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PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODELS WITH IMPRECISION: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS Special Session to be held as part of IPMU 2010, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT OF UNCERTAINTY IN KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS June 28 - July 2, 2010 - Dortmund, Germany ====================================================================== Probabilistic graphical models are important tools for knowledge representation and reasoning under uncertainty. They are widely used in machine learning and related fields such as computer vision, natural language processing and data mining. In the last decades, growing interest has emerged for graphical models whose parameters are only partially specified. Unlike models based on classical Bayesian approaches (e.g., Bayesian nets and Markov random fields), where a precise quantification of each probability measure is required, an 'imprecise' quantification based on sets of (instead of single) probability measures can be also considered. This seems to offer a more realistic modeling of the relations between the variables and hence return more robust results. The counterpart of such an increased expressive power is often a higher computational complexity of the inferences. Yet, important advances have been recently made in the development of efficient algorithms and this opens the door to the application of imprecise probabilistic graphical models to a number of real-world problems. This special session, which is organized by the IDSIA working group on Imprecise Probabilities, aims at gathering works on recent advances in the study of probabilistic graphical models with imprecision and examples of their application. The organizers welcome contributions involving any kind of PGMs with imprecision, such as, e.g., credal networks, imprecise Markov trees, qualitative networks, possibilistic networks, credal classifiers based on graphical models, interval decision trees, etc.. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- To prepare a submission, please follow the same instructions as for the main conference (http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~ipmu2010/index.html). IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Jan 17, 2010 Deadline for paper submission Mar 07, 2010 Notification of acceptance Apr 04, 2010 Final camera ready copies due SESSION ORGANIZERS ------------------ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA, Switzerland [email protected] Alberto Piatti IDSIA, Switzerland [email protected]
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