ISIPTA '05: Call For Papers

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
July 20-23 2005

CALL FOR PAPERS

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

Although the symposium will be open to contributions on all aspects of imprecise probability, three main themes will be emphasised: decision-making, algorithms, and real applications. Also note that there will be a special session on financial risk assessment, and the symposium is particularly open to contributions on this area. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

models of coherent imprecise assessments
convex sets of probability measures (credal sets)
interval-valued probabilities
upper and lower expectations or previsions
non-additive set functions, and in particular Choquet capacities (and Choquet integration), fuzzy measures, possibility measures, belief and plausibility measures
random sets
rough sets
comparative probability orderings
qualitative reasoning about uncertainty
imprecision in utilities and expected utilities
limit laws for imprecise probabilities
physical models of imprecise probability
philosophical foundations for imprecise probabilities
psychological models for imprecision and indeterminacy in probability assessments
elicitation techniques for imprecise probabilities
robust statistics
probabilistic bounding analysis
data mining with imprecise probabilities/missing data
estimation and learning of imprecise probability models
decision making with imprecise probabilities
ambiguity aversion and economic models of imprecise probability
uncertainty in financial markets
algorithms for manipulating imprecise probabilities
Dempster-Shafer theory
information algebras and probabilistic argumentation systems
probabilistic logic, propositional and first-order
credal networks and other graphical models
credal classification
applications in statistics, economics, finance, management, engineering, computer science and artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy and related fields

Workshop on Financial Risk Assessment

There will be a workshop addendum to the conference, to be held on July 24, with invited speakers on the topic of financial risk assessment, to which all of the ISIPTA'05 participants are welcome, at no additional registration cost. Details will be announced later.

Location

ISIPTA '05 will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Important dates

Note that dates have recently changed (on 17/2/2005), and now we have a final deadline!!

Paper submission deadline: March 7 2005 (11:59PM US Eastern time)
Notification of acceptance: April 25 2005
Deadline for revised papers: May 25 2005
Symposium: July 20-23 2005

Submissions

We will accept papers only as PDF files with a limit of 10 pages in two-column format (note new page limit; previous limit was 8 pages!!). Guidelines are available in a PDF file and in a word file at the site http://www.sipta.org/isipta05/submit.html. The simplest way to produce an article that satisfies these requirements is to use Latex with the isipta2005.sty style, using guidelines at the file isipta05.tex (or using this file as a template). Otherwise, use the file isipta2005.doc as template.

Submission is electronic. You should introduce paper data and attach the PDF file by using the submission page.

The Program Committee will decide which of the submitted papers are accepted, by carefully evaluating their originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All the accepted papers will be included in a volume of proceedings, published by Brightdocs.

There will be free electronic access to the proceedings after some time. Before the conference, the electronic access will be restricted to the ISIPTA '05 attendees to allow them to study the papers in some detail before they are actually presented. Each accepted paper will be given the opportunity for both a brief oral presentation as well as a poster session.

Language

The working language of the symposium will be English. No simultaneous translation in other languages will be available.

Questions

If you have any questions about the symposium, please contact the Organising Committee.

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FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA July 20-23 2005