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[SIPTA] Fw: Welcome to IEEE SMC2016 in Budapest, Hungary, October 9-12. 2016

by Kreinovich

Dec. 7, 2015

[SIPTA] Forwarded ...

by Prof. Gert de Cooman

Dec. 7, 2015

[SIPTA] Call for papers: Special session on IP methods at IPMU 2016 in Eindhoven, NL

by Gero Walter

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

Dec. 2, 2015

[SIPTA] Fwd: Call for papers: Entropy Special Issue on Statistical Significance and the Logic of Hypothesis Testing

by Cassio P. de Campos

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.

Nov. 26, 2015

[SIPTA] IJAR Special Issue CFP: Bayesian Nonparametrics

by Alessio Benavoli

Nov. 25, 2015

[SIPTA] CfP: KI Journal Special Issue on "Challenges for Reasoning under Uncertainty, Inconsistency, Vagueness, and Preferences"

by Thomas Lukasiewicz

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

Nov. 10, 2015

[SIPTA] special session on imprecise probabilities at smps'2016

by ENRIQUE MIRANDA MENENDEZ

Nov. 3, 2015

[SIPTA] SMPS 2016

by Barbara Vantaggi

[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 ===========================================================

Nov. 2, 2015

[SIPTA] FW: “Advanced numerical design with polymorphic uncertainty“ at WCCM 12

by Kreinovich

Oct. 30, 2015

[SIPTA] IPMU 2016 special session on IP

by Gero Walter

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 --------------------------------------

Oct. 29, 2015