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[SIPTA] Appropriate forum for IP questions?
by Abrams 07 Apr '17

07 Apr '17

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[SIPTA] Fw: SUM 2017 Deadline Extension -- Scalable Uncertainty Management
by Kreinovich 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

FYI ________________________________________ From: Serafin Moral <smc(a)decsai.ugr.es> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 5:33 AM To: uai(a)engr.orst.edu Subject: [UAI] SUM 2017 Deadline Extension -- Scalable Uncertainty Management Deadline for submissions has been extended to April 17 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2017) Call for papers For updated information, please visit the conference web page at: http://idbis.ugr.es/sum2017/ The 11th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) will be held in Granada, Spain on October 4-6, 2017. The conference will bring together researchers who are working with imperfect information in fields such as artificial intelligence, databases, data mining, information retrieval, and risk analysis with the aim of fostering collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas from different communities. An originality of SUM is that it gives a large space to tutorials about a large 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 ******************** We solicit papers on the management of large amounts or 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 2017 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 Accepted long and short papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 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). Regular research papers should be at most 14 pages (including references, figures and tables). Short papers should be at most 7 pages. Extended abstracts should be at most 2 pages and should reference the originally published work. Submissions must be formatted according to Springer's guidelines for LNCS authors, which can be found athttp://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair. Papers not respecting the formatting instructions or page limits may be rejected without review. With the exception of 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. **************** IMPORTANT DATES **************** - Extended deadline for submissions: April 17, 2017 - Notification: May 22, 2017 - Camera-ready copies: June 12, 2017 - Conference: October 4-6, 2017

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[SIPTA] FW: Registration open: Fourth Bayesian, Fiducial and Frequentist Workshop (BFF4), May 1-3, Harvard University
by Glenn Shafer 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

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[SIPTA] Extended dealine: Fusion 2017: special session on belief functions
by Arnaud Martin 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

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[SIPTA] [ISIPTA 2017] Call for poster-only submissions
by Jasper De Bock 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

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[SIPTA] Special Session on Uncertainty based Optimization in Engineering @ EUROPT 2017: Deadline approaching (March 15, 2017)
by Matthias Troffaes 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Dear SIPTA friends, The special session below at EUROPT might be of some interest to some of you - robustness and resilience are explicit aims of the session and imprecise probability approaches to optimisation in engineering problems would be most welcome there too. Note the unfortunate overlap with ISIPTA; still it would be good to have presence from our community there, so if you weren't planning to go to ISIPTA this year, perhaps EUROPT is worth considering. Kind regards, Matthias Begin forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ICElab <info(a)icelab.uk> Date: 2017-03-04 19:07 GMT+00:00 Subject: [icelab-announce] Special Session on Uncertainty based Optimization in Engineering @ EUROPT 2017: Deadline approaching (March 15, 2017) To: icelab-announce(a)lists.strath.ac.uk (we apologize for possible multiple copies of this message ) Dear Colleague, this is a gentle reminder that the deadline to submit your abstract for the sessions on “Uncertainty based Optimization in Engineering” within the framework of the 15th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, Montreal, Canada, 12-14 July 2017, is fast approaching (*Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2017*) . EUROPT website: https://www.gerad.ca/colloques/europt2017/ Special session website: http://utopiae.eu/about/utopiae-training/research/ ieee-computational-intelligence-in-aerospace-sciences/ieee-activities/ utopiae-activities/ *Important Dates* Abstract submission deadline: *March 15, 2017* Abstract acceptance: March 31, 2017 *Scope and Motivations* In an expanding world with limited resources and increasing uncertainty, optimization and uncertainty quantification become a necessity. Optimization can turn a problem into a solution, thus the main focus of this session is to promote the knowledge exchange on new approaches to treat uncertainty in complex engineering systems and use novel optimization techniques to efficiently deal with large scale problems with many objectives and uncertain quantities. It is generally recognised, in fact, that neglecting the impact of uncertainty on the design of any system or process can lead to unreliable design solutions. Common approaches that make use of safety margins to account for uncertainty in design and manufacturing are not adequate to fully capture the growing complexity of engineering systems and provide reliable, resilient and optimal solutions. *Topics* The sessions are open to everybody who wants to present recent and original results on any of the following topics: - Robust Optimization - Reliability based Design Optimization - Resilience based Design Optimization - Evolvable Optimization Under Uncertainty - Uncertainty based Multidisciplinary Design Optimization with applications to any engineering areas, in particular: - Aeronautics, Aerospace, and Space - Agriculture and Precision Farming - Automotive - Bio-Engineering - Civil and Structural Engineering - Electronics - Energy, including Renewable Energy - Offshores, Coastal and Marine Engineering and Operations - Transport and Logistics - Turbomachinery *Registration* Before May 1st, 2017: 200$ (students: 150$) After May 1st, 2017: 250$ (students: 180$) *Abstract Submission* Abstracts should be no longer than 100 words and should not contain mathematical notation. Updated info on submission and registration will be available at the Workshop page https://www.gerad.ca/colloques/europt2017/ *Sessions Organisers* Edmondo Minisci Lecturer, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization edmondo.minisci(a)strath.ac.uk<mailto:edmondo.minisci(a)strath.ac.uk> Annalisa Riccardi Lecturer, Computational Intelligence annalisa.riccardi(a)strath.ac.uk<mailto:annalisa.riccardi(a)strath.ac.uk> Massimiliano Vasile Professor, Space System Engineering massimiliano.vasile(a)strath.ac.uk<mailto:massimiliano.vasile(a)strath.ac.uk> Task Force “Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Sciences”, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK -- ICElab The Intelligent Computational Engineering Laboratory _______________________________________________ icelab-announce mailing list icelab-announce(a)lists.strath.ac.uk http://lists.strath.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/icelab-announce

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[SIPTA] [ECSQARU 2017] LAST CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline extended to March 20)
by PAPINI Odile 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

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[SIPTA] Fusion 2017: special session on belief functions
by Arnaud Martin 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

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[SIPTA] Fusion 2017: special session on belief functions
by Arnaud Martin 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

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[SIPTA] [ISIPTA '17] Call for Papers - Deadline Extended
by Alessandro Antonucci 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Due to several requests, ISIPTA '17 is extending the paper submission deadline to Friday, March 3, 2017. ::: CALL FOR PAPERS ::: http://isipta.idsia.ch The Tenth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA '17). The ISIPTA conference is the primary international forum about theory and applications of imprecise probability. Imprecise probability is a generic term for the many mathematical and statistical models and methods, allowing us to measure chance or uncertainty without the restriction of sharp probabilities. The symposium is open to contributions on all aspects of imprecise probability. ISIPTA '17 will be co-located with ECSQARU 2017, the Fourteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty. The joint event will be held in Lugano (Switzerland), on July 10-14, 2017. ::: INVITED SPEAKERS ::: We are delighted of having the following invited speakers: - Leila Amgoud (IRIT, France) - Alessio Benavoli (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Jim Berger (Duke University, USA) - Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) - Eyke Hüllermeier (Paderborn University, Germany) More information about the speakers available here: http://isipta.idsia.ch/invited-speakers ::: JMLR PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSIONS ::: For the first time, the ISIPTA '17 proceedings will be published in the Workshop and Conference proceedings series (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings) of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). Instructions for submission and author's kit available here: http://isipta.idsia.ch/submissions-isipta ::: IMPORTANT DATES ::: Tuesday, March 3, 2017: Paper submission Tuesday, April 18, 2017: Author notification Friday, April 28, 2017: Camera-ready copy due ::: IJAR SPECIAL ISSUE AND YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD ::: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR). We also invite applications for the IJAR Young Researcher Award. The prize (1000 Euros), granted by IJAR, will be awarded to one young researcher for excellent research in the area of imprecise probability. Applicants should have submitted a paper (not necessarily as first authors) to ISIPTA ’17. Applications should be received by the paper submission deadline (March 3, 2017). More information about the award available here: http://isipta.idsia.ch/young-researcher-award-ecsqaru _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch skype: alessandro.antonucci tel: +41 916108515 web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro _________________________________

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[SIPTA] [ECSQARU 2017] Call for Papers - Deadline Extended (March 3, 2017)
by Alessandro Antonucci 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Due to several requests, ECSQARU 2017 is extending the paper submission deadline to Friday, March 3, 2017. ::: CALL FOR PAPERS ::: http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch The Fourteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2017). The biennial ECSQARU conferences constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty. Contributions come from researchers interested in advancing the scientific knowledge and from practitioners using uncertainty techniques in real-world applications. The scope of the ECSQARU conferences encompasses fundamental issues, representation, inference, learning, and decision making in qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms. Previous ECSQARU events have been held in Marseille (1991), Granada (1993), Fribourg (1995), Bonn (1997), London (1999), Toulouse (2001), Aalborg (2003), Barcelona (2005), Hammamet (2007), Verona (2009), Belfast (2011), Utrecht (2013), and Compiègne (2015). ECSQARU 2017 will be co-located with ISIPTA '17, the Tenth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications. The joint event will be held in Lugano (Switzerland), on July 10-14, 2017. ::: SCOPE ::: For ECSQARU 2017 we invite submissions of conference papers on topics which include but are not limited to: - Algorithms for uncertain inference - Applications of uncertain systems - Argumentation systems - Automated planning and acting under uncertainty - Belief functions - Belief revision & merging - Classification & clustering - Decision theory & decision graphs - Default reasoning - Description logics with uncertainty - Foundations of reasoning under uncertainty - Fuzzy sets & fuzzy logic - Game theory - Imprecise probabilities - Inconsistency handling - Information fusion - Learning for uncertainty formalisms - Logics for reasoning under uncertainty - Markov decision processes - Possibility theory & possibilistic logic - Preferences - Probabilistic graphical models - Probabilistic logics - Qualitative uncertainty models - Rough sets - Uncertainty & data ::: INVITED SPEAKERS ::: We are delighted of having the following invited speakers: - Leila Amgoud (IRIT, France) - Alessio Benavoli (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Jim Berger (Duke University, USA) - Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) - Eyke Hüllermeier (Paderborn University, Germany) More information about the speakers available here: http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch/invited-speakers ::: PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSIONS ::: In accordance with the previous conferences, the proceedings of ECSQARU 2017 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Authors are requested to prepare their conference papers in the LNCS/LNAI format. Submitted papers will be evaluated by peer reviews based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference to present their work. Instructions for submission and author's kit available here: http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch/submissions-ecsqaru ::: IMPORTANT DATES ::: - Friday, March 3, 2017: Paper submission - Tuesday, April 18, 2017: Author notification - Friday, April 28, 2017: Camera-ready copy due ::: IJAR SPECIAL ISSUE ::: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR, Elsevier). ::: SPRINGER YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD ::: We also invite applications for the Springer Young Researcher Award. The prize (1000 Euros), granted by Springer, will be awarded to one young researcher for excellent research in fields related to the ECSQARU scope. Applicants should have submitted a paper (not necessarily as first authors) to ECSQARU 2017. Applications should be received by the paper submission deadline (March 3, 2017). More information about the award available here: http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch/young-researcher-award-ecsqaru _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch skype: alessandro.antonucci tel: +41 916108515 web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro _________________________________

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[SIPTA] SUM 2017 Call for Papers
by Serafin Moral 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

11th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2017) Call for papers For updated information, please visit the conference web page at: http://idbis.ugr.es/sum2017/ The 11th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) will be held in Granada, Spain on October 4-6, 2017. The conference will bring together researchers who are working with imperfect information in fields such as artificial intelligence, databases, data mining, information retrieval, and risk analysis with the aim of fostering collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas from different communities. An originality of SUM is that it gives a large space to tutorials about a large 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 ******************** We solicit papers on the management of large amounts or 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 2017 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 Accepted long and short papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 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). Regular research papers should be at most 14 pages (including references, figures and tables). Short papers should be at most 7 pages. Extended abstracts should be at most 2 pages and should reference the originally published work. 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. Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair. Papers not respecting the formatting instructions or page limits may be rejected without review. With the exception of 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. **************** IMPORTANT DATES **************** - Deadline for submissions: April 3, 2017 - Notification: May 22, 2017 - Camera-ready copies: June 12, 2017 - Conference: October 4-6, 2017

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[SIPTA] [job] research associate at Durham
by Matthias Troffaes 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Hi all, The advert below might be of interest to some of you - note the deadline of 20th Feb. Cheers, Matthias --- Research Associate in Statistical Uncertainty Quantification for Energy Systems Modelling Job Title : Research Associate Grade 7 (£32,004) Closing date for applications: midday on 20-Feb-2017 The Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University, UK invites applications for a postdoctoral position, to begin ideally by end April 2017, and for a 30 month period in the first instance. The post-holder will conduct research in statistical methodology related to the projects ‘Uncertainty analysis of hierarchical energy systems models: Models versus real energy systems’ (http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/K03832X/1) and ‘Centre for Energy Systems Integration’ (CESI, http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/P001173/1) funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The research will use state-of-the-art statistical methodology for uncertainty analysis in a range of complex computer simulators representing energy economics and engineering systems. There will be a particular emphasis on developing new methodology for analysing the propagation of uncertainty between linked models. Exemplars will be drawn primarily from the CESI project – the concept of energy systems integration is coordination of operation and planning of different levels (e.g. national and local) of the energy system, and of the systems for different energy carriers (gas ,electricity, heat etc.) There will be substantial opportunities for collaboration with other academic disciplines and industrial partners within the CESI project. This is a 30 month fixed term, externally funded post, formed on the basis of appointment at the bottom of Grade 7 (£31,656) and provided that the successful candidate can commence the role by the end of April 2017. In the event that the appointment is made at a higher salary point, or the start date is later, then the term of the appointment will reduce in length in accordance with the available funding. Provided the extension of grant EP/K03832X/1 is approved by EPSRC, the funding for this position may extend by a further 6 months. Full details of the position and application procedure may be found at: https://recruitment.durham.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form… Informal enquiries to Michael Goldstein Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathermatical Sciences, Durham University email michael.goldstein(a)durham.ac.uk <mailto:michael.goldstein(a)durham.ac.uk>

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[SIPTA] [Call for Papers] ECSQARU 2017, July 10-14, 2017, Lugano (Switzerland)
by Alessandro Antonucci 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

The Fourteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2017) THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch The biennial ECSQARU conferences constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty. Contributions come from researchers interested in advancing the scientific knowledge and from practitioners using uncertainty techniques in real-world applications. The scope of the ECSQARU conferences encompasses fundamental issues, representation, inference, learning, and decision making in qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms. Previous ECSQARU events have been held in Marseille (1991), Granada (1993), Fribourg (1995), Bonn (1997), London (1999), Toulouse (2001), Aalborg (2003), Barcelona (2005), Hammamet (2007), Verona (2009), Belfast (2011), Utrecht (2013), and Compiègne (2015). ECSQARU 2017 will be co-located with ISIPTA '17, the Tenth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications. The joint event will be held in Lugano (Switzerland), on July 10-14, 2017. ::: SCOPE ::: For ECSQARU 2017 we invite submissions of conference papers on topics which include but are not limited to: - Algorithms for uncertain inference - Applications of uncertain systems - Argumentation systems - Automated planning and acting under uncertainty - Belief functions - Belief revision & merging - Classification & clustering - Decision theory & decision graphs - Default reasoning - Description logics with uncertainty - Foundations of reasoning under uncertainty - Fuzzy sets & fuzzy logic - Game theory - Imprecise probabilities - Inconsistency handling - Information fusion - Learning for uncertainty formalisms - Logics for reasoning under uncertainty - Markov decision processes - Possibility theory & possibilistic logic - Preferences - Probabilistic graphical models - Probabilistic logics - Qualitative uncertainty models - Rough sets - Uncertainty & data ::: INVITED SPEAKERS ::: We are delighted of having the following invited speakers: - Leila Amgoud (IRIT, France) - Alessio Benavoli (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Jim Berger (Duke University, USA) - Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) - Eyke Hüllermeier (Paderborn University, Germany) ::: PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSIONS ::: In accordance with the previous conferences, the proceedings of ECSQARU 2015 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Authors are requested to prepare their conference papers in the LNCS/LNAI format. Submitted papers will be evaluated by peer reviews based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference to present their work. The instructions for submission and the author kit are available here: http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch/submissions-ecsqaru/ ::: IMPORTANT DATES ::: - Tuesday, February 21, 2017: Paper submission deadline - Tuesday, April 18, 2017: Author notification - Friday, April 28, 2017: Camera-ready copy due ::: IJAR SPECIAL ISSUE ::: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR, Elsevier). ::: SPRINGER YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD ::: We also invite applications for the Springer Young Researcher Award. The prize (1000 Euros), granted by Springer, will be awarded to one young researcher for excellent research in fields related to the ECSQARU scope. The award is open to Master students, PhD students and young post-doc researchers who have received their PhD in 2016 (or 2017). Applicants should have submitted a paper (not necessarily as first authors) to ECSQARU 2017. Applications should be received by the paper submission deadline (February 21, 2017). _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch skype: alessandro.antonucci tel: +41 916108515 web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro _________________________________

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[SIPTA] [Call for Papers] ISIPTA '17, July 10-14, 2017, Lugano (Switzerland)
by Alessandro Antonucci 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

The Tenth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA '17) THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS http://isipta.idsia.ch The ISIPTA conference is the primary international forum about theory and applications of imprecise probability. Imprecise probability is a generic term for the many mathematical and statistical models and methods, allowing us to measure chance or uncertainty without the restriction of sharp probabilities. The symposium is open to contributions on all aspects of imprecise probability. ISIPTA '17 will be co-located with ECSQARU 2017, the Fourteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty. The joint event will be held in Lugano (Switzerland), on July 10-14, 2017. The conference website with detailed information is http://isipta.idsia.ch ::: INVITED SPEAKERS ::: We are delighted of having the following invited speakers: - Leila Amgoud (IRIT, France) - Alessio Benavoli (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Jim Berger (Duke University, USA) - Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) - Eyke Hüllermeier (Paderborn University, Germany) ::: JMLR PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSIONS ::: For the first time, the ISIPTA '17 proceedings will be published in the Workshop and Conference proceedings series (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings) of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). The instructions for submission and the author kit are available here: http://isipta.idsia.ch/submissions-isipta/ The page limit is 12 pages in the JMLR style. Each submission will be reviewed by three referees. ::: IMPORTANT DATES ::: Tuesday, February 21, 2017: Paper submission deadline Tuesday, April 18, 2017: Author notification Friday, April 28, 2017: Camera-ready copy due ::: IJAR SPECIAL ISSUE AND YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD ::: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR). We also invite applications for the IJAR Young Researcher Award. The prize, granted by IJAR, will be awarded to one young researcher for excellent research in the area of imprecise probability. The award is open to Master students, PhD students and young post-doc researchers who have received their PhD in 2016 (or 2017). Applicants should have submitted a paper (not necessarily as first authors) to ISIPTA ’17. Applications should be received by the paper submission deadline (February 21, 2017). _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch skype: alessandro.antonucci tel: +41 916108515 web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro _________________________________

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Re: [SIPTA] IFSA-SCIS 2017 - Final deadline extension
by Kreinovich 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

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Re: [SIPTA] IPMU 2018. CADIZ (SPAIN)
by Kreinovich 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

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[SIPTA] special session on imprecise probabilities and non-additive measures at IFSA'2017: deadline extended
by ENRIQUE MIRANDA MENENDEZ 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

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[SIPTA] PhD studentship at Durham in offshore transmission systems asset management under severe uncertainty
by Matthias Troffaes 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

Dear SIPTA friends, An exciting PhD opportunity is available at Durham, which directly seeks to develop and apply methods from imprecise probability to applications in offshore transmission systems asset management under severe uncertainty. The project is a collaboration between the School of Engineering & Computing Sciences, and the Department Mathematical Sciences, at Durham University, UK. It also involves active collaboration and support from the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult (a UK-based Industrial Research body), with facilities across the UK in Blyth, Glasgow and Fife. The funding includes fees at the UK/EU rates plus a monthly stipend (£1.2k per month) as well as additional funding for travel and consumables. Non-EU students have to provide the difference between international and UK/EU fees which is currently around £18k per year. More information about the project, requirements, and the application process can be found here: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AWE586/phd-studentship-offshore-transmission-syst… Please note that the closing date for applications is 27th January 2017. Best wishes, Matthias

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[SIPTA] a conference on uncertainty in 2018: Mark your calendars
by Kreinovich 21 Dec '16

21 Dec '16

Dear Friends, The 5th International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making IUKM'2018 will be held on March 15-17 in Hanoi and Halong Bay, Vietnam, the plan is to meet in Hanoi on March 15-16 and to go to Halong Bay on March 17. Please mark your calendars. The information about the previous conference of this series is available at its website http://www.jaist.ac.jp/IUKM/IUKM2016/ -----Original Message----- From: Van-Nam HUYNH [mailto:huynh(a)jaist.ac.jp] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 3:07 AM We will have the 6th IUKM held during 15-17 March 2018 in Hanoi and Halong Bay. Please mark your calendar for it. Best, Nam

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[SIPTA] [ECSQARU 2017] Second Call for Papers
by Alessandro Antonucci 21 Dec '16

21 Dec '16

The Fourteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch The biennial ECSQARU conferences constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty. Contributions come from researchers interested in advancing the scientific knowledge and from practitioners using uncertainty techniques in real-world applications. The scope of the ECSQARU conferences encompasses fundamental issues, representation, inference, learning, and decision making in qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms. Previous ECSQARU events have been held in Marseille (1991), Granada (1993), Fribourg (1995), Bonn (1997), London (1999), Toulouse (2001), Aalborg (2003), Barcelona (2005), Hammamet (2007), Verona (2009), Belfast (2011), Utrecht (2013), and Compiègne (2015). ECSQARU 2017 will be co-located with ISIPTA '17, the Tenth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications. The joint event will be held in Lugano (Switzerland), on July 10-14, 2017. ::: SCOPE ::: For ECSQARU 2017 we invite submissions of conference papers on topics which include but are not limited to: - Algorithms for uncertain inference - Applications of uncertain systems - Argumentation systems - Automated planning and acting under uncertainty - Belief functions - Belief revision & merging - Classification & clustering - Decision theory & decision graphs - Default reasoning - Description logics with uncertainty - Foundations of reasoning under uncertainty - Fuzzy sets & fuzzy logic - Game theory - Imprecise probabilities - Inconsistency handling - Information fusion - Learning for uncertainty formalisms - Logics for reasoning under uncertainty - Markov decision processes - Possibility theory & possibilistic logic - Preferences - Probabilistic graphical models - Probabilistic logics - Qualitative uncertainty models - Rough sets - Uncertainty & data ::: INVITED SPEAKERS ::: We are delighted of having the following invited speakers: - Leila Amgoud (IRIT, France) - Alessio Benavoli (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Jim Berger (Duke University, USA) - Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) - Eyke Hüllermeier (Paderborn University, Germany) ::: PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSIONS ::: In accordance with the previous conferences, the proceedings of ECSQARU 2015 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Authors are requested to prepare their conference papers in the LNCS/LNAI format. Submitted papers will be evaluated by peer reviews based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference to present their work. The instructions for submission and the author kit are available here: http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch/submissions-ecsqaru/ ::: IMPORTANT DATES ::: - Tuesday, February 21, 2017: Paper submission deadline - Tuesday, April 18, 2017: Author notification - Friday, April 28, 2017: Camera-ready copy due ::: IJAR SPECIAL ISSUE ::: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR, Elsevier). ::: SPRINGER YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD ::: We also invite applications for the Springer Young Researcher Award. The prize, granted by Springer, will be awarded to one young researcher for excellent research in fields related to the ECSQARU scope. The award is open to Master students, PhD students and young post-doc researchers who have received their PhD in 2016 (or 2017). Applicants should have submitted a paper (not necessarily as first authors) to ECSQARU 2017. Applications should be received by the paper submission deadline (February 21, 2017). _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch skype: alessandro.antonucci tel: +41 916108515 web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro _________________________________

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[SIPTA] [ISIPTA '17] call for papers
by Giorgio Corani 20 Dec '16

20 Dec '16

The Tenth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA ’17) FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS http://isipta.idsia.ch The ISIPTA conference is the primary international forum about theory and applications of imprecise probability. Imprecise probability is a generic term for the many mathematical and statistical models and methods, allowing us to measure chance or uncertainty without the restriction of sharp probabilities. The symposium is open to contributions on all aspects of imprecise probability. ISIPTA '17 will be co-located with ECSQARU 2017, the Fourteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty. The joint event will be held in Lugano (Switzerland), on July 10-14, 2017. ::: INVITED SPEAKERS ::: We are delighted of having the following invited speakers: - Leila Amgoud (IRIT, France) - Alessio Benavoli (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Jim Berger (Duke University, USA) - Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) - Eyke Hüllermeier (Paderborn University, Germany) ::: JMLR PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSIONS ::: For the first time, the ISIPTA '17 proceedings will be published in the Workshop and Conference proceedings series (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings) of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). The instructions for submission and the author kit are available here: http://isipta.idsia.ch/submissions-isipta/ The page limit is 12 pages in the JMLR style. Each submission will be reviewed by three referees. ::: IMPORTANT DATES ::: Tuesday, February 21, 2017: Paper submission deadline Tuesday, April 18, 2017: Author notification Friday, April 28, 2017: Camera-ready copy due ::: IJAR SPECIAL ISSUE AND YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD ::: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR). We also invite applications for the IJAR Young Researcher Award. The prize, granted by IJAR, will be awarded to one young researcher for excellent research in the area of imprecise probability. The award is open to Master students, PhD students and young post-doc researchers who have received their PhD in 2016 (or 2017). Applicants should have submitted a paper (not necessarily as first authors) to ISIPTA ’17. Applications should be received by the paper submission deadline (February 21, 2017).

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[SIPTA] Fwd: Fully-Funded PhD Studentships at the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Risk and Uncertainty at Liverpool University
by Thomas Augustin 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

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[SIPTA] SSCI'2016, 2017, and 2018
by Kreinovich 10 Dec '16

10 Dec '16

Dear Friends, The 2016 IEEE Series of Symposia on Computational Intelligence ended yesterday. As usual, we have many very interesting talks, in particular, talks related to uncertainty quantification (imprecise probabilities included). Many thanks to conference co-chairs, Stefanos Kollias and Yaochu Jin, for the great organization. The 2017 conference will be in Honolulu, Hawaii, November 27 - December 1, 2017. Michael Beer, Rudolf Kruse, and myself are again organizing a symposium on Computational Intelligence in Engineering Solutions. The 2018 conference will be in Bangalore, India, November 18-21, 2018 Mark your calendars!

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[SIPTA] [IEA/AIE'17] New submission deadline: Dec 15th, 2016.
by Karim Tabia 23 Nov '16

23 Nov '16

Following the requests from many potential authors, we are pleased to announce the new deadline for submitting papers for the "30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE'17). The deadline for submitting papers has been extended until December 15th, 2016. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The 30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/ieaaie2017/) June 27-30, 2017 Arras (near Paris, France) Scope: IEA/AIE 2017 continues the tradition of emphasizing applications of applied intelligent systems to solve real-life problems in all areas including engineering, science, industry, automation & robotics, business finance, medicine and biomedicine, bioinformatics, cyberspace, and human-machine interactions. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English of up to 10 single spaced pages, presenting the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art AI methodologies are also acceptable when they reflect lessons of unique value to the conference attendees. Shorter works, up to 6 pages, to be presented in 10 minutes, may be submitted as short papers representing work in progress or suggesting possible research directions. All paper submissions will be done electronically, as indicated in the instructions on the conference web site.All papers will be peer reviewed and final copies of papers for inclusion to the conference proceedings will be published in a bound volume by Springer-Verlag (formatting instructions are available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Topics of interest - Adaptive Control - Ambient Intelligence - Application to Design - Applications to Manufacturing - Argumentation Systems - Bayesian Networks - Autonomous Agents - Bio-informatics - Case-based Reasoning - Chance Discovery - Cognitive Modeling - Computer Animation - Computer Vision - Constraint Satisfaction - Conversational Informatics - Data Mining - Decision Support System - Description Logics - Distributed Problem Solving - Evolutionary Algorithms - Expert Systems - Financial Applications - Genetic Programming - Heuristic Search - Human Robot Interaction Integration Systems for Real Life Applications - Intelligent Interfaces - Intelligent Systems - Intelligent Systems in Education - Internet Applications - Interaction Planning and Scheduling - KBS Methodology - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Processing - Machine Learning - Meta-heuristics - Model-based Reasoning - Multi-Agent Systems - Natural Language Processing - Neural Networks - Non-Monotonic Logics - Planning and Scheduling - Reasoning under Uncertainty - SAT - Social Networks Applications - Soft Computing - Spatial Reasoning - Speech Recognition - Web Semantics and Ontologies Workshops - Ontologies and Logic Programming for Query Answering - Computer Animation and Artificial Intelligence Special Tracks - Intelligent Systems and mHealth for Health Outcomes - De Finettis heritage in uncertainty and decision making - Graphical models: from Theory to Applications - Agronomy and Artificial Intelligence - Conditionals and non-monotonic reasoning - Computational Intelligence in Databases - Novel approaches to ontological reasoning - Applications of Argumentation - Cognitive Vision - Integrated Vision and AI for Embodied Perception and Interaction - Anomaly Detection - AI & Games Invited speakers - Frederic CUPPENS (FR) - Leon VAN DER TORRE (LUX) - Jian J. ZHANG (UK) General chair Moonis ALI (US) Program co-chairs Salem BENFERHAT (FR) Karim TABIA (FR) Organization co-chairs Salem BENFERHAT (FR) Sylvain LAGRUE (FR) Special Session co-chairs Zied BOURAOUI (UK) Steven SCHOCKAERT (UK) Workshop co-chairs Jianbing MA (UK) Hongchuan YU (UK) Social events & Local arrangements co-chairs Nathalie CHETCUTI-SPERANDIO (FR) Karim TABIA (FR) Web co-chairs Fabien DELORME (FR) Amelie LEVRAY (FR) Publicity co-chairs Farid NOUIOUA (FR) Eric PIETTE (FR) International Advisor Committee Hamido FUJITA (JP) All IAC Members IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline (extended) : Dec 15, 2016 Notification of acceptance: Feb 6, 2017 Camera ready papers: Feb 25, 2017 Conference dates: Jun 27-30, 2017

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[SIPTA] [CFP] IEA/AIE'17: 30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering, Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (Arras, France)
by Karim Tabia 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

The 30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/ieaaie2017/) June 27-30, 2017 Arras (near Paris, France) Scope: IEA/AIE 2017 continues the tradition of emphasizing applications of applied intelligent systems to solve real-life problems in all areas including engineering, science, industry, automation & robotics, business finance, medicine and biomedicine, bioinformatics, cyberspace, and human-machine interactions. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English of up to 10 single spaced pages, presenting the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art AI methodologies are also acceptable when they reflect lessons of unique value to the conference attendees. Shorter works, up to 6 pages, to be presented in 10 minutes, may be submitted as short papers representing work in progress or suggesting possible research directions. All paper submissions will be done electronically, as indicated in the instructions on the conference web site.All papers will be peer reviewed and final copies of papers for inclusion to the conference proceedings will be published in a bound volume by Springer-Verlag (formatting instructions are available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Topics of interest - Adaptive Control - Ambient Intelligence - Application to Design - Applications to Manufacturing - Argumentation Systems - Bayesian Networks - Autonomous Agents - Bio-informatics - Case-based Reasoning - Chance Discovery - Cognitive Modeling - Computer Animation - Computer Vision - Constraint Satisfaction - Conversational Informatics - Data Mining - Decision Support System - Description Logics - Distributed Problem Solving - Evolutionary Algorithms - Expert Systems - Financial Applications - Genetic Programming - Heuristic Search - Human Robot Interaction Integration Systems for Real Life Applications - Intelligent Interfaces - Intelligent Systems - Intelligent Systems in Education - Internet Applications - Interaction Planning and Scheduling - KBS Methodology - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Processing - Machine Learning - Meta-heuristics - Model-based Reasoning - Multi-Agent Systems - Natural Language Processing - Neural Networks - Non-Monotonic Logics - Planning and Scheduling - Reasoning under Uncertainty - SAT - Social Networks Applications - Soft Computing - Spatial Reasoning - Speech Recognition - Web Semantics and Ontologies Workshops - Ontologies and Logic Programming for Query Answering - Computer Animation and Artificial Intelligence Special Tracks - Intelligent Systems and mHealth for Health Outcomes - De Finettis heritage in uncertainty and decision making - Graphical models: from Theory to Applications - Agronomy and Artificial Intelligence - Conditionals and non-monotonic reasoning - Computational Intelligence in Databases - Novel approaches to ontological reasoning - Applications of Argumentation - Cognitive Vision - Integrated Vision and AI for Embodied Perception and Interaction - Anomaly Detection - AI & Games Invited speakers - Frederic CUPPENS (FR) - Leon VAN DER TORRE (LUX) - Jian J. ZHANG (UK) General chair Moonis ALI (US) Program co-chairs Salem BENFERHAT (FR) Karim TABIA (FR) Organization co-chairs Salem BENFERHAT (FR) Sylvain LAGRUE (FR) Special Session co-chairs Zied BOURAOUI (UK) Steven SCHOCKAERT (UK) Workshop co-chairs Jianbing MA (UK) Hongchuan YU (UK) Social events & Local arrangements co-chairs Nathalie CHETCUTI-SPERANDIO (FR) Karim TABIA (FR) Web co-chairs Fabien DELORME (FR) Amelie LEVRAY (FR) Publicity co-chairs Farid NOUIOUA (FR) Eric PIETTE (FR) International Advisor Committee Hamido FUJITA (JP) All IAC Members IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: Nov 23, 2016 Notification of acceptance: Feb 6, 2017 Camera ready papers: Feb 25, 2017 Conference dates: Jun 27-30, 2017

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[SIPTA] [FLAIRS-30] Uncertain Reasoning special track - CFP
by Karim Tabia 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

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[SIPTA] [ECSQARU 2017] First CfP
by Alessandro Antonucci 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

The Fourteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch The biennial ECSQARU conferences constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty. Contributions come from researchers interested in advancing the scientific knowledge and from practitioners using uncertainty techniques in real-world applications. The scope of the ECSQARU conferences encompasses fundamental issues, representation, inference, learning, and decision making in qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms. Previous ECSQARU events have been held in Marseille (1991), Granada (1993), Fribourg (1995), Bonn (1997), London (1999), Toulouse (2001), Aalborg (2003), Barcelona (2005), Hammamet (2007), Verona (2009), Belfast (2011), Utrecht (2013), and Compiègne (2015). ECSQARU 2017 will be co-located with ISIPTA '17, the Tenth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications. The joint event will be held in Lugano (Switzerland), on July 10-14, 2017. For ECSQARU 2017 we invite submissions of conference papers on topics which include but are not limited to: - Algorithms for uncertain inference - Applications of uncertain systems - Argumentation systems - Automated planning and acting under uncertainty - Belief functions - Belief revision & merging - Classification & clustering - Decision theory & decision graphs - Default reasoning - Description logics with uncertainty - Foundations of reasoning under uncertainty - Fuzzy sets & fuzzy logic - Game theory - Imprecise probabilities - Inconsistency handling - Information fusion - Learning for uncertainty formalisms - Logics for reasoning under uncertainty - Markov decision processes - Possibility theory & possibilistic logic - Preferences - Probabilistic graphical models - Probabilistic logics - Qualitative uncertainty models - Rough sets - Uncertainty & data ::: INVITED SPEAKERS ::: We are delighted of having the following invited speakers: - Leila Amgoud (IRIT, France) - Alessio Benavoli (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Jim Berger (Duke University, USA) - Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) - Eyke Hüllermeier (Paderborn University, Germany) ::: PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSIONS ::: In accordance with the previous conferences, the proceedings of ECSQARU 2015 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Authors are requested to prepare their conference papers in the LNCS/LNAI format. Submitted papers will be evaluated by peer reviews based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference to present their work. The instructions for submission and the author kit are available here: http://ecsqaru.idsia.ch/submissions-ecsqaru/ ::: IMPORTANT DATES ::: Tuesday, February 21, 2017: Paper submission deadline Tuesday, April 18, 2017: Author notification Friday, April 28, 2017: Camera-ready copy due ::: IJAR SPECIAL ISSUE AND SPRINGER YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD ::: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR). We also invite applications for the Springer Young Researcher Award. The prize, granted by Springer, will be awarded to one young researcher for excellent research in fields related to the ECSQARU scope. The award is open to Master students, PhD students and young post-doc researchers who have received their PhD in 2016 (or 2017). Applicants should have submitted a paper (not necessarily as first authors) to ECSQARU 2017. Applications should be received by the paper submission deadline (February 21, 2017).

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[SIPTA] [ISIPTA '17] First CfP
by Giorgio Corani 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

The Tenth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA ’17) FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS http://isipta.idsia.ch The ISIPTA conference is the primary international forum about theory and applications of imprecise probability. Imprecise probability is a generic term for the many mathematical and statistical models and methods, allowing us to measure chance or uncertainty without the restriction of sharp probabilities. The symposium is open to contributions on all aspects of imprecise probability. ISIPTA '17 will be co-located with ECSQARU 2017, the Fourteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty. The joint event will be held in Lugano (Switzerland), on July 10-14, 2017. ::: INVITED SPEAKERS ::: We are delighted of having the following invited speakers: - Leila Amgoud (IRIT, France) - Alessio Benavoli (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Jim Berger (Duke University, USA) - Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) - Eyke Hüllermeier (Paderborn University, Germany) ::: JMLR PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSIONS ::: For the first time, the ISIPTA '17 proceedings will be published in the Workshop and Conference proceedings series (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings) of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). The instructions for submission and the author kit are available here: http://isipta.idsia.ch/submissions-isipta/ The page limit is 12 pages in the JMLR style. Each submission will be reviewed by three referees. ::: IMPORTANT DATES ::: Tuesday, February 21, 2017: Paper submission deadline Tuesday, April 18, 2017: Author notification Friday, April 28, 2017: Camera-ready copy due ::: IJAR SPECIAL ISSUE AND YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD ::: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR). We also invite applications for the IJAR Young Researcher Award. The prize, granted by IJAR, will be awarded to one young researcher for excellent research in the area of imprecise probability. The award is open to Master students, PhD students and young post-doc researchers who have received their PhD in 2016 (or 2017). Applicants should have submitted a paper (not necessarily as first authors) to ISIPTA ’17. Applications should be received by the paper submission deadline (February 21, 2017).

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[SIPTA] special session on imprecise probabilities and non-additive measures at IFSA'2017
by Enrique Miranda 09 Nov '16

09 Nov '16

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[SIPTA] Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Statistical Machine Learning
by Fabio Cuzzolin 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

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[SIPTA] Special issue IJAR: VSI-SMPS2016
by Barbara Vantaggi 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

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[SIPTA] Fwd: [UAI] 2nd CfP: IMPERFECT DECISION MAKERS: ADMITTING REAL-WORLD RATIONALITY (2016 NIPS WS)
by Fabio Gagliardi Cozman 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

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[SIPTA] [CFP] Uncertain Reasoning (UR) Special Track at the 30th International FLAIRS Conference
by Karim Tabia 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Please find the call for papers for Uncertain Reasoning (UR) Special Track at the 30th International FLAIRS Conference at this Webpage: http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~bertossi/UR17/ur17.html Best regards, The UR17 special track co-chairs

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[SIPTA] PhD studentship on imprecise probability in offshore energy
by Matthias Troffaes 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Dear all, There's an exciting PhD studentship available in Durham to apply imprecise probabilistic methods to offshore asset management, in collaboration between the Durham Engineering and Mathematics departments, and an external research institute named the "Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult". Starting date can be as early as 1 October 2016, but this is flexible. More information here: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AON868/phd-studentship-offshore-transmission-syst… If you know of anyone interested, or if you want more information, please contact either myself or Behzad (in CC). Cheers, Matthias

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[SIPTA] FW: a new book
by Kreinovich 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

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Re: [SIPTA] Call for Papers: UNCECOMP 2017- MS7 on "Non Probabilistic Approaches for Uncertainty Representation and Analysis in Engineering”
by Kreinovich 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

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Re: [SIPTA] IEEE CISDA 2016 paper submission deadline extended to August 15
by Kreinovich 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

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Re: [SIPTA] Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions IEEE Symposium: deadline extended to August 15
by Kreinovich 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

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[SIPTA] FW: Extended SSCI 2016 Submission Deadline: August 15, 2016
by Kreinovich 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

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[SIPTA] FW: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Engineering Solutions: deadline July 18 is approaching!
by Kreinovich 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

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[SIPTA] PGM 2016: call for participation
by Giorgio Corani 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

==PGM 2016 PGM 2016 is the eight edition of the International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models. It will take place in Lugano (Switzerland) between the 6th and the 9th of September 2016. The site of the conference is http://pgm.idsia.ch. It welcomes contributions on all aspects of graphical models including probabilistic reasoning, decision making, learning and data mining. It welcomes both theoretical and applied contributions. ==Registration The early bird registration expires on July 22h. For more information see http://www2.idsia.ch/cms/pgm/registration/. ==Venue information The conference is located in Lugano, a lakeside city in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, a region of Switzerland well known for its warm climate and outstanding scenery. Some hotels make available rooms with discounted fees for the PGM participants. For more information see http://www2.idsia.ch/cms/pgm/venue/ ==Invited Speakers and Tutorials We are pleased to have three distinguished invited speakers. Guido Consonni is Professor of Statistics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. Prof. Consonni will give a talk titled "Bayesian Selection of Essential Graphical Models". Fabio G. Cozman is Professor at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Prof. Cozman will give a talk titled "The Finite Model Theory of Bayesian Networks: An Invitation". Adnan Darwiche is Professor and former Chairman of the Computer Science Department at UCLA. Prof. Darwiche will give a talk titled "Learning Arithmetic Circuits with Background Knowledge". ==Tutorials We will have two tutorials. "Computational Complexity of Bayesian Networks and Markov Random Fields", by Cassio P. de Campos, Reader at Queen’s University Belfast, UK and Johan Kwisthout, Senior staff member in the Artificial Intelligence Program at Radboud University, and postdoc in the Donders Center for Cognition. "Learning Sum-Product Networks", by Nicola Di Mauro, Professor at the University of Bari, Italy, and by Antonio Vergari, PhD student at the University of Bari. This tutorial is an ECCAI invited talk, supported by the ECCAI conference sponsorship program.

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[SIPTA] Deadline extended: CFP: ISWC Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW'16)
by Thomas Lukasiewicz 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2016) http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2016 In conjunction with the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016), Kobe, Japan October 17 or 18, 2016 ========================================================== You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October 17-21, 2016 Kobe, Japan. ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web / Linked Data community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty remains extremely limited. Thus, there is a continuing demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and developers, and the URSW workshop creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but limited history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. AUDIENCE The intended audience for this workshop includes the following * Researchers in uncertain reasoning technologies with interest in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Semantic Web and Linked Data developers and researchers * People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Ontology researchers and ontological engineers * Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web * Developers of tools designed to support semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protégé developers, OWL-API developers... TOPIC LIST We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web and Linked Data (including fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be just an initial guide. * Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web / Linked Data languages to enable representation of uncertainty * Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web / Linked Data languages * Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts * Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping * Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies * The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web * Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web / Linked Data * The role of uncertainty as it relates to web services and cloud computing * Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among web services * Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning with uncertainty; * The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web and Linked Data IMPORTANT DATES * July 15, 2016: Paper submissions due * July 31: Paper acceptance notification * August 7: Camera-ready papers due * Oct 17 or 18: 12th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web SUBMISSION DETAILS The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2016 Conference, and committed to attend the URSW Workshop. Submissions to the workshop are only accepted in electronic format and should be sent via the workshop's EasyChair submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2016 Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2016. For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including figures and references. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not exceed 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2016 conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop. PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings. Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while authors of accepted position papers will have a 10-minute slot to share their ideas. After each presentation, 5 minutes will be allocated to questions from the audience. Both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2016 conference. In addition, we are planning a journal special issue or Lecture Notes in Computer Science/ Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) volume with selected extended and revised versions of technical papers presented at URSW 2016. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Fernando Bobillo - University of Zaragoza, Spain * Rommel N. Carvalho - Brazil's Office of the Comptroller General / University of Brasília, Brazil * Davide Ceolin - VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA * Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy * Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy * Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA * Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA * Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK * Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK * Matthias Nickles - INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland * Michael Pool - Credit Suisse, USA

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[SIPTA] Final Call: KSEM 2016 - Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management Conference
by KSEM 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

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[SIPTA] FW: interesting lecture
by Kreinovich 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

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[SIPTA] CfP - IUKM 2016: Submission deadline extended
by Van-Nam HUYNH 19 Jun '16

19 Jun '16

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] Due to several requests for extension, we have decided to extend the deadline for submissions until July 10, 2016. We would appreciate it very much if you could kindly help to disseminate enclosed CFP in your working networks, and encourage your colleagues and students to submit their works to the conference. —————————————————————————————————————— NEW: Extended Submission Deadline: July 10, 2016 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fifth International Symposium on INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY in KNOWLEDGE MODELLING and DECISION MAKING http://www.jaist.ac.jp/IUKM/IUKM2016/ NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 2, 2016, Da Nang, VIETNAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -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. Previous symposia have been successfully held in Ishikawa, Japan (IUM 2010 - AISC 68), Hangzhou, China (IUKM 2011 - LNAI 7027), Beijing, China (IUKM 2013 - LNAI 8032) and Nha Trang, Vietnam (IUKM 2015 - LNAI 9376). The fifth IUKM (2016) will take place in the central coastal city of Da Nang, Vietnam, during November 30 - December 2, 2016. Da Nang is located on the Eastern Sea coast, midway between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and is the largest city of Central Vietnam. It is also in close proximity to several UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the Imperial City of Hue, the Old Town of Hoi An , and the archaeological site of My Son. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposal for special sessions and workshops is encouraged and welcome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Relevant topics for the IUKM 2016 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-based models - Modelling uncertainty and inconsistency in big data - Logics for reasoning under uncertainty - Information fusion and knowledge integration in uncertain environments - Decision making under various types of uncertainty - Aggregation operators - Copulas for dependence modelling - Granular and soft computing - Computational intelligence + Application - Data mining and knowledge discovery - Ontology engineering and Semantic Web - 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 PUBLICATION The authors are invited to submit their full papers by July 10, 2016 (extended deadline). The submissions will be peer-reviewed for originality and scientific quality. As done in previous editions, the proceedings of IUKM 2016 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, and be available at the Symposium. Authors are requested to prepare their papers in the Springer LNAI format. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages and must be submitted electronically through the conference's Easychair submission page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iukm2016) IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission: 10 July 2016 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 25 August 2016 Final camera-ready and author registration: 15 September 2016 Early registration: 10 October 2016 Symposium dates: 30 November - 2 December 2016 ————————————— ————————————— Honorary Co-Chairs Michio Sugeno (European Center for Soft Computing, Spain) Hung T. Nguyen (New Mexico State University, USA; Chiang Mai University, Thailand) Cong-Co Le (Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam) Sadaaki Miyamoto (Tsukuba University, Japan) General Co-Chairs Nguyen-Bao Le (Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam) Thierry Denoeux (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Program Co-Chairs Van-Nam Huynh (JAIST, Japan) Masahiro Inuiguchi (University of Osaka, Japan) Bac Le (University of Science, VNU-Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam)

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Re: [SIPTA] REC'2016 and REC'2018
by Kreinovich 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

Dear Friends, The 7th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing REC'2016 in Bochum, Germany, is over. Many many thanks to Steffen Freitag, Conference Chair, for the great organization. Scott Ferson kindly agreed to organize the next conference in Summer 2018 in Liverpool, UK. Imprecise probability, especially when applied to engineering problems, are always strongly present at this series of conferences.

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[SIPTA] RCRA 2016 Preliminary Call for Papers
by Andrea Formisano 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

[APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS] * ______________________________________________________________________ * The RCRA group (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) of the AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence) organizes the 23rd RCRA workshop: Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving problems with combinatorial explosion (RCRA 2016) workshop of the 15th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence http://www.aixia2016.unige.it/ Genova, November 28 - December 1, 2016 RCRA group web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/ Workshop web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2016 e-mail: rcra2016[AT]easychair[DOT]org * ______________________________________________________________________ * This event follows the series of the RCRA (Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning) annual meetings, held since 1994. The success of the previous events shows that RCRA is becoming a major forum for exchanging ideas and proposing experimentation methodologies for algorithms in Artificial Intelligence. * ______________________________________________________________________ * IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: September 8th, 2016 Notification of acceptance: October 10th, 2016 Final version of accepted original papers: October 31st, 2016 Early registration: TBA (early-registration for AI*IA 2016) Workshop day: November 28th, 2016 AIMS AND SCOPE Many problems in Artificial Intelligence show an exponential explosion of the search space. Although stemming from different research areas in AI, such problems are often addressed with algorithms that have a common goal: the effective exploration of huge state spaces. Many algorithms developed in one research area are applicable to other problems, or can be hybridized with techniques in other areas. Artificial Intelligence tools often exploit or hybridize techniques developed by other research communities, such as Operations Research. In recent years, research in Artificial Intelligence has more and more focused on experimental evaluation of algorithms, the development of suitable methodologies for experimentation and analysis, the study of languages and the implementation of systems for the definition and solution of problems. Scope of the workshop is fostering the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming from different areas, proposing benchmarks for new challenging problems, comparing models and algorithms from an experimental viewpoint, and, in general, comparing different approaches with respect to efficiency, problem modeling, and ease of development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experimental evaluation of algorithms for o knowledge representation o automated reasoning o planning o scheduling o machine learning o model checking o boolean satisfiability (SAT) o constraint programming o argumentation o temporal reasoning o combinatorial optimization o quantified boolean formulae and quantified constraints o modal logics o logic programming o answer set programming o ontological reasoning * Definition and construction of benchmarks * Experimentation methodologies * Metaheuristics * Algorithm hybridization * Static analysis of combinatorial problems * Languages and systems for definition and solution of problems * Comparisons between systems and algorithms * Application experiences (visualization, graphics, security, transports,...) WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Stefano Bistarelli University of Perugia, Italy * Andrea Formisano University of Perugia, Italy * Marco Maratea University of Genova, Italy WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE TBA HOST ORGANIZATION University of Genova, Italy SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit either original (full or short) papers, or papers that appear on conference proceedings. Publications showing negative results are welcome, provided that the approach was original and very promising in principle, the experimentation was well-conducted, the results obtained were unforeseeable and gave important hints in the comprehension of the target problem, helping other researchers to avoid unsuccessful paths. The authors are requested to clearly specify whether their submission is original or already published. A footnote in the first page would suffice. Workshop submissions must be in PDF format, do not exceed 15 (for full papers) or 8 (for short papers) pages, and should be written in LaTeX, using the LNCS style. RCRA 2016 uses EasyChair for the submission of contributions. Contributions must be submitted through this page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcra2016 All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. CONTACT In case of need, the workshop co-chairs can be contacted by sending an email to: rcra2016[AT]easychair[DOT]org PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published online, as an issue of the CEUR-WS workshop proceeding series, AI*IA sub-series. Moreover, as in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications) we are considering the possibility of having workshop post-proceedings appearing in a special issue of an international journal, provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. HISTORY OF THE RECENT WORKSHOP SERIES * RCRA 2015 as a workshop of AI*IA 2015, Ferrara, Italy http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2015 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae * RCRA 2014 as a workshop of SAT 2014, IJCAR 2014 and ICLP 2014, Vienna, Austria - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2014 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of AI Communications * RCRA 2013, Rome, Italy - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2013 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of JETAI * Previous editions: http://rcra.aixia.it/workshops

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[SIPTA] CFP: ISWC Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW'16)
by Thomas Lukasiewicz 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2016) http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2016 In conjunction with the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016), Kobe, Japan October 17 or 18, 2016 ========================================================== You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October 17-21, 2016 Kobe, Japan. ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web / Linked Data community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty remains extremely limited. Thus, there is a continuing demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and developers, and the URSW workshop creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but limited history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. AUDIENCE The intended audience for this workshop includes the following * Researchers in uncertain reasoning technologies with interest in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Semantic Web and Linked Data developers and researchers * People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Ontology researchers and ontological engineers * Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web * Developers of tools designed to support semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protégé developers, OWL-API developers... TOPIC LIST We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web and Linked Data (including fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be just an initial guide. * Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web / Linked Data languages to enable representation of uncertainty * Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web / Linked Data languages * Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts * Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping * Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies * The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web * Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web / Linked Data * The role of uncertainty as it relates to web services and cloud computing * Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among web services * Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Data * Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning with uncertainty; * The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web and Linked Data IMPORTANT DATES * July 7, 2016: Paper submissions due * July 31: Paper acceptance notification * August 7: Camera-ready papers due * Oct 17 or 18: 12th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web SUBMISSION DETAILS The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2016 Conference, and committed to attend the URSW Workshop. Submissions to the workshop are only accepted in electronic format and should be sent via the workshop's EasyChair submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2016 Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2016. For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including figures and references. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not exceed 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2016 conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop. PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings. Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while authors of accepted position papers will have a 10-minute slot to share their ideas. After each presentation, 5 minutes will be allocated to questions from the audience. Both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2016 conference. In addition, we are planning a journal special issue or Lecture Notes in Computer Science/ Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) volume with selected extended and revised versions of technical papers presented at URSW 2016. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Fernando Bobillo - University of Zaragoza, Spain * Rommel N. Carvalho - Brazil's Office of the Comptroller General / University of Brasília, Brazil * Davide Ceolin - VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA * Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy * Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy * Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA * Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA * Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK * Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK * Matthias Nickles - INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland * Michael Pool - Credit Suisse, USA

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[SIPTA] Fully funded PhD position in data management and analysis - Rennes University - Lannion
by Arnaud Martin 28 May '16

28 May '16

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