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[SIPTA] special issue on decision making at IJAR
by ENRIQUE MIRANDA MENENDEZ 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

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[SIPTA] FW: CfP of special issue of ISPRS IJGI - Artificial Intelligence for Multisource Geospatial Information
by Kreinovich 22 Oct '19

22 Oct '19

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2020: early registration October 27
by IRDTA 22 Oct '19

22 Oct '19

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Re: [SIPTA] Special sessions and mini-symposium for ICOSSAR 2021
by Kreinovich 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

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[SIPTA] FW: AMCTM 2020 First Announcement
by Kreinovich 18 Oct '19

18 Oct '19

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Re: [SIPTA] mark your calendars 10th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS’2020),
by Kreinovich 17 Oct '19

17 Oct '19

Dear Friends, This series of conferences welcomes papers on interval-valued, fuzzy-valued, and imprecise probabilities and their applications. Please mark your calendars -----Original Message----- From: SMPS2020 <smps2020(a)uva.es> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:40 AM It is a sincere pleasure to contact you through this email regarding the preparations of the 10th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS’2020), to be held in Valladolid (Spain), September 16th to 18th, 2020. Since we are preparing the 1st Call for Papers. -- Luis A. García-Escudero Alfonso Gordaliza Agustín Mayo-Íscar Universidad de Valladolid (IMUVa), Spain General Chairs SMPS2010

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[SIPTA] LATA 2020: extended submission deadline October 26
by IRDTA 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

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[SIPTA] [CALL FOR PAPERS] Uncertain Reasoning @ Flairs 33
by Alessandro Antonucci 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at Flairs 33 - Call for Papers *** Apologies for multiple postings *** [UR @ FLAIRS 33] CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the 33rd Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-33) May 17-20, 2020 - North Miami Beach, Florida (US) Paper submission deadline: November 18, 2019 Conference website: http://www.flairs-33.info Track website: http://idsia.ch/~alessandro/flairs ::: Call for Papers ::: Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote cross fertilisation among the different approaches for uncertain reasoning, and in turn foster the development of new ideas and paradigms. The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR'20 Special Track at the 33rd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-33) is the 25th in the series. As in the past years, UR'20 track seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies - Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief functions, vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics - Modelling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities - Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning - Inference and learning with graphical models of uncertainty (e.g., Bayesian networks) - Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making - Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision processes - Temporal reasoning and uncertainty, non-monotonic reasoning, similarity-based reasoning - Conditional logics, description logic, logic programming - Argumentation - Belief change and merging - Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery - Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment - Uncertain reasoning in data management - Practical applications of uncertain reasoning (e.g., machine learning, computer vision and animation) ::: Program Committee ::: : Track Chairs : - Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) - Kamal Premaratne (University of Miami, US) : PC Members : - Mohand Said Allili (Universit√© du Qu√©bec en Outaouais, Canada) - Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) - Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada) - Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada) - Martine Ceberio (University of Texas at El Paso, US) - Sebastien Destercke (University of Technology of Compiegne, France) - Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) - Christophe Gonzalez (University of Paris 6, France) - Ilyes Jenhani (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia) - Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technical University of Dortmund, Germany) - Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, US) - Philippe Leray (University of Nantes, France) - Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, US) - Rafael Peñaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) - Lalintha G. Polpitiya (MathWorks, US) - Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, US) - Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) - Karima Sedki (University of Paris 13, France) - Gunasekaran Seetharaman (Navy Research Laboratory, US) - Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) - Karim Tabia (Artois University, France) - Choh Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, US) - Barbara Vantaggi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) - Thanuka Wickramarathne (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, US) ::: Other Information ::: FLAIRS 33 will be held in North Miami Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found at http://www.flairs-33.info. Feel free to contact the organizers (alessandro(a)idsia.ch, kamal(a)miami.edu, benferhat(a)cril.fr) for any further information about the UR’20 special track. ::: Submission ::: Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (in that they should not have been submitted and in review or in the process of being submitted for another conference/journal). FLAIRS-33 accepts two types of submissions: full paper (up to 6 pages) to be presented by the author in a 20 minute oral presentation; and short paper (up to 4 pages) to be presented in a poster session. The submission deadline for both types of submissions is November 18, 2019. The 2020 FLAIRS-33 will employ a double-blind review process. Therefore, the author names and affiliations, and other identifying information, must be omitted when submitting papers for review. The papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF files through the EasyChair conference system, which can also be accessed through the FLAIRS-33 main conference web site. Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS-33 will be published by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers presented within the track. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-33.

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[SIPTA] FW: Call for Abstracts: Minisymposium at the joint 14th World Congress in Computational Mechanics and ECCOMAS Congress 2020 (WCCM-ECCOMAS 2020)
by Kreinovich 10 Oct '19

10 Oct '19

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[SIPTA] AlCoB 2020: 1st call for papers
by IRDTA 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

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[SIPTA] LATA 2020: 3rd call for papers
by IRDTA 05 Oct '19

05 Oct '19

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2019: call for participation
by IRDTA 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

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[SIPTA] Brett Houlding
by Alessandro Antonucci 25 Sep '19

25 Sep '19

Forwarding a message from Frank Coolen, remembering our colleague Brett Houlding. ===================================== Dear friends, I would like to make the community aware of the sudden and untimely passing away of Brett Houlding on 14 September. Brett completed the MMATH degree at Durham in 2004 and then studied for PhD, it was my pleasure to supervise him. He completed his PhD in 2008 with a thesis entitled 'Sequential decision making with adaptive utility'. Brett made some contributions to imprecision, but in my view his main achievements are in decision theory. His thesis sets out foundations, theory and methods for sequential Bayesian decision theory where one also learns about ones utilities throughout the process. This aspect of decision theory has received surprisingly little attention, although it is relevant in many scenarios, e.g. should one visit a new restaurant, how serious are possible effects of system failure, what are side effects of new medication? In his thesis, Brett provided the starting points of a nice and powerful theory, with many research challenges remaining. After completing his PhD, Brett moved to Trinity College Dublin, first as PostDoc researcher and followed by an Assistant Professorship. This was in years of economic downturn in Ireland, with universities strongly affected. With only few colleagues Brett managed to keep an excellent undergraduate programme running, and he also supervised three students to PhD: Donnacha Bolger ('Reliability updating in linear opinion pooling with multiple decision makers', 2016), Shuaiwei Zhou ('Bayesian modelling and analysis of utility-based maintenance for repairable systems', 2017) and Angela McCourt ('Modelling uncertainty and vagueness within recommender systems via nonparametric predictive inference', 2019). He also collaborated successfully on applied statistics projects with external collaborators, which led to a range of high impact publications, in particular in the field of species richness assessment. About a year ago, Brett moved to an Associate Professor position at University College Cork, also in Ireland, where he looked forward to more research opportunities and a happy family life. I am happy to have known Brett, he was a hard-working, intelligent and nice person who will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Frank Coolen =====================================

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2020: early registration October 2
by IRDTA 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

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[SIPTA] FW: two faculty positions at University of Texas at El Paso
by Kreinovich 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2019: call for posters
by IRDTA 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

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[SIPTA] LATA 2020: 2nd call for papers
by IRDTA 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

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[SIPTA] Call for papers FSTA 2020
by Serena Doria 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

FSTA 2020 http://fsta.sk/ The aim of the conference is to bring together theoreticians and practitioners working on fuzzy logic, fuzzy systems, soft computing and related areas. It will provide a platform for the exchange of ideas among scientists, engineers and students. The topics addressed by the Conference cover all aspects of fuzzy logic and soft computing, namely: ? Approximate reasoning ? Clustering and classification ? Cognitive modeling ? Intelligent data analysis and data-mining ? Data aggregation and fusion ? Database management and querying ? Theory and applications of decision-making ? Forecasting and time series modeling ? Fuzzy control ? Theoretical foundations of fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory ? Imprecise probabilities and fuzzy methods in statistics ? Image processing and computer vision ? Information retrieval ? Knowledge representation and knowledge engineering ? Linguistic modelling ? Machine learning ? Natural language processing, generation and understanding ? Neuro-fuzzy systems ? Stochastic and fuzzy optimization ? Possibility theory and applications ? Rough sets theory ? Semantic web ? Uncertainty modeling

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[SIPTA] FW: ESREL 2020 PSAM 15: Abstract Submission is Open
by Kreinovich 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2020: early registration September 7
by IRDTA 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2019: call for posters
by IRDTA 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

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[SIPTA] mark your calendars
by Kreinovich 22 Aug '19

22 Aug '19

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[SIPTA] Information Fusion society, journal, and conferences
by Kreinovich 21 Aug '19

21 Aug '19

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2019: call for posters
by IRDTA 13 Aug '19

13 Aug '19

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[SIPTA] FW: Reliable Engineering Computing (REC2020), May 17-20, 2020, Taormina, Italy-Call for abstracts
by Kreinovich 12 Aug '19

12 Aug '19

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2020: early registration August 13
by IRDTA 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2019: call for posters
by IRDTA 10 Jul '19

10 Jul '19

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Re: [SIPTA] AMCTM 2020 - Preliminary Announcement
by Kreinovich 04 Jul '19

04 Jul '19

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Re: [SIPTA] SSCI2019 submission deadline extended to August 1
by Kreinovich 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

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[SIPTA] Fw: 5th School on Belief Functions and their Applications, Siena, Italy, October 27-31, 2019 (2nd announcement)
by Kreinovich 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

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[SIPTA] 5th School on Belief Functions and their Applications, Siena, Italy, October 27-31, 2019 (2nd announcement)
by Thierry Denoeux 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2019: 3rd call for papers
by IRDTA 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

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[SIPTA] Fwd: Calls - Bayes by the Sea
by Serena Doria 26 Jun '19

26 Jun '19

*Call for Papers: Bayes By the Sea: “Formal Epistemology, Statistics, and Game Theory”, Ancona, The Marche –Italy, 30-31 August 2019. * Recent proposals for scientific reform highlight the need to develop an integrated approach towards scientific methodology, which accounts for the interaction of foundational, pragmatic, and strategic dimensions of evidence evaluation. The second edition of the Bayes By the Sea conference: “Formal Epistemology, Statistics, and Game Theory” aims to bring together philosophers of statistics and of the scientific method, methodologists and metascientists, as well as economists and game-theorists, in order to refresh the debate on the foundations of the sciences from new perspectives, with a special focus on scientific rationality, scientific misconduct, science economics, foundations of statistics and the scientific method, in diverse scientific ecosystems characterized by distinctive practices, structures, and institutions. A special attention will be devoted this year also to formal/conceptual tools of game theory/rational choice theory in representing and studying the interactions of agents operating in scientific ecosystems as strategic behavior of rational players, whose repeated interactions shape the current scientific practices. *Keynote Speakers:* *Peter Brössel (Bochum)* *Clelia Di Serio (Milan)* *Andrés Pereas (Maastricht)* *Jan Sprenger (Turin)* We welcome contributions from:* (Formal/Social) Epistemology, Philosophy and Foundations of Statistics, Metascience and Scientific Methodology, (Epistemic) Game Theory, Decision Theory, Science Economics, Law, and Ethics.* *Deadline for Paper/Poster Submission: 2nd July 2019.* Please submit a short abstract (max 500 words) via Easychair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bbs2>. Organisers: Stefano Bonzio (Univpm Ancona) William Peden (Univpm Ancona; Durham) Barbara Osimani (Univpm Ancona; LMU) Mantas Radzvilas (MCMP/LMU Munich) Todd Stambaugh (MCMP/LMU Munich; CUNY) Contact: *s.oreficini(a)staff.univpm.it <s.oreficini(a)staff.univpm.it>* The conference will be embedded in the *BBS Summer School (25 August – 1st September)* and school participants will also actively attend to the conference. We greatly enjoyed our conference last year (*2018 Edition*) and we look forward to a similar success this year! *Summer School: Bayes By the Sea: “Formal Epistemology, Statistics, and Game Theory: The Summer School!”, Ancona, The Marche –Italy, 25 August -1 September 2019. * The School aims to bring together international experts in such fields as philosophy of statistics, philosophy of science, game theory and social epistemology in order to address foundational questions in the sciences from new perspectives, with a special focus on formal models of social interactions and scientific inference. In particular, students will attend to both theoretical lectures held by distinguished scholars in the fields and classes offering tutorials on formal methods and tools, as well as extensive overviews on the school related topics. Each of the school threads will be covered by interactive group work, excercises and one-to-one sessions, which will provide attendees with the opportunity to deepen their proficiency in a particular topic of interest. In-depth *lectures* will be given on: *Bayesian Philosophy of Science, Foundations of Statistics, Bayesian Statistics, Social Epistemology, Epistemic Game Theory, and Game-Theoretic Probability.* *Lecturers:* *Peter Brössel (Bochum)* *Philip Dawid (Cambridge)* *Anna-Maria Asunta Eder (Cologne)* *Stephan Hartmann (Munich)* *Andrés Perea (Maastricht)* *Jan Sprenger (Turin)* Three distinct tutorials will be given by expert scholars, in order to offer students introductory overviews and hands-on classes on the topics, which they feel less familiar. - *Introduction to Imprecise Probability* (Serena Doria) - *Introduction to Bayesian Epistemology* (William Peden) - *Introduction to Game Theory* (Mantas Radzvilas) - *R for Bayesian Statistics* (Momme von Sydow). Tuition Fees (100 Euros) will include breakfast and lunch breaks, social activities, as well as participation to the *Bayes By the Sea Conference* (30-31 August), to which Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract for a contributing paper/poster. *Deadline for application: 2nd of July 2019*, APPLY HERE <https://www.bayesbytheseaschool.com/application> A rich calendar of *social activities* will complement the fun! Organisers: Stefano Bonzio (Univpm Ancona) William Peden (Univpm Ancona; Durham) Barbara Osimani (Univpm Ancona; LMU) Mantas Radzvilas (MCMP/LMU Munich) Todd Stambaugh (MCMP/LMU Munich; CUNY) Contact: *s.oreficini(a)staff.univpm.it <s.oreficini(a)staff.univpm.it>* ----- Fine messaggio inoltrato. -----

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[SIPTA] DeepLearn 2019: regular registration July 19
by IRDTA 26 Jun '19

26 Jun '19

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Re: [SIPTA] The 4th international conference on Intelligent Decision Science (IDS-2020)
by Kreinovich 24 Jun '19

24 Jun '19

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[SIPTA] Fw: SUM 2019 -- Last Call for Papers!
by Kreinovich 22 Jun '19

22 Jun '19

FYI ________________________________________ From: Martin THEOBALD <martin.theobald(a)uni.lu> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2019 3:44 AM SUM 2019: the 13th international conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The thirteenth international conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2019) will be held in Compiègne (France), on December 16-18, 2019. The SUM conferences are annual events which gather researchers interested in dealing with imperfect information, in a wide range of fields such as artificial intelligence, databases, information retrieval, machine learning, and risk analysis, with the aim of fostering collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas from different communities. An originality of the SUM conferences is the care for dedicating a large part of their programs to tutorials covering a wide range of topics related to uncertainty management. Each tutorial provides a 45-minute survey of one of the research areas in the scope of the conference. Topics of interest: The scope of the conference covers a wide range of topics related to the management of large amounts of information, in particular information of a complex kind, uncertain, incomplete, or inconsistent. 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 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 - 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 - 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 * Risk analysis * - Aleatory vs. epistemic uncertainty - Uncertainty elicitation methods - Uncertainty propagation methods - Decision analysis methods - Tools for synthesizing results Invited keynotes: -Cassio P. de Campos (Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands): "Scalable reliable machine learning using sum-product networks" - Jérôme Lang (Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France): "Computational social choice (provisional title)" - Wolfgang Gatterbauer (Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA): "Algebraic approximations of the Probability of Boolean Functions (provisional title)" Important dates: - June 30th, 2019: submission deadline - Sept. 8th, 2019: notification of acceptance - Sept. 22nd, 2019: camera-ready copies - Dec. 16-18, 2019: conference Submission guidelines and proceedings: SUM 2019 solicits papers in the following three categories: - Long papers: technical papers reporting original research or survey papers - Short papers: papers reporting promising work-in-progress, system descriptions, position papers on controversial issues, or survey papers providing a synthesis of current research trends - Extended abstracts of recently published work in a relevant journal or top-tier conference Regular research papers should be at most 14 pages (including references, figures, and tables). Short papers should be between 4 and 7 pages. Extended abstracts should be at most 2 pages and must reference the originally published work. Accepted long and short papers 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 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). All submissions will be processed using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sum2019 Submissions must be formatted according to Springer's guidelines for LNCS authors, which can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Papers not respecting the formatting instructions or page limits may be rejected without review. Except for extended abstracts, submissions must be unpublished and must not be under submission elsewhere. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Organization committee: Yonatan Carlos Carranza Alarcon, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Sébastien Destercke, CNRS, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Marie-Hélène Masson, Université de Picardie Jules-Verne, France Benjamin Quost, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France (conference chair) David Savourey, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Program committee chairs: Nahla Ben Amor, Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis, Tunisia Martin Theobald, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Steering committee: Didier Dubois, IRIT-CNRS, France Lluis Godo, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Eyke Hüllermeier, Universität Paderborn, Germany Anthony Hunter, University College London, UK Henri Prade, IRIT-CNRS, France Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University, UK V. S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA

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[SIPTA] Fw: The 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Xiamen, Dec. 6-9, 2019
by Kreinovich 22 Jun '19

22 Jun '19

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2019: call for posters
by IRDTA 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

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Re: [SIPTA] REC2020
by Kreinovich 08 Jun '19

08 Jun '19

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[SIPTA] DeepLearn 2019: early registration June 22
by IRDTA 04 Jun '19

04 Jun '19

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Re: [SIPTA] Extention of deadline submission of AICI 2020 !
by Kreinovich 01 Jun '19

01 Jun '19

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2019: extended submission deadline June 8
by IRDTA 30 May '19

30 May '19

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2019: 3rd call for papers
by IRDTA 22 May '19

22 May '19

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[SIPTA] AICI 2020, Vietnam-based conference on AI and soft computing
by Kreinovich 18 May '19

18 May '19

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2019: 1st call for papers
by IRDTA 17 May '19

17 May '19

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Re: [SIPTA] SUM 2019 - Call for Papers
by Kreinovich 13 May '19

13 May '19

FYI, imprecise probabilities are one of the highlighted topics -----Original Message----- From: Martin THEOBALD Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 5:51 AM SUM 2019: the 13th international conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The thirteenth international conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2019) will be held in Compiègne (France), on December 16-18, 2019. The SUM conferences are annual events which gather researchers interested in dealing with imperfect information, in a wide range of fields such as artificial intelligence, databases, information retrieval, machine learning, and risk analysis, with the aim of fostering collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas from different communities. An originality of the SUM conferences is the care for dedicating a large part of their programs to tutorials covering a wide range of topics related to uncertainty management. Each tutorial provides a 45-minute survey of one of the research areas in the scope of the conference. Topics of interest: The scope of the conference covers a wide range of topics related to the management of large amounts of information, in particular information of a complex kind, uncertain, incomplete, or inconsistent. 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 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 - 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 - 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 = Risk analysis * Aleatory vs. epistemic uncertainty * - Uncertainty elicitation methods - Uncertainty propagation methods - Decision analysis methods - Tools for synthesizing results Invited keynotes: -Cassio P. de Campos (Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands): "Scalable reliable machine learning using sum-product networks" - Jérôme Lang (Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France): "Computational social choice (provisional title)" - Wolfgang Gatterbauer (Northeastern Polytechnical University, Boston, MA, USA): "Algebraic approximations of the Probability of Boolean Functions (provisional title)" Important dates: - June 15th, 2019: submission deadline - Sept. 1st, 2019: notification of acceptance - Sept. 15th, 2019: camera-ready copies - Dec. 16-18, 2019: conference Submission guidelines and proceedings: SUM 2019 solicits papers in the following three categories: - Long papers: technical papers reporting original research or survey papers - Short papers: 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 of recently published work in a relevant journal or top-tier conference Regular research papers should be at most 14 pages (including references, figures, and tables). Short papers should be between 4 and 7 pages. Extended abstracts should be at most 2 pages and should reference the originally published work. Accepted long and short papers 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 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). All submissions will be processed using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sum2019 Submissions must be formatted according to Springer's guidelines for LNCS authors, which can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Papers not respecting the formatting instructions or page limits may be rejected without review. Except for extended abstracts, submissions must be unpublished and must not be under submission elsewhere. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Organization committee: Yonatan Carlos Carranza Alarcon, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Sébastien Destercke, CNRS, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Marie-Hélène Masson, Université de Picardie Jules-Verne, France Benjamin Quost, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France (conference chair) David Savourey, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Program committee chairs: Nahla Ben Amor, Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis, Tunisia Martin Theobald, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Steering committee: Didier Dubois, IRIT-CNRS, France Lluis Godo, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Eyke Hüllermeier, Universität Paderborn, Germany Anthony Hunter, University College London, UK Henri Prade, IRIT-CNRS, France Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University, UK V. S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA

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[SIPTA] AlCoB 2019: call for participation
by IRDTA 07 May '19

07 May '19

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[SIPTA] 5th School on Belief Functions and their Applications, Siena, Italy, October 27-31, 2019
by Thierry Denoeux 02 May '19

02 May '19

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2019: 3rd call for papers
by IRDTA 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

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[SIPTA] ISIPTA 2019: call for posters
by Jasper De Bock 28 Apr '19

28 Apr '19

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