Second International Conference on Belief functions

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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