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[SIPTA] Special issue IJAR - VSI:RPK

by Barbara Vantaggi

March 6, 2019

[SIPTA] FW: FSTA 2020 - mark the dates

by Kreinovich

March 5, 2019

Re: [SIPTA] 2nd CfP ECSQARU 2019

by Kreinovich

FYI, please note that imprecise probabilities are explicitly mentioned as one of the main topics -----Original Message----- From: Gabriele Kern-Isberner ******************************************************************************** 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS Fifteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty ECSQARU 2019 September 18-20, 2019 Belgrade (Serbia) http://www.mi.sanu.ac.rs/~ecsqaru2019/ Invited Speakers: Fabio Gagliardi Cozman, University of Sao Paulo Lluís Godo, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), CSIC Francesca Toni, Imperial College London ******************************************************************************** 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, 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), and Lugano (2017). ::: SCOPE ::: For ECSQARU 2019 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 - 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, the proceedings of ECSQARU 2019 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. In addition to that, extended versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. ::: 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. Reviewing will be double-blind, so names of authors and affiliations must be omitted from the paper. 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 10 pages (excluding references) in the Springer LNCS/LNAI format. Submissions will be through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsqaru2019 ::: IMPORTANT DATES ::: May 3, 2019: Abstract submission deadline May 10, 2019: Paper submission deadline June 11, 2019: Author notification Sept 18-20, 2019: ECSQARU 2019 _________________________________ Co-Chairs: Gabriele Kern-Isberner Department of Computer Science TU Dortmund, Germany gabriele.kern-isberner(a)cs.uni-dortmund.de Zoran Ognjanović (also Local Organization) Mathematical Institute SANU Belgrade, Serbia (ex: Serbia and Montenegro, Yugoslavia) zorano(a)mi.sanu.ac.rs Program Committee: Leila Amgoud, IRIT, France Alessandro Antonucci, IDSIA, Switzerland Ringo Baumann, Leipzig University, Germany Christoph Beierle, University of Hagen, Germany Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh, UK Concha Bielza, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Isabelle Bloch, ENST-LTCI, France Guy van den Broeck, University of California, US Giovanni Casini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Laurence Cholvy, ONERA-Toulouse, France Giulianella Coletti, Univesity of Perugia, Italy Ines Couso, University of Oviedo, Spain Fabio G. Cozman, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Fabio Cuzzolin, Oxford Brookes University, UK Luis (M.) De Campos, University of Granada, Spain Thierry Deneoux, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Sebastien Destercke, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Dragan Doder, University of Belgrade, Serbia Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr, IRIT, France Zied Elouedi, Institut Superieur de Gestion de Tunis, Tunisia Patricia Everaere, University of Lille 1, France Alessandro Facchini, IDSIA, Switzerland Eduardo Ferme, University of Madeira, Spain Tommaso Flaminio, IIIA - CSIC, Spain Laurent Garcia, University of Angers, France Laura Giordano, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Lluis Godo, Spanish National Research Council, Spain Anthony Hunter, University College London, UK Nebojsa Ikodinovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Souhila Kaci, LIRMM, France Sebastien Konieczny, CRIL, France Jerome Lang, LAMSADE, France Florence Le Ber, ENGEES, France Philippe Leray, University of Nantes, France Peter Lucas, Radboud University, Netherlands Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen, Germany Francesca Mangili, IDSIA, Switzerland Choh Man Teng, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, US Pierre Marquis, University of Artois, France Maria Vanina Martinez, University of Oxford, UK David Mercier, University of Artois, France Thomas Meyer, University of Cape Town and CAIR, South Africa Enrique Miranda, University of Oviedo, Spain Serafin Moral, University of Granada, Spain Farid Nouioua, LSIS, France Odile Papini, LSIS UMR CNRS, France Davide Petturiti, University of Perugia, Italy Nico Potyka, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Henri Prade, IRIT, France Silja Renooij, Utrecht University, Netherlands Guillermo Simari, Universidad del Sur in Bahia Blanca, Argentina Karim Tabia, CRIL, France Rafael Testa, Unicamp, Brazil Matthias Thimm, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Matthias Troffaes, Durham University, UK Linda Van der Gaag, Utrecht University, Netherlands Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Ivan Varzinczak, University of Artois and CNRS, France Jirka Vomlel, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Renata Wassermann, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Eric Würbel, LSIS/INCA, France ******************************************************************************************* -- *************************************************** * Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kern-Isberner * Technische Universitaet Dortmund * Dept. of Computer Science * Chair I - Information Engineering * 44221 Dortmund, Germany * Phone: +49-231-755-2045 * Fax: +49-231-755 6555 * email: gabriele.kern-isberner(a)cs.uni-dortmund.de ***************************************************

March 2, 2019

Re: [SIPTA] Poster of ECONVN2020

by Kreinovich

March 2, 2019

[SIPTA] DeepLearn 2019: early registration March 2

by IRDTA

Feb. 26, 2019

[SIPTA] IFSA/NAFIPS'2019: additional deadline April 1 (not a joke!)

by Kreinovich

Feb. 25, 2019

[SIPTA] AlCoB 2019: call for posters

by IRDTA

Feb. 22, 2019

[SIPTA] Funded PhD position on "Reasoning under inconsistencies in support to maritime surveillance"

by frederic.pichon

* Title of the PhD project : Reasoning under inconsistencies in support to maritime surveillance * Starting date and duration: Octobre 2019, 36 months * Supervision: Supervisor: Frédéric Pichon, Associate Professor (Maître de conférences HDR), Laboratory of Computer Engineering and Automation of Artois (LGI2A) Co-supervisor: Anne-Laure Jousselme, Scientist, NATO Centre for Maritime Research & Experimentation (CMRE) * Topic of the project: In maritime surveillance, the detection, identification and management of inconsistencies in available information is of crucial importance for understanding the situation and analyzing ship behaviors. These inconsistencies may reflect illicit or malicious acts, ships in distress, or simply sensor malfunction. This task of monitoring is particularly difficult for an operator because of the volume, the variety and the lack of veracity of information. Moreover, the characterization of what constitutes an inconsistency represents a challenge in itself since it depends strongly on the operational context (mission, weather, geopolitics, environment). The objective of the project is to develop a formal and tooled approach to help reasoning in the presence of inconsistencies. Building on previous work [1-5] including recent work at LGI2A and CMRE [6-10], the project will aim at proposing one or more measures of the degree of inconsistency having clear semantics and behavior, adapted to the operational context and meaningful to the operator. The major challenge will therefore be to reconcile inconsistency measurement and human intuition as to its behavior. The formal framework chosen should be rich enough to handle the heterogeneity and imperfection of information, and to reflect different facets of human reasoning. As such, the theory of belief functions will be favored. The approach developed will be tested on real data from AIS (Automatic Identification System), possibly supplemented by information extracted from radar or satellite images, from past events, intelligence reports, patterns-of-life, nautical charts or social networks. References [1] D. Dubois, W. Liu, J. Ma, H. Prade. The basic principles of uncertain information fusion. An organised review of merging rules in different representation frameworks. Information Fusion 32:12-39, 2016. [2] A. Hunter, S. Konieczny. Measuring inconsistency through minimal inconsistent sets. Proc. of the 11th Int. Conf. on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'08), pp. 358-366, 2008. [3] S. Destercke, T. Burger. Toward an axiomatic definition of conflict between belief functions. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. B 43(2):585-596, 2013. [4] T. George, N. R. Pal. Quantification of conflict in Dempster-Shafer framework: A new approach. Int. J. of General Systems 24(4):407-423, 1996. [5] R. R. Yager. On considerations of credibility of evidence. Int. J. Approx. Reason. 7(1/2):45-72, 1992. [6] G. Pallotta, A.-L. Jousselme. Data-driven detection and context-based classification of maritime anomalies. In Proc. of the 18th Int. Conf. on Information Fusion, Washington, D. C., USA, pp. 1152-1159, 2015. [7] F. Pichon, A.-L. Jousselme, N. Ben Abdallah. Several shades of conflict. Fuzzy Sets and Systems (2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fss.2019.01.014 [8] F. Pichon, S. Destercke, T. Burger. A consistency-specificity trade-off to select source behavior in information fusion. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 45(4):598-609, 2015. [9] N. Ben Abdallah, A.-L. Jousselme, F. Pichon. An ordered family of consistency measures of belief functions. In F. Cuzzolin, S. Destercke, T. Denoeux and A. Martin, editors, Belief Functions: Theory and Applications, Proc. of the 5th International Conference, BELIEF 2018, Compi√®gne, France, September 17-21, 2018, volume 11069 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 199-207, Springer, 2018. [10] N. Ben Abdallah, A.-L. Jousselme, An evidential solution to support reasoning with partially reliable and conflicting sources in maritime surveillance, Under review, 2019. * Keywords: Belief functions, Dempster-Shafer theory, Consistency, Conflict, Anomaly, Maritime surveillance. * (Pending) Funding: Université d'Artois, French Région Hauts-de-France and/or research funding entity, for an expected gross salary of approximately 1800 euros per month for 3 years (standard duration and salary to complete doctoral studies in computer science in France). * Environment: The work will be carried out in the Laboratory of Computer Engineering and Automation of Artois (https://www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/spip/?lang=en) located in Béthune, France. Stays at the NATO Centre for Maritime Research & Experimentation (https://www.cmre.nato.int) located in La Spezia, Italy, may also be necessary. * Candidate profile: The candidate must hold a master's degree (or equivalent) in computer science. Knowledge in artificial intelligence will be an asset. * Application: Send CV, cover letter, grades and rankings of the last two years of studies as well as letters of recommendation to: Frédéric Pichon (frederic.pichon(a)univ-artois .fr) and Anne-Laure Jousselme (anne-laure.jousselme(a)cmre.nato.int)

Feb. 21, 2019

[SIPTA] CoProd'2019: additional deadline April 1 (not a joke!)

by Kreinovich

Feb. 19, 2019

[SIPTA] DeepLearn 2019: early registration March 2

by IRDTA

Feb. 16, 2019