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Ignacio Montes

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The International Journal of Approximate Reasoning will publish a special issue on 'Probability and Statistics: Foundations and History’  in honor of Glenn Shafer, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, see

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reasoning/call-for-papers/foundations-and-history-in-honor-of-glenn-shafer

The scope of the special issue includes all areas in which Glenn has been active, including

• Theory of belief functions;
• Graphical models and causal inference;
• Game-theoretic probability;
• Conformal prediction;
• History of probability and statistics.

Review articles describing the most important historical and recent developments in these areas are particularly welcome.

Important dates:

- Submission Deadline: 31 January, 2021  ***EXTENDED***
- Final acceptance decisions: 30 September 2021
- Special Issue published in hard copy and online: November 2021

Guest Editors:

Prof. John C. Aldrich,
Department of Economics, University of Southampton, UK
john.aldrich@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor A. Philip Dawid, FRS
Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
apd@statslab.cam.ac.uk

Prof. Thierry Denoeux
Department of Computer Science, Universit� de Technologie de Compi�gne, France
tdenoeux@utc.fr

Prof. Prakash P. Shenoy
School of Business, University of Kansas, USA
pshenoy@ku.edu

Prof. Vladimir Vovk
Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
v.vovk@rhul.ac.uk

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Prof. Thierry Denoeux
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reasoning
Universit� de technologie de Compi�gne
Institut universitaire de France
Rue Roger Couttolenc, CS 60319
60203 Compi�gne cedex, France
https://www.hds.utc.fr/~tdenoeux