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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
Documentation
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
are the following:
- A Unified view of uncertainty theories (Didier Dubois, France)
- Coherent lower previsions (Enrique Miranda, Spain, and Gert De
Cooman,
Belgium)
- Credal Networks: Theory and Applications, (Cassio P. de Campos, USA,
and
Fabio Cozman, Brazil)
- Algorithms & approximation methods for Imprecise Probability (Fabio
Cozman,
Brazil, and Cassio P. de Campos, USA)
- Independence concepts in Imprecise Probability (Fabio Cozman,
Brazil)
- Predictive inference: from Bayesian inference to Imprecise
Probability
(Jean-Marc Bernard, France)
- Imprecise immediate predictions (Gert De Cooman, Belgium)
- Robust Bayesian Analysis (Fabrizio Ruggeri, Italy)
- Game-theoretic probability and its link with Imprecise Probability
(Glenn
Shafer, USA)
The detailed program may be found on the 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 (or the attached flyer) around you.
Best regards,
Jean-Marc Bernard <Jean-Marc.Bernard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Kevin Loquin <Kevin.Loquin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
(for the scientific and organizing committees)
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