[UAI] Call for Papers - ISIPTA' 03

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Date: Sat Jun 29 2002 - 08:20:57 PDT

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                                      ISIPTA '03
    3rd International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and Their Applications
                                First Call for Papers

                                  July 14-17, 2003
                                Lugano, Switzerland
                           http://www.sipta.org/~isipta03

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    The ISIPTA meetings are one of the primary international forums to present
    and discuss new results on the theory and applications of imprecise
    probabilities. Imprecise probability has a wide scope, being a generic term
    for the many mathematical or statistical models which measure chance or
    uncertainty without sharp numerical probabilities. These models include
    belief functions, Choquet capacities, comparative probability orderings,
    convex sets of probability measures, fuzzy measures, interval-valued
    probabilities, possibility measures, plausibility measures, and upper and
    lower expectations or previsions. Imprecise probability models are needed
    in inference problems where the relevant information is scarce, vague or
    conflicting, and in decision problems where preferences may also be
    incomplete.

    Themes of the symposium
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    Although the third symposium will be open to contributions on all aspects
    of imprecise probability, three main themes will be emphasised. Papers will
    be encouraged that report advances in the following subjects:
    - Inference (e.g., statistical inference, machine learning).
    - Algorithms and computational complexity (e.g., exact and approximate
    inference algorithms, optimisation procedures to compute bounds on lower
    and upper expectations/probabilities, complexity analyses).
    - Real applications (e.g., artificial intelligence and expert systems,
    economics, engineering, environmental modeling, experimental psychology,
    medicine, reliability, robotics, statistics, systems and control).

    Location
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    ISIPTA '03 will be held at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. The
    symposium sessions will be held from July 15 till July 17, and they will be
    preceded by tutorials on July 14.
    Lugano (http://www.lugano-tourism.com) is a beautiful city on the shores of
    Lake Lugano, in the southern part of Switzerland. Lugano is close to Zurich
    (3 hours by train), Milan (1 hour by train) and Venice (4 hours by train).

    How to submit a paper
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    Those wishing to present a contribution at the symposium should
    electronically submit a paper, no more than 10 pages long, by February
    the 1st, 2003. Style files will be made available on the symposium web site.
    The Program Committee will decide which of these papers are accepted, by
    carefully evaluating their originality, significance, technical soundness,
    and clarity of exposition. The successful authors will be invited to submit
    a final version of their paper, for publication in a volume of symposium
    proceedings. Each accepted paper will be given the opportunity for both a
    brief oral presentation as well as a poster session.

    Important dates
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    Paper submission deadline: 1 February 2003
    Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2003
    Deadline for revised papers: 1 May 2003
    Tutorial day: 14 July 2003
    Symposium: 15-17 July 2003

    Program Board
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    Jean-Marc Bernard (Université Paris 5, France)
    Teddy Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
    Marco Zaffalon (IDSIA, Switzerland)

    Steering Committee
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    Gert de Cooman (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
    Serafin Moral (Universidad de Granada, Spain)

    Questions
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    If you have any questions about the symposium, please contact the
    Organising Committee, at the following address:

    Marco Zaffalon
    IDSIA
    Galleria 2
    CH-6928 Manno
    Switzerland

    phone +41 91 610 8665
    fax +41 91 610 8661
    e-mail zaffalon@idsia.ch

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