[UAI] Bayesian Analysis, Volume 2, Number 4
A new issue of the new electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu, as has the 2007 report of the editor-in-chief. The new issue (Volume 2 Number 4) includes the following articles: o Exact Bayesian Regression of Piecewise Constant Functions, by Marcus Hutter, pp 635-664, posted online 2007-05-21 o Estimation of Faraday Rotation Measures of the Near Galactic Sky Using Gaussian Process Models, by Margaret B. Short , David M. Higdon and Philipp P. Kronberg, pp 665-680, posted online 2007-06-05 o Invariant HPD credible sets and MAP estimators, by Pierre Druilhet and Jean-Michel Marin, pp 681-692, posted online 2007-06-18 o Nonparametric elicitation for heavy-tailed prior distributions, by John Paul Gosling, Jeremy E. Oakley and Anthony O'Hagan, pp 693-718, posted online 2007-06-19 o Bayesian Model Assessment Using Pivotal Quantities, by Valen E. Johnson, pp 719-734, posted online 2007-08-10 o Bayesian Diagnostic Techniques for Detecting Hierarchical Structure, by Guofen Yan and J. Sedransk, pp 735-760, posted online 2007-09-05 o Ergodic averages for monotone functions using upper and lower dominating processes, by Jesper Moller and Kerrie Mengersen, pp 761-782, posted online 2007-10-02 o A Simulation Approach to Bayesian Emulation of Complex Dynamic Computer Models, by Sourabh Bhattacharya, pp 783-816, posted online 2007-10-06 o Bayesian Model Diagnostics Based on Artificial Autoregressive Errors, by Mario Peruggia, pp 817-842, posted online 2007-09-07 The journal is sponsored by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). Its editors are Phil Dawid, David Dunson, David Heckerman, Michael Jordan, Fabrizio Ruggeri, and Dalene Stangl. Brad Carlin is serving as Editor-in-Chief, Herbie Lee is Managing Editor, Angelika van der Linde is Production Editor, Marina Vanucci is Deputy Editor, and Pantelis Vlachos is System Managing Editor. Bayesian Analysis seeks to publish a wide range of articles that demonstrate or discuss Bayesian methods in some theoretical or applied context. The journal welcomes submissions involving presentation of new computational and statistical methods; reviews, criticism, and discussion of existing approaches; historical perspectives; description of important scientific or policy application areas; case studies; and methods for experimental design, data collection, data sharing, or data mining. Evaluation of submissions is based on importance of content and effectiveness of communication. We aim to provide reports to authors within 10 weeks of submission on at least 80% of articles submitted. -- Heidi Rhodes Sestrich Administrative Coordinator/ Document Production Specialist Department of Statistics Baker Hall 232A Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-2718 ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
Re: [UAI] How Do You Define Similarity?
Dear Lotfi and all --
Within model theory (aka meta-mathematics, or the mathematics of
mathematical structures), there is a considerable literature devoted to
determining whether two mathematical structures are the same or not (under
various precise definitions of same).This literature constitutes a
mathematical theory of equivalence, which I believe any abstract theory of
similarity would need to generalize.
One common method used to make a determination of equivalence of structures
is some form of (imagined) multi-party game between two or more players
having different objectives. In Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse games, for example,
one player tries to demonstrate the non-equivalence of two structures and
the other player tries to counter this demonstration. Introductory books
on model theory usually include a discussion of these games -- e.g., see
Chapter 3 of Doets or Chapter 3 of Hodges (details below).
-- Peter McBurney
University of Liverpool, UK
@BOOK{doets:book96,
AUTHOR = {Kees Doets},
TITLE ={Basic Model Theory},
PUBLISHER ={European Association for Logic, Language and Information
(FOLLI)},
YEAR = {1996},
series = {Studies in Logic, Language and Information},
address = {Center for the Study of Language and Information,
Stanford, CA, USA}}
@BOOK{hodges:book97,
author = Wilfrid Hodges,
title =A Shorter Model Theory,
publisher =Cambridge University Press,
year = 1997,
address = Cambridge, UK}
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[UAI] CfP IPMU 2008: Special sessions on AGOPs. Extended Deadline
[Apologies for cross-postings] Special Sessions on AGOPs http://www.gimac.uma.es/ipmu08 IPMU 2008 Malaga, Spain June 22-27, 2008 Fourth Announcement Extended Deadline Dear colleagues, deadline for submitting your contribution to AGOP special sessions at IPMU 2008 has been extended of 2 weeks. So new deadline is 23rd December 2007. Please remember that submission is available at http://www.cise.rcost.unisannio.it/ipmu2008. Authors that already submitted their contribution will be able to upload a new version until the system is open. NEWS: Deadline for FUZZ-IEEE 2008 has been extended to 15th December 2008. Please consider to submit your contribution to the special session on Aggregatiom Functions. For more information www.wcci2008.org Call For Papers - Aggregation functions (also known as Aggregation Operators, AGOP) play a fundamental role in processing information under uncertainty, vagueness and imprecision. In the past years, we assisted to relevant theoretical advances in this field. Traditional aggregation operations such as the weighted average are now acknowledged as particular cases of more general families of aggregation operations, such as Choquet integrals. Triangular norms and conorms, uninorms, symmetric sums, OWA to name a few, are widely used families of AGOP. Along theoretical aspects, an increasing interest to practical applications in now emerging. This requires to face new challenges, regarding computational and domain specific issues. For this reason we decided to expand the opportunity of discussing advances and trends in two sessions: the first focused on theoretical aspects, and the second on practice. Aggregation Functions: Theory -- This session is devoted to the discussion of recent advances in the theory of aggregation functions, concerning characterizations and generalizations of AGOP families, and including but not limited to triangular norms, uninorms, fuzzy measures, OWA, copulas, quasi-copulas, aggregation on ordinal scale. Organizers: T. Calvo, R. Mesiar, J. Torrens Aggregation Functions in Practice -- This special session will focus on issues related to the practical application of aggregations functions. Specific topics would include: practical constructions of AGOP, real-world applications, relationships to random sets, identification of fuzzy measures, weighting functions for AGOP, AGOP with specific properties, parameter learning. Organizers: G. Beliakov, T. Calvo, L. Troiano We would be glad to receive your interest to these sessions. For that, we need a tentative title and a short abstract of your contribution by October 8th. Please send your proposal to [EMAIL PROTECTED], specifying the session you are interested in. After, we will expect to receive your paper according to conference deadlines. Submission of papers: Dec 23, 2007 Notification of acceptance: Feb 16, 2008 Submission of final versions of accepted papers: Mar 23, 2008 Conference in Malaga: June 22-27, 2008 More information are available at http://www.gimac.uma.es/ipmu08 Submission available at http://www.cise.rcost.unisannio.it/ipmu2008 We are looking forward to meet you in Malaga. Yours Sincerely Gleb Beliakov, Tomasa Calvo, Radko Mesiar, Joan Torrens, Luigi Troiano ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
