[All our apologies for cross-posting.] Third school of the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA), July 2-8, 2008, Montpellier, France.
Dear colleagues, The Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA) organizes the 3rd edition of its school in Montpellier, France, during 2-8 July 2008, the local organization being handled by the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microelectronique (LIRMM) of the university of Montpellier. The city of Montpellier is located in the south of France, on the Mediterranean coast, and the school will be held at the Centre Regional de Documentation Pedagogique, which is located in the very centre of Montpellier. The aim of SIPTA schools is to introduce interested students and researchers with the basics of imprecise probability topics, both theoretical and applied. Some of the best specialists in different aspects of imprecise probabilities lecture, during one week time, on the main concepts and techniques associated to their area of expertise, in a friendly environment favouring interactions between participants. Topics & Lecturers Imprecise probability is used as a generic term to cover all mathematical or statistical models which measure chance or uncertainty without sharp numerical probabilities. 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. The topics covered this year are the following: - A Unified view of uncertainty theories (Didier Dubois, France) - Coherent lower previsions (Enrique Miranda, Spain, and Gert De Cooman, Belgium) - Credal Networks: Theory and Applications, (Cassio P. de Campos, USA, and Fabio Cozman, Brazil) - Algorithms & approximation methods for Imprecise Probability (Fabio Cozman, Brazil, and Cassio P. de Campos, USA) - Independence concepts in Imprecise Probability (Fabio Cozman, Brazil) - Predictive inference: from Bayesian inference to Imprecise Probability (Jean-Marc Bernard, France) - Imprecise immediate predictions (Gert De Cooman, Belgium) - Robust Bayesian Analysis (Fabrizio Ruggeri, Italy) - Game-theoretic probability and its link with Imprecise Probability (Glenn Shafer, USA) The detailed program may be found on the school website. Pre-registration Since the number of participants is limited, we recommend you to inform us of your intention to participate to the school as soon as possible, by pre-registering by means of a simple reply to this email, indicating your name, email, status and affiliation, or by filling the pre-registration form at the school website. More information is available at the school website: http://www.lirmm.fr/SIPTASchool08/ We are looking forward to meeting you in Montpellier. We also welcome you to circulate this announcement (or the attached flyer) around you. Best regards, Jean-Marc Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kevin Loquin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (for the scientific and organizing committees) _______________________________________________ uai mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
