6th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2020)
October 23-25, Shanghai, China
Conference website: https://bfasociety.org/Belief2020/
<https://bfasociety.org/Belief2020/>
The theory of belief functions, also referred to as evidence theory or
Dempster-Shafer theory, was first introduced by Arthur P. Dempster in the
context of statistical inference, and was later developed by Glenn Shafer as a
general framework for modelling epistemic uncertainty. These early
contributions have been the starting points of many important developments,
including the Transferable Belief Model and the Theory of Hints. The theory of
belief functions is now well established as a general framework for reasoning
with uncertainty, and has well understood connections to other frameworks such
as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories.
The biennial BELIEF conferences (sponsored by the Belief Functions and
Applications Society https://www.bfasociety.org/ <https://www.bfasociety.org/>)
are dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent
achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this
theory. The first edition of this conference series was held in Brest, France,
in 2010, the second edition in Compiègne, France, in 2012, the third edition in
Oxford, UK, in 2014, the fourth edition in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2016, and
the fifth edition in Compiègne, France, in 2018. The Sixth International
Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2020) will be held in Shanghai, China,
on October 23-25, 2020. It will be co-located with the 2020 International
Conference on Cognitive analytics, Granular computing, and Three-way decisions
(CCGT). The co-location of the two events is intended to favour
cross-fertilization among researchers active in both communities.
Tentative timetable
- April 15: Paper submission deadline
- May 31: Author notification
- June 30: Camera-ready copy due
Proceedings
Proceedings of the previous editions of BELIEF have been published by
Springer-Verlag as volumes of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
(LNCS/LNAI) series and indexed by: ISI Web of Science; EI Engineering Index;
ACM Digital Library; dblp; Google Scholar; IO-Port; MathSciNet; Scopus;
Zentralblatt MATH. Formal confirmation for the publication of this year’s
proceedings will be announced soon.
IJAR Special issue
Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2020 conference will be invited to
submit extended versions of their papers for possible inclusion in a special
issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.
BELIEF-CCGT Conference co-chairs
Denoeux Thierry (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), Miao Duoqian
(Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Yao Yiyu (University of Regina, Canada).
BELIEF 2020 Program Committee co-chairs
Liu Zhunga ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>), Pichon
Frédéric ([email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>).
The organisers would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested
participants of this conference.
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