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Next SIPTA virtual seminar: Snow Zhang on pooling imprecise probabilities, 13th May, 3pm Paris time
by sdesterc May 6, 2025

May 6, 2025

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce our upcoming SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP). These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion. They also provide an occasion for the community to meet, keep in touch and exchange between in-person events. The next seminar will take place on the 13th of May (Tuesday). The zoom link for this seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/81082468682 For this new seminar, we are very happy to have Snow Zhang as our speaker. Snow Zhang is currently assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and a member of the Logic Group at the University of California, Berkeley. Snow Zhang research focuses on the foundations and philosophy of probability, with combination of (imprecise) probabilities being one of her privileged topic of investigation. On the 13th of May, at 15:00 CEST:paris time (up to 17:00 CEST, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), she will talk about "Probabilistic opinion pooling and imprecise probabilities”. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars. The zoom link for attending the seminar can be found on that same page. So please mark your calendars on the 13th of May, and join us for the occasion. And for those who missed the previous seminar and want to catch up, or simply want to see it again and again, it is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGPF9dUug2g See you at the seminar! Sébastien, Enrique and Jasper

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(Not so random) new post on the SIPTA blog (on randomness and imprecision)
by Alexander Erreygers April 28, 2025

April 28, 2025

Dear imprecise probabilities enthusiasts, Ever thought about the question “when can/should one call an infinite sequence of 0s and 1s random”? You’re not alone! While you may have never thought about this question for more than a couple of minutes, hours or days, Floris Persiau spent about 5 years thinking about this question, over the course of obtaining his doctoral degree. Curious about his way of thinking about this problem (which, of course, included allowing for imprecision), and curious to find out whether he managed to come up with a satisfactory answer? Head over to the SIPTA blog now, where Floris Persiau is handing out small bites of the big cake that is his doctoral dissertation — all for free, no strings attached. Kind regards, Alexander Erreygers

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ISIPTA 2025: call for poster submissions (submission deadline: 5 may)
by sdesterc April 24, 2025

April 24, 2025

*** The organizers would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested participants of this conference. *** ================================================================ 14th International Symposium on imprecise probabilities: theories and applications (ISIPTA 2015) Call for posters The ISIPTA 2025 conference will take place between July 15 and July 18 in Bielefeld, Germany. It will welcome researchers working on imprecise probability theories and connected fields from all over the world, to discuss recent advancements. If you did not have the time to submit a paper, there is still time to submit a poster abstract. This will not only allow you to actively participate in the event, but will also enable you to register at a reduced fee or, if you are a non-tenured scholar, to register for free. Following past ISIPTA traditions, poster submissions will receive substantial attention: each poster is presented at a plenary session as well as at the poster session that follows it, alongside the regular full paper contributions. We therefore encourage you to submit your work as a poster. This could be work in progress that you’d like to present or get feedback on, as well as existing published material that you’d like to present to the ISIPTA audience. Submissions consist of a one page abstract that summarizes the work to be presented. The deadline for poster submissions is May 5, 2025. Acceptance of poster submissions will be notified shortly after the submission. The ISIPTA steering committee • Jasper De Bock • Sébastien Destercke • Alexander Erreygers • Max Nendel • Frank Riedel • Matthias Troffaes ================================================================

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Next SIPTA seminar, Krikamol Muandet on 24th April 15h Paris time, "Imprecise generalisation"
by sdesterc April 17, 2025

April 17, 2025

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce our upcoming SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP). These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion. They also provide an occasion for the community to meet, keep in touch and exchange between in-person events. The next seminar will take place on the 24th of April (Thursday). The zoom link for this seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/88932866889 For this new seminar, we are very happy to have Krikamol Muandet as our speaker. Krikamol Muandet is currently a chief scientist and tenure-track faculty (fast track) at CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security which is within the Helmholtz Association where he leads the Rational Intelligence (RI) Lab. While Krikamol prime interest lies in machine learning, a field in which he has many contributions, he has also a strong interest in its intersections with imprecise probabilities, and in particular the idea of imprecision in learning. On the 24th of April at 15:00 CEST:paris time (up to 17:00 CEST, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), he will talk about "Imprecise generalisation”. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars. The zoom link for attending the seminar can be found on that same page. So please mark your calendars on the 24th of April, and join us for the occasion. And for those who missed the previous seminar and want to catch up, or simply want to see it again and again, it is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeGpbYNe5-Q See you at the seminar! Sébastien, Enrique and Jasper

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Next SIPTA Seminar 25/3 (3pm Paris Time): Michael Beer on "Efficient reliability analysis with imprecise probabilities"
by sdesterc March 18, 2025

March 18, 2025

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce our upcoming SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP). These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion. They also provide an occasion for the community to meet, keep in touch and exchange between in-person events. The next seminar will take place on the 25th of March (Tuesday). The zoom link for this seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/81624342015 For this new seminar, we are very happy to have Michael Beer as our speaker. Since 2015, Micheal Beer is Full Professor and Head of the Institute for Risk and Reliability at Leibniz Universität Hannover. Michael Beer is a leading researcher and expert in reliability and risk analysis, as witness his 2022 Alfredo Ang Award on Risk Analysis and Management of Civil Infrastructure delivered by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). In particular, he has many important contributions on how to integrate imprecise probabilistic ideas within risk and reliability problems. On the 25th of March, at 15:00 paris time (up to 17:00, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), he will talk about "Efficient reliability analysis with imprecise probabilities”. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars. The zoom link for attending the seminar can be found on that same page. So please mark your calendars on the 25th of March, and join us for the occasion. And for those who missed the previous seminar and want to catch up, or simply want to see it again and again, it is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECs_3mfPz8M&t See you at the seminar! Sébastien, Enrique and Jasper

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WUPES 2025 - 2nd call for papers
by Václav Kratochvíl March 6, 2025

March 6, 2025

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *2nd CALL FOR PAPERS* The 13th Workshop on Uncertainty Processing *W U P E S ' 25* Třešť, Czech Republic, June 4 - 7, 2025 http://wupes.utia.cas.cz/2025/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *About* A series of Workshops on Uncertainty Processing (WUPES) has been held in Czechia since 1988. We invite submissions of papers on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian Networks, Conditional Independence, Stochastic Analysis, Algebraic Statistics, Information-Theoretical Inequalities, Combinatorial Methods for Secret Sharing, Fuzzy Analysis, Machine Learning, Decision Theory, Management Science, and related fields. More information about WUPES can be found on our webpage: http://wupes .utia.cas.cz/ *Submissions* We invite regular papers. First, an extended abstract (up to two pages long) should be submitted. After notification of acceptance, full papers (maximum 12 pages) should be prepared using the WUPES LaTeX template. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the workshop. *Special Issue* After the workshop, a special issue of the international journal Kybernetika <https://www.kybernetika.cz/>(published by the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences) will be organized and dedicated to WUPES'25. All selected papers will undergo a regular review process. Kybernetika publishes freely available articles at no charge. Reflecting its focus on computer science, system engineering, applied mathematics, and related interdisciplinary fields, the journal has been indexed in Web of Science and Scopus since its founding in 1965. With an impact factor of 0.9 in 2023, Kybernetika provides a platform for high-quality research. *Important Dates* - March 14, 2025: Submission of extended abstracts - March 28, 2022: Notification of acceptance - April 11, 2025: Early registration & payment deadline - May 2, 2025: Camera-ready copy of the final paper due - June 4-7, 2025: Workshop in Třešť, Czechia *Program Committee* - Milan Studený - chair, Czech Academy of Sciences - Nihat Ay, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany - Andrea Capotorti, Università di Perugia, Italy - László Csirmaz, Alfréd Rényi Inst. of Mathematics, Hungary - Radim Jiroušek, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia - Gernot D. Kleiter, Salzburg University, Austria - Prakash P. Shenoy, University of Kansas, USA *Organizing Committee* - Jirka Vomlel - chair, Czech Academy of Sciences - Radim Jiroušek, Czech Academy of Sciences - Václav Kratochvíl, Czech Academy of Sciences - Milan Studený, Czech Academy of Sciences *Venue* The WUPES 2025 conference will take place in the magnificent Třešť Castle, a historic site owned by the Czech Academy of Sciences. Originally a medieval fortress, the castle has undergone transformations from Renaissance to Baroque architecture and now serves as a center for academic and research activities. Participants will enjoy the serene castle park, ideal for quiet walks and relaxation. Třešť is located in the scenic Vysočina region, celebrated for its rolling hills, forests, and cultural landmarks. A highlight of the area is the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Telč, just 24 minutes away by train with regular hourly service. Telč, known for its Renaissance architecture and charming town square, offers a unique excursion opportunity for participants. For any further questions, please get in touch with the chair: *Jirka VomlelEmail: vomlel(a)utia.cas.cz <vomlel(a)utia.cas.cz>*

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New post on the SIPTA blog: report on the EpImp Concluding Conference
by Van Camp, Arthur Feb. 25, 2025

Feb. 25, 2025

Dear imprecise probabilities enthusiasts, The SIPTA website<https://sipta.org/> has a new blog post. Kevin Blackwell has written a report on the EpImp Concluding Conference. This event, organised by Jason Konek’s ERC-funded project “Epistemic Utility for Imprecise Probabilities”, took place on 18 and 19 December in Bristol. You can find Kevin’s report here<https://sipta.org/blog/epimp-2024/>! Kind regards, Arthur Van Camp

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IJCRS 2025 Extension Deadline
by Stefania Boffa Feb. 17, 2025

Feb. 17, 2025

Dear Colleagues, Let me inform you that the deadline for abstract and full paper submission to the *11th International Joint Conference on Rough Sets (IJCRS 2025)* has been extended to *February 28, 2025 *(firm deadline). - IJCRS 2025 will support a *hybrid format*, allowing both in-person and online participation. - Conference* website*: IJCRS 2025 <http://ijcrs2025.cqupt.edu.cn/#/home> Best wishes Stefania Boffa IJCRS 2025 Publicity Chair

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SIPTA 2025 extended deadline (9th February - final deadline) + important dates
by Sébastien Destercke Jan. 28, 2025

Jan. 28, 2025

Dear Colleagues, We are happy to let you know that we have extended the full paper deadline for ISIPTA (International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications) by one week. Here are all the important dates you need to know if you intend to submit a (long) paper: * Extended Submission deadline: 9th February (final) * First decision to authors: 28th March * Final decision (for papers needing revision): 18th April * Registration deadline: 1st June And, in case you still do not have time to prepare a proper paper, you are very much welcome to submit a one-page abstract to be presented as a poster * Poster submission deadline: 27th April, followed by a quick decision. We look forward to welcome you all in Bielefeld! ISIPTA program committee board Sébastien Destercke Alexander Erreygers Max Nendel Frank Riedel Matthias Troffaes

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SIPTA seminar on 3rd of February (3pm Paris time): Brian Hill, "Confidence in beliefs in rational policy making"
by sdesterc Jan. 28, 2025

Jan. 28, 2025

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce our upcoming SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP). These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion. They also provide an occasion for the community to meet, keep in touch and exchange between in-person events. The next seminar will take place on the 3rd of February (Monday). The zoom link for this seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/81067801110 For this new seminar, we are very happy to have Brian Hill as our speaker. Brian Hill is Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and CNRS Research Professor in the Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC Paris. He is also Academic Director of the Inclusive Economy Centre in the Sustainability & Organizations Institute (S&O) at HEC Paris. He has been the recipient of the CNRS Bronze Medal for early-career researchers, one of the most prestigious French science award. One of his recent research programs has focused on what counts as a rational reaction to severe uncertainty or “ambiguity”. His research also focuses on important societal issues, such as how to reduce inequality and the role of uncertainty in environmental policies. On the 3rd of February, at 15:00 CEST:paris time (up to 17:00 CEST, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), he will talk about "Confidence in beliefs in rational policy making”. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars. The zoom link for attending the seminar can be found on that same page. So please mark your calendars on the 3rd of February, and join us for the occasion. And for those who missed the previous seminar and want to catch up, or simply want to see it again and again, it is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdHIecdHpEg See you at the seminar! Sébastien, Enrique and Jasper

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ISIPTA 2025 - second call for paper
by sdesterc Jan. 17, 2025

Jan. 17, 2025

Dear colleagues, The deadline to submit long papers to ISIPTA, which is the 2nd of February, is fast approaching! The International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications is the premier international event dedicated to the exploration of imprecise probabilities, providing a platform for both theoretical advancements and practical applications. ISIPTA also has a strong tradition of favouring discussions among its participants. To do so, accepted contributions will be presented and discussed in two separate sessions. The first session features presentations that are short and plenary. The second, longer session is devoted to detailed explanations and discussions that are face-to-face and rely on whichever medium you prefer – but having a poster is encouraged – so as to favour interaction among participants. ISIPTA will also welcome a number of renowned keynote speakers: • Carole Bernard (Grenoble École de Management & Vrije Universiteit Brussel) • Itzhak Gilboa (Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris) • Peter Grünwald (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica & Leiden University) • Jan Obłój (University of Oxford) We invite contributions on all aspects of imprecise probabilities, a term encompassing a wide range of mathematical and statistical models that quantify uncertainty without the restriction of precise probabilities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, sets of probability measures, partial preference orderings, game-theoretic probability, choice functions, interval probabilities, risk measures, nonlinear expectations, belief functions, and possibility theory. We accept two types of submissions: full papers and one-page abstracts. The submission deadlines are February 2nd, 2025 for full papers and April 27th, 2025 for one-page abstracts; additional important dates like notification of paper acceptance will be communicated in due course. Submission is through the EasyChair platform following the instructions on the conference website for formatting guidelines. All contributions will be made available on the conference website. Papers will be published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, although authors have the option to opt out of publication. Registration is free for non-tenured scholars with accepted submission, and € 200 for tenured faculty with accepted submission. The fee for scholars without accepted submission and industry participants is € 600. The registration fee includes lunch, coffee breaks, social dinner, and participation in the social event. Registration is up to June 1st, 2025, but we encourage participants to register only after a final decision on their submission has been made. We look forward to welcoming you to Bielefeld! The ISIPTA 2025 Steering Committee Jasper De Bock Sébastien Destercke Alexander Erreygers Max Nendel Frank Riedel Matthias Troffaes

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Next SIPTA seminar: 22nd January 15h Paris time, Erik Quaeghebeur on probabilistic circuits
by sdesterc Jan. 13, 2025

Jan. 13, 2025

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce our upcoming SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP). These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion. They also provide an occasion for the community to meet, keep in touch and exchange between in-person events. The next seminar will take place on the 22nd of January (Wednesday). The zoom link for this seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/81782582392 For this new seminar, we are very happy to have Erik Quaeghebeur as our speaker. Erik Quaeghebeur is Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven university of technology, Netherlands. Erik is well known within the world of imprecise probabilities, as he started his career with making many foundational contributions to statistic and decision with imprecision, to then complement it with impactful works on the optimisation of windfarms. Among other topics, he is currently working on developing probabilistic circuits and their imprecise counterpart. On the 22nd of January, at 15:00 CEST:paris time (up to 17:00 CEST, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), he will talk about "The wondrous world of credal and deep probabilistic circuits”. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars. The zoom link for attending the seminar can be found on that same page. So please mark your calendars on the 22nd of January, and join us for the occasion. And for those who missed the previous seminar and want to catch up, or simply want to see it again and again, it is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd_nDt4SIjg&t See you at the seminar! Sébastien, Enrique and Jasper

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New post on the SIPTA blog
by Van Camp, Arthur Dec. 21, 2024

Dec. 21, 2024

Dear IP enthusiasts, The SIPTA blog<https://sipta.org/blog/> has another new blogpost. You can learn more about Giacomo Molinari's doctoral research<https://sipta.org/blog/thesis-giacomo/> on Deference Principles for Imprecise Probabilities. Kind regards, Arthur Van Camp

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[Jobs] Research Fellow in Autonomous Driving under Uncertainty (Jan 19)
by Fabio Cuzzolin Dec. 20, 2024

Dec. 20, 2024

The Visual Artificial Intelligence Laboratory @ Oxford Brookes <https://www.linkedin.com/company/visual-ai-lab/> (VAIL) at Oxford Brookes University <https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxfordbrookes/>, led by Professor <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAW5OSgBrV7rQei3wMC_5Dj5_9UA8fT7kp4>Fabio Cuzzolin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabio-cuzzolin/>, is seeking a fellow to be appointed as soon as possible, full-time, for a period of 12 months or until the end of the project (February 2026). The #ResearchFellow <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=researchfellow&highlightedU…> will join the Lab’s efforts in the context of the #Horizon2020 <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=horizon2020&highlightedUpda…> FET-Open project “Epistemic AI” coordinated by Oxford Brookes, with KU Leuven <https://www.linkedin.com/company/ku_leuven/> and Delft University of Technology <https://www.linkedin.com/company/tudelft/> as the other partners. https://lnkd.in/grbkStWQ The project’s overarching objective is to develop a new paradigm for a next-generation artificial intelligence providing worst-case guarantees on its predictions thanks to a proper modelling of real-world uncertainties. The project re-imagines AI from the foundations, with the aim of providing a proper treatment of the #epistemic <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=epistemic&highlightedUpdate…> #uncertainty <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=uncertainty&highlightedUpda…> stemming from a machine’s forcibly partial knowledge of the world by means of advanced uncertainty theory. The Fellow will assist Prof Cuzzolin with the coordination of the H2020 Epistemic AI project and maintain a smooth communication among the project partners. In particular, they will lead the research work of Work Package 3 (Science-to-technology breakthrough in autonomous driving), by developing new frameworks for object detection and scene understanding under uncertainty, as well as inverse reinforcement learning. They will join another research fellow and co-supervise the two PhD students hired under the project, while helping with the general management of the Visual AI Lab. The Visual Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is a fast-growing research unit of 24 members, active in #deeplearning <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=deeplearning&highlightedUpd…> for action detection, #uncertainty <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=uncertainty&highlightedUpda…> in #artificialintelligence <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=artificialintelligence&high…> , #machinelearning <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=machinelearning&highlighted…> (e.g. #continuallearning <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=continuallearning&highlight…> ), #computervision <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=computervision&highlightedU…> , #autonomousdriving <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=autonomousdriving&highlight…>, surgical and mobile #robotics <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=robotics&highlightedUpdateU…> , #AI <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=ai&highlightedUpdateUrns=ur…> for healthcare. The Lab is currently pioneering frontier topics such as machine # theoryofmind <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=theoryofmind&highlightedUpd…>, evolving machine intelligence, intrinsically-aligned AI, epistemic # foundationmodels <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=foundationmodels&highlighte…>, AI for science, #neuraloperators <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=neuraloperators&highlighted…> under uncertainty. Within autonomous driving, we are recognised as the creators of the series of ROAD datasets for #situationalawareness <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=situationalawareness&highli…> , https://lnkd.in/enx8wDMJ https://lnkd.in/e5hyeFyf https://lnkd.in/e6k48Q6T the organisation of 5 recent workshops at top conferences (at ICCV, ECCV, UAI, IROS)hashtag and we are working to incubate a <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=iccv&highlightedUpdateUrns=…> hashtag <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=spinoff&highlightedUpdateUr…>and we are working to incubate a spinoff company on robust hashtag#perception <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=perception&highlightedUpdat…> and end-to-end planning for autonomous vehicles. VAIL is part of the University’s new Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis and Systems (AIDAS) Institute <https://www.linkedin.com/company/artificial-intelligence-data-analysis-and-…>, directed by Cuzzolin. Please apply here (vacancy ID number of 174959): https://my.corehr.com/pls/oburecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=… or contact Fabio at fabio.cuzzolin(a)brookes.ac.uk for more information. The deadline for application is 19 January 2025.

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ISIPTA 2025: Call for papers
by Alexander Erreygers Dec. 20, 2024

Dec. 20, 2024

The International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications<https://sipta.org/events/isipta/> is the premier international event dedicated to the exploration of imprecise probabilities, providing a platform for both theoretical advancements and practical applications. The 14th edition of this biennial conference series will be held at the Bielefeld University Center for Interdisciplinary Research<https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/__uuid/fcd0d2db-5ed3-45a1-b122-685b58074571/> from Tuesday, July 15, 2025, to Friday, July 18, 2025. We invite contributions on all aspects of imprecise probabilities, a term encompassing a wide range of mathematical and statistical models that quantify uncertainty without the restriction of precise probabilities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, sets of probability measures, partial preference orderings, game-theoretic probability, choice functions, interval probabilities, risk measures, nonlinear expectations, belief functions, and possibility theory. As is tradition at ISIPTA, accepted contributions will be presented and discussed in two separate sessions. Presentations are short and plenary. Detailed explanations and discussions are face-to-face relying on whichever medium you prefer – but having a poster is encouraged – so as to favour interaction among participants. We accept two types of submissions: full papers and one-page abstracts. The submission deadlines are February 2nd, 2025 for full papers and April 27th, 2025 for one-page abstracts; additional important dates like notification of paper acceptance will be communicated in due course. Submission is through the EasyChair platform<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isipta2025> following the instructions on the conference website<https://isipta25.sipta.org/submission> for formatting guidelines. All contributions will be made available on the conference website. Papers will be published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research<https://proceedings.mlr.press/>, although authors have the option to opt out of publication. Registration is free for non-tenured scholars with accepted submission, and € 200 for tenured faculty with accepted submission. The fee for scholars without accepted submission and industry participants is € 600. The registration fee includes lunch, coffee breaks, social dinner, and participation in the social event. Registration is up to June 1st, 2025, but we encourage participants to register only after a final decision on their submission has been made. We look forward to welcoming you to Bielefeld! The ISIPTA 2025 Steering Committee Jasper De Bock Sébastien Destercke Alexander Erreygers Max Nendel Frank Riedel Matthias Troffaes

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7th School on Belief Functions and their Applications: Preliminary Announcement
by Serafin Moral Dec. 18, 2024

Dec. 18, 2024

*************************************************************************************** 7th School on Belief Functions and their Applications Oct 19-23, 2025 University of Granada, Granada, Spain https://www.bfasociety.org/BFTA2025 bfta2025(a)bfasociety.org *************************************************************************************** PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT(more information coming soon) The BELIEF school is a biennial event organized by the Belief Functions and Applications Society (BFAS) that offers a unique opportunity for students and researchers to learn about fundamental and advanced aspects of the theory of belief functions (also referred to as Dempster-Shafer theory, or evidence theory), a formalism for reasoning with uncertainty. The school will be organized around a set of lectures by prominent researchers. Lectures will gradually tackle basic to more advanced theoretical concepts. They will also highlight the links with other uncertainty theories such as random sets and possibility theory, and present applications of belief functions in various domains including machine learning, information fusion, statistical inference and materials science. Financial Support The Belief Functions and Applications Society (BFAS) is offering several grants that cover the school registration fees (which include the tuition fees, lunches, coffee breaks and the social event). Organizing committee * Serafin Moral (Chair), University of Granada, Spain * Inés Couso, University of Oviedo, Spain * Enrique Miranda, University of Oviedo, Spain * Thierry Denœux, University of Technology of Compiègne, France * Anne-Laure Jousselme, CS Group Research Lab, France * Frédéric Pichon, Artois University, France * David Mercier, Artois University, France

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PhD Opportunity
by Michele Caprio Dec. 12, 2024

Dec. 12, 2024

PhD Position at The University of Manchester in the area of Uncertainty in Machine Learning The Faculty of Humanities<https://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/> of The University of Manchester has an open Bicentenary PhD Studentship<https://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/funding…> position. The PhD research's more specific areas are eXplainable Deep Learning (XDL) and Uncertainty Quantification (UQ). The research focuses on developing new techniques based on Imprecise Probability Theory, that will improve the current state of the art at the intersection of XDL and UQ. This project allows for doing both fundamental and applied research, with the aim of advancing and bridging both theory and applications. The candidate should hold a master's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field. Further details about this position, and a link to the application system, can be found at https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/hums-bicentenary-phd-deep-uncertainty… For further information, please contact Michele Caprio (michele.caprio(a)manchester.ac.uk<mailto:michele.caprio@manchester.ac.uk>).

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Fwd: CFP-IJCRS 25
by Boffa, Stefania Dec. 11, 2024

Dec. 11, 2024

Dear Colleagues, Let me share the CFP of the *11th International Joint Conference on Rough Sets (*IJCRS 2025 <http://ijcrs2025.cqupt.edu.cn/#/home>*) *with you*.* Best wishes Stefania Boffa IJCRS 2025 Publicity Chair

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WUPES 2025 - Call for papers
by Milan Studeny Dec. 11, 2024

Dec. 11, 2024

Dear colleagues, perhaps some of you may be interested in a small informal workshop WUPES with broad flexible scope, to be organized next June -- see below. best wishes Milan Studeny (in name of WUPES organizers) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *CALL FOR PAPERS* The 13th Workshop on Uncertainty Processing *W U P E S ' 25* Třešť, Czech Republic, June 4 - 7, 2025 http://wupes.utia.cas.cz/2025/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *About* A series of Workshops on Uncertainty Processing (WUPES) has been held in Czechia since 1988. We invite submissions of papers on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian Networks, Conditional Independence, Stochastic Analysis, Algebraic Statistics, Information-Theoretical Inequalities, Combinatorial Methods for Secret Sharing, Fuzzy Analysis, Machine Learning, Decision Theory, Management Science, and related fields. More information about WUPES can be found on our webpage: http://wupes.utia.cas.cz/ *Submissions* We invite regular papers. First, an extended abstract (up to two pages long) should be submitted. After notification of acceptance, full papers (maximum 12 pages) should be prepared using the WUPES LaTeX template. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the workshop. *Special Issue* After the workshop, a special issue of the international journal Kybernetika <https://www.kybernetika.cz/>(published by the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences) will be organized and dedicated to WUPES'25. All selected papers will undergo a regular review process. Kybernetika publishes freely available articles at no charge. Reflecting its focus on computer science, system engineering, applied mathematics, and related interdisciplinary fields, the journal has been indexed in Web of Science and Scopus since its founding in 1965. With an impact factor of 0.9 in 2023, Kybernetika provides a platform for high-quality research. *Important Dates* - March 14, 2025: Submission of extended abstracts - March 28, 2022: Notification of acceptance - April 11, 2025: Early registration & payment deadline - May 2, 2025: Camera-ready copy of the final paper due - June 4-7, 2025: Workshop in Třešť, Czechia *Program Committee* - Milan Studený - chair, Czech Academy of Sciences - Nihat Ay, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany - Andrea Capotorti, Università di Perugia, Italy - László Csirmaz, Alfréd Rényi Inst. of Mathematics, Hungary - Radim Jiroušek, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia - Gernot D. Kleiter, Salzburg University, Austria - Prakash P. Shenoy, University of Kansas, USA *Organizing Committee* - Jirka Vomlel - chair, Czech Academy of Sciences - Radim Jiroušek, Czech Academy of Sciences - Václav Kratochvíl, Czech Academy of Sciences - Milan Studený, Czech Academy of Sciences *Venue* The WUPES 2025 conference will take place in the magnificent Třešť Castle, a historic site owned by the Czech Academy of Sciences. Originally a medieval fortress, the castle has undergone transformations from Renaissance to Baroque architecture and now serves as a center for academic and research activities. Participants will enjoy the serene castle park, ideal for quiet walks and relaxation. Třešť is located in the scenic Vysočina region, celebrated for its rolling hills, forests, and cultural landmarks. A highlight of the area is the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Telč, just 24 minutes away by train with regular hourly service. Telč, known for its Renaissance architecture and charming town square, offers a unique excursion opportunity for participants. For any further questions, please get in touch with the chair: *Jirka VomlelEmail: vomlel(a)utia.cas.cz " target="_blank">" target="_blank">" target="_blank"><vomlel(a)utia.cas.cz>*

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Next SIPTA seminar: 12th December 15h Paris time, Frederic Pichon on information fusion
by sdesterc Dec. 4, 2024

Dec. 4, 2024

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce our upcoming SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP). These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion. They also provide an occasion for the community to meet, keep in touch and exchange between in-person events. The next seminar will take place on the 12th of December (Thursday). The zoom link for this seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/88087921468 For this new seminar, we are very happy to have Frédéric Pichon as our speaker. Frédéric Pichon is Professor of Computer Science at Université D’artois, in the LGI2A. Frédéric is a widely recognised expert in belief functions, with interest in combinatorial optimisation, information fusion and machine learning. On the 12th of December, at 15:00 CEST:paris time (up to 17:00 CEST, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), he will talk about "Reliability and dependence in the combination of evidence”. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars. The zoom link for attending the seminar can be found on that same page. So please mark your calendars on the 12th of December, and join us for the occasion. And for those who missed the previous seminar and want to catch up, or simply want to see it again and again, it is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqZhJ6QL4x0&t See you at the seminar! Sébastien, Enrique and Jasper

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Invitation to the EpImp Concluding Conference: 18–19 December 2024, Bristol
by Van Camp, Arthur Nov. 29, 2024

Nov. 29, 2024

Dear Imprecise Probability Enthusiast, We are delighted to invite you to the EpImp Concluding Conference, the final event of the ERC-funded project 'Epistemic Utility for Imprecise Probability'. This conference will take place on 18 and 19 December 2024 in Bristol, UK. We are thrilled to announce an outstanding lineup of speakers, with presentations scheduled as follows: Wednesday, 18 December 09:00–10:15: Francesca Zaffora Blando 10:30–11:45: Branden Fitelson 13:00–14:15: Jason Konek & Giacomo Molinari 14:30–15:45: Gregory Wheeler 16:00–17:15: Gert de Cooman Thursday, 19 December 09:00–10:15: Matthias Troffaes 10:30–11:45: Catrin Campbell-Moore 13:00–14:15: J. Dmitri Gallow 14:30–15:45: Kevin Blackwell & Arthur Van Camp 16:00–17:15: Kevin Dorst Further details are available on our conference website: https://ep-imp.gitlab.io/concluding-conference-2024/. Registration This event is open to everyone interested in imprecise probabilities. Registration is free of charge, and we will provide lunch and coffee to all registered participants. To secure your place, please complete the following form by 7 December: https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/3f234fc0-a397-4150-86f0-cddc2f…. Speakers do not need to complete this form. Venue The conference will be held at the Wills Memorial Building, Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1QE, United Kingdom. You can find the location here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.45636&mlon=-2.60456#map=18/51.45636/…. Accommodation recommendations For proximity to the venue, we recommend the following accommodations: - The Berkeley Square Hotel (https://cliftonhotels.com/bristol-hotels/berkeley-square) - The Clifton Hotel Bristol (https://cliftonhotels.com/bristol-hotels/clifton-bristol-city-centre) - The Washington Guesthouse Bristol (https://cliftonhotels.com/bristol-hotels/washington) If you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to welcoming you to Bristol this December! Warm regards, The EpImp Team: Jason Konek (Chair of the Organising Committee) – jason.konek(a)bristol.ac.uk<mailto:jason.konek@bristol.ac.uk> Kevin Blackwell Giacomo Molinari Arthur Van Camp

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Fwd: CFP - IJCRS 2025
by Stefania Boffa Nov. 27, 2024

Nov. 27, 2024

Dear Colleagues, Let me share the CFP of the *11th International Joint Conference on Rough Sets (*IJCRS 2025 <http://ijcrs2025.cqupt.edu.cn/#/home>*) *with you*.* Best wishes Stefania Boffa IJCRS 2025 Publicity Chair

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CNRS positions open (16 total in the two computer science committees)
by sdesterc Nov. 23, 2024

Nov. 23, 2024

Dear (young) colleagues, As every year, CNRS (and INRIA) is opening nation-wide positions in every field of science (for CNRS, INRIA focuses mostly on computer science and applied mathematics). For most people here, this would mean positions available in Philosophy, Economy, Mathematics and Computer Science, but maybe others. Those positions are permanent and full-time research positions, with a lot of flexibility in how you manage your time and activities. CNRS candidates typically have to produce a summary of past research and a research project for the next 5-10 years, and give three teams or laboratory (these have to be joint research units, but there are such research units in many places in France). For computer science, the official website is there: https://www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/en/cnrsinfo/researchers-competition-2025-list-pos… And you can fetch some useful info there: https://mathurinm.github.io/cnrs_inria_advice/ In computer science, recruited candidates are typically young researchers, i.e., having less than 7-8 years of research experience since the beginning of the PhD thesis (but there can be exceptions). This may change if you want to apply, e.g., in economy or philosophy, as every field has its particularities. If you wish to apply, you should try to identify and contact ASAP a laboratory in France where you would like to work (e.g., by just looking up in which laboratory is your favourite French researcher working), and contact them. Laboratories that have people dealing with imprecision in uncertainty or that would be interested in candidates working in these fields include mine, but also the CRIL (Lens), IRIT (Toulouse), GREGHEC and LAMSADE (Paris), and a couple others! Deadline for applications are beginning of January, but putting up a good application file takes quite some time and efforts. I can try to reply to your possible questions if you have some. However, I will mostly have information about the committees and processes concerned with computer science, automatic, robotic, signal treatment, machine learning and uncertainty propagation. Best Sébastien

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Next SIPTA seminar: 22nd November 3pm Paris Time. Jason Konek on philosophy and decision making
by sdesterc Nov. 19, 2024

Nov. 19, 2024

Dear Siptians, We are delighted to announce our upcoming SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP). These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion. They also provide an occasion for the community to meet, keep in touch and exchange between in-person events. The next seminar will take place on the 22nd of November (Friday). The zoom link for this seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/85974092076 For this new seminar, we are very happy to have Jason Konek as our speaker. Jason Konek is currently Senior Lecturer at the philosophy department of Bristol University. Jason Konek had many contribution in the philosophy of imprecise probabilities, and has notably been awarded a prestigious ERC Grant “Epistemic Utility for Imprecise Probability” to pursue his work on this topic. On the 22nd of November, at 15:00 Paris time (up to 17:00 CEST, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), he will talk about "Bringing philosophy and IP into conversation: Puzzles and challenges for decision theory”. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars. The zoom link for attending the seminar can be found on that same page. So please mark your calendars on the 22nd of November, and join us for the occasion. And for those who missed the previous seminar and want to catch up, or simply want to see it again and again, it is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GToHUaaIzjc&t=681s See you at the seminar! Sébastien, Enrique and Jasper

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REC 2026: mark your calendars, imprecise probabilities are one of the highlighted topics
by Kreinovich, Vladik Nov. 14, 2024

Nov. 14, 2024

The 11th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing REC 2026 will be heled in Dortmund, Germany, on September 2-4, 2026 (dates are tentative) REC2026 will provide a multi-disciplinary forum to bring together various engineering and associated disciplines with the common focus on methodologies and theories in the field of risk and uncertainty. As in the previous biennial REC-meetings, the central theme of the discussions will be the reliability of engineering computations. Covering a broad range of topics, REC2024 aims to address the urgent need for innovative theories and advanced computational approaches to ensure safety of engineering systems starting with uncertainty quantification of input parameters. Topics include but are not limited to: * Uncertainty analysis and modeling * Reliability analysis * Risk analysis * Reliability-based design * Performance-based design * Risk-informed decision-making * Sustainability and resilience * Risk and hazard mitigation * Optimization under uncertainty * Inverse problems * Model reduction * Surrogate models * System and parameter identification * Structural health monitoring * Reliability analysis * Risk analysis * Reliability-based design * Performance-based design * Risk-informed decision-making * Sustainability and resilience * Risk and hazard mitigation * Optimization under uncertainty * Inverse problems * Model reduction * Surrogate models * System and parameter identification * Structural health monitoring Methods and theories may include: * Probability theory * Stochastic approaches * Bayesian theory * Fuzzy set theory * Imprecise probabilities * Evidence theory * P-box approach * Fuzzy probability theory * Interval analysis * Fuzzy analysis * Convex modeling * Information gap theory * AI and Machine Learning Contributions are invited with emphasis on both theory and applications. Previous REC-meetings have been hosted: * at Georgia Tech Savannah (United States) in 2004, 2006, and 2008, * at the National University of Singapore in 2010, * at Brno University of Technology in Brno (Czech Republic) in 2012, * at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago (United States) in 2014, * at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) in 2016, * at Liverpool University (United Kingdom) in 2018, * online in 2021 (due to COVID-19 pandemic), * at Tsinghua University in Beijing (China) in 2024. Contacts: * Matthias Fass matthias.faes(a)tu-dortmund.de<mailto:matthias.faes@tu-dortmund.de> * Michael Beer beer(a)irz.uni-hannover.de<mailto:beer@irz.uni-hannover.de>

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I: [CISPA-Researchers] Guest talk by Michele Caprio (University of Manchester) on 19 Nov at 1400.
by Michele Caprio Nov. 12, 2024

Nov. 12, 2024

Of possible interest for someone in the SIPTA community 🙂 Yours, Michele ________________________________ Da: Siu Lun Chau <siu-lun.chau(a)cispa.de> Inviato: martedì 12 novembre 2024 10:53 A: researchers(a)lists.cispa.saarland <researchers(a)lists.cispa.saarland> Cc: Michele Caprio <michele.caprio(a)manchester.ac.uk> Oggetto: [CISPA-Researchers] Guest talk by Prof Michele Caprio (University of Manchester) on 19 Nov at 1400. Dear CISPA Researcher, You are cordially invited to Michele Caprio's (University of Manchester) research talk next Tuesday at 2 p.m. in D2 room 1.01. The talk is also available on Zoom [cispa-de.zoom-x.de]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cispa-de.zoom-x.de/my/muandet__;!!PDiH4…>. Title: Optimal Transport for Epsilon Contaminated Credal Set Talk Abstract: We provide a version for lower probabilities of Monge's and Kantorovich's optimal transport problems. We show that, when the lower probabilities are the lower envelopes of ε-contaminated sets, then our version of Monge's, and a restricted version of our Kantorovich's problems, coincide with their respective classical versions. We also give sufficient conditions for the existence of our version of Kantorovich's optimal plan, and for the two problems to be equivalent. As a byproduct, we show that for ε-contaminations the lower probability versions of Monge's and Kantorovich's optimal transport problems need not coincide. The applications of our results to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are also discussed. Bio: Michele is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at The University of Manchester. He obtained his PhD in Statistics from Duke University, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer and Information Science of the University of Pennsylvania. His general interest is probabilistic machine learning, and in particular the use of imprecise probabilistic techniques to investigate the theory and methodology of uncertainty quantification in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Recently, he won the IJAR Young Researcher and the IMS New Researcher Awards, and he was elected a member of the London Mathematical Society. P.S. Michele is visiting our group for a week, so if anyone is interested in learning about his amazing work on imprecise probabilistic machine learning, feel free to reach out and set up a meeting. Best, Siu Lun Chau --- Siu Lun (Alan) Chau, Ph.D (Oxon) | Postdoctoral Researcher CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security Stuhlsatzenhaus 5, 66123 Saarbrücken, +44 7415137484 | siu-lun.chau(a)cispa.de | https://chau999.github.io/ [chau999.github.io]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://chau999.github.io/__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!G…>

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PhD Position at The University of Manchester in the area of Uncertainty in Machine Learning
by Michele Caprio Nov. 7, 2024

Nov. 7, 2024

PhD Position at The University of Manchester in the area of Uncertainty in Machine Learning The UKRI AI CDT in Decision Making for Complex Systems<https://www.ai-decisions-cdt.ac.uk/> — joint between The University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge — has an open position for a PhD student in Manchester. The PhD research's more specific area is Imprecise Probabilistic Machine Learning. The research focuses on developing a new Multimodal Learning paradigm based on the notion of Credal Sets. This project allows for doing both fundamental and applied research, with the aim of advancing and bridging both theory and applications. The candidate should hold a master's degree in mathematics, computer science, statistics, or a related field. Further details about this position, and a link to the application system, can be found at https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/multimodal-credal-learning-theory/?p1… For further information, please contact Michele Caprio (michele.caprio(a)manchester.ac.uk<mailto:michele.caprio@manchester.ac.uk>).

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First Announcement: 14th International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities (ISIPTA 2025) - Bielefeld
by Alexander Erreygers Oct. 17, 2024

Oct. 17, 2024

We are excited to announce that the 14th International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA 2025) will be held at the Bielefeld University Center for Interdisciplinary Research from Tuesday, July 15, 2025, to Friday, July 18, 2025. ISIPTA is the premier international event dedicated to the exploration of imprecise probabilities, providing a platform for both theoretical advancements and practical applications. We invite contributions on all aspects of imprecise probabilities, a term encompassing a wide range of mathematical and statistical models that quantify uncertainty without the restriction of precise probabilities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, sets of probability measures, partial preference orderings, game-theoretic probability, choice functions, interval probabilities, risk measures, nonlinear expectations, belief functions, and possibility theory. The symposium will feature both contributed sessions and keynote talks from leading experts in the field. Keynote speakers are • Carole Bernard (Grenoble École de Management & Vrije Universiteit Brussel) • Itzhak Gilboa (Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris) • Peter Grünwald (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica & Leiden University) • Jan Obłój (University of Oxford) The deadline for full paper submissions is February 2nd, 2025. More information about submission will follow in due course. For further details, please visit the conference website: https://isipta25.sipta.org/home . We look forward to welcoming you to Bielefeld! The ISIPTA 2025 Steering Committee Jasper De Bock Sébastien Destercke Alexander Erreygers Max Nendel Frank Riedel Matthias Troffaes

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I: OASIS talk next Friday: Michele Caprio - Imprecise Probability in Machine Learning
by Michele Caprio Oct. 16, 2024

Oct. 16, 2024

Of possible interest for someone in the SIPTA community 🙂 Yours, Michele ________________________________ Da: Paolo Perrone <paolo.perrone(a)cs.ox.ac.uk> Inviato: lunedì 14 ottobre 2024 10:08 A: talk-announce(a)cs.ox.ac.uk <talk-announce(a)cs.ox.ac.uk>; Rob Cornish <rob.cornish(a)stats.ox.ac.uk>; Kaushik Chintam <k.chintam(a)se23.qmul.ac.uk>; Michele Caprio <michele.caprio(a)manchester.ac.uk> Oggetto: OASIS talk next Friday: Michele Caprio - Imprecise Probability in Machine Learning Hi all, The OASIS seminar is back! (https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/oasis/ [cs.ox.ac.uk]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/oasis/__;!!PDi…>) This Friday at 2 PM AM in Lecture Theatre A we are going to have an OASIS talk by Michele Caprio (University of Manchester), titled "Imprecise Probabilistic Machine Learning: Being Precise About Imprecision". The abstract is below. Before the talk some of us are planning to have lunch with the speaker. If you are interested in joining us, please let me know by Thursday morning. The talk is also accessible remotely, at the following Zoom link: https://cs-ox-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99562853810?pwd=VmJFUlhNbVJwOUpjTE5hUk9LUkMvU… [cs-ox-ac-uk.zoom.us]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cs-ox-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99562853810?pwd=V…> Meeting ID: 995 6285 3810 Passcode: 983333 For further information see the following links, https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/oasis/ [cs.ox.ac.uk]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/oasis/__;!!PDi…> https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/2688.html [cs.ox.ac.uk]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/2653.html__;!!…> All the best, Paolo --- Speaker: Michele Caprio (University of Manchester) Title: Imprecise Probabilistic Machine Learning: Being Precise About Imprecision Abstract: This talk is divided into two parts. I will first introduce the field of “Imprecise Probabilistic Machine Learning”, from its inception to modern-day research and open problems, including motivations and clarifying examples. In the second part, I will present some recent results that I've derived on Imprecise Markov Processes. I will introduce the concept of an imprecise Markov semigroup Q. It is a tool that allows to represent ambiguity around both the initial and the transition probabilities of a Markov process via a compact collection of plausible Markov semigroups, each associated with a (different, plausible) Markov process. I will use techniques from geometry, functional analysis, and (high dimensional) probability to study the ergodic behavior of Q. I will show that, if the initial distribution of the Markov processes associated with the elements of Q is known and invariant, under some conditions that also involve the geometry of the state space, eventually the ambiguity around their transition probability fades. I call this property ergodicity of the imprecise Markov semigroup, and I will relate it to the classical notion of ergodicity. I will present ergodicity when the state space is Euclidean or a Riemannian manifold. The importance of my findings for the fields of machine learning and computer vision will also be discussed. This talk is based on the following work, https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00081 [arxiv.org]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00081__;!!PDiH4ENfjr…>, where I also extend the results to the case where the state space is an arbitrary measurable space.

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Next SIPTA virtual seminar: Alessio benavoli on "Learning from preferences and choice functions", 24th October (3pm Paris time)
by sdesterc Oct. 14, 2024

Oct. 14, 2024

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce our upcoming SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP). These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion. They also provide an occasion for the community to meet, keep in touch and exchange between in-person events. The next seminar will take place on the 24th of October (Thursday). The zoom link for this seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/89110869537 For this new seminar, we are very happy to have Alessio Benavoli as our speaker. Alessio Benavoli is Associate Professor in Statistics at the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Alessio is a widely recognised expert in imprecise probability theories, in which he has done foundational work, and has connected imprecise probabilities to a bunch of different fields such as Machine Learning, Artificial intelligence, Quantum Mechanics, Control, ... On the 24th of October, at 15:00 CEST:paris time (up to 17:00 CEST, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), he will talk about "Learning from preferences and choice functions”. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars. The zoom link for attending the seminar can be found on that same page. So please mark your calendars on the 24th of October, and join us for the occasion. And for those who missed the previous seminar and want to catch up, or simply want to see it again and again, it is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tGQi8tpVvY&list=PLXsgvF2_g5Ht-BYPWsSjcunA3… See you at the seminar! Sébastien, Enrique and Jasper

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FW: Call for Papers: IUKM 2025, 17 - 19 March 2025, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Extended deadline)
by Kreinovich, Vladik Oct. 2, 2024

Oct. 2, 2024

FYI, imprecise probabilities are one of the highlighted topics -----Original Message----- From: Van Nam Huynh <huynh.vannam(a)gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2024 9:09 AM Subject: Call for Papers: IUKM 2025, 17 - 19 March 2025, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Extended deadline) [Apologies for cross-posting. Your help in circulating this call for papers to potentially interested parties is highly appreciated.] ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— CALL FOR PAPERS ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— IUKM 2025: The Eleventh International Symposium on INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY in KNOWLEDGE MODELLING and DECISION MAKING 17 - 19 March 2025, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Conference website: https://www.jaist.ac.jp/IUKM/IUKM2025/ Submission deadline: 15 October, 2024 (Extended) ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— The International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making (IUKM) aims to provide a forum for exchanges of research results, ideas for and experience of application among researchers and practitioners involved with all aspects of uncertainty management and application. The Eleventh International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making (IUKM 2025) will be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam during 17-19 March, 2025, and be jointly organized by Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, University of Science (Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City), and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— Proposal for special sessions and workshops is encouraged and welcome. List of Topics: Relevant topics for the IUKM 2025 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 methods Modelling uncertainty and inconsistency in big data Learning and reasoning with uncertainty Logics for reasoning under uncertainty Uncertainty modelling in machine learning and deep learning Information fusion and knowledge integration in uncertain environments Decision making under various types of uncertainty Aggregation operators for decision making Copulas for dependence modelling Granular and soft computing Computational intelligence —————Application————— Data mining and knowledge discovery Multi-agent reinforcement learning Ontology engineering and Semantic Web Privacy preserving data analysis Intelligent data analysis and modelling Agents and argumentation Natural language processing Medical informatics and bioinformatics Ranking and recommendation systems Big data and cloud computing Social network analysis and mining Sensor fusion System identification and modelling Diagnosis and reliability Decision support systems Kansei/affective engineering Service computing Engineering management Supply chain management Environmental management Economics and econometrics Statistics and Applications --------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission and Publication: The authors are invited to submit their full papers by 15 October, 2024. The submissions will be peer-reviewed for originality and scientific quality. As done in previous editions, the proceedings of IUKM 2025 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, and be available at the Symposium. ————————————————————————— _______________________________________________ General Chairs: Masahiro Inuiguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Hieu T. Huynh (Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) Program Chairs: Van-Nam Huynh (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Katsuhiro Honda (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan) Bac H. Le (University of Science, Vietnam National University (VNU)-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)

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2024 SIPTA School: Lecture recordings/materials & recap
by Alexander Erreygers Sept. 27, 2024

Sept. 27, 2024

Dear IP enthusiasts and sympathisers, It’s been more than a month already since the eleventh edition of the SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities took place in Ghent, so about time for us to announce that the recordings of (selected) lectures are available on SIPTA's YouTube channel<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyDqpSY5B5s&list=PLXsgvF2_g5HsKtgnqhuW9sWQA…> and that all of the lecture material (slides, notebooks, …) is available on the school’s website<https://school24.sipta.org/programme>. If you want to get an even better idea of the nice atmosphere during the school, we encourage you to read Adrián Detavernier’s post on the SIPTA blog<https://sipta.org/blog/school-2024/> — although sometimes pictures<https://school24.sipta.org/photo-gallery/> do say more than words. Kind regards, Floris Persiau and Alexander Erreygers The 2024 SIPTA School organisers

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PhD Position at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the area of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
by Van Camp, Arthur July 11, 2024

July 11, 2024

PhD Position at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the area of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence The Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Group (https://uai.win.tue.nl<https://uai.win.tue.nl/>) at Eindhoven University of Technology has an open position for a PhD student. The employment is full time for five years, with an intermediate evaluation (go/no-go) after nine months. The PhD research's more specific area is imprecise probability theory. The research focuses on bringing the theory of choice functions to applications. This project allows for doing fundamental research, with the aim of advancing the theory towards applications. The candidate should hold a master's degree in mathematics, computer science, or a related field. Further details about this position, and a link to the application system, can be found at https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/phd-in-uncertainty-in-artificial-intelligenc…. For further information, please contact Arthur Van Camp (a.van.camp(a)tue.nl<mailto:a.van.camp@tue.nl>).

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[CfP] Call for Contributions - WSCL @ ECAI 2024 Workshop - Deadline Extension
by Andrea Campagner July 1, 2024

July 1, 2024

(Apologies for multiple postings) Call for Contributions Weakly Supervised and Cautious Learning (WSCL) workshop Bridging machine learning and uncertainty management Workshop Information Co-located with the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain Dates: 19-20th October 2024 Website: https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/wscl2024/ In recent years, machine learning (ML) has been increasingly applied in a variety of settings, with promise to analyze huge and heterogeneous volumes of data, improve decisional accuracy, and ease human labor. These systems have been predominantly built based on the supervised learning paradigm, which relies on the availability of huge amounts of data, assumed to be reliably labeled by human experts. However, with this increasing interest has also come the realization that the real-world is often far from the idealized perfection assumed in the supervised paradigm: data can be missing or noisy; supervision can be costly to obtain or have veracity issues; human users could fail at appropriating technologies based on ML, due to the incapability of ML models at reliably conveying their uncertainty. As a result, recently, increasing interest has been devoted to the development of techniques capable of dealing with these issues. These include uncertainty quantification and cautious learning, where the ML models convey to the users their uncertainty to improve reliability and reduce cognitive biases; as well as weakly supervised learning and its variants, such as incomplete supervision, where only a subset of training data is labeled; imprecise supervision, where the training data is coarse-grained labeled; and inaccurate supervision, where the labels are not always true. At the same time, due to the inherently multidisciplinary nature of these issues, there has been an increasingly deepened dialogue between ML and neighboring scientific fields, such as knowledge and uncertainty representation, as well as human-computer interaction, crowd-sourcing and active learning. The aim of this workshop is to explore how machine learning and related methods can handle weak supervision and provide more cautious and reliable support in the presence of data imperfection, as well as encourage broad discussion between ML researchers and experts in neighboring related fields whose underlying principles and foundations are central to allow the functioning of systems built on ML in less than perfect real-world settings. Topics of Interest We invite all researchers in AI and neighboring disciplines interested in the interplay between Machine Learning and Uncertainty to submit their work to WSCL workshop, which will be held during 19-20 October 2024, as a satellite event to the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024). We welcome submissions on topics related to both weakly supervised learning and uncertainty quantification. More generally, the topics of interest include: ● Weakly supervised learning (including, learning from noisy data, multi-instance learning, learning from imprecise data, ...); ● Uncertainty quantification (including, probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning, conformal prediction, three-way decision, set-valued approaches, possibilistic and evidential machine learning, ...); ● Uncertainty management and non-standard theories of uncertainty (including, foundations of probability theory, rough sets, fuzzy sets and possibility theory, evidence theory and belief functions, imprecise probabilities and credal sets, ...); ● Conformal prediction and related methods (including, Venn prediction, online learning, compression models, algorithmic information theory); ● Human-AI interaction and uncertainty communication; ● Active learning; ● Crowd-sourcing and data perspectivism Submission Instructions We welcome different types of submissions: ● full original papers (up to 7 pages); ● extended abstracts (up to 4 pages); ● already published work; ● review transfer for papers rejected at ECAI main track. Each accepted submission, irrespective of the type, will be assigned an oral presentation slot. Articles rejected at the main track of the ECAI 2024 conference, but relevant to the topics of interest of the workshop, may be transferred at the WSCL workshop based on the ECAI reviews. If you want to take advantage of this option, aside from submitting your contribution to the workshop, you should also fill-in the form at https://forms.gle/QPav5rHVMCuSMhFZ9 before the 11th July 2024 Contributions should be submitted through the chairingtool platform, available at the following link: https://chairingtool.com/conferences/WSCL24/MainTrack/ Original submissions (both full papers and extended abstracts) should be formatted according to the ECAI formatting instructions, using the ECAI 2024 template and formatting requirements specified by ECAI. The purpose of workshop presentations is to get early feedback on new ideas and to stimulate discussions between researchers interested in weakly supervised and cautious learning. As such, there will be no formal proceedings, but we may post accepted papers on the workshop website for the benefit of the workshop participants if the authors agree to this (and the paper has not already been published). Also, depending on the number of accepted contributions we may decide on organizing a special issue on a relevant scientific journal. Key Dates ● Submission deadline: 12th July 2024 ● Review Transfer submission deadline: 12th July 2024 ● Accept/Reject communications: 18th July 2024 ● Early registration deadline: 15th August 2024 ● Workshop date: 19-20th October 2024 Organizers ● Andrea Campagner, IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi Sant’Ambrogio (Milan, Italy), andrea.campagner(a)unimib.it (primary contact person) ● Davide Ciucci, University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy), davide.ciucci(a)unimib.it ● Sébastien Destercke, Heudyasic Laboratory, CNRS (Compiègne, France), sebastien.destercke(a)hds.utc.fr ●Luciano Sànchez, University of Oviedo(Oviedo,Spain), luciano(a)uniovi.es

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IPMU2024 - Call for Participation
by Christophe Marsala June 24, 2024

June 24, 2024

Dear All, The program of the IPMU 2024 conference is now online: https://ipmu2024.inesc-id.pt/?page_id=806 It is still time to register to attend the conference in Lisbon! Best regards, Christophe Marsala ----------------------------------------------- * 20th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems IPMU 2024,* Lisbon, Portugal, July 22–26, 2024 https://ipmu2024.inesc-id.pt/ The IPMU conference is organized every two years with the focus of bringing together scientists working on methods for the management of uncertainty and aggregation. It also provides a forum for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners in these and related areas. The 2024 edition of IPMU will take place at Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal, located in a vibrant renovated area 10 minutes from downtown. Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world, and full of stories to tell. A city where you feel safe wandering around day or night, where you'll find hotels, restaurants and nightlife to suit every taste, budget and requirement. A city full of authenticity, where old customs and ancient history intermix with cultural entertainment and hi-tech innovation. Lisbon is ageless, but it loves company, being famous for its hospitality and the family-like way it welcomes visitors. Lisbon has been elected World's Leading City Destination at the 2018 World Travel Awards. *Topics and Scope of the Conference **/Theory, Methods and Tools:/* Uncertainty, Computational Intelligence, Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods, Information Theory, Measures of Information and Uncertainty, Evidence and Possibility Theory, Utility Theory, Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Control, Rough Sets, Multiple Criteria Decision Methods, Aggregation Methods, Knowledge Representation, Approximate Reasoning, Non-classical Logics, Default Reasoning, Belief Revision, Argumentation, Ontologies, Uncertainty in Cognition, Graphical Models, Knowledge Acquisition, Interpretable Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation, Neural Networks, Data Analysis/Data Science, Explainable AI. /*Application Fields: */Intelligent Systems and Information Processing, Decision Support, Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval and Fusion, Speech and Natural Language Processing, Image Processing, Multi-Media, Agents, Pattern Recognition, Medicine and Bioinformatics, Finance, Software Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Big Data. /IPMU'2024 solicits original research contributions of theoretical and methodological nature as well as application-oriented work./ *IPMU'24 keynote speakers * * Judea Pearl (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) * Keeley Crocket (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) * Mário Figueiredo (IT / Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) * Ruth Byrne (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) * Thierry-Marie Guerra (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France) *IMPORTANT DATES* - Special session proposals: December 4th, 2023 - Notification of acceptance special sessions: December 11th, 2023 - Paper submission: March 8th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: April 5th, 2024 - Camera-ready paper submission: April 30th, 2024 - Early/author registration: April 30th, 2024 *- Conference: July 22nd - 26th, 2024* /General Chair /João Paulo Carvalho (Portugal)/ Program Chairs/ Marek Reformat (Canada) Marie-Jeanne Lesot (France) Susana Vieira (Portugal) /Publication Chair/ Fernando Batista (Portugal) /Special Session Chair:/ Anna Wilbik (Netherlands) /Publicity Chair/ Christophe Marsala (France) /Executive Directors/ Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier (France) Ronald R. Yager (USA) ----------------------------------------------

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SUM 2024 - Call with EXTENDED DEADLINE (11 July)
by sdesterc June 21, 2024

June 21, 2024

***Apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please disseminate to potentially interested colleagues.*** Dear colleagues, Due to various requests, we have decided to extend the SUM 2024 submission deadline to the 11 July. Please find below the main information regarding the conference. ========================================= Conference announcement + key dates ***EXTENDED*** ========================================= The 16th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2024) will be held in Palermo, Italy from November 27-29, 2024. See: https://sum2024.unipa.it/ Key dates (CET 23:59): Abstract Submission (optional but useful to organizers): June 24, 2024 Paper Submission: July 11, 2024 Notification: August 31, 2024 Camera-ready copies: September 15, 2024 Conference: Nov. 27-29, 2024 ============= Description ============= Established in 2007, the SUM conferences are annual events which aim to gather researchers with a common interest in managing and analyzing imperfect information from a wide range of fields, such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Databases, Information Retrieval and Data Mining, the Semantic Web and Risk Analysis, and with the aim of fostering collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas from the different communities. An originality of the SUM conferences is their care for dedicating a large space of their program to tutorials covering a wide range of topics related to uncertainty management. Each tutorial provides a survey of one of the research areas in the scope of the conference. ===================== Topics of Interest ===================== We solicit papers on the management of large amounts of complex kinds of uncertain, incomplete, or inconsistent information. We are particularly interested in papers that focus on bridging gaps, for instance between different communities, between numerical and symbolic approaches, or between theory and practice. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Imperfect information in databases - Methods for modeling, indexing, and querying uncertain databases - Top-k queries, skyline query processing, and ranking - Approximate, fuzzy query processing - Uncertainty in data integration and exchange - Uncertainty and imprecision in geographic information systems - Probabilistic databases and possibilistic databases? - Data provenance and trust - Data summarization - Very large datasets Imperfect information in information retrieval and semantic web applications - Approximate schema and ontology matching - Uncertainty in description logics and logic programming - Learning to rank, personalization, and user preferences - Probabilistic language models - Combining vector-space models with symbolic representations - Inductive reasoning for the semantic web Imperfect information in artificial intelligence - Statistical relational learning, graphical models, probabilistic inference Argumentation, defeasible reasoning, belief revision - Weighted logics for managing uncertainty - Reasoning with imprecise probability, Dempster-Shafer theory, possibility theory - Approximate reasoning, similarity-based reasoning, analogical reasoning - Planning under uncertainty, reasoning about actions, spatial and temporal reasoning - Incomplete preference specifications - Learning from data Risk analysis - Aleatory vs. epistemic uncertainty - Uncertainty elicitation methods - Uncertainty propagation methods - Decision analysis methods - Tools for synthesizing results ======================== Submission Guidelines ======================== SUM 2024 solicits original papers in the following three categories: - Long papers (at most 14 pages, references excluded): technical papers reporting original research or survey papers - Short papers (between 4 and 7 pages, references excluded): papers reporting promising work-in-progress, system descriptions, position papers on controversial issues, or survey papers providing a synthesis of some current research trends - Extended abstracts (2 pages) of recently published work in a relevant journal or top-tier conference All SUM submissions must be formatted according to the LNCS/LNAI guidelines:https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-pro… Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sum2024 ============= Publication ============= Accepted long (at most 14 pages) and short papers (2-7 pages) will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Authors of an accepted long or short paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and one author is expected to give a presentation at the conference. Authors of accepted abstracts (2 pages) will be expected to present their work during the conference, but the extended abstracts will not be published in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings (they will be made available in a separate booklet). ========================================================================================= Organization ========================================================================================= Sébastien Destercke (Université de technologie de Compiègne), PC Co Chair Maria Vanina Martinez (IIIA-CSIC), PC Co Chair Giuseppe Sanfilippo, (University of Palermo), General/Local Chair

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Today's SIPTA seminar: Eyke Hüllermeier, "the Challenge of Quantifying Epistemic Uncertainty in Machine Learning"
by Jasper De Bock June 14, 2024

June 14, 2024

Dear colleagues, In case you hadn’t heard yet: the next SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP) is less than two hours away. These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and are followed by a Q&A and open discussion. They also provide an occasion for the community to meet, keep in touch and exchange between in-person events. The zoom link for today's seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/86257697233 For this seminar, we are very happy to have Eyke Hüllermeier as our speaker. Eyke Hüllermeier is a full professor at the Institute of Informatics at LMU Munich, Germany, where he heads the Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. His research interests are centered around methods and theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence, with a specific focus on machine learning and reasoning under uncertainty. He has published more than 300 articles on these topics in top-tier journals and major international conferences, and several of his contributions have been recognized with scientific awards. Professor Hüllermeier is President of the European Association for Data Science (EuADS) and Editor-in-Chief of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, one of the leading journals in the field of AI. Today at 15:00 CEST:paris time (up to 17:00 CEST, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), he will talk about "the Challenge of Quantifying Epistemic Uncertainty in Machine Learning”. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars<http://sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars>. The zoom link for attending the seminar is also available on that same page. So please join us for the occasion. And for those who missed the previous seminar and want to catch up, or simply want to see it again and again, it is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUlb6ybqfpI&list=PLXsgvF2_g5Ht-BYPWsSjcunA3… See you at the seminar! Sébastien, Enrique and Jasper

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Scalable Uncertainty Mangement 2024 (November 27-29, Palermo): second call for paper
by sdesterc June 6, 2024

June 6, 2024

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this mail. =================================== Conference announcement + key dates =================================== The 16th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2024) will be held in Palermo, Italy from November 27-29, 2024. See: https://sum2024.unipa.it/ Key dates (CET 23:59): Abstract Submission (optional but useful to organizers): June 17, 2024 Paper Submission: June 24, 2024 Notification: August 31, 2024 Camera-ready copies: September 15, 2024 Conference: Nov. 27-29, 2024 ============= Description ============= Established in 2007, the SUM conferences are currently bi-annual events which aim to gather researchers with a common interest in managing and analyzing imperfect information from a wide range of fields, such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Databases, Information Retrieval and Data Mining, the Semantic Web and Risk Analysis, and with the aim of fostering collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas from the different communities. An originality of the SUM conferences is their care for dedicating a large space of their program to tutorials covering a wide range of topics related to uncertainty management. Each tutorial provides a survey of one of the research areas in the scope of the conference. ===================== Topics of Interest ===================== We solicit papers on the management of large amounts of complex kinds of uncertain, incomplete, or inconsistent information. We are particularly interested in papers that focus on bridging gaps, for instance between different communities, between numerical and symbolic approaches, or between theory and practice. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Imperfect information in databases - Methods for modeling, indexing, and querying uncertain databases - Top-k queries, skyline query processing, and ranking - Approximate, fuzzy query processing - Uncertainty in data integration and exchange - Uncertainty and imprecision in geographic information systems - Probabilistic databases and possibilistic databases? - Data provenance and trust - Data summarization - Very large datasets Imperfect information in information retrieval and semantic web applications - Approximate schema and ontology matching - Uncertainty in description logics and logic programming - Learning to rank, personalization, and user preferences - Probabilistic language models - Combining vector-space models with symbolic representations - Inductive reasoning for the semantic web Imperfect information in artificial intelligence - Statistical relational learning, graphical models, probabilistic inference Argumentation, defeasible reasoning, belief revision - Weighted logics for managing uncertainty - Reasoning with imprecise probability, Dempster-Shafer theory, possibility theory - Approximate reasoning, similarity-based reasoning, analogical reasoning - Planning under uncertainty, reasoning about actions, spatial and temporal reasoning - Incomplete preference specifications - Learning from data Risk analysis - Aleatory vs. epistemic uncertainty - Uncertainty elicitation methods - Uncertainty propagation methods - Decision analysis methods - Tools for synthesizing results ======================== Submission Guidelines ======================== SUM 2024 solicits original papers in the following three categories: - Long papers (at most 14 pages, references excluded): technical papers reporting original research or survey papers - Short papers (between 4 and 7 pages, references excluded): papers reporting promising work-in-progress, system descriptions, position papers on controversial issues, or survey papers providing a synthesis of some current research trends - Extended abstracts (2 pages) of recently published work in a relevant journal or top-tier conference All SUM submissions must be formatted according to the LNCS/LNAI guidelines:https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-pro… Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sum2024 ============= Publication ============= Accepted long (at most 14 pages) and short papers (2-7 pages) will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Authors of an accepted long or short paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and one author is expected to give a presentation at the conference. Authors of accepted abstracts (2 pages) will be expected to present their work during the conference, but the extended abstracts will not be published in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings (they will be made available in a separate booklet). ========================================================================================= Organization ========================================================================================= Sébastien Destercke (Université de technologie de Compiègne), PC Co Chair Maria Vanina Martinez (IIIA-CSIC), PC Co Chair Giuseppe Sanfilippo, (University of Palermo), General/Local Chair

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Call for Contributions - WSCL @ ECAI 2024 Workshop (Last Reminder)
by Andrea Campagner June 4, 2024

June 4, 2024

(Apologies for multiple postings) Call for Contributions Weakly Supervised and Cautious Learning (WSCL) Bridging machine learning and uncertainty management Workshop Information Co-located with the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain Dates: 19-20th October 2024 Website: https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/wscl2024/ In recent years, machine learning (ML) has been increasingly applied in a variety of settings, with promise to analyze huge and heterogeneous volumes of data, improve decisional accuracy, and ease human labor. These systems have been predominantly built based on the supervised learning paradigm, which relies on the availability of huge amounts of data, assumed to be reliably labeled by human experts. However, with this increasing interest has also come the realization that the real-world is often far from the idealized perfection assumed in the supervised paradigm: data can be missing or noisy; supervision can be costly to obtain or have veracity issues; human users could fail at appropriating technologies based on ML, due to the incapability of ML models at reliably conveying their uncertainty. As a result, recently, increasing interest has been devoted to the development of techniques capable of dealing with these issues. These include uncertainty quantification and cautious learning, where the ML models convey to the users their uncertainty to improve reliability and reduce cognitive biases; as well as weakly supervised learning and its variants, such as incomplete supervision, where only a subset of training data is labeled; imprecise supervision, where the training data is coarse-grained labeled; and inaccurate supervision, where the labels are not always true. At the same time, due to the inherently multidisciplinary nature of these issues, there has been an increasingly deepened dialogue between ML and neighboring scientific fields, such as knowledge and uncertainty representation, as well as human-computer interaction, crowd-sourcing and active learning. The aim of this workshop is to explore how machine learning and related methods can handle weak supervision and provide more cautious and reliable support in the presence of data imperfection, as well as encourage broad discussion between ML researchers and experts in neighboring related fields whose underlying principles and foundations are central to allow the functioning of systems built on ML in less than perfect real-world settings. Topics of Interest We invite all researchers in AI and neighboring disciplines interested in the interplay between Machine Learning and Uncertainty to submit their work to WSCL workshop, which will be held during 19-20 October 2024, as a satellite event to the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024). We welcome submissions on topics related to both weakly supervised learning and uncertainty quantification. More generally, the topics of interest include: ● Weakly supervised learning (including, learning from noisy data, multi-instance learning, learning from imprecise data, ...); ● Uncertainty quantification (including, probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning, conformal prediction, three-way decision, set-valued approaches, possibilistic and evidential machine learning, ...); ● Uncertainty management and non-standard theories of uncertainty (including, foundations of probability theory, rough sets, fuzzy sets and possibility theory, evidence theory and belief functions, imprecise probabilities and credal sets, ...); ● Conformal prediction and related methods (including, Venn prediction, online learning, compression models, algorithmic information theory); ● Human-AI interaction and uncertainty communication; ● Active learning; ● Crowd-sourcing and data perspectivism Submission Instructions We will welcome three types of submissions: ● full original papers (up to 7 pages); ● extended abstracts (up to 4 pages); ● already published work. Each accepted submission, irrespective of the type, will be assigned an oral presentation slot. Also, articles rejected at the main track of the ECAI 2024 conference, but relevant to the topics of interest of the workshop, may be transferred at the WSCL workshop based on the ECAI reviews. Contributions should be submitted through the chairingtool platform, available at the following link: https://chairingtool.com/conferences/WSCL24/MainTrack/ Original submissions (both full papers and extended abstracts) should be formatted according to the ECAI formatting instructions, using the ECAI 2024 template and formatting requirements specified by ECAI. The purpose of workshop presentations is to get early feedback on new ideas and to stimulate discussions between researchers interested in weakly supervised and cautious learning. As such, there will be no formal proceedings, but we may post accepted papers on the workshop website for the benefit of the workshop participants if the authors agree to this (and the paper has not already been published). Also, depending on the number of accepted contributions we may decide on organizing a special issue on a relevant scientific journal. Key Dates ● Submission deadline: 30th June 2024 ● Accept/Reject communications: 18th July 2024 ● Early registration deadline: 15th August 2024 ● Workshop date: 19-20th October 2024 Organizers ● Andrea Campagner, IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi Sant’Ambrogio (Milan, Italy), andrea.campagner(a)unimib.it (primary contact person) ● Davide Ciucci, University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy), davide.ciucci(a)unimib.it ● Sébastien Destercke, Heudyasic Laboratory, CNRS (Compiègne, France), sebastien.destercke(a)hds.utc.fr ●Luciano Sànchez, University of Oviedo(Oviedo,Spain), luciano(a)uniovi.es

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SIPTA school 2024: last call for registrations
by Floris Persiau June 3, 2024

June 3, 2024

Dear interested researchers, young(er) and old(er), Only 1 month remains to register for the SIPTA school 2024 (deadline 30 June 2024). So, whether you want to find out why there is more to uncertainty than probabilities, deepen your knowledge on imprecise probabilities, or see how these more general uncertainty models are used and applied in a variety of fields, we urge you to enrol through our registration page<https://school24.sipta.org/registration/>. We recall from previous mails that the school takes place from Monday 12 to Friday 16 August 2024 in the wonderful city of Ghent, Belgium. At the moment, a late bird fee of € 125 applies. In return, you’ll get lectures from leading experts in the field, free lunches and coffee breaks, an easy-going pizza night, and a kayak excursion on the canals of Ghent. More information can of course be found on https://school24.sipta.org/. Be there or be square<https://imgur.com/gallery/be-there-be-square-Y2wfm>, Floris & Alexander

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[job] PhD in probabilistic ML @ TU Eindhoven
by Cassio de Campos May 22, 2024

May 22, 2024

Dear all, We are currently looking for a PhD candidate in probabilistic machine learning; please forward the information below to any parties you think might be interested! We are particularly interested in imprecise probability related topics. best regards, cassio. --- Are you interested in working on foundational issues of robustness and reliability of probabilistic AI? Are you motivated to translate your theoretical results to real-world problems in healthcare? Then come join us as our next PhD-candidate in the Uncertainty in AI group! The Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) group is a growing group embedded in the Data and AI (DAI) cluster at the Eindhoven University of Technology (https://dai.win.tue.nl) In the DAI cluster, we aim at developing foundations of AI for the present and the future. This includes the design of new AI methods, development of AI algorithms, and tools with a view at expanding the reach of AI and its generalization abilities. In particular, we study foundational issues of robustness, safety, trust, reliability, tractability, scalability, interpretability, and explainability of AI. The UAI group is looking for a highly motivated and skilled PhD candidate to work in the area of probabilistic machine learning. The position is fully funded for a term of four years. The research direction will be determined together with the successful candidate and in line with the NWO Perspectief Project Personalised Care in Oncology (www.personalisedcareinoncology.nl) The research topics may include, but are not restricted to: * Probabilistic graphical models (Markov, Bayesian, credal networks) * Causality: Theory and application * Cautious AI, including imprecise probabilities * Robust stochastic processes * Tractable models and decision-making * Online/continual learning with evolving data Job requirements * Master’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field * Excellent analytical and mathematical skills * Affinity with developing theoretical results * Excellent algorithmic skills (including realizing it via coding) * Excellent academic writing and presentation skills * Proficiency in English (written and spoken) * Desire to conduct excellent research and publish in high quality conferences and journals * Independent thinker and self-responsibility * Ability and desire to collaborate and work in teams * Ability and desire to support teaching and to co-supervise bachelor and master students For more information and applying (deadline 23 June 2024), please see https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/phd-in-probabilistic-machine-learning-108125… If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me! Best, dr. Thomas Krak t.e.krak [at]tue.nl Assist. Prof. in UAI group Eindhoven University of Technology

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New post on the SIPTA blog
by Van Camp, Arthur May 15, 2024

May 15, 2024

Dear IP enthusiasts, Just over one month after the previous update, the SIPTA blog<https://sipta.org/blog/> has another new blogpost. You can learn more about Loïc Adam's doctoral research<https://sipta.org/blog/thesis-loic/> on learning preferences under severe uncertainty. Kind regards, Arthur Van Camp

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PhD Position at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the area of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
by Van Camp, Arthur May 8, 2024

May 8, 2024

PhD Position at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the area of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Deadline: 2 June 2024 The Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Group (https://uai.win.tue.nl) at Eindhoven University of Technology has an open position for a PhD student. The employment is full time for five years, with an intermediate evaluation (go/no-go) after nine months. The PhD research's more specific area is imprecise probability theory. The research focuses on bringing the theory of choice functions to applications. This project allows for doing fundamental research, with the aim of advancing the theory towards applications. The candidate should hold a master's degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field. Further details about this position, and a link to the application system, can be found at https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/phd-in-uncertainty-in-artificial-intelligenc…. Applications should be submitted by 2 June 2024 or earlier. For further information, please contact Arthur Van Camp (a.van.camp(a)tue.nl<mailto:a.van.camp@tue.nl>).

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Call for Contributions - WSCL @ ECAI 2024 Workshop
by Davide Elio Ciucci May 6, 2024

May 6, 2024

Call for Contributions Weakly Supervised and Cautious Learning (WSCL) Bridging machine learning and uncertainty management Workshop Information Co-located with the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain Dates: 19-20th October 2024 Website: https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/wscl2024/ In recent years, machine learning (ML) has been increasingly applied in a variety of settings, with promise to analyze huge and heterogeneous volumes of data, improve decisional accuracy, and ease human labor. These systems have been predominantly built based on the supervised learning paradigm, which relies on the availability of huge amounts of data, assumed to be reliably labeled by human experts. However, with this increasing interest has also come the realization that the real-world is often far from the idealized perfection assumed in the supervised paradigm: data can be missing or noisy; supervision can be costly to obtain or have veracity issues; human users could fail at appropriating technologies based on ML, due to the incapability of ML models at reliably conveying their uncertainty. As a result, recently, increasing interest has been devoted to the development of techniques capable of dealing with these issues. These include uncertainty quantification and cautious learning, where the ML models convey to the users their uncertainty to improve reliability and reduce cognitive biases; as well as weakly supervised learning and its variants, such as incomplete supervision, where only a subset of training data is labeled; imprecise supervision, where the training data is coarse-grained labeled; and inaccurate supervision, where the labels are not always true. At the same time, due to the inherently multidisciplinary nature of these issues, there has been an increasingly deepened dialogue between ML and neighboring scientific fields, such as knowledge and uncertainty representation, as well as human-computer interaction, crowd-sourcing and active learning. The aim of this workshop is to explore how machine learning and related methods can handle weak supervision and provide more cautious and reliable support in the presence of data imperfection, as well as encourage broad discussion between ML researchers and experts in neighboring related fields whose underlying principles and foundations are central to allow the functioning of systems built on ML in less than perfect real-world settings. Topics of Interest We invite all researchers in AI and neighboring disciplines interested in the interplay between Machine Learning and Uncertainty to submit their work to WSCL workshop, which will be held during 19-20 October 2024, as a satellite event to the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024). We welcome submissions on topics related to both weakly supervised learning and uncertainty quantification. More generally, the topics of interest include: ● Weakly supervised learning (including, learning from noisy data, multi-instance learning, learning from imprecise data, ...); ● Uncertainty quantification (including, probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning, conformal prediction, three-way decision, set-valued approaches, possibilistic and evidential machine learning, ...); ● Uncertainty management and non-standard theories of uncertainty (including, foundations of probability theory, rough sets, fuzzy sets and possibility theory, evidence theory and belief functions, imprecise probabilities and credal sets, ...); ● Conformal prediction and related methods (including, Venn prediction, online learning, compression models, algorithmic information theory); ● Human-AI interaction and uncertainty communication; ● Active learning; ● Crowd-sourcing and data perspectivism Submission Instructions We will welcome three types of submissions: ● full original papers (up to 7 pages); ● extended abstracts (up to 4 pages); ● already published work. Each accepted submission, irrespective of the type, will be assigned an oral presentation slot. Also, articles rejected at the main track of the ECAI 2024 conference, but relevant to the topics of interest of the workshop, may be transferred at the WSCL workshop based on the ECAI reviews. Contributions should be submitted through the chairingtool platform, available at the following link: https://chairingtool.com/conferences/WSCL24/MainTrack/ Original submissions (both full papers and extended abstracts) should be formatted according to the ECAI formatting instructions, using the ECAI 2024 template and formatting requirements specified by ECAI. The purpose of workshop presentations is to get early feedback on new ideas and to stimulate discussions between researchers interested in weakly supervised and cautious learning. As such, there will be no formal proceedings, but we may post accepted papers on the workshop website for the benefit of the workshop participants if the authors agree to this (and the paper has not already been published). Also, depending on the number of accepted contributions we may decide on organizing a special issue on a relevant scientific journal. Key Dates ● Submission deadline: 30th June 2024 ● Accept/Reject communications: 18th July 2024 ● Early registration deadline: 15th August 2024 ● Workshop date: 19-20th October 2024 Organizers ● Andrea Campagner, IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi Sant’Ambrogio (Milan, Italy), andrea.campagner(a)unimib.it <mailto:andrea.campagner@unimib.it> (primary contact person) ● Davide Ciucci, University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy), davide.ciucci(a)unimib.it <mailto:davide.ciucci@unimib.it> ● Sébastien Destercke, Heudyasic Laboratory, CNRS (Compiègne, France), sebastien.destercke(a)hds.utc.fr <mailto:sebastien.destercke@hds.utc.fr> ●Luciano Sànchez, University of Oviedo(Oviedo,Spain), luciano(a)uniovi.es <mailto:luciano@uniovi.es>

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CFP: 8th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2024), Belfast, UK, Sept 2-4, 2024
by Thierry Denoeux April 24, 2024

April 24, 2024

****** Call for Papers ****** https://bfasociety.org/Belief2024/ <https://antiphishing.vadesecure.com/v4?f=S1Zkd042VWdrZG5qQUxxWkcxtM9e_ll4Bo…> The 8th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2024) New Dates: September 2nd-4th, 2024 (updated) Location: Belfast, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK * April 30, 2024: Paper submission deadline (extended) * May 31, 2024: Author notification * June 30, 2024: Camera-ready copy due ================================================================ Keynote speakers: Professor Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Professor Prakash P. Shenoy, University of Kansas, United States Professor Frederic Pichon, Artois University, France ================================================================ Early Bird Registration Open Until: 22nd July 2024 Early Bird Registration: £325 (€380) Regular Registration: £375 (€440) Early Bird Student Registration: £225 (€265) Student Registration: £275 (€325) ================================================================ The theory of belief functions, also referred to as evidence theory or Dempster-Shafer theory, was first introduced by Arthur P. Dempster in the context of statistical inference, and was later developed by Glenn Shafer as a general framework for modeling epistemic uncertainty generalizing Bayesian probability theory. These early contributions have been the starting points of many important theoretical and practical developments. The theory of belief functions is now well established as a general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, and with applications in machine learning, statistical inference, information fusion, knowledge representation, risk analysis, etc. It has well understood connections with other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories. The biennial BELIEF conferences (sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society https://www.bfasociety.org/ <https://antiphishing.vadesecure.com/v4?f=S1Zkd042VWdrZG5qQUxxWkcxtM9e_ll4Bo…>) are dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory. Previous editions of this conference series were held in Brest, France (2010); in Compiègne, France (2012); in Oxford, UK (2014); in Prague, Czech Republic (2016); in Compiègne, France (2018); in Shanghai, China (2021); and in Paris, France (2022). The Eighth International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2024) will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, on September2nd-4th, 2024. To support cross-fertilization among researchers working in different subfields of AI and related disciplines, tutorials and special sessions will be proposed and dedicated to the links between machine learning and uncertain reasoning, including topics such as quantification of prediction uncertainty, fusion rules for ensemble learning, belief propagation over deep neural networks, links with explainable and symbolic AI, etc. Submissions of papers combining several of these topics, or more generally at the cross-road of belie functions and other AI methods or uncertainty theories, along with relevant applications, are welcome. =========== Proceedings =========== Proceedings of the previous editions of BELIEF have been published by Springer-Verlag as volumes of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series and indexed by: ISI Web of Science; EI Engineering Index; ACM Digital Library; dblp; Google Scholar; IO-Port; MathSciNet; Scopus; Zentralblatt MATH. The Springer-Verlag has confirmed that the BELIEF2024’s proceedings will be continually published in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI). ================== IJAR Special issue ================== Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2024 conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. ======================================= BELIEF 2024 Program Committee co-chairs ======================================= Dr Yaxin Bi (y.bi(a)ulster.ac.uk <mailto:y.bi@ulster.ac.uk>), Ulster University, UK Dr Anne-Laure Jousselme (anne-laure.jousselme(a)csgroup.eu <mailto:anne-laure.jousselme@csgroup.eu>), CS Group, France ---------- Prof. Thierry Denoeux Université de technologie de Compiègne Institut universitaire de France Rue Roger Couttolenc, CS 60319 60203 Compiègne cedex, France https://www.hds.utc.fr/~tdenoeux

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Next SIPTA virtual seminar: 30th April (3pm Paris time), Christoph Jansen on decision making applied to ML and stat
by sdesterc April 18, 2024

April 18, 2024

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce our upcoming SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP). These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion. They also provide an occasion for the community to meet, keep in touch and exchange between in-person events. The next seminar will take place on the 30th of April (Tuesday). The zoom link for this seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/85460316690 For this new seminar, we are very happy to have Christoph Jansen as our speaker. Christoph Jansen is currently a postdoctoral researcher and habilitation candidate at the Department of Statistics of LMU Munich, where he works on decision making in complex and weakly informed systems, with applications to machine learning and statistics. On the 30th of April, at 15:00 paris time (up to 17:00 CEST, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), he will talk about "Decision making under weakly structured information with applications to robust statistics and machine learning”. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars. The zoom link for attending the seminar can be found on that same page. So please mark your calendars on the 30th of April, and join us for the occasion. And for those who missed the previous seminars and want to catch up, or simply want to see them again and again, they are online at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXsgvF2_g5Ht-BYPWsSjcunA3SgNiuw51 See you at the seminar! Sébastien, Enrique and Jasper

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PhD @Idsia in Counterfactual Fairness and Causal Explainability
by Antonucci Alessandro April 17, 2024

April 17, 2024

Ph.D. Position @Idsia in the area of Counterfactual Fairness and Causal Explainability Deadline: April 29, 2024 The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA, idsia.ch) of Lugano (Switzerland) has an open position for a PhD student. This is a full-time (100%) position for a student active in the area of Counterfactual Fairness and Causal Explainability. The PhD research focuses on the fairness, explainability, and robustness of machine learning systems within the framework of causal counterfactual analysis using formalisms from probabilistic graphical models, probabilistic circuits, and structural causal models. The successful candidate holds a Master's degree in Engineering or another STEM field (obtained or close to being obtained). Experience with Pytorch and proficiency in Python are optional but desirable skills. The starting date is June 2024 (or as can be arranged by mutual agreement). For further information, please contact Alessandro Antonucci (alessandro(a)idsia.ch) and Alessandro Facchini (alessandro.facchini(a)idsia.ch) The link for the application is https://www.supsi.ch/en/bando2008. Applications should be submitted by April 29th, 2024.

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Two new posts on the SIPTA blog
by Alexander Erreygers April 12, 2024

April 12, 2024

Dear IP enthusiasts and sympathizers, Still looking for some weekend reading? The SIPTA blog<https://sipta.org/blog> has got you covered with not one but two new — or at least recently new — posts. You can learn more about Arianna Casanova’s doctoral research on rationality and desirability<https://sipta.org/blog/thesis-arianna/>, or eavesdrop on a conversation between Michele Caprio and Eyke Hüllermeier<https://sipta.org/blog/interview-eyke/> on Eyke's career, the challenges of using imprecise probabilities in the field of machine learning, and much more. Expect more blog posts like this in the near future! Kind regards, Alexander Erreygers SIPTA's Executive Editor PS: In the SIPTA Seminar on 30 April 2024, Christoph Jansen will be speaking about decision making under weakly-structured information; read the abstract of his talk here<http://localhost:1313/events/sipta-seminars/>.

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Call for Contributions - WSCL @ ECAI 2024 Workshop
by Andrea Campagner April 10, 2024

April 10, 2024

(Apologies for multiple postings) Call for Contributions Weakly Supervised and Cautious Learning (WSCL) Bridging machine learning and uncertainty management Workshop Information Co-located with the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain Dates: 19-20th October 2024 Website: https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/wscl2024/ In recent years, machine learning (ML) has been increasingly applied in a variety of settings, with promise to analyze huge and heterogeneous volumes of data, improve decisional accuracy, and ease human labor. These systems have been predominantly built based on the supervised learning paradigm, which relies on the availability of huge amounts of data, assumed to be reliably labeled by human experts. However, with this increasing interest has also come the realization that the real-world is often far from the idealized perfection assumed in the supervised paradigm: data can be missing or noisy; supervision can be costly to obtain or have veracity issues; human users could fail at appropriating technologies based on ML, due to the incapability of ML models at reliably conveying their uncertainty. As a result, recently, increasing interest has been devoted to the development of techniques capable of dealing with these issues. These include uncertainty quantification and cautious learning, where the ML models convey to the users their uncertainty to improve reliability and reduce cognitive biases; as well as weakly supervised learning and its variants, such as incomplete supervision, where only a subset of training data is labeled; imprecise supervision, where the training data is coarse-grained labeled; and inaccurate supervision, where the labels are not always true. At the same time, due to the inherently multidisciplinary nature of these issues, there has been an increasingly deepened dialogue between ML and neighboring scientific fields, such as knowledge and uncertainty representation, as well as human-computer interaction, crowd-sourcing and active learning. The aim of this workshop is to explore how machine learning and related methods can handle weak supervision and provide more cautious and reliable support in the presence of data imperfection, as well as encourage broad discussion between ML researchers and experts in neighboring related fields whose underlying principles and foundations are central to allow the functioning of systems built on ML in less than perfect real-world settings. Topics of Interest We invite all researchers in AI and neighboring disciplines interested in the interplay between Machine Learning and Uncertainty to submit their work to WSCL workshop, which will be held during 19-20 October 2024, as a satellite event to the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024). We welcome submissions on topics related to both weakly supervised learning and uncertainty quantification. More generally, the topics of interest include: ● Weakly supervised learning (including, learning from noisy data, multi-instance learning, learning from imprecise data, ...); ● Uncertainty quantification (including, probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning, conformal prediction, three-way decision, set-valued approaches, possibilistic and evidential machine learning, ...); ● Uncertainty management and non-standard theories of uncertainty (including, foundations of probability theory, rough sets, fuzzy sets and possibility theory, evidence theory and belief functions, imprecise probabilities and credal sets, ...); ● Conformal prediction and related methods (including, Venn prediction, online learning, compression models, algorithmic information theory); ● Human-AI interaction and uncertainty communication; ● Active learning; ● Crowd-sourcing and data perspectivism Submission Instructions We will welcome three types of submissions: ● full original papers (up to 7 pages); ● extended abstracts (up to 4 pages); ● already published work. Each accepted submission, irrespective of the type, will be assigned an oral presentation slot. Also, articles rejected at the main track of the ECAI 2024 conference, but relevant to the topics of interest of the workshop, may be transferred at the WSCL workshop based on the ECAI reviews. Contributions should be submitted through the chairingtool platform, available at the following link: https://chairingtool.com/conferences/WSCL24/MainTrack/ Original submissions (both full papers and extended abstracts) should be formatted according to the ECAI formatting instructions, using the ECAI 2024 template and formatting requirements specified by ECAI. The purpose of workshop presentations is to get early feedback on new ideas and to stimulate discussions between researchers interested in weakly supervised and cautious learning. As such, there will be no formal proceedings, but we may post accepted papers on the workshop website for the benefit of the workshop participants if the authors agree to this (and the paper has not already been published). Also, depending on the number of accepted contributions we may decide on organizing a special issue on a relevant scientific journal. Key Dates ● Submission deadline: 30th June 2024 ● Accept/Reject communications: 18th July 2024 ● Early registration deadline: 15th August 2024 ● Workshop date: 19-20th October 2024 Organizers ● Andrea Campagner, IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi Sant’Ambrogio (Milan, Italy), andrea.campagner(a)unimib.it (primary contact person) ● Davide Ciucci, University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy), davide.ciucci(a)unimib.it ● Sébastien Destercke, Heudyasic Laboratory, CNRS (Compiègne, France), sebastien.destercke(a)hds.utc.fr ●Luciano Sànchez, University of Oviedo(Oviedo,Spain), luciano(a)uniovi.es

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Call for New Elsevier Textbooks - Probability and Statistics 1e
by Cohen, Stephanie (ELS-HBE) April 4, 2024

April 4, 2024

Dear Executive Editor at SIPTA, I hope this email finds you well this April. My name is Stephanie Cohen, and I'm the Acquisitions Editor for Physical Sciences at Elsevier's STEM Education Textbook program, based in New York, NY. I was hoping to send out a call to your list-serv for individuals who would be interested in authoring a new textbook. Recently, I've been researching and gathering faculty feedback on a range of related courses in Statistics & Probability, so that I can better understand student and professor needs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as current resources. We have identified Probability & Statistics as an area where a new, carefully considered textbook may be empowering both for students and faculty, both here in the U.S. and globally. Currently a smattering of different textbooks appear to be in use. Currently, I am seeking potential author(s) for a title in this vein, as well as further feedback or suggestions, and would be very open to any thoughts you may have, or your own in involvement in authoring a textbook. There is certainly room for adjustments or textbook topics other than the proposed one above for a new textbook-happy to discuss! Thank you. I would be glad to share more information about our book development processes as well, or have a call to answer any questions anyone might have. All my best, Stephanie Cohen Stephanie Cohen Acquisitions Editor, Physical Science Textbooks ELSEVIER | Global Content Partners St.cohen(a)elsevier.com<mailto:St.cohen@elsevier.com>

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