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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 Do***entation
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 will
include:
- Coherent lower previsions (Enrique Miranda, Spain, and Gert De
Cooman, Belgium)
- Predictive inference: from Bayesian inference to Imprecise
Probability (Jean-Marc Bernard, France)
- Imprecise immediate predictions (Gert De Cooman, Belgium)
- Independence concepts in Imprecise Probability (Fabio Cozman,
Brazil)
- Possibility theory (Didier Dubois, France)
- Algorithms & approximation methods for Imprecise Probability (Fabio
Cozman, Brazil)
- Game-theoretic probability and its link with Imprecise Probability
(Glenn Shafer, USA)
The final program should be announced shortly on the summer 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 around you.
Best regards,
Jean-Marc Bernard <Jean-Marc.Bernard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Kevin Loquin <Kevin.Loquin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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(for the scientific and organizing committees)
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