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BELIEF 2016
The 4th International Conference on Belief Functions
September 21-23, Prague, Czech Republic
Conference website: http://belief.utia.cz

About BELIEF

The theory of belief functions, also referred to as evidence theory or Dempster-Shafer theory, is a well established general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, with well understood connections to other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories. First introduced by Arthur P. Dempster in the context of statistical inference, the theory was later developed by Glenn Shafer into 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 biennial BELIEF conferences (organized by Belief Functions and Applications Society) are dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory. This conference series started in Brest, France, in 2010, the second edition was held in Compi��gne, France, in May 2012, the third edition in Oxford, UK, in September 2014. The 4th International Conference on Belief Functions will take place in Prague, Czech Republic.

This conference will provide opportunities to exchange ideas and present new results on the theory of belief functions and related areas such as random sets, imprecise probability and possibility theory. Original contributions are solicited on theoretical aspects (including mathematical foundations, decision making, combination rules, continuous belief functions, independence and graphical models, statistical estimation, etc.), as well as on applications to all areas of computer science, business and engineering including, but not limited to: data fusion, pattern recognition and machine learning, tracking, data mining, signal and image processing, computer vision, medical diagnosis, business decision, risk analysis, climatic change, etc.

Important dates

paper submission deadline: April 15, 2016
notification of acceptance: May 31, 2016

registration and camera-ready paper: June 15, 2016

Submissions
Authors are invited to prepare full papers not exceeding 8 pages (including results, figures and references).
PDF files must be submitted using the following EasyChair website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=belief2016

Proceedings

At present we negotiate with Springer-Verlag on publication of proceedings as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

IJAR Special issue

Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2016 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.

Conference chair: Ji��ina Vejnarov��, Information Theory and Automation Czech Academy of Sciences, vejnar@utia.cas.cz