BELIEF 2014

3rd International Conference on Belief Functions

http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/FabioCuzzolin/BELIEF2014

Oxford, UK, September 26-28 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS

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 modeling 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.

In 2012 alone, more than 300 papers on belief functions and their applications have been published worldwide. The ambition of the series of International Conferences on Belief Functions - BELIEF - is to bring together the large and expanding community of mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, engineers, economists and practitioners which work on the theoretical foundations of belief calculus or its application to all fields of applied science.

TOPICS

Original contributions are solicited on theoretical aspects, including:

- decision making
- combination rules
- conditioning
- continuous belief functions
- independence and graphical models
- statistical inference
- geometry and distance metrics
- mathematical foundations
- computational frameworks

as well as on applications in various areas including, but not limited to:

- data and information fusion
- pattern recognition
- machine learning and clustering
- tracking and data association
- data mining
- signal and image processing
- computer vision
- medical diagnosis
- business decision
- risk analysis
- engineering and environment
- climatic change.

SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to prepare full papers not exceeding 8 pages, including results, figures and references, using the LaTeX style files provided, via the following Easychair website:�

Papers will be presented during the conference in a single track oral session.�

IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): May 15th, 2014.
Notification of acceptance : June 15, 2014
Final version due : June 30, 2014
Author registration : June 30, 2014
Early registration : July 30, 2014
Conference : September 26-28, 2014

� � REGISTRATION FEES

� � Early registration (before July 30th 2014) � � � � � � � � � � �350 British Pounds
� � Regular (after July 30th 2014) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �400 British Pounds
� � Early student registration � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �200 British Pounds
� � Late student registration � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 250 British Pounds

PROCEEDINGS

All accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series.

AWARDS

A Best Paper award, sponsored by Elsevier, worth 1000 euros will be assigned to the most

outstanding technical contribution based on the reviews received by each accepted paper. The final�decision will be made by the Belief Functions and Applications Society (BFAS) board.

A Best Student Paper award will be specifically assigned to the best work by a student. This award is�sponsored by the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF). The lead student author will�receive a free student registration to attend FUSION 2015.

IJAR SPECIAL ISSUE

Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2014 conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.

VENUE

The 3rd International Conference on Belief Functions will take place in Oxford, United Kingdom. Oxford is a world-famous university city, home of two major universities.�
The Belief 2014 Conference will take place in the beautiful St. Hugh's college, University of Oxford.

ORGANISATION

The conference series is organised by the Belief Functions and Applications Society:�
http://www.bfasociety.org/�

Program Chair: Dr Fabio Cuzzolin, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/FabioCuzzolin/

Honorary Chairs: Arthur P. Dempster (USA), Glenn Shafer (USA)

INVITED SPEAKERS

The invited speaker will be Professor Thomas Lukasiewicz and Professor Nando de Freitas, from the Computer Science department of Oxford University.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

� � Alessandro Antonucci (Switzerland)
� � Alain Appriou (France)
� � Boutheina Ben Yaghlane (Tunisia)
� � Malcolm Beynon (UK)
� � Yaxin Bi (UK)
� � Isabelle Bloch (France)
� � Mohamed Boudaren (Algeria)
� � Thomas Burger (France)
� � Veronique Cherfaoui (France)
� � Olivier Colot (France)
� � Fabio Cuzzolin (UK)
� � Milan Daniel (Czech Republic)
� � Francois Delmotte (France)
� � Yong Deng (China)
� � Thierry Denoeux (France)
� � Sebastien Destercke (France)
� � Jean Dezert (France)