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Re: [SIPTA] SMC2018 Track on Soft Computing: extended submission due, April 21

by Kreinovich

April 19, 2018

[SIPTA] AlCoB 2018: call for posters

by IRDTA

April 10, 2018

[SIPTA] DeepLearn 2018: early registration April 7

by IRDTA

April 2, 2018

[SIPTA] HighPer 2018: early registration March 30

by IRDTA

March 29, 2018

[SIPTA] SUM2018 - Extended Deadline

by Ciucci Davide

March 29, 2018

[SIPTA] FW: SMC2018: extended submission due

by Kreinovich

March 29, 2018

[SIPTA] SIPTA school: final deadline on Arpil 3rd

by Enrique Miranda

Dear SIPTA members, This is a small reminder that the deadline for application for the SIPTA summer school is approaching. The final deadline has been set for Tuesday, April 3rd. You can find the relevant information for the application at http://bellman.ciencias.uniovi.es/~ssipta18/ Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or comments. Best regards, Enrique

March 28, 2018

Re: [SIPTA] FW: 12th International Conference of the Thailand Econometric Society (TES2019)

by Kreinovich

March 27, 2018

[SIPTA] SLSP 2018: 2nd call for papers

by IRDTA

March 25, 2018

[SIPTA] AlCoB 2018: call for posters

by IRDTA

March 19, 2018

Re: [SIPTA] IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference

by Kreinovich

FYI, imprecise probabilities papers are always welcome ***************************************** From: Yutaka HATA <hata(a)sim.u-hyogo.ac.jp> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2018 9:27 PM IEEE SMC2018 Call for Paper Theme: The Making of a Human-Centered Cyber World The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Seagaia Convention Center, Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan, October 7-10, 2018 We are inviting Technical Papers to SMC 2018. Detailed information is available in the following website. http://smc2018.org Approved Special Sessions: http://www.smc2018.org/approved-special-sessions/ Paper Submission: http://www.smc2018.org/information-for-authors/ Important Days March 31, 2018 Submission due June 1, 2018 Notification of acceptance July 10, 2018 Author registration deadline July 20, 2018 Camera-ready deadline We hope to see you in Miyazaki! Sincerely, Yutaka HATA, SMC2018 Conference Chair

March 18, 2018

[SIPTA] 2nd Cal for Abstracts: ECDA special session on imprecision in statistical learning: deadline April 1st

by Thomas Augustin

Dear members of the sipta list, Might we direct your attention briefly once more to the Special Session on Statistical Learning with Imprecision we are organizing at ECDA 2018, 4 July - 6 July 2018, Paderborn, Germany? We think that this an excellent opportunity for members of our community to exchange ideas, also with members from other communities including more traditional data analysts. ECDA is quite an interesting general conference. The motto of this year is "Multidisciplinary Facets of Data Science" in a very broad sense. Please note that submitting an abstract by April 1st is sufficient to apply (, although there is an additional post conference proceedings option, see below.) Further information is available from: https://www.hds.utc.fr/~sdesterc/dokuwiki/_media/ecda2018_special_sess.pdf http://www.ecda2018.de When submitting the abstract, please make sure you mark it as a contribution to the special session. Of course, you also need to register for the conference, once your abstract is accepted. Full papers will be published as post-proceedings in the newly launched Journal "Archives of Data Science, Series A" after the conference. Submission to the post-proceedings is offered to all participants, but is not compulsory. Submitted papers will undergo a standard review process. The normal time slot for a talk in a session will be around 20-25 minutes. Best wishes, Sebastien Destercke and Thomas Augustin

March 14, 2018

[SIPTA] IJAR Special Issue: Robustness in Probabilistic Graphical Models

by Denis Deratani Mauá

March 14, 2018

[SIPTA] INTECH 2018

by conference＠icdim.org

CALL FOR PAPERS Eighth International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2018) Luton, UK August 15-17, 2018 www.dirf.org/intech Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE, UK & RI (IEEE Xplore Indexing) CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2011) was held at Sao Carlos in Brazil followed by the Second International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2012) at Casablanca in Morocco. The INTECH 2013 and INTECH 2014 were organized at London and Luton, UK respectively. The INTECH 2015 was organized by the Atlantic Research Centre for Information and Communication Technologies of the University of Vigo, Spain. The INTECH 2016 was at Dublin, Ireland followed by the INTECH 2017 at Luton, UK. The INTECH 2018 will be held at London, and it offers the opportunity for institutes, research centers, engineers, scientists and industrial companies to share their latest investigations, researches, developments and ideas in area of Innovative Computing Technology, which covers huge topics. The INTECH intends to address various innovative computing techniques involving various applications. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of computing technologies, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. This conference (INTECH 2018) will include presentations of contributed papers by invited keynote speakers. Conference papers will include innovative computing paradigms in the following topics: Network and Information Security Innovative Computing Systems and Applications in S & T domains such as – Algorithms Applied Information Systems Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Broadcasting Technology Cloud Computing Computational Intelligence Data and Network mining Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks Database Systems Digital Image/Video Processing E-Learning, e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government Electronics Environmental modeling and precision agriculture Fault Classification and Pattern Recognition Green Computing Grid computing Human-Computer Interaction Intelligent Condition Monitoring Mobile network and systems Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Payment Systems Peer-to-peer social networks Precision Farming Web Farming Signal Processing Soft Computing: Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems, optimization algorithms Software Engineering Intelligent Farming: Web farming, Web irrigation Ubiquitous Computing User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling Virtual Reality Visualization Web services WWW Applications and Technologies XML and other Extensible Languages The INTECH proceedings will also be indexed by dblp. All the papers will be reviewed and the accepted papers in the conference will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for indexing and will be indexed in many global databases.In addition, all the accepted papers (for Journals) will be published in the special issues journals after substantial revision and modification. Program Committees General Chairs Ezendu Ariwa, University of Bedfordshire, UK Saju Mohanan, Oman College of Higher Technology, Oman Ramiro Sámano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Program Chairs Jack Fernando Bravo-Torres, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Ecuador Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy Anabela Mesquita, Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administraç?o do Porto, Portugal Submissions at- http://dirf.org/intech/paper-submission/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: June 01, 2018 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: July 01, 2018 Camera Ready: August 01, 2018 Registration: August 01, 2018 Conference: August 15-17, 2018 Contact: intech @ dirf.org OR intech @ socio.org.uk ------------------------------------

March 14, 2018

[SIPTA] SMPS/BELIEF 2018, submission deadline extension (6th April final deadline)

by Sébastien Destercke

Dear Colleagues, Following multiple requests, we want to inform you that we have extended the submission deadline for the SMPS/BELIEF conference (https://smpsbelief2018.hds.utc.fr/) to be held in Compiègne in September, as follows: For papers (https://smpsbelief2018.hds.utc.fr/?page_id=66) * Submission of paper abstract: as soon as you can * Submission of paper: 6th April (Final deadline) * Authors notification: 4th May For Abstract-only contributions (not in the proceedings, poster presentation only): * Submission deadline: 30th May (unchanged) Note that these deadlines are firm, and will not be subject to further extensions. We also want to remind you some information of interest: * BFAS is offering ten students grant, covering the registration fees of the conference (https://smpsbelief2018.hds.utc.fr/?page_id=120) * Best paper prizes, sponsored by Elsevier, will be given to young researchers (who have defended their PhDs at most 2 years ago) * Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their submission to the IJAR journal (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reas…) Sébastien and Thierry

March 12, 2018

[SIPTA] LATA 2018: call for participation

by IRDTA

March 10, 2018

[SIPTA] 11th WPMSIIP - Workshop on Principles and Methods of Statistical Inference with Interval Probability

by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ

March 9, 2018

[SIPTA] IJAR-Special Issue on Decision Making with Imprecise Information

by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ

March 9, 2018

[SIPTA] Bayesian, fiducial and frequentist conference (BFF5)

by Fabio Cuzzolin

March 6, 2018

[SIPTA] SIPTA school on imprecise probabilities- second announcement

by Enrique Miranda

March 5, 2018

[SIPTA] FW: ICDSIAI'2018 Second CFP

by Kreinovich

March 2, 2018

Re: [SIPTA] The Second International Econometric Conference of Vietnam ECONVN2019, 14-16 January 2019, Hochiminh City

by Kreinovich

March 2, 2018

[SIPTA] FW: IEEE SSCI 2018-Call for Papers

by Kreinovich

March 1, 2018

[SIPTA] SMPS/BELIEF 2018 conference: student grants and awards

by Sébastien Destercke

Dear colleagues, The Belief functions and Applications Society (http://bfas.iut-lannion.fr/) is offering a number of grants to allow students with limited funding opportunities to present their work at the 5th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2018). The grants cover the registration fees. The BELIEF 2018 conference will take place in Compiègne, France, on September 17-21, 2018, in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS 2018). Conference homepage: https://smpsbelief2018.hds.utc.fr The current paper submission deadline is March 15, 2018. Authors of accepted papers will be notified on April 30, 2018. The deadline of the grant application is May 15, 2018. Candidates should send the following information: - CV - recommendation letter from supervisor - copy of paper accepted at BELIEF 2018 to the secretary of BFAS, Dr. Anne-Laure Jousselme (Anne-Laure.Jousselme(a)cmre.nato.int) The International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) will also offer best paper awards (with a prize of 1000 € for each conference) to students and early career researchers (who defended their PhD less than 2 years before the conference). The award ceremony will take place during the conference.’ Thierry Denoeux and Sebastien Destercke -- ==================================== Sebastien Destercke, Ph. D. CNRS researcher in computer science. Université de Technologie de Compiegne U.M.R. C.N.R.S. 7253 Heudiasyc Avenue de Landshut F-60205 Compiegne Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 44 23 79 85 Fax: +33 (0)3 44 23 44 77 ====================================

March 1, 2018

[SIPTA] ECDA special session on imprecision in statistical learning

by Sébastien Destercke

Dear colleagues, In the context of ECDA conference taking place in Paderborn, we are organizing a special session on imprecision in statistical learning. Informations about the special session and the conference can be respectively found at: https://www.hds.utc.fr/~sdesterc/dokuwiki/_media/ecda2018_special_sess.pdf http://www.ecda2018.de Here is some relevant information you might be interested in: -- To give a talk, you only need to send a title and abstract, i.e., no full paper is required. The abstract submission deadline is April 1st. When submitting the abstract, please make sure you mark it as a contribution to the special session. Of course, you also need to register for the conference, once your abstract is accepted. -- Full papers will be published as post-proceedings in the newly launched Journal "Archives of Data Science, Series A" after the conference. Submission to the post-proceedings is offered to all participants, but is not compulsory. Submitted papers will undergo a standard review process. -- The normal time slot for a talk in a session will be around 20-25 minutes. Best regards Sebastien Destercke and Thomas Augustin -- ==================================== Sebastien Destercke, Ph. D. CNRS researcher in computer science. Université de Technologie de Compiegne U.M.R. C.N.R.S. 7253 Heudiasyc Avenue de Landshut F-60205 Compiegne Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 44 23 79 85 Fax: +33 (0)3 44 23 44 77 ====================================

March 1, 2018

[SIPTA] Fwd: Opportunity to contribute to IMEKO world congress

by Marco De Angelis

Feb. 20, 2018

[SIPTA] Basic Interval Standard

by Kreinovich

FYI, since interval-valued probabilities are an important case of imprecise probabilities, it may be of interest to imprecise probability folks that IEEE has a standard on interval computations. There is a more detailed standard, but for most applications, the basic standard will be sufficient. -----Original Message----- From: Ralph Baker Kearfott [mailto:rbk5287(a)louisiana.edu] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2018 10:57 AM Basic Interval Standard has been published. Its official name is: "IEEE Std 1788.1-2017 - IEEE Standard for Interval Arithmetic (Simplified)" It will be an active standard for 10 years (after which it may be reaffirmed or revised). A web page for it is: https://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/1788.1-2017.html Baker P.S. Here is the info from the standard webpage: Description: This standard is a simplified version and a subset of the IEEE Std 1788TM-2015 for Interval Arithmetic and includes those operations and features of the latter that in the editors' view are most commonly used in practice. IEEE Std 1788.1-2017 specifies interval arithmetic operations based on intervals whose endpoints are IEEE Std 754TM-2008 binary64 floating-point numbers and a decoration system for exception-free computations and propagation of properties of the computed results. A program built on top of an implementation of IEEE Std 1788.1-2017 should compile and run, and give identical output within round off, using an implementation of IEEE Std 1788-2015, or any superset of the former. Compared to IEEE Std 1788-2015, this standard aims to be minimalistic, yet to cover much of the functionality needed for interval computations. As such, it is more accessible and will be much easier to implement, and thus will speed up production of implementations.

Feb. 18, 2018

[SIPTA] math.stackexchange question about upper transition operator definition

by Abrams

Feb. 16, 2018

[SIPTA] Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM2018)

by Ciucci Davide

Feb. 12, 2018

[SIPTA] Call for papers: SMPS/BELIEF 2018 joint conferences

by Sébastien Destercke

====================================================================== Joint SMPS/BELIEF 2018, 17th-21th September 2018 5th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2018) and 9th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS 2018) Dates: September 17th-21th, 2018 Location: Compiègne, France Submission deadline: March 15th, 2018 Notification: April 30th, 2018 Final version: May 30th, 2018 Further information: https://smpsbelief2018.hds.utc.fr/ ====================================================================== The BELIEF and SMPS conferences are biennial events concerning the modeling of uncertainty. The BELIEF conferences are sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society (BFAS) and are focused on the theory of belief functions, while the scope of SMPS covers the application of all approaches to uncertainty (including fuzzy and rough sets, imprecise probabilities, etc.) to statistics and data analysis. The co-location of the two events is intended to favor cross-fertilization among researchers active in both communities. A single registration will be required to attend the whole event. Submissions and Proceedings ============================ The proceedings of the BELIEF 2018 and SMPS 2018 conferences will appear as separate volumes, both published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS/LNAI format, indexed by ISI Web of Science; EI Engineering Index; ACM Digital Library; dblp; Google Scholar; IO-Port; MathSciNet; Scopus; Zentralblatt MATH. Two types of paper are accepted: - Long papers that should be at most 8 pages long and present original contributions with significant results, or detailed position papers. - Short papers that should be 4 pages long and present for example more preliminary works, innovative applications, short position papers. In addition, we accept abstract-only contributions, that will be presented as posters during the conference. Note that those contributions will not be included in the proceedings. IJAR Special issues ==================== Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2018/ SMPS 2018 conferences will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible inclusion in special issues of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. Invited speakers ================== We are very happy to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give an invited talk at the conference: - Thomas Augustin (Ludwig Maximilians Universität München) - Scott Ferson (University of Liverpool) - Ryan Martin (North Carolina State University) ====================================================================== The Conference co-chairs Thierry Denoeux (https://www.hds.utc.fr/~tdenoeux) and Sébastien Destercke (https://www.hds.utc.fr/~sdesterc) Contact: tdenoeux(a)hds.utc.fr, sebastien.destercke(a)hds.utc.fr We would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested participants of these conferences.

Feb. 1, 2018

Re: [SIPTA] Books by Igor Gorban

by Gert De Cooman

Jan. 30, 2018

[SIPTA] Отв: Books by Igor Gorban

by Igor GORBAN

Jan. 30, 2018

Re: [SIPTA] Books by Igor Gorban

by Kreinovich

Jan. 29, 2018

Re: [SIPTA] [IEEE SMC 2018] Call for Special Session Proposals

by Kreinovich

Jan. 29, 2018

Re: [SIPTA] Books by Igor Gorban

by Erik Quaeghebeur

Dear Marshall, Dear group, Marshall wrote: > > I just discovered a couple of books by Igor Gorban on what he > calls “hyper-randomness” and “statistical stability”. […] > The books seem to come from a > different domain of research, so I’m not sure that the IP > community would be aware of them. […] I would be interested if > someone has discussed Gorban’s work in connection with IP. Vladik Kreinovich alerted us here on this list in July last year of the first book's appearance. I do not know of anyone in the IP community having discussed them publicly. I have access via my institute's library, I'll give the DOIs: > The Statistical Stability Phenomenon http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43585-5 > Randomness and Hyper-Randomness http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60780-1 > What I understand from descriptions and previews is that Gorban > argues that there are many phenomena in nature in which repeated > physical trials of the same chance setup produce sequences of > outcomes that do not tend to a limit, but instead stay within > certain ranges. This sounds a lot like some of the phenomena > that Terrence Fine and his collaborators have discussed, > modeled, etc. Yes, there is certainly this connection. However, from skimming the books, it seems that Gorban has worked in relative isolation. He mentions Walley's 1991 book as an extra, uncited reference, but that seems to be it for the connection to our community. My impression is that his experimental results may be very relevant for the IP community as arguments for the use of IP models, even in cases where lots of data is available. Given his relative isolation, my guess is that the modeling tools we have available would be quite useful in his endeavor. He appears to use mostly p-box type models for overcoming the limitations of classical probability theory (but don't cite me on this). Best, Erik -- https://ac.erikquaeghebeur.name

Jan. 29, 2018

[SIPTA] Books by Igor Gorban

by Abrams

Jan. 26, 2018

Re: [SIPTA] XXII IMEKO World Congress 2018: TC21 Sessions. Deadline extended

by francopavese

Jan. 25, 2018

Re: [SIPTA] XXII IMEKO World Congress 2018: TC21 Sessions. Deadline extended

by Kreinovich

Jan. 25, 2018

[SIPTA] FW: 8th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing: deadline extended

by Kreinovich

Jan. 24, 2018

[SIPTA] [REC2018] Abstract deadline extended, University of Liverpool

by De Angelis

Jan. 23, 2018

[SIPTA] RuleML+RR 2018 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

by Maja Hanne Kirkeby

Jan. 4, 2018

[SIPTA] CNRS positions opened

by Sébastien Destercke

Dear all, This is just to let you know that the national French scientific center has a number of nation-wide opened permanent full research positions, as each year. To summarise, each applicant has to propose a personal research project and indicate 2 to 3 French laboratories in which he/she would like to implement this research project. Speaking french is not mandatory. More information at http://www.dgdr.cnrs.fr/drhchercheurs/concoursch/default-en.htm (or you can ask me for unwritten details) Best regards Sebastien

Dec. 6, 2017

Re: [SIPTA] About a recently published special issue on Fuzzy Data Analysis and Classification

by Kreinovich

Nov. 30, 2017

[SIPTA] IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions CIES'2018

by Kreinovich

FYI, imprecise probabilities are one of the highlighted topics From: Michael Beer <beer(a)irz.uni-hannover.de> CIES'2018, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions part of IEEE Series of Symposia on Computational Intelligence SSCI'2018, Bengaluru, India, November 18-21, 2018 http://ieee-ssci2018.org/ Developments in Engineering are characterized by a growing complexity, which is balanced by an extensive utilization of computational resources. This complexity is not only a feature of engineering systems, processes and products, it is primarily a key attribute of the respective algorithms for analysis, control and decision-making to develop those engineering solutions. To cope with complexity in this broad spectrum of demands, Computational Intelligence is implemented increasingly in virtually all engineering disciplines. This emerging approach provides a basis for developments of a new quality. This Symposium is focused on the utilization of Computational Intelligence in this context in the entire field of engineering. Examples concern the control of processes of various kinds and for various purposes, monitoring with sensors, smart sensing, system identification, decision-support and assistance systems, visualization methods, prediction schemes, the solution of classification problems, response surface approximations, the formulation of surrogate models, etc. The engineering application fields may comprise, for example, bioengineering with prostheses design and control, civil and mechanical engineering processes, systems and structures concerned with vehicles, aircraft or bridges, industrial and systems engineering with design and control of power systems, electrical and computer engineering with developments in robotics, etc. All kinds of approaches from the field of Computational Intelligence are welcome. As a part of the Symposium special attention is paid to sustainable engineering solutions to address current and future challenges of environmental changes and uncertainty. This includes developments dealing with climate change, environmental processes, disaster warning and management, infrastructure security, lifecycle analysis and design, etc. Events, disasters and issues under consideration may be natural such as earthquakes or tsunamis, man-made such as human failure or terrorist attacks, or a combination thereof including secondary effects such as failures in nuclear power plants, which may be critical for systems, the environment and the society. Developments which include a comprehensive consideration of uncertainty and techniques of reliable computing are explicitly invited. These may involve probabilistic including Bayesian approaches, interval methods, fuzzy methods, imprecise probabilities and further concepts. In this context robust design is of particular interest with all its facets as a basic concept to develop sustainable engineering solutions. Topics The symposium topics include, but are not limited to: " Complex engineering systems, structures and processes " Intelligent analysis, control and decision-making " Management and processing of uncertainties " Problem solution in uncertain and noisy environments " Reliable computing " Sustainable solutions " Infrastructure security " Climate change " Environmental processes " Disaster warning and management " Lifecycle analysis and design " Automotive systems " Monitoring " Smart sensing " System identification " Decision-support and assistance systems " Visualization methods " Prediction schemes " Classification methods, cluster analysis " Response surface approximations and surrogate models " Sensitivity analysis " Robust design, reliability-based design, performance-based design " Risk analysis, hazard analysis, risk and hazard mitigation " Optimization methods, evolutionary concepts " Probabilistic and statistical methods " Simulation methods, Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo " Bayesian approaches / networks " Artificial Neural Networks " Imprecise probabilities " Evidence theory " p-box approach " Fuzzy probability theory " Interval methods " Fuzzy methods " Convex modeling " Information gap theory Symposium Co-Chairs Michael Beer, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany / University of Liverpool, UK / Tongji University, China Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El Paso, TX, USA Rudolf Kruse, University of Magdeburg, Germany Important dates: Special Session Proposals: April 15, 2018 Tutorial Proposals: May 15, 2018 Paper Submissions: June 15, 2018 Early Registration: September 15, 2018

Nov. 29, 2017

[SIPTA] FW: 1st Ann St Petersburg seminar May 2018

by Kreinovich

Nov. 22, 2017

[SIPTA] 8th SIPTA school on imprecise probabilities: first announcement

by Enrique Miranda

Nov. 21, 2017

[SIPTA] amtyvfb arsernp ublalqx

by encimvp

Nov. 17, 2017

Re: [SIPTA] ICVRAMISUMA2018: Submission Deadline Postponed - November, 30th

by Kreinovich

Nov. 17, 2017

[SIPTA] Reliable Engineering Computing (REC 2018)

by De Angelis

Nov. 16, 2017

Re: [SIPTA] new question on math.stackexchange

by Abrams

Nov. 15, 2017