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[SIPTA] FW: sad news

by Kreinovich

Dec. 26, 2019

[SIPTA] FW: ICAFS 2020

by Kreinovich

Dec. 24, 2019

[SIPTA] IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2020 initial CFP

by Cristina Rottondi

Dec. 23, 2019

[SIPTA] AlCoB 2020: call for posters

by IRDTA

Dec. 22, 2019

[SIPTA] FW: Call For Papers: 10th International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE 2020)

by Kreinovich

Dec. 18, 2019

[SIPTA] DeepLearn 2020: early registration December 27

by IRDTA

Dec. 15, 2019

[SIPTA] BigDat 2020: early registration December 16

by IRDTA

Dec. 11, 2019

[SIPTA] AlCoB 2020: extended submission deadline December 9

by IRDTA

Dec. 5, 2019

[SIPTA] BigDat 2020: early registration December 16

by IRDTA

Dec. 2, 2019

Re: [SIPTA] IEEE WCCI 2020 Glasgow, Scotland - Proposals are due in ~2 weeks!!

by Kreinovich

Nov. 30, 2019

[SIPTA] Research Fellow in AI for Autonomous Driving @ Oxford Brookes

by Fabio Cuzzolin

Nov. 29, 2019

[SIPTA] AlCoB 2020: extended submission deadline December 9

by IRDTA

Nov. 28, 2019

[SIPTA] Research Fellow in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Machine Theory of Mind @ Oxford Brookes

by Fabio Cuzzolin

Nov. 26, 2019

[SIPTA] AlCoB 2020: 3rd call for papers

by IRDTA

Nov. 23, 2019

[SIPTA] FW: SMPS 2020-FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

by Kreinovich

Nov. 20, 2019

Re: [SIPTA] IPMU2020 - Call for Special Session and Papers

by Kreinovich

Nov. 20, 2019

[SIPTA] BigDat 2020: early registration November 21

by IRDTA

Nov. 17, 2019

[SIPTA] call for contributions: special session on imprecise probabilities at IPMU'2020

by ENRIQUE MIRANDA MENENDEZ

Call for papers Special Session on "THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ASPECTS OF IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES" to be held at the 18th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2020) https://ipmu2020.inesc-id.pt/ Lisboa (Portugal), June 15-19, 2020 Session topic and goal This session is devoted to Imprecise Probability Theory. This theory involves all the mathematical models that can be used as more flexible tools than usual Probability Theory when the available information is scarce, vague or incomplete. It includes lower previsions, n-monotone capacities, belief functions, possibility measures, or non-additive measures, among others. This special session aims to include papers related to Imprecise Probabilities that either present a significant advance in the foundations or show potential applications in real problems. In addition, papers where the connection between imprecise probability theories and other fields such as fuzzy sets or game theory is emphasized are also welcome. Theoretical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * (coherent) uncertainty models * non-additive set-functions * qualitative reasoning about uncertainty * limit laws for imprecise probabilities * philosophical foundations * elicitation and inference * robust statistics * decision making * algorithmic issues Applications include (but are not limited to): * data mining * classification and machine learning * risk and reliability analysis * finance * life sciences * system control and design Dates Paper submission: January 31, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: March 8, 2020 Conference: June 15-19, 2020 The Easychair submission site will offer one track for this special session, so please make sure that you select it when submitting your contribution. Organizers We would be obliged if you would let us know in case you intend to submit a paper to this session, at your earliest convenience. Any questions or remarks can be addressed to: Enrique Miranda (mirandaenrique(a)uniovi.es), University of Oviedo (Spain) Ignacio Montes (imontes(a)uniovi.es), University of Oviedo (Spain)

Nov. 11, 2019

Re: [SIPTA] Call for Special Session Proposals: IPMU'2020 - extended deadline

by Kreinovich

Nov. 9, 2019

[SIPTA] special issue of IJUFKS on Uncertainty in Economics and Finance

by Kreinovich

Nov. 9, 2019

[SIPTA] TPNC 2019: call for participation

by IRDTA

Nov. 6, 2019

[SIPTA] Assistant director of the Ethical AI Institute @ Oxford Brookes

by Fabio Cuzzolin

Nov. 1, 2019

[SIPTA] Vacancy at TU Eindhoven

by Polpo de Campos

Dear all, I write to ad an opening for Assistant Professor here at TU Eindhoven. Note that (for the time being) it only applies to (self-declared) female candidates. If a good candidate does not fall in such category but is nevertheless interested, it would be useful to know. https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/assistant-professor-in-artificial-intelligen… best, cassio. -- Cassio de Campos c.decampos(a)acm.org http://member.acm.org/~cassiopc (Please use de Campos as my surname and not Polpo.)

Oct. 31, 2019

[SIPTA] TPNC 2019: call for posters

by IRDTA

Oct. 29, 2019

[SIPTA] special issue on decision making at IJAR

by ENRIQUE MIRANDA MENENDEZ

Oct. 28, 2019

[SIPTA] FW: CfP of special issue of ISPRS IJGI - Artificial Intelligence for Multisource Geospatial Information

by Kreinovich

Oct. 22, 2019

[SIPTA] BigDat 2020: early registration October 27

by IRDTA

Oct. 22, 2019

Re: [SIPTA] Special sessions and mini-symposium for ICOSSAR 2021

by Kreinovich

Oct. 21, 2019

[SIPTA] FW: AMCTM 2020 First Announcement

by Kreinovich

Oct. 18, 2019

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

by Kreinovich

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

Oct. 17, 2019

[SIPTA] LATA 2020: extended submission deadline October 26

by IRDTA

Oct. 15, 2019

[SIPTA] [CALL FOR PAPERS] Uncertain Reasoning @ Flairs 33

by Alessandro Antonucci

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.

Oct. 14, 2019

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

by Kreinovich

Oct. 10, 2019

[SIPTA] AlCoB 2020: 1st call for papers

by IRDTA

Oct. 9, 2019

[SIPTA] LATA 2020: 3rd call for papers

by IRDTA

Oct. 5, 2019

[SIPTA] SLSP 2019: call for participation

by IRDTA

Oct. 3, 2019

Re: [SIPTA] Brett Houlding

by Alessio Benavoli

Sept. 25, 2019

Re: [SIPTA] Brett Houlding

by Polpo de Campos

I have had the chance to meet Brett a couple of times, including for the anniversary of the Department of Statistics in Dublin. A very nice person. These are sad news. Regards, cassio. ________________________________________ From: SIPTA [sipta-bounces(a)mailman2.ti-edu.ch] on behalf of Alessandro Antonucci [alessandro(a)idsia.ch] Sent: 23 September 2019 17:04 To: sipta(a)idsia.ch Subject: [SIPTA] Brett Houlding 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 ===================================== _______________________________________________ SIPTA mailing list SIPTA(a)mailman2.ti-edu.ch https://mailman2.ti-edu.ch/mailman/listinfo/sipta

Sept. 24, 2019

[SIPTA] BigDat 2020: early registration October 2

by IRDTA

Sept. 24, 2019

[SIPTA] Brett Houlding

by Alessandro Antonucci

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 =====================================

Sept. 23, 2019

[SIPTA] FW: two faculty positions at University of Texas at El Paso

by Kreinovich

Sept. 22, 2019

[SIPTA] TPNC 2019: call for posters

by IRDTA

Sept. 17, 2019

[SIPTA] LATA 2020: 2nd call for papers

by IRDTA

Sept. 10, 2019

[SIPTA] Call for papers FSTA 2020

by Serena Doria

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

Sept. 4, 2019

[SIPTA] FW: ESREL 2020 PSAM 15: Abstract Submission is Open

by Kreinovich

Sept. 3, 2019

[SIPTA] BigDat 2020: early registration September 7

by IRDTA

Sept. 3, 2019

[SIPTA] SLSP 2019: call for posters

by IRDTA

Aug. 27, 2019

[SIPTA] mark your calendars

by Kreinovich

Aug. 22, 2019

[SIPTA] Information Fusion society, journal, and conferences

by Kreinovich

Aug. 21, 2019

[SIPTA] TPNC 2019: call for posters

by IRDTA

Aug. 13, 2019