Call for papers

Special session on Imprecise probabilities and non-additive measures

to be held at IFSA-SCIS 2017

Joint 17th World Congress of International Fuzzy Systems Association 
and 9th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems

http://ifsa-scis2017.j-soft.org/

 

Description:

This session concerns imprecise probability in the wide sense.  It is used as a generic term   for   uncertainty   models, both qualitative and quantitative, not using sharp numerical probabilities, such as comparative probabilities, n-monotone capacities, belief functions, possibilities, lower previsions, etc.  Such models address inference problems where the relevant information is scarce, vague or conflicting, and decision problems where preferences may be incomplete. We would like to attract papers that discuss and solve foundational questions, or clearly demonstrate the usefulness of imprecise   probabilistic   models   in   a particular   application.    

Scope of the session

Theoretical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

-(Coherent) uncertainty models.

-Fuzzy measures and non-additive set functions.

-Qualitative reasoning about uncertainty.

-Limit laws for imprecise probabilities.

-Philosophical foundations.

-Elicitation and inference.

-Robust statistics.

-Decision making.

-Algorithmic issues.

Applications include (but are not limited to):

-Data mining.

-Dlassification and machine learning .

-Risk and reliability analysis.

-Finance .

-Life sciences.

-System control and design.

Important dates

Submission of papers: January 15, 2017

Submission of papers: January 29, 2017

Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2017

Final version due: April 30, 2017

Conference: June 27-30, 2017

Organizers:

Enrique Miranda and Ignacio Montes

University of Oviedo (Spain)

Contact: mirandaenrique@uniovi.es imontes@uniovi.es