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ISIPTA '03
3rd International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and Their Applications
Last Call for Papers
July 14-17, 2003
Lugano, Switzerland
http://www.sipta.org/~isipta03
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The ISIPTA meetings are one of the primary international forums to present and discuss new results on the theory and applications of imprecise probabilities. Imprecise probability has a wide scope, being a generic term for the many mathematical or statistical models which measure chance or uncertainty without sharp numerical probabilities. These models include belief functions, Choquet capacities, comparative probability orderings, convex sets of probability measures, fuzzy measures, interval-valued probabilities, possibility measures, plausibility measures, and upper and lower expectations or previsions. 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.
Themes of the symposium
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Although the third symposium will be open to contributions on all aspects of imprecise probability, three main themes will be emphasised: inference, algorithms and computational complexity, real applications.
http://www.sipta.org/~isipta03/themes.html
Location
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ISIPTA '03 will be held at the University of Lugano, Switzerland.
http://www.sipta.org/~isipta03/venue.html
Important dates
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Paper submission deadline: 1 February 2003
Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2003
Deadline for revised papers: 1 May 2003
Tutorial day: 14 July 2003
Symposium: 15-17 July 2003
Submissions
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There is a strict limit of 10 pages for papers submitted to the symposium.
See http://www.sipta.org/~isipta03/submit.html for detailed instructions.
*** Latest news
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- Financial support for travel and subsistence expenses of Eastern European scientists.
People who are eligible for support must have a paper accepted at the conference and must work in one of the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
More information will be available from the web site soon.
- Tutorial speakers and banquet speaker.
The following speakers will give tutorials on imprecise probabilities on July the 14th: Jean-Marc Bernard (France), Gert de Cooman (Belgium), Fabio G. Cozman (Brazil), Charles Manski (USA), and Sujoy Mukerji (UK). Terrence Fine (USA) will be our banquet speaker.
More information will be available from the web site soon.
Program Board
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Jean-Marc Bernard (Universit� Paris 5, France)
Teddy Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Marco Zaffalon (IDSIA, Switzerland)
Steering Committee
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Gert de Cooman (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
Serafin Moral (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Questions
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If you have any questions about the symposium, please contact the Organising Committee, at the following address:
Marco Zaffalon
IDSIA
Galleria 2
CH-6928 Manno
Switzerland
phone +41 91 610 8665
fax +41 91 610 8661
e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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