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[SIPTA] imprecise-probability tag at math.stackexchange
by Abrams April 10, 2021

April 10, 2021

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2021 - call for papers - extended submission deadline
by frederic.pichon April 9, 2021

April 9, 2021

========================================================================= 6th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) Dates: October 15th-19th, 2021 Location: Shanghai, China (online participation also possible) Extended submission deadline: April 30th, 2021 Notification: June 16th, 2021 Final version: July 7th, 2021 Further information: https://www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/events/belief2021/ ========================================================================= The theory of belief functions, also referred to as evidence theory or Dempster-Shafer theory, was first introduced by Arthur P. Dempster in the context of statistical inference, and was later developed by Glenn Shafer as a general framework for modelling epistemic uncertainty. These early contributions have been the starting points of many important developments, including the transferable belief model and the theory of hints. The theory of belief functions is now well established as a general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, and has well understood connections to other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories. It has been applied in diverse areas such as machine learning, information fusion and risk analysis. The BELIEF conferences (sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society https://www.bfasociety.org/) are dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory. The first edition of this conference series was held in Brest, France, in 2010. Later editions were held in Compiègne, France in 2012, Oxford, UK in 2014, Prague, Czech Republic in 2016, and again in Compiègne, France in 2018. The Sixth International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) will be located in Shanghai, China, on October 15-19, 2021, together with the 2021 International Conference on Cognitive analytics, Granular computing, and Three-way decisions (CCGT). It will be held both onsite and online due to the COVID-19 situation (see Venue and Registration below for details). Submission and Proceedings ========================== The proceedings of the BELIEF 2021 conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series and indexed by: ISI Web of Science; EI Engineering Index; ACM Digital Library; dblp; Google Scholar; IO-Port; MathSciNet; Scopus; Zentralblatt MATH. Previous BELIEF proceedings can be found on SpringerLink. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. IJAR Special issue ================== Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2021 conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reas…) IJAR Best Paper Award ===================== Thanks to the continued support of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, the best papers presented at the conference will be distinguished by the IJAR Best Paper Award. The prize will consist of a certificate and 1000 euros, which will be split between the winners. Invited speakers ================ We are very happy to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give an invited talk at the conference: - Associate Prof. Chunlai Zhou (Renmin University, China), title of the talk: "Basic Utility Theory for Belief Functions" - Prof. Deqiang Han (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), title of the talk: "Learning-based Modelized Methods for Evidence Combination" - Prof. Zengjing Chen (Shandong University, China), title of the talk: "A Central Limit Theorem for Sets of Probability Measures" - Prof. Van-Nam Huynh (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), title of the talk: "Machine Learning coupled with Evidential Reasoning for User Preferences" Tutorials ========= The program of this edition of the BELIEF conference will include tutorials from experts on belief functions and their applications. Confirmed tutorials: - "Generalized Dempster-Shafer theory based on random fuzzy sets" (Prof. Thierry Denoeux, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France) - "Introduction to information fusion in belief function theory" (Prof. Frédéric Pichon, Université d’Artois, Béthune, France). Venue and Registration ====================== To accommodate for the uncertainties surrounding travel possibilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, participants have two options to attend the conference: either online or onsite. The onsite event will take place at the Gu Cun Park Hotel (No.4788 Hu Tai Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai). The registration fee for the onsite participants will include the following items: - Full attendance to the two conferences (BELIEF/CCGT), including keynote talks and tutorials - Online BELIEF 2021 conference proceedings - Gala dinner - Welcome reception - Conference bag - Coffee breaks and lunches We expect most keynote talks to be given onsite (and tutorials to be given online). Online participants will be able to join and participate to the onsite event via an online platform. They will benefit from a discounted registration fee, which will include the following items: - Full attendance to the two conferences (BELIEF/CCGT), including keynote talks and tutorials - Online BELIEF 2021 conference proceedings Students (BFAS Grants) ====================== The onsite and online student registration fees will be reduced in comparison to the standard onsite and online registration fees. Furthermore, the Belief functions and Applications Society (BFAS) is offering a number of grants to allow students with limited funding opportunities to present their work at the conference. The grant covers the registration fee (online or onsite fee depending on the chosen mode of participation by the student). Candidates should send the following information: - CV - recommendation letter from supervisor - copy of paper accepted at BELIEF 2021 to the secretary of BFAS, Dr. Anne-Laure Jousselme (anne-laure.jousselme(a)cmre.nato.int) ============================================================ BELIEF-CCGT Conference co-chairs Thierry Denoeux (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), Duoqian Miao (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, Canada). BELIEF 2021 Program Committee co-chairs Zhunga Liu (liuzhunga(a)nwpu.edu.cn, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), Frédéric Pichon (frederic.pichon(a)univ-artois.fr, Université d'Artois, Béthune, France). BELIEF 2021 Steering committee Eric Lefevre (Université d'Artois, France), Zhunga Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), David Mercier (Université d'Artois, France), Frédéric Pichon (Université d'Artois, France), Zhihua Wei (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Xiaodong Yue (Shanghai University, China) BELIEF 2021 Organization chair Xiaodong Yue, Shanghai University, China The organizers would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested participants of this conference.

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[SIPTA] FW: Information Update Regarding IEEE SSCI 2021
by Kreinovich April 3, 2021

April 3, 2021

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[SIPTA] [jobs] Research fellow in Epistemic Artificial Intelligence - May 3
by Fabio Cuzzolin March 31, 2021

March 31, 2021

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[SIPTA] Re: Call for papers: Symposium on “Optimization, Uncertainty and Probability”, IMECE2021- International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Virtual Conference, November 1-4, 2021
by Kreinovich March 16, 2021

March 16, 2021

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2021 - Third call for papers
by frederic.pichon March 16, 2021

March 16, 2021

========================================================================= 6th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) Dates: October 15th-19th, 2021 Location: Shanghai, China (online participation also possible) Submission deadline: April 15th, 2021 Notification: May 31st, 2021 Final version: June 30th, 2021 Further information: https://www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/events/belief2021/ ========================================================================= The theory of belief functions, also referred to as evidence theory or Dempster-Shafer theory, was first introduced by Arthur P. Dempster in the context of statistical inference, and was later developed by Glenn Shafer as a general framework for modelling epistemic uncertainty. These early contributions have been the starting points of many important developments, including the transferable belief model and the theory of hints. The theory of belief functions is now well established as a general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, and has well understood connections to other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories. It has been applied in diverse areas such as machine learning, information fusion and risk analysis. The BELIEF conferences (sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society https://www.bfasociety.org/) are dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory. The first edition of this conference series was held in Brest, France, in 2010. Later editions were held in Compiègne, France in 2012, Oxford, UK in 2014, Prague, Czech Republic in 2016, and again in Compiègne, France in 2018. The Sixth International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) will be located in Shanghai, China, on October 15-19, 2021, together with the 2021 International Conference on Cognitive analytics, Granular computing, and Three-way decisions (CCGT). It will be held both onsite and online due to the COVID-19 situation (see Venue and Registration below for details). Submission and Proceedings ========================== The proceedings of the BELIEF 2021 conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series and indexed by: ISI Web of Science; EI Engineering Index; ACM Digital Library; dblp; Google Scholar; IO-Port; MathSciNet; Scopus; Zentralblatt MATH. Previous BELIEF proceedings can be found on SpringerLink. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. IJAR Special issue ================== Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2021 conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reas…) Invited speakers ================ We are very happy to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give an invited talk at the conference: - Associate Prof. Chunlai Zhou (Renmin University, China), title of the talk: "Basic Utility Theory for Belief Functions" - Prof. Deqiang Han (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), title of the talk: "Learning-based Modelized Methods for Evidence Combination" - Prof. Zengjing Chen (Shandong University, China), title of the talk to be announced - Prof. Van-Nam Huynh (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), title of the talk to be announced Tutorials ========= The program of this edition of the BELIEF conference will include tutorials from experts on belief functions and their applications. Confirmed tutorials: - "Generalized Dempster-Shafer theory based on random fuzzy sets" (Prof. Thierry Denoeux, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France) - "Introduction to information fusion in belief function theory" (Prof. Frédéric Pichon, Université d’Artois, Béthune, France). Venue and Registration ====================== To accommodate for the uncertainties surrounding travel possibilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, participants have two options to attend the conference: either online or onsite. The onsite event will take place at the Gu Cun Park Hotel (No.4788 Hu Tai Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai). The registration fee for the onsite participants will include the following items: - Full attendance to the two conferences (BELIEF/CCGT), including keynote talks and tutorials - Online BELIEF 2021 conference proceedings - Gala dinner - Welcome reception - Conference bag - Coffee breaks and lunches We expect most keynote talks to be given onsite (and tutorials to be given online). Online participants will be able to join and participate to the onsite event via an online platform. They will benefit from a discounted registration fee, which will include the following items: - Full attendance to the two conferences (BELIEF/CCGT), including keynote talks and tutorials - Online BELIEF 2021 conference proceedings Students ======== The onsite and online student registration fees will be reduced in comparison to the standard onsite and online registration fees. Furthermore, the Belief functions and Applications Society (BFAS) is offering a number of grants to allow students with limited funding opportunities to present their work at the conference. The grant covers the registration fee (online or onsite fee depending on the chosen mode of participation by the student). Candidates should send the following information: - CV - recommendation letter from supervisor - copy of paper accepted at BELIEF 2021 to the secretary of BFAS, Dr. Anne-Laure Jousselme (anne-laure.jousselme(a)cmre.nato.int) ============================================================ BELIEF-CCGT Conference co-chairs Thierry Denoeux (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), Duoqian Miao (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, Canada). BELIEF 2021 Program Committee co-chairs Zhunga Liu (liuzhunga(a)nwpu.edu.cn, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), Frédéric Pichon (frederic.pichon(a)univ-artois.fr, Université d'Artois, Béthune, France). BELIEF 2021 Steering committee Eric Lefevre (Université d'Artois, France), Zhunga Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), David Mercier (Université d'Artois, France), Frédéric Pichon (Université d'Artois, France), Zhihua Wei (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Xiaodong Yue (Shanghai University, China) BELIEF 2021 Organization chair Xiaodong Yue, Shanghai University, China The organizers would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested participants of this conference.

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[SIPTA] FYI: Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing REC'2021 will be fully online
by Kreinovich March 14, 2021

March 14, 2021

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[SIPTA] FW: update on the 2021 World Congress of International Fuzzy Systems Association
by Kreinovich March 14, 2021

March 14, 2021

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[SIPTA] FW: CoProD'21 call for papers
by Kreinovich March 14, 2021

March 14, 2021

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[SIPTA] [jobs] Research fellow in Epistemic Artificial Intelligence (March 28)
by Fabio Cuzzolin March 4, 2021

March 4, 2021

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[SIPTA] Re: Deadline of workshop proposals soon
by Kreinovich March 4, 2021

March 4, 2021

FYI, imprecise probabilities are one of the highlighted topics -----Original Message----- From: Cassio de Campos Sent: Monday, March 1, 2021 10:29 AM https://www.auai.org/uai2021/call_for_workshops Submission deadline: March 8, 2021, 23:59 UTC We invite submissions of workshop proposals for the UAI 2021 conference. Workshops will be held virtually on July 30th following the main conference. Each workshop will be allocated half a day, starting at 6am or 6pm US Pacific Time. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for research topics that are relevant to the UAI community, with emphasis on the discussion of open problems and challenges. Workshop organisers will be in charge of arranging participation, content, and moderation of the workshops. Requirements A significant portion of the workshops should be dedicated to contributed content. Workshop organisers can decide whether contributions will consist of full papers or (extended) abstracts. We encourage workshop organisers to consider diversity aspects when creating the lists of invited speakers and panellists. In particular, we welcome the inclusion of early-career researchers. In addition to the aspects above, proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria: • Relevance to the UAI audience • Potential impact • Quality & clarity of the proposal • Organisers' relevant expertise The workshops should comply with the following requirements • Call for papers/abstracts: Before April 15th • Paper/abstract submission deadline: Between May 15th and May 31st • Paper/abstract notification: Before June 30th Submission Instructions Important dates: • Submission deadline: March 8, 2021, 23:59 UTC (this is a strict deadline) • Notification: April 2, 2021 Proposals should be in single column A4 or letter .pdf format, with font size 11 or greater, and no longer than two pages (excluding organisers’ details and bibliographic references). Proposals should be sent to the following email address: uai2021workshopchair(a)gmail.com. Proposals should contain • Workshop title • A description of the topics to be covered and an explanation of why the workshop is of interest to the UAI audience • A short description of the planned activities (talks, posters, panels) • An indicative list of invited speakers and panelists, specifying who is confirmed and who is unconfirmed • A brief description of the history of the workshop, if it previously took place, and of similar past workshops at other major AI/ML conferences in the last 2 years • List of organisers with email addresses and webpage URL (or a short bio for organisers who do not have a webpage) Silvia Chiappa UAI 2021 Workshop Chair uai2021workshopchair(a)gmail.com https://www.auai.org/uai2021/

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[SIPTA] FW: Special Issue: Reliable Modeling, Simulation, Identification, Control and State Estimation for Dynamic Systems with Uncertainty
by Kreinovich March 4, 2021

March 4, 2021

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[SIPTA] Uncertainty and Risk meeting
by cohens＠maths.ox.ac.uk March 3, 2021

March 3, 2021

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[SIPTA] CFP: IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2021
by Cristina Rottondi March 1, 2021

March 1, 2021

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[SIPTA] important terminological observation: the word "subjective" considered harmful
by Kreinovich Feb. 20, 2021

Feb. 20, 2021

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2021 Autumn: early registration March 3
by IRDTA Feb. 14, 2021

Feb. 14, 2021

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[SIPTA] Re: 8th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (ISRERM), Hannover, Germany, 4-7 Sept 2022
by Kreinovich Feb. 11, 2021

Feb. 11, 2021

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[SIPTA] ISIPTA 2021: Deadline Extension
by Serafin Moral Feb. 4, 2021

Feb. 4, 2021

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[SIPTA] Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at Flairs 34 - Last Call for Papers (deadline February 16)
by Antonucci Alessandro Feb. 3, 2021

Feb. 3, 2021

*** Apologies for multiple postings *** [UR @ FLAIRS 34] LAST CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the 34th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) May 16-19, 2021 - North Miami Beach, Florida (US) FLAIRS 34 will have a safe physical conference to the extent possible, and provide an option for online presentation for those who cannot attend the physical conference. Paper submission deadline: February 16, 2021 Conference website: http://www.flairs-34.info Special track website: http://idsia.ch/~alessandro/flairs ::: Call for Papers ::: Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote cross fertilisation among the different approaches for uncertain reasoning, and in this way foster the development of new ideas and paradigms. The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR '21 Special Track at the 34th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) is the 26th in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'21 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies - Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief function, vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics - Modelling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities - Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning - Inference and learning with graphical models of uncertainty (e.g., Bayesian networks) - Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making - Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process - Temporal reasoning and uncertainty; non-monotonic reasoning; similarity-based reasoning - Conditional logics, description logic, logic programming - Argumentation - Belief change and merging - Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery - Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment - Uncertain reasoning in data management - Practical applications of uncertain reasoning (e.g., machine learning, computer vision and animation) All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track. ::: Program Committee ::: : Track Chairs : - Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) - Kamal Premaratne (University of Miami, US) : PC Members : Mohand Said Allili (Université du Québec en Outaouais) Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) Ameur Bensefia (Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates) Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada) Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada) Sebastien Destercke (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Lluis Godo (Spanish National Research Council, Spain) Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) Christophe Gonzales (LIS, France) Ilyes Jenhani (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Technology Dortmund, Germany) Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, US) Philippe Leray (University of Nantes, France) Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, US) Jhonatan S. Oliveira (University of Regina, Canada) Rafael Peñaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Lalintha Polpitya (Mathworks, US) Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, US) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) Karima Sedki (University of Paris 13, France) Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) Karim Tabia (Artois University, France) Choh Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, US) Thanuka Wickramarathne (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, US) Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada) ::: Other Information ::: FLAIRS 34 will be held in North Miami Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found here. Feel free to write the organizers (alessandro(a)idsia.ch, kamal(a)miami.edu, benferhat(a)cril.fr) for any further information about the special track. ::: Submission ::: Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by February 16, 2021. For FLAIRS-34, the 2021 conference, the reviewing is a double-blind process. Author names and affiliations must be omitted on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. The papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can also be accessed through the main conference web site. There are two kinds of submissions: full paper (up to 6 pages) to be presented by the author in a 20 minute oral presentation; short paper (up to 4 pages) to be presented in a poster session. Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS-34 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-34.

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[SIPTA] Virtual conference on epistemic uncertainty
by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ Feb. 1, 2021

Feb. 1, 2021

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[SIPTA] IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC'2021, 2022, 2023, 2024: mark your calendars
by Kreinovich Jan. 31, 2021

Jan. 31, 2021

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[SIPTA] Re: ViCE Virtual Conference on Epistemic Uncertainty in Engineering
by Kreinovich Jan. 28, 2021

Jan. 28, 2021

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[SIPTA] Postdoc Position: The Bayesian Approach to Robust Argumentation Machines, Munich
by Thomas Augustin Jan. 26, 2021

Jan. 26, 2021

Dear SIPTA-list members, I'd like to inform you that Stephan Hartmann from the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy invites applications for a postdoc position. The project uses Bayesian Belief Networks for large-scale applications in the context of robust argumentation machines. For more information see https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/news/post_doc_rob_arg_2021/ind… Stephan and his team are also quite open to IP, providing a very interesting working environment. Best wishes, Thomas -- -- Prof. Dr. Thomas Augustin Studiendekan / Dean of Studies AG Method(olog)ische Grundlagen der Statistik und ihre Anwendungen / Foundations of Statistics and Their Applications Institut für Statistik / Department of Statistics Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München/ LMU Munich Ludwigstr. 33/II D-80539 München; Germany Tel. +49(0) 89/2180 3520 Fax. +49(0) 89/2180 5044 augustin(a)stat.uni-muenchen.de http://www.foundstat.statistik.uni-muenchen.de/index.html (new!) http://www.foundstat.statistik.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/forschung_int/inde… (new!) http://www.foundstat.statistik.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/publikationen/arte… (new!)

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[SIPTA] CFP: IFIP WG 7.3 Performance conference
by Cristina Rottondi Jan. 21, 2021

Jan. 21, 2021

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[SIPTA] Lecturer job at Heudiasyc + PhD proposal (uncertainty propagation)
by Sébastien Destercke Jan. 21, 2021

Jan. 21, 2021

Dear all, A small mail to inform you that we have two positions opening: * We will open a permanent lecturer position this year in our team, for which strong profiles in uncertainty reasoning and/or statistical learning are welcomed. Although it is possible to teach in english, the usual teaching language here is french. Just let me know if you want more information. * We have a PhD proposal on (espistemic) uncertainty propagation in problems of 3D satellite image reconstruction (used, e.g., to map towns or track ice melting progression). You can check the details there: https://recrutement.cnes.fr/en/annonce/1100115-050-uncertain-and-incomplete… So, if you have strong candidates that could be interested, or are interested yourself, do not hesitate to contact me. -- ==================================== 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 ====================================

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[SIPTA] UAI 2021 - Call for Papers
by Cassio de Campos Jan. 20, 2021

Jan. 20, 2021

UAI 2021 - Call for Papers The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) is one of the premier international conferences on research related to learning and reasoning in the presence of uncertainty. UAI 2021 will be held fully online from 27 to 30 July 2021. We invite papers that describe novel theory, methodology and applications related to artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics. Papers will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact and clarity of writing. More detailed information can be found on the conference website: https://www.auai.org/uai2021/ All accepted papers will be presented in poster sessions and spotlight presentations in a single plenary track to ensure good visibility. Selected papers will have longer presentations and an assigned discussant to foster debate. All accepted papers will be published in a volume of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR). Important dates: February 19, 2021 (23:59 UTC): Paper submission deadline April 14-20, 2021: Author response period May 12, 2021: Author notification We are looking forward to building an exciting program and will do our best to leverage the advantages that an online conference can create. If you have any particular positive or negative experience that you would like to share with us, please do not hesitate to write us an email. Very soon there will be a call for workshop proposals too, stay tuned. Cassio de Campos and Marloes Maathuis UAI 2021 Program Chairs uai2021programchairs(a)gmail.com

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[SIPTA] ISIPTA 2021 2nd CFPs: Deadline Approaching
by Serafin Moral Jan. 20, 2021

Jan. 20, 2021

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[SIPTA] Re: Call for Papers: Applications and Systems Track (KR 2021)
by Kreinovich Jan. 17, 2021

Jan. 17, 2021

FYI, applications involving probabilistic techniques are among the highlighted topics -----Original Message----- From: Thanh Dinh Sent: Friday, January 15, 2021 7:46 PM CALL FOR PAPERS *Applications and Systems Track* of the 18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2021) November 6-12, 2021, Hanoi, Vietnam https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de/ ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submission of title and abstract: March 24, 2021 Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2021 Author response period: May 24-26, 2021 Notification: June 15, 2021 Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2021 Conference dates: November 6-12, 2021 ------------------ Description ------------------ Systems and applications incorporating Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) have made tremendous progress over the last decades and become more and more pervasive in scientific, industrial and everyday life. Popular knowledge representation formalisms range from databases, ontologies, classical, probabilistic and non-monotonic logics to natural language, offering rich means to describe a variety of static as well as dynamic phenomena. Automated reasoning systems harness machine learning, combinatorial search and optimization methods, planning, proving, design and diagnosis techniques to provide powerful tools for analyzing and deriving conclusions from complex input data. Novel, general and interdisciplinary approaches are thus vital contributions at the intersection of science, industry and society, aiming to enhance the capabilities and outreach of KR principles and technologies. This year, for the second time, KR 2021 will host a track on "Applications and Systems". This track aims at providing researchers and industrial practitioners with a dedicated forum for presentation and discussion of new ideas, research experience and emerging results on topics related to applications of KR formalisms and automated reasoning systems. This track provides the opportunity for fostering meaningful connections between researchers from both practical and theoretical areas of AI and, at the same time, offers participants the possibility to learn about progress made on these topics, share their own views and elaborate about approaches that could lead to effective cross-fertilisation among research in challenging KR applications and new innovative systems for solving them. ------------------ Expected Contributions ------------------ The Applications and Systems Track at KR 2021 invites submissions of papers on all aspects of the development, deployment, and evaluation of KR systems to solve significant and challenging application problems, including * case studies, including suitable descriptions of the problem setting, data and tools used, and “lessons learnt”, * use cases, including task specifications, related tasks/approaches, challenges, and a sketch of possible KR solution, * benchmarks, including suitable descriptions of the dataset, reasoning tasks, and ideally some “solution set” or gold standard, * system descriptions, including descriptions of the algorithm, implementation and empirical evaluation on a suitable dataset. We welcome the above kinds of papers on a wide range of topics, including classic KR tools/techniques as well as their usage for solving or supporting tasks in a range of areas, for example: * Computational Biology * Computer Vision and Image/Video Recognition * Creative Computing * Cybersecurity and Blockchain * Data Analytics * Databases and Query Answering * Diagnosis and Explanation * Game Theory and Social Choice * Intelligent Transportation and Logistics * Intelligent User Interfaces * Internet of Things * Machine Learning * Natural Language Processing * Digital Forensics * Robotics and Human Robot Collaboration * Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs * Software Engineering * System Design We welcome submissions talking about interdisciplinary applications of KR, for example in economics, education, life sciences, medicine, and pharmacology. ------------------ Submission Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria ------------------ The Applications and Systems Track will allow contributions of both regular papers (9 pages) and short papers (4 pages), excluding references, prepared and submitted according to Authors Guidelines for KR 2021. The track emphasizes applications of KR and development of KR systems, and welcomes contributions showcasing the impact of KR research as well as driving future research by presenting challenging data, use cases and problems together with observations and insights gained. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed by PC members, who are active in applications of KR and/or development of KR systems. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, including criteria such as originality, soundness, relevance, significance, quality of presentation, and understanding of the state of the art. In this track, the selection process of the highest quality papers will further apply the following criteria: - (for case studies) quality of the evaluation and significance of the “lessons learnt” - (for use cases) importance and novelty of these use cases for KR - (for system descriptions) quality of the empirical evaluation and its reporting - (for benchmarks) reusability, coverage, and complexity of the datasets ------------------ Chairs ------------------ Martin Gebser (University of Klagenfurt & Graz University of Technology, Austria) Martin.Gebser(a)aau.at Uli Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Uli.Sattler(a)manchester.ac.uk

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2021 - Second call for papers
by frederic.pichon Jan. 16, 2021

Jan. 16, 2021

============================================================ 6th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) Dates: October 15th-19th, 2021 Location: Shanghai, China Submission deadline: April 15th, 2021 Notification: May 31st, 2021 Final version: June 30th, 2021 Further information: https://www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/events/belief2021/ ============================================================ The theory of belief functions, also referred to as evidence theory or Dempster-Shafer theory, was first introduced by Arthur P. Dempster in the context of statistical inference, and was later developed by Glenn Shafer as a general framework for modelling epistemic uncertainty. These early contributions have been the starting points of many important developments, including the Transferable Belief Model and the Theory of Hints. The theory of belief functions is now well established as a general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, and has well understood connections to other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories. The BELIEF conferences (sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society https://www.bfasociety.org/) are dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory. The first edition of this conference series was held in Brest, France, in 2010, the second edition in Compiègne, France, in 2012, the third edition in Oxford, UK, in 2014, the fourth edition in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2016, and the fifth edition in Compiègne, France, in 2018. The Sixth International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) will be located in Shanghai, China, on October 15-19, 2021, together with the 2021 International Conference on Cognitive analytics, Granular computing, and Three-way decisions (CCGT). It will be held totally or partially online depending on the evolution of the COVID-19 situation. Submission and Proceedings ======================= The proceedings of the BELIEF 2021 conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series and indexed by: ISI Web of Science; EI Engineering Index; ACM Digital Library; dblp; Google Scholar; IO-Port; MathSciNet; Scopus; Zentralblatt MATH. Previous BELIEF proceedings can be found on SpringerLink. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. IJAR Special issue ============== Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2021 conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. Invited speakers ============= We are very happy to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give an invited talk at the conference: - Prof. Zengjing Chen (Shandong University, China) - Prof. Deqiang Han (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) - Prof. Van-Nam Huynh (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) - Associate Prof. Chunlai Zhou (Renmin University, China) Tutorials ============= The program of this edition of the BELIEF conference will include tutorials from experts on belief functions and their applications. More to be announced soon. ============================================================ BELIEF-CCGT Conference co-chairs Thierry Denoeux (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), Duoqian Miao (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, Canada). BELIEF 2021 Program Committee co-chairs Zhunga Liu (liuzhunga(a)nwpu.edu.cn, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), Frédéric Pichon (frederic.pichon(a)univ-artois.fr, Université d'Artois, France). BELIEF 2021 Steering committee Eric Lefevre (Université d'Artois, France), Zhunga Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), David Mercier (Université d'Artois, France), Frédéric Pichon (Université d'Artois, France), Zhihua Wei (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Xiaodong Yue (Shanghai University, China) BELIEF 2021 Organisation chair Xiaodong Yue, Shanghai University, China The organisers would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested participants of this conference.

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[SIPTA] New book: the geometry of uncertainty
by Fabio Cuzzolin Jan. 7, 2021

Jan. 7, 2021

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[SIPTA] SSCI'2022: mark your calendars
by Kreinovich Jan. 4, 2021

Jan. 4, 2021

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[SIPTA] FW: CALL FOR PAPER ESREL 2021 from 19 to 23 september 2021 in Angers, France
by Kreinovich Jan. 4, 2021

Jan. 4, 2021

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[SIPTA] Re: UNCECOMP 2021 - Happy New Year! Reminder for Abstract Submission
by Kreinovich Jan. 4, 2021

Jan. 4, 2021

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[SIPTA] Re: UAI 2021 - Call for Papers
by Kreinovich Dec. 24, 2020

Dec. 24, 2020

Imprecise probabilities are one of the highlighted topics -----Original Message----- From: UAI2021 Programchairs Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 12:53 AM The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) is one of the premier international conferences on research related to learning and reasoning in the presence of uncertainty. UAI 2021 will be held fully online from 27 to 30 July 2021. We invite papers that describe novel theory, methodology and applications related to artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics. Papers will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact and clarity of writing. More detailed information can be found on the conference website: https://www.auai.org/uai2021/ Important dates: February 19, 2021 (23:59 UTC): Paper submission deadline April 14-20, 2021: Author response period May 12, 2021: Author notification We are looking forward to building an exciting program and will do our best to leverage the advantages that an online conference can create. If you have any particular positive or negative experience that you would like to share with us, please do not hesitate to write us an email. Soon there will be a call for workshop proposals too, stay tuned. Cassio de Campos and Marloes Maathuis UAI 2021 Program Chairs uai2021programchairs(a)gmail.com

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[SIPTA] Re: CFP: 16th European Conf on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2021)
by Kreinovich Dec. 22, 2020

Dec. 22, 2020

FYI, probabilistic uncertainty is one of the highlighted topics. -----Original Message----- From: Nic Wilson Sent: Monday, December 21, 2020 4:31 AM CALL FOR PAPERS The Sixteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty ECSQARU 2021 http://ecsqaru.utia.cas.cz/ September 21-24, 2021, Prague (Czechia) The biennial ECSQARU conferences constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty, with a focus on bringing symbolic and quantitative aspects together. 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, applications, 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), Compiègne (2015), Lugano (2017), and Belgrade (2019) SCOPE For ECSQARU 2021 we invite submissions of original 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 change & merging - Classification & clustering - Decision theory & decision graphs - Default reasoning - Description logics with uncertainty - Foundations of reasoning under uncertainty - Fuzzy sets & fuzzy logic - Game theory - Hybrid Reasoning - 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 PROCEEDINGS In accordance with the previous conferences, it is planned that the proceedings of ECSQARU 2021 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. SUBMISSIONS Authors are requested to prepare their conference papers in the LNCS/LNAI format. Submitted papers must be original and not under review in a journal or another venue with formally published proceedings. They 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: at least one author of each paper must register for the conference. Submitted papers must be at most 12 pages in the Springer LNCS/LNAI format. Submissions will be through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsqaru2021 IMPORTANT DATES May 1, 2021 - abstract submission deadline May 5, 2021 - paper submission deadline June 14, 2021 - author notification July 5, 2021 - submission of final version July 5, 2021 - early registration & payment

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[SIPTA] SIPTA School January dates
by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ Dec. 19, 2020

Dec. 19, 2020

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[SIPTA] Position at Carlos III University of Madrid
by IGNACIO MONTES GUTIERREZ Dec. 16, 2020

Dec. 16, 2020

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[SIPTA] Postdoc position on uncertainty quantification @ R2D - KU Leuven
by Matthias Faes Dec. 14, 2020

Dec. 14, 2020

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[SIPTA] Re: IEEE SSCI 2021: First Call for Papers, Tutorials and Special Sessions
by Kreinovich Dec. 13, 2020

Dec. 13, 2020

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[SIPTA] FW: JELIA 2021 CALL FOR PAPERS : Submission Deadlines Extended
by Kreinovich Dec. 5, 2020

Dec. 5, 2020

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[SIPTA] SIPTA School *online* - Registration is open
by De Angelis Nov. 30, 2020

Nov. 30, 2020

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[SIPTA] Re: NAFIPS'2021 call for papers
by Kreinovich Nov. 29, 2020

Nov. 29, 2020

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[SIPTA] IEEE Series of Symposia on Computational Intelligence SSCI 2021: mark your calendars
by Kreinovich Nov. 29, 2020

Nov. 29, 2020

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[SIPTA] SMPS2020 Conference postponed to 2022
by Kreinovich Nov. 19, 2020

Nov. 19, 2020

FYI -----Original Message----- From: SMPS2020 Dear colleagues, As you certainly know, the undesirable circumstances in connection with the COVID-19 have not improved enough with respect to the ones we had some months ago, causing the delay in organizing the 10th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (formerly SMPS’2020). The uncertain situation and the way it is still affecting Spain (organizing such an edition) and most of countries in Europe, America, and so on, have moved us, in agreement with Core SMPS Group, to decide to stop with the former and even the second plannings for the conference. As we have already commented, because of the nature of this conference, we have discarded to consider a virtual version. It seems much better to postpone it waiting for the moment in which uncertainty only concerns our research topics (hopefully in 2022). We will inform you all in a more accurate way in due time. Thank you for your understanding and support! Take care! -- Luis A. García-Escudero Alfonso Gordaliza Agustín Mayo-Íscar Universidad de Valladolid (IMUVa), Spain General Chairs SMPS2020

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2021 Spring: early registration December 16
by IRDTA Nov. 17, 2020

Nov. 17, 2020

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[SIPTA] SIPTA School *online*
by De Angelis Nov. 16, 2020

Nov. 16, 2020

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[SIPTA] [Flairs-34] Last Call For Papers for Uncertain Reasoning Special Track
by Alessandro Antonucci Nov. 16, 2020

Nov. 16, 2020

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at Flairs 34 - First Call for Papers *** Apologies for multiple postings *** [UR @ FLAIRS 34] CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the 34th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) May 16-19, 2021 - North Miami Beach, Florida (US) Paper submission deadline: November 17, 2020 Conference website: http://www.flairs-34.info Special track website: http://idsia.ch/~alessandro/flairs ::: Call for Papers ::: Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote cross fertilisation among the different approaches for uncertain reasoning, and in this way foster the development of new ideas and paradigms. The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR '21 Special Track at the 34th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) is the 26th in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'21 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies - Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief function, vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics - Modelling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities - Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning - Inference and learning with graphical models of uncertainty (e.g., Bayesian networks) - Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making - Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process - Temporal reasoning and uncertainty; non-monotonic reasoning; similarity-based reasoning - Conditional logics, description logic, logic programming - Argumentation - Belief change and merging - Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery - Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment - Uncertain reasoning in data management - Practical applications of uncertain reasoning (e.g., machine learning, computer vision and animation) All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track. ::: Program Committee ::: : Track Chairs : - Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) - Kamal Premaratne (University of Miami, US) : PC Members : Mohand Said Allili (Université du Québec en Outaouais) Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) Ameur Bensefia (Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates) Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada) Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada) Sebastien Destercke (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) Christophe Gonzales (LIS, France) Ilyes Jenhani (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Technology Dortmund, Germany) Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, US) Rafael Peñaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Lalintha Polpitya (Mathworks, US) Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, US) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) Karim Tabia (Artois University, France) Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada) ::: Other Information ::: FLAIRS 34 will be held in North Miami Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found here. Feel free to write the organizers (alessandro(a)idsia.ch, kamal(a)miami.edu, benferhat(a)cril.fr) for any further information about the special track. ::: Submission ::: Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 17, 2020. For FLAIRS-34, the 2021 conference, the reviewing is a double-blind process. Author names and affiliations must be omitted on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. The papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can also be accessed through the main conference web site. There are two kinds of submissions: full paper (up to 6 pages) to be presented by the author in a 20 minute oral presentation; short paper (up to 4 pages) to be presented in a poster session. Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS-34 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-34.

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[SIPTA] [UR' 21 @ Flairs-34] Call For Papers (deadline Nov 17)
by Alessandro Antonucci Nov. 12, 2020

Nov. 12, 2020

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at Flairs 34 - First Call for Papers *** Apologies for multiple postings *** [UR @ FLAIRS 34] CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the 34th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) May 16-19, 2021 - North Miami Beach, Florida (US) Paper submission deadline: November 17, 2020 Conference website: http://www.flairs-34.info Special track website: http://idsia.ch/~alessandro/flairs ::: Call for Papers ::: Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote cross fertilisation among the different approaches for uncertain reasoning, and in this way foster the development of new ideas and paradigms. The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR '21 Special Track at the 34th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-34) is the 26th in the series. Like the past tracks, UR'21 seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies - Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief function, vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics - Modelling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities - Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning - Inference and learning with graphical models of uncertainty (e.g., Bayesian networks) - Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making - Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process - Temporal reasoning and uncertainty; non-monotonic reasoning; similarity-based reasoning - Conditional logics, description logic, logic programming - Argumentation - Belief change and merging - Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery - Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment - Uncertain reasoning in data management - Practical applications of uncertain reasoning (e.g., machine learning, computer vision and animation) All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers at the track. ::: Program Committee ::: : Track Chairs : - Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) - Kamal Premaratne (University of Miami, US) : PC Members : Mohand Said Allili (Université du Québec en Outaouais) Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) Ameur Bensefia (Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates) Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada) Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada) Sebastien Destercke (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) Christophe Gonzales (LIS, France) Ilyes Jenhani (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Technology Dortmund, Germany) Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, US) Rafael Peñaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Lalintha Polpitya (Mathworks, US) Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, US) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) Karim Tabia (Artois University, France) Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada) ::: Other Information ::: FLAIRS 34 will be held in North Miami Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found here. Feel free to write the organizers (alessandro(a)idsia.ch, kamal(a)miami.edu, benferhat(a)cril.fr) for any further information about the special track. ::: Submission ::: Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 17, 2020. For FLAIRS-34, the 2021 conference, the reviewing is a double-blind process. Author names and affiliations must be omitted on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. The papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can also be accessed through the main conference web site. There are two kinds of submissions: full paper (up to 6 pages) to be presented by the author in a 20 minute oral presentation; short paper (up to 4 pages) to be presented in a poster session. Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS-34 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-34.

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[SIPTA] Re: Call for Papers: UNCECOMP 2021- MS2 on “Uncertainty Quantification under limited data”
by Kreinovich Nov. 9, 2020

Nov. 9, 2020

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2021 - First call for papers
by frederic.pichon Nov. 9, 2020

Nov. 9, 2020

============================================================ 6th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) Dates: October 15th-19th, 2021 Location: Shanghai, China Submission deadline: April 15th, 2021 Notification: May 31st, 2021 Final version: June 30th, 2021 Further information: https://www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/events/belief2021/ ============================================================ The theory of belief functions, also referred to as evidence theory or Dempster-Shafer theory, was first introduced by Arthur P. Dempster in the context of statistical inference, and was later developed by Glenn Shafer as a general framework for modelling epistemic uncertainty. These early contributions have been the starting points of many important developments, including the Transferable Belief Model and the Theory of Hints. The theory of belief functions is now well established as a general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, and has well understood connections to other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories. The BELIEF conferences (sponsored by the Belief Functions and Applications Society https://www.bfasociety.org/) are dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory. The first edition of this conference series was held in Brest, France, in 2010, the second edition in Compiègne, France, in 2012, the third edition in Oxford, UK, in 2014, the fourth edition in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2016, and the fifth edition in Compiègne, France, in 2018. The Sixth International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2021) will be located in Shanghai, China, on October 15-19, 2021, together with the 2021 International Conference on Cognitive analytics, Granular computing, and Three-way decisions (CCGT). It will be held totally or partially online depending on the evolution of the COVID-19 situation. Submission and Proceedings ======================= The proceedings of the BELIEF 2021 conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series and indexed by: ISI Web of Science; EI Engineering Index; ACM Digital Library; dblp; Google Scholar; IO-Port; MathSciNet; Scopus; Zentralblatt MATH. Previous BELIEF proceedings can be found on SpringerLink. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. IJAR Special issue ============== Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2021 conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. Tutorials ============= The program of this edition of the BELIEF conference will include tutorials from experts on belief functions and their applications. More to be announced soon. ============================================================ BELIEF-CCGT Conference co-chairs Thierry Denoeux (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), Duoqian Miao (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, Canada). BELIEF 2021 Program Committee co-chairs Zhunga Liu (liuzhunga(a)nwpu.edu.cn, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), Frédéric Pichon (frederic.pichon(a)univ-artois.fr, Université d'Artois, France). BELIEF 2021 Steering committee Eric Lefevre (Université d'Artois, France), Zhunga Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China), David Mercier (Université d'Artois, France), Frédéric Pichon (Université d'Artois, France), Zhihua Wei (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Xiaodong Yue (Shanghai University, China) BELIEF 2021 Organisation chair Xiaodong Yue, Shanghai University, China The organisers would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested participants of this conference.

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