We are very glad to announce that The III. International Conference on
Nuclear and Renewable Energy Resources (www.nurer.org) will take place on
the 20-23rd May 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey.

This event - on the nuclear and renewable energy resources aims to discuss
save, carbon-free energy production mechanisms. We believe that these two
distinct energy types, namely nuclear and renewables should be considered
together for secure and safe energy solutions to fulfill the growing demands
of energy. With this international conference we wish to obtain a complete
media from scientists to the technical company representatives for the seek
of innovative energy solutions.

We wish that universities, research institutions and industries will
contribute to this meeting and the outcomes will play an important role to
understand the advanced studies on the future energy perspectives. Another
point is to earn the awareness of political bodies in order to figure out
the future attempts on renewables. This third conference will be a technical
forum for the participants from different countries, institutions and energy
sectors.


The conference objectives include many field and topics in a broad
spectrum.There exist a number of keynote speakers who are authorities in the
field of energy.

We also emphasize that the papers submitted to the conference will be peer
reviewed and a CD-Proceedings with all the accepted papers will be
distributed to the participants. Selected papers will be published by a
SCI-covered journal

- Energy Conversion and Management (ECM)

as a special issue. The detailed information and the recent improvements on
the conference can be followed by the conference web site www.nurer.org .

By the name of the organization committee, we would like to invite everyone
who is interested in the concepts of energy, the researchers, scientists and
academicians for their contributions. For all questions please write to
mesahin@gazi.edu.tr .
with best regards,

Prof. Dr. H. Mehmet ŞAHİN
Chairman to NuRER 2012 Istanbul TURKEY
Conference Web-site: www.nurer.org
Gazi University Technology Faculty Energy Systems Engineering Teknikokullar
Ankara TURKEY
E-mail: mesahin@gazi.edu.tr

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LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

Second  International Conference on Belief functions

Compiègne, France, 9-11 May 2012

http://www.hds.utc.fr/belief2012

*** Submission deadline 16 December 2011 is coming soon! ****

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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 modeling 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 are dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory. This conference series was started in Brest, France, in 2010. The second edition will be held in Compiègne, France, on 9-11 May, 2012. Compiègne is located in the Picardy region, 75 km north of Paris and at 40mn from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
This conference will provide opportunities to exchange ideas and present new results on the theory of belief functions and related areas such as random sets and possibility theory. Original contributions are solicited on theoretical aspects (including decision making, combination rules, continuous belief functions, independence and graphical models, statistical estimation, etc.), as well as on applications in various areas including, but not limited to data fusion, pattern recognition, clustering, tracking, data mining, signal and image processing, medical diagnosis, business decision, uncertainty in numerical models, etc.

INVITED SPEAKERS
- Prof. Hung. T. Nguyen, New Mexico State University, USA : "On belief functions and random sets"
- Prof. Prakash P. Shenoy, University of Kansas, USA : "Probabilistic semantics for belief functions in the Dempster-Shafer theory"

PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of the series "Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing" (indexed in ISI Proceedings, DBLP. Ulrich's, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math, MetaPress, Springerlink). Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2012 conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Full papers (8 pages) are due by 16 December, 2011. All accepted papers will be presented either in single-track oral sessions, or in poster sessions.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: 16 December, 2011
Notification of acceptance: 20 January, 2012 Final paper submission: 15 February, 2012




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Prof. Thierry DENOEUX
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijar
Universite de Technologie de Compiegne
U.M.R. C.N.R.S. 6599 Heudiasyc
Centre de Recherches de Royallieu
B.P. 20529
F-60205 Compiegne Cedex
France
http://www.hds.utc.fr/~tdenoeux

World Congress on Computational Intelligence IEEE WCCI'2012

including

2012 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems FUZZ-IEEE'2012

Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012

Paper Submission Deadline has been extended to Jan 18, 2012 (23:59 EST)

The Paper Submission System will close straight after that, no more extensions will be given.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Session on
"Inter-Relation Between Interval and Fuzzy Techniques" at
The Annual IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems
FUZZ-IEEE'2012
http://www.cs.utep.edu/interval-comp/wcci12interval.html

In 2012, FUZZ-IEEE'2012 is a part of
2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence WCCI'2012
Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012
http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/

MOTIVATIONS

The relation between fuzzy and interval techniques is well
known; e.g., due to the fact that a fuzzy number can be
represented as a nested family of intervals (alpha-cuts),
level-by-level interval techniques are often used to process
fuzzy data. At present, researchers in fuzzy data processing
mainly used interval techniques originally designed for
non-fuzzy applications, techniques which are often taken from
textbooks and are, therefore, already outperformed by more
recent and more efficient methods.

One of the main objectives of the proposed special session is
to make the fuzzy community at-large better acquainted with the
latest, most efficient interval techniques, especially with
techniques specifically developed for solving fuzzy-related
problems.

Another objective is to combine fuzzy and interval techniques,
so that we will be able to use the combined techniques in
(frequent) practical situations where both types of uncertainty
are present: for example, when some quantities are known with
interval uncertainty (e.g., coming from measurements), while
other quantities are known with fuzzy uncertainty (coming from
expert estimates).

SCOPE: all topics connected to the inter-relation between
interval and fuzzy techniques, including (but not limited to):

* use of alpha-cuts -- especially interval alpha-cuts -- in
 processing fuzzy data;
* interval techniques which can be used in fuzzy data processing;
* interval-valued fuzzy techniques;
* situations when we have both interval and fuzzy uncertainty;
* application of interval and fuzzy techniques and of their
 combinations.

KEYWORDS: interval computations, interval uncertainty,
interval-valued fuzzy sets.

DATES:
Paper submission deadline                        Jan 18, 2012
Paper acceptance notification date               Feb 20, 2012
Final paper submission deadline                  Apr  2, 2012
Early registration                               Apr  2, 2012
Conference Dates                                 June 10-15, 2012

SUBMISSIONS:
* Papers should be submitted electronically, through the
 FUZZ-IEEE'2012 submission webpage
 http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/fuzzieee2012/upload.php
* When submitting a paper for the session, please do not forget to
 mark that the paper is for the special interval session. Please
 let us know at vladik@utep.edu and kvillave@cs.nmsu.edu when you
 submit your paper to the interval session.
* Number of Pages: Maximum 8 pages, including figures, tables &
 references (Additional pages will be permitted at the cost of
 A$100 per additional page)
* Page Size: U.S. Letter format (8.5" x 11")
* Page Numbering: Off
* File Format: PDF only
* File Size: 4MB maximum
* Abstract: It is important that the abstract be a meaningful
 description of your paper.
* Keywords (if using MS Word template): Choose from 3 to 8 keywords
* Color: Use of color is encouraged, but since readers will
 usually print the papers in black and white, it is the author's
 responsibility to ensure that all figures/plots can be printed
 and understood in black and white.
* Templates: To help ensure correct formatting, please use the
 style files for U.S. Letter Size found at the link below as
 templates for your submission. These include Word and LaTeX:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
* Please note that the Latex template does not allow for
 Keywords. If you are using the Latex template, do not include
 Keywords in your paper.
* According to the conference organizers, violations of any of
 the above paper specifications may result in rejection of your
 paper.
* For further details on submissions, please refer to the
 WCCI'2012 website http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/

ORGANIZERS:

Vladik Kreinovich
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968, USA
email vladik@utep.edu

Karen Villaverde
Department of Computer Science
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
email kvillave@cs.nmsu.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

* Scott Ferson, Applied Biomathematics, USA
* Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
* Weldon Lodwick, University of Colorado at Denver, USA
* Rafi Muhanna, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Hung T. Nguyen, New Mexico State University, USA
* Sa-aat Niwitpong, King Mongkut's University of Technology
 North Bangkok, Thailand
* Karen Villaverde, New Mexico State University, USA
* Elbert Walker, New Mexico State University, USA
* Berlin Wu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
* Gang Xiang, Applied Biomathematics and Philips Healthcare

RELEVANT WEBSITES:

* interval computations http://www.cs.utep.edu/interval-comp/
* forthcoming conferences related to interval computations
 http://www.cs.utep.edu/interval-comp/conf.html