristic Optimization - Soft Computing and Statistics - Statistical Software for Imprecise Data - Applications in Biology, Economics etc. =========================================================== PROCEEDINGS =========================================================== Papers accepted for presentation will be published in an edited volume of the series Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing from Springer-Verlag. Full papers of 5-8 pages written in English and fulfilling the instructions for authors should be submitted not later than February 29, 2016, camera-ready versions of the accepted papers not later than April 30, 2016 (tentative). For accepted contributions to be included in the sessions and proceedings of the conference, the payment of the conference fees should be made not later than May 20, 2016. After the Conference there will be a SPECIAL ISSUE of International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) dedicated to SMPS 2016. For this, all the selected papers will have to pass a regular review process. =========================================================== PLENARY SPEAKERS =========================================================== Ana Colubi (University of Oviedo, Spain) Thierry Denoeux (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Massimo Marinacci (Bocconi University, Italy) =========================================================== IMPORTANT DATES =========================================================== Paper submission deadline: February 29, 2016 Notification of paper acceptance: April 10, 2016 Revised paper due: April 30, 2016 Early registration deadline: May 20, 2016 =========================================================== ORGANIZATION =========================================================== General Chairs: - Maria Brigida Ferraro (Rome, Italy) - Paolo Giordani (Rome, Italy) - Barbara Vantaggi (Rome, Italy) Executive Board: - María Ángeles Gil (Oviedo, Spain) - Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski (Warsaw, Poland) - Olgierd Hryniewicz (Warsaw, Poland) Best regards, Maria Brigida Ferraro, Paolo Giordani, Barbara Vantaggi SMPS 2016 Chairs – Sapienza University of Rome =========================================================== http://www.sbai.uniroma1.it/smps2016 ===========================================================

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[SIPTA] FW: EUROMECH Conference on Multi-uncertainty and Multi-scale Methods and Applications
by Kreinovich 11 Feb '16

11 Feb '16

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[SIPTA] RuleML 2016 track: Rule- and Ontology-Based Data Access and Transformation
by Martin Giese 11 Feb '16

11 Feb '16

*Apologies for cross-postings* ------------------------------ RuleML 2016 Wednesday, 6 July – Saturday, 9 July, 2016, Stony Brook University, New York, USA http://2016.ruleml.org/ *** CALL FOR SPECIAL TRACK PAPERS: *** *** Rule- and Ontology-Based Data Access and Transformation *** http://2016.ruleml.org/calls/rule--and-ontology-based-data-access-and-trans… ------------------------- Ontologies and rule systems, isolated and in combination, have established themselves as viable approaches to a number of pressing IT problems: giving both humans and client software (e.g. data analysis) intuitive, domain-oriented, uniform access to data; integrating multiple data sets with heterogeneous schemas; migrating data from legacy systems, etc. This track solicits contributions on theoretical and practical aspects of rule- and ontology-based data access and transformation. TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to: * Logics and rule languages of particular interest to data access or transformation * Tractability and intractability results for rule- and ontology-based systems in the presence of large amounts of data * Interactions between rules and ontologies in the presence of large amounts of data * Rule- and ontology-based data integration * Rules & reasoning for Linked Data * Rule and ontology-driven user interfaces * Implementations of rule- and ontology-based data access and transformation systems systems * Reports on applications and lessons learnt IMPORTANT DATES: * Abstract submission: March 11, 2016 * Paper submission: March 18, 2016 * Author notification: May 4, 2016 * Camera ready: May 18, 2016 * Conference:: 6-9 July, 2016

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Re: [SIPTA] FW: World Conference on Soft Computing: deadline extended
by Kreinovich 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

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Re: [SIPTA] CFP for IPMU 2016 - Eindhoven, Netherlands, 20-24 June 2016
by Kreinovich 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

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[SIPTA] PhD studentships in Prob Graphical Models at Queen's U Belfast
by Cassio P. de Campos 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Dear all, There are PhD studentships available at Queen's University Belfast to work on probabilistic graphical models and interesting applications in astrophysics and biomedical sciences, among others, to start in Sept-Oct/2016. The deadline for applications is February 26, 2016. More details can be found here: http://www.eeecs.qub.ac.uk/~c.decampos/phd2016.html More details about the Knowledge and Data Engineering Research Cluster as well as other PhD opportunities can be found here: http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/KDE/ Do not hesitate to contact me for further information. best regards, cassio. -- Cassio P. de Campos, Dr. habil. Reader - Knowledge and Data Engineering School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Queen's University Belfast Email: c.decampos(a)qub.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)28 9097 6795 Web: http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~c.decampos --

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[SIPTA] [UAI] IUKM 2016--CfP: November 30 - December 2, 2016, Da Nang, Vietnam
by Van-Nam HUYNH 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies. Your help in circulating this call among your colleagues and students is highly appreciated. Thank you very much.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fifth International Symposium on INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY in KNOWLEDGE MODELLING and DECISION MAKING http://www.jaist.ac.jp/IUKM/IUKM2016/ NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 2, 2016, Da Nang, VIETNAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -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. Previous symposia have been successfully held in Ishikawa, Japan (IUM 2010 - AISC 68), Hangzhou, China (IUKM 2011 - LNAI 7027), Beijing, China (IUKM 2013 - LNAI 8032) and Nha Trang, Vietnam (IUKM 2015 - LNAI 9376). The fifth IUKM (2016) will take place in the central coastal city of Da Nang, Vietnam, during November 30 - December 2, 2016. Da Nang is located on the Eastern Sea coast, midway between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and is the largest city of Central Vietnam. It is also in close proximity to several UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the Imperial City of Hue, the Old Town of Hoi An , and the archaeological site of My Son. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposal for special sessions and workshops is encouraged and welcome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Relevant topics for the IUKM 2016 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 - Logics for reasoning under 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 - Economics and econometrics PUBLICATION The authors are invited to submit their full papers by June 20, 2016 (extended deadline). The submissions will be peer-reviewed for originality and scientific quality. As done in previous editions, the proceedings of IUKM 2016 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=iukm2016) IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission: 20 June 2016 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 25 August 2016 Final camera-ready and author registration: 15 September 2016 Early registration: 10 October 2016 Symposium dates: 30 November - 2 December 2016 Honorary Co-Chairs Michio Sugeno (European Center for Soft Computing, Spain) Hung T. Nguyen (New Mexico State University, USA; Chiang Mai University, Thailand) Cong-Co Le (Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam) General Co-Chairs Nguyen-Bao Le (Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam) Thierry Denoeux (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Program Co-Chairs Van-Nam Huynh (JAIST, Japan) Masahiro Inuiguchi (University of Osaka, Japan) Bac Le (University of Science, VNU-Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam)

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Re: [SIPTA] COMPSTAT 2016: First Call for Papers
by Kreinovich 23 Jan '16

23 Jan '16

FYI -----Original Message----- From: compstat2016.org(a)cfenetwork.org On Behalf Of COMPSTAT 2016 Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2016 5:01 AM 22nd International Conference on COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS (COMPSTAT 2016) http://www.compstat2016.org Auditorium Principe Felipe, Oviedo, Spain Sponsored by the European Regional Section of the IASC and organized by the University of Oviedo, Spain The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss recent developments in computational methods, methodology for data analysis and applications in statistics. All topics within the broad interface of Computing & Statistics will be considered for oral and poster presentation. The submission of abstracts and papers is open at http://www.compstat2016.org/submission.php Keynote speakers: Hans-Georg Mueller, University of California Davis, USA. Gerard Biau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. Alastair Young, Imperial College, London, UK. Scientific Program Committee: Ex-officio: Alessandra Amendola, Ana Colubi, Cristian Gatu, Manfred Gilli. Members: Marc Genton, Salvatore Ingrassia, Jean-Michel Poggi, Igor Pruenster, Juan Romo, Tamas Rudas, Stefan Van Aelst. Proceedings Management Committee: Ana Colubi, Angela Blanco, Cristian Gatu. Important dates: 15 April Abstract submissions for invited and organized sessions 10 May Abstract submissions for contributed sessions 30 April Paper submissions for the COMPSTAT proceedings 15 May Notification decision for abstract submissions 5 June Notification decision for COMPSTAT proceedings submissions 23-26 August 2016 Conference A COMPSTAT satellite meeting and a Summer Course on Functional Data Analysis will take place in Oviedo 26-29 August 2016. For further information please contact: info(a)compstat2016.org

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[SIPTA] PGM 2016: Call for Papers, List of Invited Speakers and Tutorials
by Giorgio Corani 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

==Call for Papers PGM 2016 is the eight edition of the International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models. It will take place in Lugano (Switzerland) between the 6th and the 9th of September 2016. The site of the conference is http://pgm.idsia.ch. It welcomes contributions on all aspects of graphical models including probabilistic reasoning, decision making, learning and data mining. It welcomes both theoretical and applied contributions. The deadline for submissions is May 20, 2016. ==Invited Speakers We are pleased to have three distinguished invited speakers. Guido Consonni is Professor of Statistics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. His current research topics are in the area of: model selection, graphical models and Bayesian networks, objective Bayesian analysis, models for high-dimensional data, hierarchical models. He is Chair of the Objective Bayes Section of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). Fabio G. Cozman is Professor at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. He works with probabilistic reasoning and machine learning, with a special interest in formalisms that extend probability theory. He has served as Program and General Chair of the Conf. on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Area Chair of the Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and of the Journal of Approximate Reasoning, as well as of the Artificial Intelligence Journal. Adnan Darwiche is Professor and former Chairman of the Computer Science Department at UCLA. His research focuses on the theory and practice of symbolic and probabilistic reasoning, with recent applications to machine learning. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and is an AAAI fellow. He is also author of "Modeling and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks," published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. ==Tutorials We will have two tutorials. "Computational Complexity of Bayesian Networks and Markov Random Fields", by Cassio P. de Campos, Reader at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. "Learning Sum-Product Networks", by Nicola Di Mauro, Professor at the University of Bari, Italy, and by Antonio Vergari, PhD student at the University of Bari. This tutorial is an ECCAI invited talk, supported by the ECCAI conference sponsorship program. ==Submissions The instructions for submission and the author kit are available here: http://www2.idsia.ch/cms/pgm/submissions/ The page limit is 12 pages in the JMLR style. Each submission will be double-blind reviewed by three referees. ==JMLR Proceedings The conference proceedings will be published in the proceedings track (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings/) of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). ==IJAR Special Issue Selected papers will be invited to be extended and then submitted to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR). ==Deadlines May 20, 2016: Paper submission deadline June 10, 2016: Author notification June 24, 2016: Camera-ready copy due September 6-9, 2016: Conference

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[SIPTA] EURO: special session Imprecise probability
by barbara.vantaggi＠sbai.uniroma1.it 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to participate to the special session Imprecise Probabilities that we will organize within the stream Probabilistic Models at the 28th European Conference on Operational Research EURO2016 http://www.euro2016.poznan.pl/ <http://www.euro2016.poznan.pl/> held in Poznan, Poland — July 3-6, 2016. Submission Abstract must be written in English and contain no more than 1500 characters (no formulas or mathematical notations are allowed). Each attendee is allowed to present one paper at the conference. For further information, please check EURO2016’s webpage http://www.euro2016.poznan.pl/abstract-submission/ <http://www.euro2016.poznan.pl/abstract-submission/> > Important dates < Submission deadline: March 1, 2016 Notification of acceptance: 31 March, 2016 Conference: July 3-6, 2016 Best regards, Barbara Vantaggi

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Re: [SIPTA] Update 3: IPMU 2016 - Eindhoven, Netherlands, 20-24 June 2016
by Kreinovich 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

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[SIPTA] FW: 2017 IEEE SSCI: mark your calendars
by Kreinovich 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

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[SIPTA] IJAR Special Issue CFP: Bayesian Nonparametrics
by Alessio Benavoli 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

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[SIPTA] Robustness in Econometrics
by Kreinovich 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Dear Friends, Today is the last day of the 9th International Conference of Thailand Econometric Society TES'2016. This conference was a big success, with a Nobelist Robert Engle giving the keynote talk. Next year's conference will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, January 11-13, 2017. Its main theme is robustness in econometrics. The main idea that we have only an approximate information about the corresponding probability distributions and about the values of the corresponding parameters. So, it is desirable to develop data processing, data analysis, and prediction techniques which are robust, i.e., in some reasonable sense, applicable not just to the nominal distributions and values, but also to possible deviations from these nominal values. This seems to be a perfect setting for imprecise probability techniques. Mark your calendars. P.S. As in the previous years, accepted papers will be published in an edited volume published by Springer-Verlag as part of the book series "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing". P.P.S. Chiang Mai is a city in mountainous northern Thailand that dates back to the 1200s. Its Old City area still retains vestiges of walls and moats from its history as a cultural and religious center. It’s also home to hundreds of elaborate temples, including 14th-century Wat Phra Singh and 15th-century Wat Chedi Luang, adorned with carved serpents. For details, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Mai

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[SIPTA] Fw: JSM 2016: Reminder Topic-contributed sessions
by Kreinovich 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

FYI, possibly a chance for imprecise probability Bayesian ideas ________________________________________ From: ISBA Webmaster <webmaster(a)bayesian.org> Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 6:39 AM To: conferences(a)bayesian.org Subject: JSM 2016: Reminder Topic-contributed sessions Dear ISBA members, As the 2016 program chair for the ISBA society contingent at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), I am encouraging ISBA members to organize a topic-contributed session for JSM 2016 in Chicago from July 30 - August 4, 2016. These sessions can be one of two formats: paper or panel. Paper sessions consist of a collection of talks and discussions (if appropriate) that share a common topic. A panel session has three to five panelists who provide commentary on a particular topic. I will work closely with David Dahl, the SBSS chair for JSM, to ensure that good Bayesian sessions are elected for the meeting. Proposals for topic-contributed sessions must be submitted to the online system by January 14, 2016. For more information on how to participate in the JSM, see http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2016/participate.cfm Many thanks, Bobby Gramacy ISBA Program Chair for JSM 2016 -- Robert B. Gramacy bobby.gramacy.com Tel: +1 773 702 0739 Booth School of Business The University of Chicago 5807 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, USA

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[SIPTA] Extended paper submission deadline for IPMU 2016: January 22nd, 2016
by Gero Walter 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

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[SIPTA] Two Lectureships in Statistics at Durham University
by COOLEN F.P.A. 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

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[SIPTA] IJAR Special Issue CFP: Bayesian Nonparametrics
by Alessio Benavoli 03 Jan '16

03 Jan '16

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Re: [SIPTA] Update 1: IPMU 2016 - Eindhoven, Netherlands, 20-24 June 2016
by Kreinovich 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

FYI, papers using imprecise probabilities are welcome at this series of conferences -----Original Message----- From: Rui Jorge Almeida [mailto:rjalmeida(a)tue.nl] [Apologies for cross posting] Below please find some updated information about IPMU 2016 16th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. IPMU 2016 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE-CIS. Eindhoven, The Netherlands 20-24 June 2016 www.ipmu2016.org * Paper Submission is OPEN IPMU 2016 paper submission is now OPEN. All papers should be submitted through the IPMU 2016 online submission system (EasyChair) before the deadline of 8 January 2016. The proceedings of IPMU-2016 will be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) with Springer. Click here for more information: http://is.ieis.tue.nl/ipmu/authors.htm#submission * Call for papers IPMU'2016 invites researchers to submit original research contributions of theoretical and methodological nature as well as application-oriented work. Click here for the call for papers: http://is.ieis.tue.nl/ipmu/files/IPMU2016-CFP.pdf * Accepted special sessions IPMU 2016 will have special sessions on the following topics: - Computational Aspects of Data Aggregation and Complex Data Fusion, organized by M. Gagolewski, B. De Baets and G. Beliakov - Soft Computing for Image Processing, organized by H. Bustince, J. Montero and I. Perfilieva - Handling Uncertainties in Health and Food Sciences, organized by A. Samet, Y. Bouzembrak and T. T. Dao - Graded and Many-Valued Modal Logics, organized by L. Godo and B. Teheux - Fuzzy Measures and Integrals, organized by C. Labreuche and M. Grabisch - Generating Linguistic Descriptions of Data, organized by A. Bugarin, N. Marin, D. Sanchez and G. Trivino - Fuzzy Implication Functions, organized by M. Baczynski and S. Massanet - Uncertainty Quantification with Imprecise Probability, organized by G. Walter - Advanced Information Analysis Based on Mathematical Gnostics, organized by Z. Wagner, P. Kovanic and T. Ocelka - Imperfect Databases, organized by M. Chebbah, M-A. Bach Tobji and B. Yaghlane - Fuzzy Logic, Formal Concept Analysis and Rough Sets, organized by J. Medina and M. Aciego - Fuzzy methods in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, organized by M. D. Ruiz, J. Romero, M. Martin-Bautista, D. Sánchez - Belief Function Theory and Its Applications, organized by Didier Coquin and Sébastien Destercke Papers submitted to a special session will undergo the normal reviewing process. For more information visit: http://is.ieis.tue.nl/ipmu/prog.htm#specialSessions * Important dates Paper submission: January 8th, 2016 Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2016 Camera-ready paper submission: March 31st, 2016 Early/author registration: March 31st, 2016 Conference: June 20-24th, 2016 Tutorials: June 20th, 2016 For more information, please visit: www.ipmu2016.org

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[SIPTA] FW: a symposium on Computational Intelligence in Engineering Solutions at IEEE SSCI 2016
by Kreinovich 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

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Re: [SIPTA] Call for papers: The 4th International Conference on Belief Functions - BELIEF 2016
by Kreinovich 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

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[SIPTA] FW: IUKM 2016, mark your calendars
by Kreinovich 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

FYI -----Original Message----- From: Van-Nam HUYNH [mailto:huynh(a)jaist.ac.jp] Next year, we are planning to have the fifth International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making: 4th, IUKM 2015IUKM 2016 in Da-Nang city, Vietnam. Da-Nang is a beautiful coastal city in Vietnam and its quite attractive in terms of sightseeing due to its proximity to several UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the Imperial City of Hue, the Old Town of Hoi An, and the archaeological site of My Son. IUKM 2016 will be held during 17-19 November, 2016. I hope that you will be able to join us for IUKM 2016 and we would be looking forward to welcoming all of you in the beautiful city of Da Nang. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Nam

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[SIPTA] FW: Call for Papers Reliable Engineering Computing REC'2016 - extended
by Kreinovich 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

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[SIPTA] 7th SIPTA Summer School on Imprecise Probability - 29 Aug-2 Sep 2016
by Matthias Troffaes 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

[All our apologies for cross-posting.] Seventh school of the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA), Aug 29 - Sep 2, 2016, Durham, UK. Dear colleagues, The Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA) organizes the 7th edition of its school in Durham, UK, during Aug 29 - Sep 2 2016. The school will be held at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, close to the city centre of Durham. The aim of the SIPTA schools is to introduce interested students and researchers to the basics of imprecise probability topics, both theoretical and applied. Some of the best specialists in different aspects of imprecise probabilities lecture, during one week, on the main concepts and techniques in their area of expertise, in a friendly environment favouring interactions between participants. The topics covered this year will provide a general introduction to the latest developments in imprecise probability theory. There will also be a focus on applications of imprecise probabilities in risk and related fields. Students will learn how to deal with situations where information is scarce, vague, or conflicting, and when a unique probability distribution may be hard to identify, from mathematical modelling to statistical inference and practical decision making. The last day of the school overlaps with the WPMSIIP workshop, and will give all participants the possibility to present their work in a seminar, with discussion time. We plan for several leading researchers to be present for the discussions, and we also expect that some of the topics the students work on will be of further interest to the WPMSIIP workshop. Further information concerning registration and a more detailed lecture outline with specific topics and lecturers will follow in January 2016. In the meantime, you can get some further information from the website: http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/siptass16/index.html We are looking forward to meeting you in Durham. We also encourage you to circulate this announcement around you. Best regards, The organizing committee Matthias Troffaes Frank Coolen Gert de Cooman Olivier Strauss Andrea Wiencierz

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[SIPTA] Fw: Welcome to IEEE SMC2016 in Budapest, Hungary, October 9-12. 2016
by Kreinovich 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

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[SIPTA] Forwarded ...
by Prof. Gert de Cooman 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

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[SIPTA] Call for papers: Special session on IP methods at IPMU 2016 in Eindhoven, NL
by Gero Walter 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

Call for papers Special session "Uncertainty Quantification with Imprecise Probability" to be held at 16th International Conference on Information Processing and management of Uncertainty (IPMU 2016, www.ipmu2016.org) at Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 20th - 24th, 2016. The special session offers a forum for all imprecise/interval probability related contributions at IPMU, while at the same time also setting a focus on (engineering) reliability applications. The session thus aims to link methodological research in imprecise probability to applications in reliability, in order to make, on the one hand, practitioners aware of recent developments, and on the other hand, make IP theorists aware of potential applications and which theory developments are needed from the application perspective. The session also links up thematically with the workshop "Reliable Engineering Computing" (REC 2016, rec.2016.rub.de), which takes place in nearby Bochum (Germany) in the week before IPMU. Papers submitted to the special session will undergo the IPMU reviewing process. The proceedings of IPMU-2016 will be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) with Springer, for details see http://is.ieis.tue.nl/ipmu/authors.htm#instructions Important dates: Paper submission: January 8th, 2016 Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2016 Camera-ready paper submission: March 31st, 2016 Early/author registration: March 31st, 2016 Conference: June 20-24th, 2016 I hope to see you in Eindhoven! Gero Walter g.m.walter(a)tue.nl

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[SIPTA] Fwd: Call for papers: Entropy Special Issue on Statistical Significance and the Logic of Hypothesis Testing
by Cassio P. de Campos 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

Forwarding call below as requested to me. best, cassio. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for papers: Special Issue on "Statistical Significance and the Logic of Hypothesis Testing" for Entropy. (ISSN 1099-4300; http://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy) A short prospectus is given at the volume website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/statistical_significance This special issue will be fully Open Access. More information is available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/. Entropy is an open access journal which maintains a rigorous and fast peer-review system and accepted papers are immediately published online. Because it is an online and open access journal, papers published in Entropy will receive high publicity. It is fully covered by the leading indexing and abstracting services, including Google Scholar, MathSciNet, Scopus and Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science). The Impact Factor for Entropy is 1.502 (2014); 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.579 (2014). The importance of using hypothesis testing in the development of research is widely recognized by the general scientific community. This Special Issue focuses on statistical significance and the logic of hypothesis testing and their proper application in practical problems. Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to): * Formal applications of hypothesis testing to novel applied problems. Philosophical accounts of hypothesis testing (including contributions arguing for or against those). * Methodological developments of hypothesis testing (taking in account the practical usability of them). * Logical accounts of hypothesis testing. * Logical (compositional) properties of truth values. * Statistical significance measures. * Epistemology of statistical significance. * Coherence properties of significance measures. * Surveys of the state of the art in one of the above areas. The official deadline for submission is 30 May 2016. However, you may send your manuscript at any time before the deadline. We can organize a very fast peer-review, if accepted, the paper will be published immediately. The special issue editors: Prof. Dr. Julio Stern University of Sao Paulo, jstern(a)ime.usp.br Prof. Dr. Adriano Polpo Federal University of Sao Carlos, polpo(a)ufscar.br Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions.

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[SIPTA] IJAR Special Issue CFP: Bayesian Nonparametrics
by Alessio Benavoli 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

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[SIPTA] CfP: KI Journal Special Issue on "Challenges for Reasoning under Uncertainty, Inconsistency, Vagueness, and Preferences"
by Thomas Lukasiewicz 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

CALL FOR PAPERS: ====================================================================================================================== KI Journal Special Issue on "Challenges for Reasoning under Uncertainty, Inconsistency, Vagueness, and Preferences" http://www.kuenstliche-intelligenz.de/ GUEST EDITORS Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Technology Dortmund, Germany) Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, UK) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW Managing uncertainty, inconsistency, vagueness, and preferences has been extensively explored in Artificial Intelligence. During the recent years, especially with the emerging of smart services and devices, technologies for managing uncertainty, inconsistency, vagueness, and preferences to tackle the problems of dynamic, real-world scenarios have started to play a key role also in other areas, such as information systems and the (Social or Semantic) Web. These application areas have sparked another wave of strong interest into formalisms and logics for dealing with uncertainty, inconsistency, vagueness, and preferences. Important examples are fuzzy and probabilistic approaches for description logics, or rule systems for handling vagueness and uncertainty in the Semantic Web, or formalisms for handling user preferences in the context of ontological knowledge in the Social Semantic Web. While scalability of these approaches is an important issue to be addressed, also the need for combining various of these approaches with each other or more classical ways of reasoning have become obvious (hybrid reasoning under uncertainty). The aim of the special issue is to collect overview articles on important state-of-the-art formalisms and methodologies, as well as articles on emerging trends for the future. TOPICS Submissions are solicited in all areas of uncertainty, inconsistency, vagueness, and preferences handling, including (but not restricted to) the topics listed below: - logics of uncertain and vague reasoning, such as probability logic, possibilistic logic, and fuzzy logic - reasoning with inconsistent knowledge, paraconsistent logics - rough sets and similarity measures - formal models and semantics of uncertain data - spatio-temporal uncertainty management - uncertainty and inconsistency in the (Semantic) Web - changes and merging of ontologies - preference formalisms and user preferences - data sharing and uncertainty - recommender systems - connections to information retrieval, data mining, and machine learning - applications, in particular to mobile systems and social networks The special issue welcomes especially submissions that combine different approaches of uncertain reasoning, or that elaborate on connections of uncertain reasoning to other fields. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Deadline for submissions: Dec 31, 2015 Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX using the KI style available at: http://www.kuenstliche-intelligenz.de/index.php?id=autorenhinweise All submitted manuscripts must contain original material not previously published or currently under review in any other journal. Submissions extending results previously published at a conference or workshop are welcome. Submissions will be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kiruivp16

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[SIPTA] special session on imprecise probabilities at smps'2016
by ENRIQUE MIRANDA MENENDEZ 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

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[SIPTA] SMPS 2016
by Barbara Vantaggi 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

[please distribute - apologies for multiple postings] SMPS 2016 8th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics September 12 - 14, 2016 Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy http://www.sbai.uniroma1.it/smps2016 =========================================================== VENUE =========================================================== SMPS 2016 will be held in Rome, Italy. The conference venue will be San Pietro in Vincoli (Via Eudossiana, 18), in the historic centre of Rome, directly overlooking the Coliseum and next to the ancient Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli, home to Michelangelo’s statue of Moses. =========================================================== SCOPE and TOPICS =========================================================== The scope of SMPS 2016 is to bring together experts working on and with Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics. SMPS 2016 invites submissions of papers dealing with a variety of topics in soft methods in probability and statistics, which include, but are not limited to: - Analysis of Censored Data - Analysis of Fuzzy Data - Random Sets - Fuzzy Random Variables - Fuzzy Regression Methods - Triangular Norms and Copulas - Imprecise Probabilities - Dempster-Shafer Theory - Robust Methods - Clustering and Classification - Graphical Models - Machine Learning - Heuristic Optimization - Soft Computing and Statistics - Statistical Software for Imprecise Data - Applications in Biology, Economics etc. =========================================================== PROCEEDINGS =========================================================== Papers accepted for presentation will be published in an edited volume of the series Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing from Springer-Verlag. Full papers of 5-8 pages written in English and fulfilling the instructions for authors should be submitted not later than February 15, 2016, camera-ready versions of the accepted papers not later than April 30, 2016 (tentative). For accepted contributions to be included in the sessions and proceedings of the conference, the payment of the conference fees should be made not later than May 20, 2016. After the Conference there will be a SPECIAL ISSUE of International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) dedicated to SMPS 2016. For this, all the selected papers will have to pass a regular reviewing process. =========================================================== PLENARY SPEAKERS =========================================================== Ana Colubi (University of Oviedo, Spain) Thierry Denoeux (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Massimo Marinacci (Bocconi University, Italy) =========================================================== IMPORTANT DATES =========================================================== Proposal for organized sessions: December 15, 2015 Acceptance for organized sessions: January 10, 2016 Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2016 Notification of paper acceptance: April 10, 2016 Revised paper due: April 30, 2016 Early registration deadline: May 20, 2016 =========================================================== ORGANIZATION =========================================================== General Chairs: - Maria Brigida Ferraro (Rome, Italy) - Paolo Giordani (Rome, Italy) - Barbara Vantaggi (Rome, Italy) Executive Board: - María Ángeles Gil (Oviedo, Spain) - Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski (Warsaw, Poland) - Olgierd Hryniewicz (Warsaw, Poland) Best regards, Maria Brigida Ferraro, Paolo Giordani, Barbara Vantaggi SMPS 2016 Chairs – Sapienza University of Rome =========================================================== http://www.sbai.uniroma1.it/smps2016 ===========================================================

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[SIPTA] FW: “Advanced numerical design with polymorphic uncertainty“ at WCCM 12
by Kreinovich 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

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[SIPTA] IPMU 2016 special session on IP
by Gero Walter 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

Dear Colleagues, IPMU next year takes place at TU Eindhoven (NL) on June 20th to 24th: http://is.ieis.tue.nl/ipmu/ Working as a postdoc in Eindhoven since February (but not in the group that organizes the conference), I was wondering whether anyone of you is either considering to attend, or intending to submit a proposal for a special session. If several of you are considering the former but no one seems to do the latter, I would volunteer to organize a special session on imprecise/interval probability methods, together with Frank Coolen, preferably with a focus on reliability with IP. It is a little urgent, as the deadline for special session proposals is October 31st: http://is.ieis.tue.nl/ipmu/authors.htm#submission I would be glad to hear from you soon and to meet you in Eindhoven in June 2016! Best wishes, Gero Walter P.S.: You can answer to either g.m.walter(a)tue.nl or gero.walter(a)stat.uni-muenchen.de -------------------------------------- Dr. rer. nat. Gero Walter School of Industrial Engineering Eindhoven University of Technology g.m.walter(a)tue.nl --------------------------------------

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[SIPTA] FW: Call for Papers REC 2016
by Kreinovich 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

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[SIPTA] FW: 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence
by Kreinovich 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

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[SIPTA] PGM 2016 (International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models.) - Preliminary call for paper
by Giorgio Corani 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

==Call for papers PGM 2016 is the eight edition of the International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models. PGM 2016 will take place in Lugano (Switzerland) between the 6th and the 9th of September 2016. The site of the conference is http://pgm.idsia.ch. The conference provides a high quality forum regarding the latest developments in probabilistic graphical models. We welcome contributions on topics such as: *Bayesian (belief) networks, chain graphs, Markov random fields, decision networks, influence diagrams and other probabilistic graphical models (PGMs); *Information processing in PGMs (exact and approximate inference, sensitivity analysis, etc.); *Learning and data mining with PGMs; *Links between PGMs and statistics, information theory, optimization, and decision making under uncertainty; *Softwares based on PGMs; *Applications of PGMs to real-world problems. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three reviewers. The Program Committee includes about 50 PGM researchers; see http://www2.idsia.ch/cms/pgm/organization/ for the full list. ==JMLR Proceedings The conference proceedings will be published in the proceedings track (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings/) of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). ==IJAR Special Issue Selected papers will be invited to be extended and then submitted to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR). ==Submission procedure The instructions for submission and the author kit are available here: http://www2.idsia.ch/cms/pgm/submissions/. The page limit is 12 pages in the JMLR style. ==Indicative Dates Deadline for paper submissions May 2016 Notification of acceptance June 2016 Final versions due July 2016 Conference dates September 6-9, 2016 The dates will be made more precise later on.

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Re: [SIPTA] IPMU 2016 - Call for Special Sessions
by Kreinovich 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

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[SIPTA] IJAR Special Issue CFP: Bayesian Nonparametrics
by Alessio Benavoli 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

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[SIPTA] AXA 2-year postdoc on risk
by Cassio P. de Campos 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

Hi, all. I'm writing to let you know about the AXA 2-year postdoctoral Fellowship on BASIC research dedicated to “A better understanding of Risk”. More details are below. At Queen's University Belfast, there is a first round evaluation since only two proposals are going to be passed on to AXA. If you have interest or know someone who has, let me know. Internal decisions will be taken in November and the proposal will be sent to AXA in December. This is obviously not restricted to Queen's, you might be interested in applying from elsewhere too. best, cassio. -- Cassio P. de Campos, Dr. habil. Reader - Knowledge and Data Engineering School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Queen's University Belfast Email: c.decampos(a)qub.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)28 9097 6795 Web: http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~c.decampos -- The projects must fall within the following general areas of Risk: Life Risks: Aging and long-term care; Biomedical Risks eg infectious disease or exposure to new technologies; Addictions and risky behaviour Environmental Risk: climate change; natural hazards; human driven environmental changes eg pollution Socio-economic Risks: Geopolitical risk; Macro-economic and financial systemic risk; Individual and collective behaviours relating to uncertainty; Large corporate risks Candidate Criteria · Must be LESS than 5 yrs since award of PhD · International exposure of candidate – It is expected that most of the selected candidates will move to another country between their current and targeted post-doc position”. It does state that a minimum of 1 semester spent abroad since Master’s thesis will suffice. Where a candidate will remain in the same institution for the post-doc fellowship a clear justification for this will be required. For more details: https://www.axa-research.org

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[SIPTA] Annals of Operations Research-Special Volume on IUKM 2015: Call for Papers
by Van Nam HUYNH 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Dear Colleagues, [Apologies for cross-posting!] I would like to announce a Call for Papers for a Special Volume of Annals of Operations Research (Springer), which follows the IUKM 2015 symposium in Nha Trang, Vietnam (http://www.jaist.ac.jp/IUKM/IUKM2015/) This special volume is, however, also open to relevant contributions that were not part of IUKM 2015. Submission deadline: November 30, 2015 The PDF of the call for papers and the manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed here: http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/CfP%20%20SI%20IUKM2015.pdf or here: http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~huynh/CfP-ANOR2015.pdf Thank you very much and looking forward to receiving your manuscripts! Best regards, Van-Nam Huynh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa JAPAN.

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[SIPTA] Fwd: FW: Nordic Risk Conference
by Matthias Troffaes 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

The call below may be of interest to those who work on or have an interest in risk modelling. I'm told that imprecise probability is also very welcome. Cheers, Matthias ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nordic Chapter news [mailto:ullrika.sahlin(a)cec.lu.se] Sent: den 28 augusti 2015 11:41 To: Ullrika Sahlin <ullrika.sahlin(a)cec.lu.se> Subject: Nordic Risk Conference Please forward this call to your networks! The Nordic Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis in Europe and Lund University Centre of Risk Assessment and Management (LUCRAM) invite academics, practitioners and policy makers to participate in the 1st Nordic Chapter Risk Conference on the theme The Future of Risk Analysis in the Nordic Countries on November 16-17th 2015 in Lund, Sweden. The aim of the conference is to strengthen and vitalise risk research and education on risk in the Nordic region. There will be plenty of room for contributed talks (15 minutes including discussion) and for posters. Informal meetings are encouraged, and there will be ample space provided at different locations in the exhibition halls of the conference venue. The possibility to submit abstracts (maximum 300 words) for 15 minute presentations is now open. Full papers are not required and contributions from scientists as well as practitioners are encouraged. Submit your abstract by sending an email to Riskconf2015(a)lucram.lu.se. Indicate if you aim for a poster or an oral presentation! Important dates: Deadline for submission of abstracts 27 September Notification of acceptance 7 October Deadline early bird registration 18 October Deadline late bird registration 8 November Conference 16-17 November For more information, please visit the conference webpage www.lucram.lu.se/event/nordic-chapter-2015-risk-conference We are looking forward to see you in Lund ~Ullrika Sahlin on behalf of LUCRAM

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[SIPTA] CFP IJAR Special issue on Statistical and Computational methods for genomics and integrative genomics
by Cassio P. de Campos 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

Dear SIPTA members, Please consider the call for papers below and forward to anybody you think might be interested. kind regards, cassio. --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Approximate Reasoning Special issue on Statistical and Computational methods for genomics and integrative genomics http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reaso… Background and Scope: In the last decade, the advent of microarray and next-generation sequencing technologies has created the need of statistical and computational methodologies specifically developed for dealing with these types of data and novel biomedical research goals. Genomic data measure quantities (such as, gene-expression, copy number, genotype, methylation) at several thousands or millions of positions along the genome, resulting in an enormous amount of information from which to extract the relevant content. They are usually noisy and subject to uncertainties due to non-biological variations, which must be taken into account during the modelling and inferential processes. Many other issues arise when the field of application regards the study of complex genetic diseases, since patients can be highly heterogeneous and several different lesions may alter the same biological pathway. Moreover, the number of patients is usually small with respect to the number of variables, which brings another facet to the problem. Approaches that try to overcome all these difficulties rely on biological assumptions and integrate established knowledge and multiple types of data. Data integration may comprise not only different genomic data, but also clinical and other patient information. Combining all this information by an accurate biological and statistical modelling may allow us to achieve reliable biomedical discoveries. Inferential and computational issues must be also considered, as data have very high dimension and computational resources are limited. Papers are sought on theoretical and practical considerations involving statistical and computational approaches to address problems and data from the biomedical domain, including but not limited to: Next generation sequencing data Microarray data Data integration in genomics Genetic network modelling and inference Gene pattern discovery Disease classification and prediction Biomarker discovery Computational biology General methodological and algorithmic developments are also welcome as long as they have a clear applicability to the biomedical domain. If unsure about the fit of your intended paper or for any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact the guest editors. Important Dates: Deadline for expression of interest to submit a paper (suggested): September 15, 2015. Deadline for first submission: October 15, 2015 Reviews available: December, 2015 Expected online publication: April, 2016 Submission and Review Process: Authors should prepare their papers according to the Guide for Authors of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (http://ees.elsevier.com/ija/) All submissions must be made electronically through the Elsevier's EES submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ija/ with the Article Type 'SI: Statistical genomics'. All papers will be peer-reviewed following the IJAR review guidelines. Guest Editors: Paola M.V. Rancoita University Centre for Statistics for the Biomedical Sciences Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy http://www.unisr.it/persona.asp?id=8888&linguacv=english Cassio P. de Campos School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Queen's University Belfast, UK http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~c.decampos/

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[SIPTA] FW: 6th World Conference on Soft Computing: mark your calendars
by Kreinovich 20 Aug '15

20 Aug '15

FYI ________________________________________ From: reformat(a)ualberta.ca Subject: FW: 6th World Conference on Soft Computing: mark your calendars 6th World Conference on Soft Computing Berkeley, May 22-25 2016 http://www.wconsc-2016.org Call for Papers Aims and Scope 6th World Conference on Soft Computing, Berkeley 2016, aims to bring togpether researchers, engineers and practitioners to present the latest achievements and innovations in the multiple areas of soft computing, to discuss thought-provoking developments and challenges, to consider potential future directions. One of the objectives of the conference is to encourage participation by young researchers; to this end student papers will be given special consideration. Important Dates Regular Paper Submission December 5, 2015 Notification of Acceptance January 25, 2016 Final Paper Submission February 19, 2016 Early Registration February 19, 2016 Special Session Proposals November 15, 2016 Special Session Final Paper Submission (by organizer) February 19, 2016 Topics Theories and Methods: Information Theory, Uncertainty, Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods, Evidence and Possibility Theory, Utility Theory, Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic, Approximate Reasoning, Non-classical Logics, Default Reasoning, Belief Revision, Argumentation, Uncertainty in Cognition, Graphical Models, Knowledge Acquisition, Information Fusion and Aggregation, Knowledge Representation, Ontologies, Decision Support, Cognitive Modeling, Game Theory, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Granular Computing, Computing with Words, Human-Centric Computing, Rough Sets, Evolutionary Computation, Neural Networks, Hybrid Architectures Applications and Tools: Intelligent and Multi-agent Systems, Information Processing and Retrieval, Intelligent Data Analysis, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Database and Information Systems, Intelligent Search, Internet and Semantic Web, Social Networks and Trust, Multi-Media, Control and Robotics, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Medicine and Bioinformatics, Finance, Software Engineering, Industrial Engineering, e-Commerce, Security Special Sessions Proposals for special sessions focusing on fundamental theories and innovative applications of soft computing are welcome. Submission of proposals should include a short description of the session, its relevance to the conference, and a list of potential contributors. Special sessions will be open to all participants. Organizers of Special Sessions will be responsible for a reviewing process. Student Participation Student participation is highly encouraged, be it submitting and presenting a paper, attending the conference, or volunteering at the conference. STUDENT REGISTRATION is FREE. The Program Committee will select the best student papers prior to the conference. These papers will be presented at a special session during the conference. The student author of the best paper (based on both the written submission and the oral presentation, to be selected during this session) will receive an award. Committees Honorary Chair Lotfi A. Zadeh (University of California, Berkeley, USA) General Co-Chairs Ali M. Abbasov (Minister of Communication and Information Technology of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan) Ronald R. Yager (Iona College, New York, USA) Program Committee Co-Chairs Janusz Kacprzyk (Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, USA) Marek Z. Reformat (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) Organizing Co-Chairs Shahnaz N. Shahbazova (Azerbaijan Technical University, Azerbaijan) (shahbazova(a)gmail.com) Marek Z. Reformat (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) (marek.reformat(a)ualberta.ca)

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09 Aug '15

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