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[SIPTA] FW: IUKM 2016, mark your calendars
by Kreinovich Dec. 22, 2015

Dec. 22, 2015

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 Dec. 21, 2015

Dec. 21, 2015

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[SIPTA] 7th SIPTA Summer School on Imprecise Probability - 29 Aug-2 Sep 2016
by Matthias Troffaes Dec. 16, 2015

Dec. 16, 2015

[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 Dec. 7, 2015

Dec. 7, 2015

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[SIPTA] Forwarded ...
by Prof. Gert de Cooman Dec. 7, 2015

Dec. 7, 2015

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[SIPTA] Call for papers: Special session on IP methods at IPMU 2016 in Eindhoven, NL
by Gero Walter Dec. 2, 2015

Dec. 2, 2015

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 Nov. 26, 2015

Nov. 26, 2015

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 Nov. 25, 2015

Nov. 25, 2015

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[SIPTA] CfP: KI Journal Special Issue on "Challenges for Reasoning under Uncertainty, Inconsistency, Vagueness, and Preferences"
by Thomas Lukasiewicz Nov. 10, 2015

Nov. 10, 2015

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 Nov. 3, 2015

Nov. 3, 2015

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